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 Gracy 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.

Human Nature

By Eleanor Finley, Uneven Earth

Our biology equips us to understand not only what is, but also what could and what should be. We are ethical creatures; we are nature debating, rationalizing, and thinking with itself.

Now Is the Time – Revolution, Inner and Outer

By Kavita Byrd, Resilience.org

George Floyd’s death was a flashpoint, erupting into the flame of truth, spreading over the world like wildfire. What is that truth, too long hidden, that needed to break through into the light of day, to break open our hearts?

Nourishing Community in Pandemic Times

By Andreas Weber, Heinrich Boell Stiftung

Animism, the enactment and culture of interspecies reciprocity, cannot teach us how to better manage “natural objects”, but shows how to sustain a cosmos giving life to all its members. This will require us to rethink traditional sustainable practices.

‘The Condor and The Eagle’ Takes Flight

By Linda Etchart, Esperanza Project

From the tar sands of Alberta, Canada, to the oil fields of Texas, to the Ecuadorian Amazon, The Condor & the Eagle tells the story of the collective struggle of the Indigenous peoples of North and South America in their fight to preserve their communities and to protect the Earth from climate change.