Sourcing Wisdom for Just and Sustainable Results

Thoughtful people worldwide from all walks of life—civil society, media, academia, governments and business—are asking fundamental questions: Why are so many people poor and hungry when we have the technology and resources to prevent this? Why is war profitable for some? What do we need to put in place to change our trajectory? Given that there are so many good people with good intentions, why…

gallery one | wild and beautiful nature

Artist Statement My daily work is a mix between creating visual effects and photographing nature. The two things are seemingly at odds and yet I find them to be a wonderful balance. Visual effects is about bringing someone's imagination to life, quite often creating things that are straight out of a dream. By definition, we are trying to create that which does not exist. For me, photographing…

Ecology and Religion

Island Press, January 2014 Ecology and Religion is a foundational text for environmental studies and religious ecology. It is a distillation of Grim and Tucker’s 20-year effort to create religion and ecology as an academic field of study. They take us through the development of religious ecology showing how our understandings of nature have shifted over time in various religions, and in western…

Development in the Ecological Age

Do you live in a developed nation or a developing nation? If your nation has an extensive system of roads, rail and airports, if it is fully electrified, if it is mostly urban and suburban, if modern medicine is widespread, if literacy and education are near-universal, if most people are connected to the Internet, and if, most crucially, per capita GDP is high, then most people would say you live…

The Deeper News: Patterns, Dynamics and Mindsets Shaping the Longer View

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion. ~ Carl Sagan Scanning Deeply The Asian Foresight Institute [AFI] has been tracking evolutionary leitmotifs for the better part of two decades. While pop futurists focus on short-term trends, especially those that play to our boundless fascination for new gadgets and our narcissistic concerns, we try to adopt an…

Nature and Humanity as Source of Life, Living and Everyday Transformation

People are intimately tied to our natural environment. Our bodies are composed of water, we need clean air to breathe, and we need healthy and fertile soils to produce nutritious foods. Beyond that, nature has always been a source of inspiration and beauty for me. It shows me how to live. When I’m struggling with a situation in my life, I look at a river with its rapids followed by smooth glides…

gallery two | Exodus Series of Paintings

The Exodus series paintings are concerned with the experience of higher awareness and spiritual revelation that results from the movement of peoples throughout the world. In these powerful paintings we see groups of seemingly displaced and anonymous peoples moving though landscapes that are hauntingly familiar and yet foreign at the same time. The landscapes seem to be moving and changing along…

Mapping the Global Transition to the Solar Age: From ‘Economism’ to Earth Systems Science

Review by Monica Sharma Hazel Henderson takes us on a journey through time—future, present and past—and weaves new pathways to one of our next milestones in human civilization: the Solar Age. Based on current scientific knowledge and irrefutable facts from the domains of finance and economics, these innovative, transdisciplinary pathways connect strategic action to the conscious human and…