By Nate Hagens, The Great Simplification
On this episode, evolutionary biologist David Sloan Wilson joins Nate to unpack how evolution can be used to explain and understand modern human behavior, particularly with respect to cooperation and pro-social behavior.
By Jan Ritch-Frel, Independent Media Institute
In my opinion, the invention and subsequent development of technology was the inflection point from which humanity was to diverge towards an alternative pathway from all other life forms on Earth. We now hold the responsibility to wield this power in ways that will be beneficial and sustainable to all life.
By Vicki Robin, Geneen Marie Haugen, Resilience.org
Geneen Marie Haugen, PhD, grew up as a free-range wildish kid with a run amok imagination. She is a guide to the experiential, intertwined mysteries of nature and psyche with the Animas Valley Institute. She answers the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”
By David Bollier, David Bollier blog
"If most antisocial behaviors are locally advantageous," writes Wilson, "and most prosocial behaviors are locally disadvantageous, then we have an enormous problem explaining the nature of prosociality, including the nature of human morality, from an evolutionary perspective."
By Richard Heinberg, Melody Travers, Rob Dietz, Resilience.org
As people learned to wield fire, deploy an array of tools, and coordinate actions through increasingly descriptive language, they became more capable of concentrating power.
By Robert Jensen, Wes Jackson, Resilience.org
All organisms adapt to, and are shaped by, their places. There is no reason that humans should be exempt from that observation.
By Nate Hagens, Peter Whybrow, The Great Simplification
Today, Peter and I discuss how dopamine, evolution, and modern culture push many of us toward a lifestyle of excess and overconsumption.
By Dick Rauscher, Dick Rauscher blog
We humans use our minds to create the world we live in, so the better we understand how our minds work, the more successful we will be in creating the world we live in….and more importantly, the world we want to create.
By Vicki Robin, Stephen Dinan, Resilience.org
Stephen Dinan is an author, speaker, and the founder and CEO of The Shift Network, an organization that delivers virtual summits, courses, and trainings on spirituality, peace, holistic health, psychology, parenting, enlightened business, shamanism, indigenous wisdom, and sustainability. He addresses the quetion of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”
By Dick Rauscher, Dick Rauscher blog
We need to intentionally create a more mature and evolved collective human consciousness. And we are rapidly running out of time to do that essential work.
By Helen Camakaris, This View of Life
It is apparent that our focus should not only be on solving climate change, but should also address other planetary boundaries, and perhaps even democratic renewal, but in every case, we need the means of transitioning from an unsatisfactory system to a better one that focuses on our strengths, and mitigates against our psychological shortcomings.
By Ian Lipton, Resilience.org
Unless we recognize and recontextualize what we perceive as threat, our actions around climate change are going to be insufficient to prevent our demise as a species.