Health and Wellness

Climate Reports

Journal Article

The power and abundance of our Earth can never be overstated; what is commonly overlooked is humanity's exploitation and neglect of its own life source.

Published in Volume 18 Issue 2 By Victoria Price

I had to consume everything. I had to try every possible avenue of filling the God-sized hole from the outside before I could even fathom the possibility that the emptiness and energy swimming through the cosmos was the same emptiness and energy swimming inside of me.

Published in Volume 18 Issue 2 By Jeff Finlin

Healing Sound with Jesse Paris Smith

Journal Article

Sound and music are very powerful, and we as emotional beings are sensitive to what we hear. We do not only hear with our ears but with our whole bodies.

Published in Volume 18 Issue 2 By Kari Auerbach

Green Medicine

Journal Article

I use photography as a tool to explore the raw elemental power of the natural world by visiting and re-visiting places I’m drawn to in order to be touched by their spiritual essence.

Published in Volume 18 Issue 2 By Michael O’Brien

Eldering in the Age of Consumption

Journal Article

Perhaps more than anything, to become elder is to be comfortable with your place in the world.

Published in Volume 18 Issue 2 By Sharon Blackie and Stephen Jenkinson

Tending the Wild

Journal Article

What looked to European settlers like untamed wilderness was actually the product of millennia of intentional human influence. Calling it wilderness, or “virgin territory,” gave them license to occupy it, cultivate it, “develop” it, and “improve” it.

Published in Volume 18 Issue 2 By Charles Eisenstein

BOOK | Farming for the Long Haul

Journal Article

Farmers in urban civilizations have always been subject to powers beyond them. Indeed, there is ample evidence that urban civilizations were invariably built on the conquest and subjection of farming cultures. Our current food industry grew out of the defeat of farmers’ efforts in the late nineteenth century to win fair prices for their production.

Published in Volume 18 Issue 3 By Michael Foley

Killing Us Softly

Journal Article

...it's hard to be part of this fossil fuel poisoning, which, ultimately, is a collective suicide. I wish I knew how to save our species, but nobody could save Mr. Stone, or the classmate our daughter lost in high school, or the family friend who left the note pinned to his shirt.

Published in Volume 19 Issue 2 By Gregg Kleiner

Eating as if Life and the Planet Mattered

Journal Article

Marge | I believe that humans have a very vital, beautiful role by being part of this planet- this living community. I think our role is to use our awareness, our great combination of intelligence and heart to create a harmonious environment for all living beings and non-living beings.

Published in Volume 19 Issue 2 By Joaquin Carral, Marge Wurgel, Aurora Leon

Selfcare Freedom

Journal Article

The Diaspora Coalition’s medicinal herb production project interconnects communities which grow their own plant medicine at the hyper-local level.

Published in Volume 19 Issue 2 By Pamela Boyce Simms