Michael Lerner
Michael Lerner is president and co-founder of Commonweal, a 43-year-old nonprofit center in Bolinas, California, with programs in health and healing, education and the arts, and environment and justice. He is the co-founder of the Commonweal Cancer Help Program, Healing Circles, Beyond Conventional Cancer Therapies, The New School at Commonweal, and the Resilience Project. He taught at Yale and…
Kosha Joubert
Kosha Joubert, MSc, serves as Executive Director of the Global Ecovillage Network. She has many years of experience as an international facilitator, trainer, and consultant, and has worked extensively in the fields of community empowerment, intercultural collaboration, and sustainable development. Kosha grew up in South Africa under Apartheid and has been dedicated to building bridges across…
The Freshness of Life!
Dear Reader,
We greet the coming Spring with joy! Nature brings us countless reminders of Life's beauty and freshness. The quality of freshness is something we all can cultivate. Every moment provides an opportunity for a fresh start. Yet, we often act as though all the feelings and ideas we have are fixed - burdens we can't set down. Hanging on to negative stories about ourselves and others,…
From Despair to Hope | How Can We Let Healing Information In?
Probably everyone who is working for peace today knows both the power of belief and the crippling force of doubt. Without the belief that what we are doing makes sense, that we really can change something for the better, it's easy to fall into a pit of despair, overwhelmed by the horror of the mess that faces us in the world today.
We can only immunise ourselves from this despair, so that we…
Ruth Gordon
Ruth Gordon, originally from England, is a student at Tamera, a peace research and education centre in Portugal. She is part of a group there training to support and exchange with a network of communities around the world who share a vision of a peaceful post-capitalist future. She works as an editor at Tamera's Institute for Global Peace Work and is also a musician.
Della Duncan
Della Duncan is a renegade economist who hosts opportunities for personal and systemic transition to a more equitable, sustainable, and enlivened world. She is a Right Livelihood coach, the host of the Upstream Podcast about alternative economics, a Social and Economic Equity Atlantic Fellow at the London School of Economics International Inequalities Institute, a lecturer on the MA Economics for…
Gordon Hempton
Gordon Hempton is an acoustic ecologist who cares deeply about quiet. As The Sound Tracker®, he has circled the globe three times over the last 35 years in pursuit of Earth’s rarest nature sounds—sounds which can only be fully appreciated in the absence of manmade noise. He has documented his work through professional audio recordings and two books, Earth is a Solar Powered Jukebox and One Square…
Zach Street
Zach Street is an Artist/Activist/Educator living in Hilo, Hawai'i, and shares his island home with the ‘Ōhi‘a Lehua featured here. Endemic to the island, these iconic trees are symbolic of love, dance, and the spirit of Nature. Currently under threat from human introduced diseases, the ‘Ōhi‘a Lehua are inspiring the local community to act for the future of the forests of Hawai’i.
Zach will be…
Robert E. Yuhnke
Robert E. Yuhnke served as an Assistant Attorney General who provided legal counsel to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources regarding regulations and litigation strategies for cleaning up air pollution from the steel industry. Later he created the clean air program at Environmental Defense Fund with primary focus on stopping the acidification of forests and watersheds from acid…