Three Practices for a Time of Crisis
We have to draw on each other’s brilliance, get together, set aside our egos, listen with our hearts, and imagine something that’s worth getting up for in the morning.
Series
On Listening to the Earth
The story warns that by not listening to Mis Misa’s song, the song will fade. Mis Misa will depart, “and the Earth and all of the societies upon Earth will be out of balance, and the life therein vulnerable to extinction.”
Responding to Collapse: Uncertain Future Forum’s First Week
It’s telling that our four Uncertain Future Forum authors—though asked broadly about how to respond to collapse—each ended up with the same focus: tending to and working at the individual and community scales.
The Seventh Fire
In the time of the Seventh Fire, the Anishinaabe were told that we will have a choice between two paths: one well worn, but scorched; and a second that’s not well worn, but green. We are instructed to make a choice.
The Disabled Planet
To be healthy creates the illusion that health is perennial—a guarantee—while to be disabled is to acknowledge and work within limits. To acknowledge the limits of our bodies helps us better see the planet in peril. To acknowledge illness is to face reality, and then to fight like hell to be made well.
Turning Toward Each Other
Can we reimagine our world in a way that prioritizes our relationships to each other and to the planet, rather than our relationships to wealth?
Dancing with Grief
I’ve learned that I need to work on my own grief because it’s the only way I can access the depths within myself that are requisite of these times. Only then am I able to be clear about what is most important, and what my next right step should be.
Ancestral legacy of nature’s connections – Teresa Ryan at TEDxBerkeley
Dr. Teresa Ryan draws from her ancestral Tsimtian heritage and her work as a fisheries scientist and natural resource conservation expert. Motivated by the way her forefathers interacted with the environment, Dr. Ryan demonstrates how the synergistic Aboriginal knowledge of cyclic resource production and variability can help promote the sustainable use of fishing resources today. … Read more
Introducing 24 Ways to Invest Locally – tips 1-4
It’s New Economy Week. Want some ideas on how to make real changes in your local economy?
Everything I Need to Know I Learned in the Forest
My ecological journey started in the forests of the Himalaya. My father was a forest conservator, and my mother became a farmer after fleeing the tragic partition of India and Pakistan. It is from the Himalayan forests and ecosystems that I learned most of what I know about ecology. The songs and poems our mother composed for us were about trees, forests, and India’s forest civilizations.
Conserving the canopy – Nalini Nadkarni at TED2009
A unique ecosystem of plants, birds and monkeys thrives in the treetops of the rainforest. Nalini Nadkarni explores these canopy worlds — and shares her findings with the world below, through dance, art and bold partnerships. Video reposted from TED under a (CC BY–NC–ND) license.
