Living Earth

Turtles Among Us

Journal Article

Shouldn’t we be paying attention when the turtles head for high ground and wander among us with a kind of desperation? When at their most vulnerable, they come to us? There are many ways to ask why and many ways to answer.

Published in Volume 19 Issue 1 By Robin Wall Kimmerer, PhD

Returning Home to Our Place in the Cosmos

Article

This has been perhaps the essential lesson I’ve taken from my time at Genesis Farm: that we humans have the possibility to awaken from what Berry deemed the ‘technological trance,’ a deep fixation and obsession for progress through technological development and unlimited economic growth.

Published in Spring | Summer 2017 By Mark Phillips

An Interview with Sister Miriam Therese MacGillis at Genesis Farm

Article

The only way we can really be effective is to come home and understand our own ecosystems. This sequential process is the most fundamental learning we should be given. Only then we can ask: is our behavior enhancing what the natural world is doing, or is it the cause of the disease and the sickness? That is why our energies at Genesis Farm have been so focused on bioregionalism.

Published in Spring | Summer 2017 By Miriam Therese MacGillis, Rhonda Fabian

Unheard Invitations: Piercing the Veil Between Species

Article

What we do not attend to cannot reach us. If we don’t know to listen, we cannot hear. But the animals are calling us. It doesn’t matter what animal it is or where we are. Any of us can experience this. It is our heritage and it is inherent in the nature of Life if only we realize the possibility and open ourselves up to it. When you go into nature, tune in more deeply. Life is calling to life.

Published in Fall | Winter 2016 By Susan Eirich

Engaged Ecology: Seven Practices to Restore Our Harmony with Nature

Article

It has rained steadily through the night, a gentle hushing sound in the thick tree canopy. In the morning light, […]

Published in Fall | Winter 2015 By Rhonda Fabian

The Living Universe

Article

A Living Systems Paradigm for Viewing Big History ‘Big History’ is the name given to an emerging field of study […]

Published in Spring | Summer 2015 By Duane Elgin

The Biology of Wonder | Finding the Human in Nature

Article

Of course, the animals need humans. They need us like old parents, against whom we have revolted for a while […]

Published in Spring | Summer 2015 By Andreas Weber

Earth-Based Wisdom: Learning the Original Idea from the Living Earth

Article

Traditional cultures “are what shaped us and caused us to be what we are now,” writes Jared Diamond in The […]

Published in Spring | Summer 2015 By J.E. Williams

Nature and Humanity as Source of Life, Living and Everyday Transformation

Article

People are intimately tied to our natural environment. Our bodies are composed of water, we need clean air to breathe, […]

Published in Spring | Summer 2014 By Kirsten Gallo

Development in the Ecological Age

Article

Do you live in a developed nation or a developing nation? If your nation has an extensive system of roads, […]

Published in Spring | Summer 2014 By Charles Eisenstein