“All wealth is derivative of Earth – most of all, values and wisdom. They are among the most recent emergent properties of our Universe’s 13.8 billion years of inexpressibly glorious creativity, complexification of matter and energy, and deepening of consciousness.” – Sam Guarnaccia

Article Commons

The Treasure of Our Living, Relational Commons

By David Bollier

As I have learned about the social life of trees and the intimate bonds that indigenous peoples have with various lifeforms and rivers – and as I pore through recent ecophilosophy that explains aliveness to the western mind -- I’ve concluded: We really ought to be talking more about animism and commoning.

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Conversation Whole Systems

Bioregions and Regeneration | Honoring the Places Where We Live

By Daniel Christian Wahl and Kosha Joubert

Daniel | To "do the impossible, because the probable is unthinkable" is only limited by our current frame of what reality is all about. If we dare to understand that our way of being in the moment and with each other and in relationship, actually matters—that it literally brings forth a different world—then we can work miracles.

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Essay Civilization

Economic Justice and Ecological Regeneration

By Jeremy Lent

Our crucial task is to incorporate these principles of traditional wisdom into an integrated system of values that can redirect humanity away from catastrophe, and toward a flourishing future. One where our shared identity expands beyond parochial boundaries to include, not just all humanity, but all sentient beings, and the vibrancy of the entire living Earth. Ultimately, it is our values that guide our actions—and will shape our future.

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Essay Inheritance

Wrestling with Wealth and Class

By Simon Mont

Torn between worlds. Longing to belong. Always struggling to navigate all the things I inherited: the money, the karma, the love, the possibility, the heart, the values, the society, my place in it, all of it.  

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Gallery Interbeing

Love Letters from Seaweed

By Katherine Minott

"The next high tide would erase these remarkable assemblages in 12 hours and others would take their place—always a reminder that time and action are evolutionary agents moving everything toward something else."

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Credits

Staff and Advisors

True Wealth 

Introduction

Editorial
The Evolutionary Potential of Wealth
Rhonda Fabian
Keynote
True Health | What if the Virus is the Medicine?
Julia Hartsell and Jonathan Hadas Edwards

Articles

Cosmology
The Power of Allurement
Betsey Crawford
Peacebuilding
Vision for a City of Hope Near Auschwitz
Nina Meyerhof

Conversations

Whole Systems
Bioregions and Regeneration | Honoring the Places Where We Live
Daniel Wahl and Kosha Joubert
Revolution
Mystical Anarchism, a Spiritual Biography
Alnoor Ladha and Michael Lerner

Essays

Inheritance
Wrestling with Wealth and Class
Simon Mont
Mindfulness
Breakfast Table Revelation
Hai-An (Sister Ocean)
From a Kosmos Reader
Safe Houses | Giving Refuge
Carolyn Brigit Flynn
From a Kosmos Reader
Good Fortune
Marilyn DuHamel

Poetry

Blaxit
Joanne Godley
Two Poems by Ellen Waterson
Ellen Waterston

Galleries

Interbeing
Love Letters from Seaweed
Katherine Minott
Identity
In the Hands of Alchemy
Jerry Wennstrom

Mixed Media

New Cosmology
Fragile Gold
Sam Guarnaccia