Why THIS GOOD EARTH was made
This film is about the reality of global warming, impoverished diets and rising hunger, disease and deaths, and also about loving the land and other living things.
Act: Inspiration
No Matter Who Wins
No matter who wins the election this week we are on the cusp of major change which will require both top-down and bottom up interventions and cultural emergence. I hope you can play a role.
Agroecology or Collapse Part II – Democratizing Food Systems and Breaking the Bonds of Food Empires
To break the bonds of dependence on capital is the objective of agriculture organized according to an explicitly oriented approach to remunerating labor and ensuring the ecological reproduction of the means of production. Agroecology is this approach.
Human Permaculture: Excerpt
To rise to the challenge and help build the newly emerging world, the field of human permaculture proposes an innovative, holistic, creative, and interactive approach. It maps the foundations of classic permaculture — a concept born over four decades ago — onto human pursuits.
Bringing disaster preparedness into resilience politics
In preparing for disaster – and re-developing after disaster occurs – we must guide the redevelopment with a new kind of political economy that is socially just AND pulls back economic activity from recreating the same problems over and again.
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 21 Lynne Twist
Lynne Twist is the founder of the Soul of Money Institute and author of the best-selling book “The Soul of Money: Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Life.” Lynne brings a soulful connection to the question of What Could Possibly Go Right?
Review: Diversifying Power: Why We Need Antiracist, Feminist Leadership on Climate and Energy
If you find yourself overwhelmed trying to make sense of and track the multiple crises now confronting us — climate and energy, economic inequity, systemic racism and sexism, the COVID-19 pandemic — there is good news. Help is at hand.
Of Splitting Oak and People (and How to Prevent the Latter)
We can notice where our values have become inverted and choose instead to reassert the values known to support life. As we do, we’ll notice that we are not mere logs inverted on the stump of humanity, waiting to be split, but part of a larger, living tree.
Citizen Empowerment Against Conspiracy Theories
In order for the wave of irrational and anti-scientific conspiracies to be tackled in any meaningful way, people en masse have to be empowered.
A Universe of Stories
Amidst ecological and social disruption – compounded now by the rolling Covid-19 crisis – that uneasy stasis is over. In this new context, the term ‘Nowtopia’ is increasingly used by both activists and academics to describe a variety of interconnected tendencies.
Agroecology or Collapse: Part 1 – From Emergency Responses to Systemic Transformations
More than ever, public support for healthy food production and distribution shows itself as a win-win strategy that is indispensable for combining long-standing social and economic challenges, now aggravated by the COVID-19 outbreak.
Einstein’s Take on Capitalism, Socialism, and a New Kind of Business
A glimpse at the headlines surrounding the upcoming presidential election in the U.S. reveals how we are still largely governed by the old dichotomy of business vs. society.
