Living Earth

Green Medicine

Journal Article

I use photography as a tool to explore the raw elemental power of the natural world by visiting and re-visiting places I’m drawn to in order to be touched by their spiritual essence.

Published in Volume 18 Issue 2 By Michael O’Brien

The Prophecy

Journal Article

Through his stunning work, Belgian-Beninese photographer Fabrice Monteiro challenges us to examine issues of fashion, race, consumerism and exploitation.

Published in Volume 18 Issue 2 By Fabrice Monteiro

Nourishment

Journal Article

During the blink of an eye we call a lifetime, change transforms us. Change forces us to see Earth and our place in the cosmos in new ways.

Published in Volume 18 Issue 2 By Fred Provenza

Malinda | We came together as a community, saying to the corporation, Williams Partners, "We're not going to stand by and let you destroy our land. We will stand between you and the land if we have to."

Published in Volume 18 Issue 2 By Victoria Price

Tending the Wild

Journal Article

What looked to European settlers like untamed wilderness was actually the product of millennia of intentional human influence. Calling it wilderness, or “virgin territory,” gave them license to occupy it, cultivate it, “develop” it, and “improve” it.

Published in Volume 18 Issue 2 By Charles Eisenstein

Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter

Journal Article

If trapping out beavers ranked among humanity’s earliest crimes against nature, bringing them back is a way to pay reparations.

Published in Volume 18 Issue 2 By Ben Goldfarb

On Elevating the Human Narrative

Journal Article

Judy Rodgers | ...I think decisions about things like governance or institutions source from our awareness. We can’t build something if it’s outside the scope of our awareness. We can’t design a true commons if we’re in a very limited consciousness.

Published in Volume 18 Issue 3 By Judy Rodgers, Gayatri Naraine, Rhonda Fabian

Returning to Indigenous Worldview

Journal Article

...witnessing brave communities who have managed to hold onto Indigenous language and ways, and continue their advocacy for the Earth, is important. We can appreciate the Indigenous experience unfolding today as a model for what is happening to all of us.

Published in Volume 18 Issue 3 By Wahinkpe Topa (Four Arrows), aka Donald Trent Jacobs

Guardians of the Sacred in Tibet

Journal Article

The nomads and other Tibetans hold a reverence for the natural world, which ensures that they remain stewards of the land they have lived with for thousands of years. Small pockets of awareness of the land's magic, its sacredness, its deep inner value, still remain.

Published in Volume 19 Issue 1 By Diane Barker

Council of the Wild Gods

Journal Article

Many years ago, in a wide-ranging conversation with environmental education students, I asked if the human species might have a particular purpose in the planetary ecosystem. The students puzzled for a few moments before one advised me that human beings have no purpose in the community of life. No purpose. Take a moment here.

Published in Volume 19 Issue 1 By Geneen Marie Haugen