Humanity and the Microbe: A Soul Agreement?
Elisabet Sahtouris: From about four billion years to a billion years, the planet was populated only by bacteria . . . our medical system does not understand this microbial world very well at all. We’re absolutely dependent on it.
Colin Greer
Colin Greer is President of the New World Foundation. He has published several social science books. He was a founding editor of Social Policy Magazine and Change Magazine, and wrote a column for Parade Magazine for almost 20 years. His plays have been performed off off- Broadway and in regional productions. His poetry has been published in Kosmos Quarterly, Tikkun, and Hanging Loose. His third…
Larry Kopald
Larry Kopald is President and Co-Founder of The Carbon Underground.
For twenty years Kopald was Creative Director for some of the world’s leading advertising agencies, overseeing advertising for companies like Honda, American Express, McDonalds, and CocaCola. In 2008 he took that experience to the world of social change, co-founding Kopald/Stranger, a change agency that counted companies such…
What Indigenous Wisdom Can Teach Us About Economics
Now is the time to offer new political narratives—inspired by Indigenous ways of knowing, living, and being—that speak to a flourishing of ecologically-rooted communities and genuine prosperity. Now is the time for economic localisation. It is the way human beings can become part of the Cure of the Earth, the Cura da Terra, as Indigenous peoples have been since time immemorial.
Indigenous Languages As Cures of the Earth
"The Amazon is a sacred place. Human Beings do not make sacred places, they acknowledge them, recognize them, and sustain them without developing them. We honor them with languages taught to us by the Earth herself. ...They are part of the Cura Da Terra, "Cure of the Earth”, to borrow a phrase from the First Peoples of the Amazon."
Our Finest Hour, If We Choose
Nobody yet knows what we can learn from this pandemic. We never will if we don’t reflect, ask hard questions, and discuss answers with people with diverse views.
Hitching for Hope, with Ruairí McKiernan
I think there’s a great moment upon us now, whereby all the rules are being disrupted. I was about to say a rewritten, but they’re not rewritten yet.
Howling in Place
By Amy Logan
Lately I’m hearing a lot more howls – and more robust, realistic ones – so either my neighbors (and their dogs) are seriously getting into it now, or real coyotes are responding in kind.
Mind Matters Most
An exploration of mind: how our thoughts create our reality and how we can use this time to gain awareness of their negative tendencies and come out of self-generated suffering.
John Fullerton on the Qualities of a Regenerative Economy
If we’re going to transition the global economy and survive as a species, we need to find ourselves a new source of prosperity for not just humanity, but all living beings.