Duality and Reality

By Eliza Daley, By my solitary hearth

Real, unreal. This is the the ultimate isolating duality that we have created for our minds, the ultimate isolating brokenness in our language and our culture.

Seeing the One in the Many

By Phila Back, Phila Back blog

As ecological consciousness grows more thinkers are putting forth holistic interpretations of the world which tackle the age-old problem of the one and the many that poses the two questions: how can a thing with many parts be one and how can there be many things of one kind?

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.

Landscape as a Whole at the Hulsman Ranch

By Sarah Lillegard, Fibershed

The daily tasks may seem menial, but as Hannah puts it, “Being out there reinforces everything in life —having a hand in maintaining how things are.” The large plans and the small tasks are both a part of continuing the ranch’s legacy to see and treat the land as a whole.

Re-wilding the Bauhaus: What its Foundation Course Should be like Today

By John Thackara, John Thackara blog

No textbook for the new foundation course exists – which is probably just as well. The course is better thought of as a journey, than as a body of knowledge.

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.

Climate Change and the Need for a New Paradigm

By Yavor Tarinski, Resilience.org

We live in times where there seems to be a crisis in just about everything - from the so called financial sector, through the contemporary mass migratory processes, to the severe corrosion of the social fabric.

Climate Holism vs. Climate Reductionism

By Richard Heinberg, Post Carbon Institute

Climate change may be the biggest threat facing humanity, but the way we’re currently going about fighting it just ensures that, even if we prevail, another threat will follow, and another, and another.

Teaching Economics for the 21st century

By Jonathan Dawson, Schumacher College

We need to transcend our current paradigm in which cognitive, intellectual ways of knowing are privileged at the expense of all others and in which didactic methods continue to dominate.

Putting Grasslands to Work

By Staff, SFT, Sustainable Food Trust

The term ‘holistic’, means something characterised by the belief that the individual parts of a system are intimately interconnected and explicable only by reference to the whole.