Navigating the Polycrisis–Life in Turbulent Times
How can we explain the explosive emergence of global awareness of the polycrisis over the past year, 2022-2023? Three years ago, almost no one had heard of the polycrisis. What happened?
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What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 99 Fran Korten
Fran Korten is former executive director, publisher and contributing editor for YES! Magazine. She answers the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”
Ekolu Mea Ku’i
Kaleimomi told me the story as Hilo rains were dancing across Waiakea Pond.
Protect the Flame: But Where the Danger Is, the Saving Power Also Grows
That’s how real change happens: in many incremental steps taken by individuals and small groups. If taken together from a shared awareness, ideas and actions will coalesce and align with the future that wants to emerge.
The Response: The French Uprising with Konstantin
For the past two months, France has been in a state of agitation. A growing movement of workers has been engaged in protests and strikes which erupted in Paris and other cities in response to President Emmanuel Macron unilaterally raising the French retirement age from 62 to 64.
Drive for domination puts U.S. unity at risk
To a call for kindness and humility in our political relations, one can only say amen. I agree with French, if we stay together as a nation, that is what it will take.
Choosing Life
It’s not that nobody wants to work; it’s that there is no work that can support life within this culture. This is ‘they are killing us’ exemplified. And a large number of people are choosing life.
Crazy Town: Episode 70. Kinder, Gentler Colonialism: Bungling Billionaires and Their Arrogant Adventures in “Saving the World”
Meet Bill Gates, the philandering philanthropist who attempts to remake the world’s operating system in his own image. Please share this episode with your friends and start a conversation.
Decolonizing Black Women’s Health Through Land Reparations
Our initiative, Restore Forward, weaves ancestral and traditional methods of healing: for the Earth itself as we restore the land, for each other as we restore broken relationships, and for ourselves as we rebalance connection, at a time when our world feels more fractured than ever.
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 98 Kristin Ohlson
Kristin Ohlson is a writer living in Portland, Oregon. She shares her latest thoughts on What Could Possibly Go Right?
In the Face of Cascading Crises, What Can I Do?
If you have the capacity, I encourage you to revisit your values, review your past actions, and commit to doing something more this year. Any action, no matter how small, that’s congruent with solid values will make a difference.
Saying NO to a farm-free future
The time has come to announce my new book, Saying NO to a Farm-Free Future: The Case for an Ecological Food System and Against Manufactured Foods.
