The Earth Does Not Speak in Prose

By Charlotte Du Cann, Paul Kingsnorth, Charlotte Du Cann blog

The minute there’s an orthodoxy of language and an orthodoxy of thought, which we all feel we have to stay within otherwise we’re going to get punished, or cancelled, then that’s the end of expression, that’s the end of any attempt to explore outside the boundaries. It’s what every orthodoxy from fascism to communism to theocracy tries to impose on the people to purify the culture, by forcing out anyone who thinks or speaks incorrectly. 

Humanity and Nature are Not Separate – We Must See them as One to Fix the Climate Crisis

By Heather Alberro, The Conversation

Though a varied and complex story, the widespread separation of humans from nature in Western culture can be traced to a few key historical developments, starting with the rise of Judeo-Christian values 2000 years ago.

Listening to Plants, Whales, and Elephants

By Erik Assadourian, Gaianism

The only way an ecocentric (or any) belief system spreads is from person to person, as all missionaries have understood from the days that Buddha’s disciples walked from India to China or sailed to Sri Lanka or Japan.

How To Thrive In the Next Economy: Preface to the Chinese edition

By John Thackara, John Thackara blog

This book is not about pre-cooked solutions. It’s about building on what has already been done, in our various social and cultural histories, and on what’s being done, right now, in diverse contexts around the world.

Is matter conscious? If so, does it matter?

By Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights

The question of consciousness continues to devil us. If consciousness is distributed throughout the universe, then its appearance in humans is just one manifestation. Does it matter one way or the other how we think about this question? I think it does profoundly.

“A child can transform a twig and a pile of leaves into absolutely anything”

By Rob Hopkins, Jay Griffiths, Rob Hopkins blog

To me one of the most important things is mental sovereignty, is that you really think for yourself rather than be made small, be made constrained, by the narrowness of the dominant culture. 

300 Million Poets: Amateur Poetry and Our Imminent Reconnection to the Land

By Dan Allen, Resilience.org

How do we live our lives, enmeshed as we are in this increasingly-toxic soup of early-stage civilization collapse, to make the most of today and perhaps bestow upon our children a livable tomorrow? And the answer for me comes down to strengthening relationships.

A Science of Qualities: Experiencing the World Coming into Being & Living on the Edge of chaos

By Daniel Christian Wahl, Medium

The Science of Qualities is really an extension of conventional science in the sense that it depends upon consensus, agreement and a methodology whereby people come to recognize the agreement or the consensus they have about the qualities of experience of other beings.

The Flight from Nature

By John Michael Greer, Ecosophia

Thus one of the things that I want to explore in posts to come is how we got into ways of thought that treat modern industrial lifestyles as normal and desirable—how people in the industrial world, that is, got caught up in a self-defeating attempt to escape from nature, when human beings are at once inescapably dependent on nature and inescapably part of nature—and how that frankly bizarre habit might be swapped out for something saner.

Regenerative Cultures: Review

By Anneloes Smitsman, Medium

“Designing Regenerative Cultures” by Daniel Wahl is an essential guidebook for our time that everyone should read, young and old. Through this book we come to realise deeply that there is a way out of the madness of our current societal systems in which so many people and non-human species have become trapped.

Patterns of Commoning: Reality as Commons, A Poetics of Participation for the Anthropocene

By Andreas Weber, Patterns of Commoning

How, exactly, do the many, burgeoning posthumanist interpretations of our time fail to grasp the cosmos as a creative reality? Let us begin with the Anthropocene.

The Right Structures have Power – Simon Mitambo on Reviving Cultural and Biological Diversity

By Wangũi Kamonji, Transition Network

I like giving the example that we humans can behave like cancerous cells. Working out of a disconnection from nature, as if we are separate from other natural aspects is similar to when cells stop communicating with the whole system.