A Personal Definition and Incomplete History of Gaianism
An ethical global perspective is necessary today. We must find the unity of Earth and the world. It would be helpful if we had a word, better yet a name, that encapsulates this unity.
connection to nature
Democracy Rising 22: Deliberation and the Promise of Place
The good news is that when place-based wisdom informs local solutions, the solutions are all the more sustainable.
Humanity in the patchwork of life
This story is on borrowed time. And it’s just a part of a story, a piece of human and living patchwork. Maybe you can borrow it, and make it part of your story too?
Book Review: The Quantum Biosemiosphere by Michael Charles Tobias & Jane Gray Morrison
Michael Charles Tobias and Jane Gray Morrison have, once again, broken through into a new realm of environmental research with their latest mind-bending work, The Quantum Biosemiosphere.
Wasted Lives
If we accepted this as our single, solitary chance to live, then we might do better at living. We might focus on life, on the here and now, on being.
Dr. Stephan Harding on Gaia Alchemy and the Animate Earth
If Earth is indeed Gaia, and we humans are a living part of Gaia, then maybe the living biosphere has something to say to us.
Hippos in the Bayou: Human Hubris and the Ecological Mayhem of Introduced Species (Episode 57 of Crazy Town)
What kind of thinking leads to the unleashing of exotic species on unsuspecting ecosystems? Hint: it’s certainly not systems thinking or critical thinking – in fact, thinking may not be involved at all!
The Whole World is an Ecovillage
If we see the whole world as an EcoVillage, we have a new lens through which to perceive our challenges, and new possibilities to consider.
Landskap – a model for the future?
Landskap, therefore, is the nature we have together, where we live. The word expresses that we are part of the landscape and that the landscape is part of us.
Blinkered: On Time and Being
We see seven colors in the rainbow… We believe we are alone… We strive to master time…
And we miss our one miraculous chance at fully living in this real time…
Being nature
The sustainable and gainful interaction between humans and the rest of the living world will not be created on a drawing board but rather be developed by people being grounded, being terrestrial, being nature.
Imagining Democratic and Ecological Society: An interview with Yavor Tarinski
If we want to reclaim the control over our cities and societies, we cannot limit our action to the internet, we also need to take to the physical space of urdan environments – the streets and the public squares. This is the revolutionary potential of cities and that’s why I put so much emphasis on it.