Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Looking out from Big Bear Landing, you can see the rice coming in strong, and the swans on the lake, huge flocks of them. A constant in our lives, the rice remains, awaiting the Anishinaabe, our prayers, our songs, and our gratitude.
Penny Livingston-Stark is internationally recognized as a prominent permaculture teacher, designer, and speaker. She addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”
This points to the most important characteristic of the future: it is something that we are all co-creating as part of the interconnected web of our collective thoughts, ideas, and actions.
Traditions are passed down through many generations of Burren farmers to maintain the critical symbiotic relationship between farming and conservation. In his first Letter From The Farm, Shane takes us through farming in the Burren, past and present.
The story that Lent tells in The Web of Meaning is filled with fascinating accounts about ancient wisdom traditions such as Buddhism, Taoism, and neo-Confucianism…..and how the insights from these traditions actually intersect with recent findings in biological sciences.
The climate crisis is today — at best — being treated only as a business opportunity to create green new jobs, new green businesses and technologies.
Philosophers and mystics throughout time have been showing us that everything is connected, that humans are part of that everything, that unity is fundamental — and sacred.
The threat of climate change is too grave for us to continue thinking that we can work our way around it without major (revolutionary) changes that will radically alter the very social fabric beyond capitalism and statecraft.
Jeremy Lent is an author and speaker whose work investigates the underlying causes of our civilization’s existential crisis, and explores pathways toward a life-affirming future. He addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”
We thought we had decades to avert climate catastrophe. But it’s already here.
When you put these examples of cultural revival, land restoration, and community healing together, it shows us that restoration is not so much about “finally making peace with nature”, as it is about finally making peace with our cultural past.
The function of imagination is to bring “longing into the world”—I’d say that what this does is to create a narrative gap that we are then moved to fill.
