What Are Facts Anyway?
In the world of politics, the request for the facts is as often a prelude to prevarication as it is an entrée to enlightenment. What are facts, anyway?
Society
Sri Lanka’s untold story of resilience: Sarvodaya’s pathway can work anywhere
The way forward seems to involve re-forming and re-localizing the economic system to create resiliency from the grassroots up, focusing on common needs, rather than having someone else’s idea of “what’s good for us” being imposed from the top down.
Part One: The Rising of Ubuntu.Lab
The Ubuntu philosophy is: I am because you are. We have already been seeing the importance of the quality of relations threading itself through the story of Ubuntu.Lab from day one.
What’s the problem with taking state power?
Should we maintain independence and function as a critical force outside of mainstream politics, or should we attempt to take hold of the levers of institutional power in order to create change?
The Power Podcast: Episode 6 Overpowered – the Days of Climate Chaos
But what if our voracious appetite is less to blame than the types of things that hunger has been directed toward? Could we direct our attention instead toward beauty, tenderness, and collective action?
From a Dystopian Present to a Gaian Future
So…imagine that somewhere, or in many places at once, a self-replicating Gaia movement were to start, whose adherents call ourselves, simply, “Gaians.”
Where there is guilt, there is a chance for justice and healing
I believe an aversion to feeling guilty has no place in a meaningful global climate movement. Because without any recognition of fault and how past injury shapes current power, there is little basis for moving towards either justice or healing.
Blues for America
Blues may be America’s greatest cultural gift to the world; if not, it’s certainly on the short list. Blues embodies human resilience in the face of adversity and suffering.
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 89 Joanna Macy
Joanna Macy, Ph.D, author & teacher, is a scholar of Buddhism, systems thinking and deep ecology. A respected voice in movements for peace, justice, and ecology, she interweaves her scholarship with learnings from six decades of activism. She addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”
Walkable Urbanism: When your city is looking in the wrong direction.
In cases where cities have little control over the roads, there’s a disincentive to focus on them.
Portland 4 the Planet sow seeds of local change
There are so many people out there just searching for something to do that’s positive, that’s going to make a difference.
Stories for a living future
We cannot avoid having to walk through the ruins of our present civilization. But we can walk together to a living future, where our well-being and the well-being of the Earth are not in conflict, but part of a shared journey. This we can do.
