Finding the Mother Tree: Review
By Eliza Daley, By my solitary hearth
We must live within nature. We will all be winners when there are no losers. We will all thrive when we recognize that competition will lose to cooperation in every challenge.
Tag: connection to nature
Reflections on Water: Film, Water and Storytelling
By Rhowan Alleyne, Resilience.org
The wider ‘Ecosinema’ programme offers a chance to expand our collective consciousness around what we can do to care for the health of our waters and our world. And weather the storms to come.
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 52 Douglas Rushkoff
By Vicki Robin, Douglas Rushkoff, Resilience.org
Douglas Rushkoff is an author and documentarian who studies human autonomy in a digital age. Rushkoff’s work explores how different technological environments change our relationship to narrative, money, power, and one another. He addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”
Cosmos as Home: Evolution as Context
By Mary Evelyn Tucker, Center for Humans and Nature
With such an understanding of the continuity of all life we can develop a more robust cosmological ethics highlighting responsibility and reciprocity for our magnificent Earth community.
Living Perenniality: Excerpt
By Craig Holdrege, Resilience.org
I describe this dialogic endeavor here as “living perenniality.” I see in it the beginnings of a radical transformation of consciousness that has the potential to let the wisdom of the living world increasingly inform human endeavors.
On the Existence of A Man
By Eliza Daley, By my solitary hearth
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.
Blood Moon
By Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, Resilience.org
Then I found the blood moon eclipsed through the trees, an elemental mystery that reaches deep into our ancestral memories, before our consciousness was obscured by science and reason.
A flyfishing ecology
By Frederic Jennings, Resilience.org
One of the greatest and most overwhelming conceptual breakthroughs of my life was the realization that everything in our universe is connected and interacting in networks of interdependent cause and effect through time.
The Attention Economy and Nature Depletion, or… the Story of Einstein Watching Cat Videos (Episode 41 of Crazy Town)
By Asher Miller, Rob Dietz, Jason Bradford, Resilience.org
If all goes well, by the end of this episode, you’ll feel inspired to shut down your electronic devices, stow your earbuds, and go outside to scan the skies, dig in the dirt, watch the wildlife, or find some other healthy way to pay attention to the natural world.
The relationship of my texts to a dead fish
By John Thackara, John Thackara blog
As a writer, my work involves a search for small islands of coherence – that I can later describe – in which social and ecological relationships thrive together.
Nature Detachment and Ecocide, or… the Story of the Marauding Mountain Lion (Episode 40 of Crazy Town)
By Asher Miller, Rob Dietz, Jason Bradford, Resilience.org
The more we wall ourselves off from nature, the more likely we are to continue on the path of climate chaos and extinction. Join Asher, Rob, and Jason on their search for how to reconnect with nature.
America’s Conflicted Landscapes
By David E. Nye, MIT Press Reader
Does nature represent eternity, ancestors, science, the present, the future, or a young earth? Is it to be revered, conserved, exploited, or sacrificed? A nation that identifies itself with nature begins to fall apart when it can no longer agree on what nature is.