Earth Abuse and the Next Pandemic
By Stan Cox, Resilience.org
Earth abuse is also at the root of the Covid-19 pandemic and the grim likelihood that new pathogens will continue to emerge from other animal species to infect humans.
Tag: connection with nature
Nature Needs a New Pronoun: To Stop the Age of Extinction, Let’s Start by Ditching “It”
By Robin Wall Kimmerer, YES! magazine
The language allows no form of respect for the more-than-human beings with whom we share the Earth. In English, a being is either a human or an “it.”
Andreas Weber on Aliveness and Interdependence
By David Bollier, David Bollier blog
If I may crudely summarize Andreas’ thinking in a sentence or two: relationality, aliveness, subjectivity, and wholeness are central to the functioning of healthy living systems.
Rewilding
By Joshua Sterlin, Uneven Earth
There is a growing movement, largely allied with anarchist, radical environmentalist, and decolonial practice, repurposing the term rewilding to be a political and cultural project that is more than merely conservation biology, one that thinks about nature with the people in.
To Know the World: A New Vision for Environmental Learning
By Natasha Seegert, Solutions Journal
Mitchell Thomashow’s most recent book, To Know the World: A New Vision for Environmental Learning, arrives when we need it most.
Other species are essential workers, whose economies enfold our own
By Didi Pershouse, The Regenerative Economy Collaborative
Our new aim should not be to extract more value from the larger economy that enfolds us, but to find our place within it, as we engage in a meaningful exchange.
What to Do When the World is on Fire
By Henry Coleman, Local Futures
What we can do, however, is to raise the call for an economics of humility; an economics that respects the diversity and dynamic flows of the natural world; an economics of localisation.
Wendell Berry’s wisdom in a time of pandemic
By Grace Olmstead, Breaking Ground
Our health is therefore predicated on more than our own physical resilience. To be healthy, we must acknowledge—and love—the entire web of life we are part of.
Darwin’s Endless Forms Most Beautiful: What’s Musical about Biology and Why Does That Matter?
By Bob Labaree, Resilience.org
The goal of this essay is to reignite a conversation with the Post Carbon Institute’s own Richard Heinberg about music and change in planetary systems, a conversation which began in the fall of 2017. I’m captioning this second stage of the conversation “What’s musical about biology and why does that matter?”
Beyond the Divides of Black-and-White Thinking – Coming Together in the Heart of Our Wholeness: Part 4
By Kavita Byrd, Resilience.org
High and low, rich and poor, black and white, left and right – it is time for us to end our divisions, and create a world, not of unlimited growth for the few, but the well-being of the many -- a level playing field where all of us, and all of life, can flourish.
Beyond the Divides of Black-and-White Thinking – Coming Together in the Heart of Our Wholeness: Part 3
By Kavita Byrd, Resilience.org
We need to come together and pool our wisdom, strength and resources to build a whole new system, a world where all are privileged, to live in bounty, beauty on this wonderful Earth we’ve been given.
The Impulse to Garden in Hard Times has Deep Roots
By Jennifer Atkinson, The Conversation
Our era is one of profound loneliness, and the proliferation of digital devices is only one of the causes. That emptiness also proceeds from the staggering retreat of nature, a process underway well before screen addiction.