Living Earth

Gaia Within | Choosing Care in an Unraveling World

Journal Article

Time might bring back the coral reefs and provide space for species that are not yet extinct to rebuild their populations. Forests could reclaim hillsides while birds, butterflies, and bees construct their nests and hives in their shade. But how can our species survive when we choose leaders who are blind to the living intelligence that created us?

Published in Volume 25 Issue 1 By Michael Gray

The Art of Belonging | Emergent Universe Oratorio

Journal Article

The Emergent Universe Oratorio (EUO) is a musical and poetic composition for chorus, orchestra, and orator, of the Great Story of our vast evolving Universe, the new scientific cosmology of our cosmic birth, to galaxies, stars, Earth, life, of human emergence and transformation. It is a response to the greatest crisis in the history of humanity, and if we can respond as one thread in the tapestry of living Earth, it is also its greatest opportunity.

Published in Volume 25 Issue 1 By Sam Guarnaccia, Cameron Davis, Paula Guarnaccia

Biodiversity is Biosecurity

Journal Article

Understanding how life creates a livable Earth radically alters our view of the world. It means that the material (abiotic) world does not simply shape the conditions for the living (biotic) world. The living world also actively shapes the material world in ways that enhances the vibrancy and livability of our planet as a whole.

Published in Volume 24 Issue 6 By Leen Gorissen, PhD

The End of Human Supremacy

Journal Article

The healing of the world will be created through the cooperation of everyone who lives on Earth...The Earth knows how to heal the Earth better than anyone. Remembering to listen to all the beings of nature that are not only asking for help but also offering their wise medicine will be the long-awaited end of human supremacy.

Published in Volume 24 Issue 5 By Arkan Lushwala

The Healing Joy of a Hike in the Woods

Journal Article

The earth reminds us of how we must treat our home, and how that reflects our care for ourselves and each other. A cluttered mind is like a disordered space, whereas a temple cared for with love and respect can stand the test of time, its beauty woven into every moment.

Published in Volume 24 Issue 5 By Michael Colon

When Wolves Returned to Yellowstone – Twenty-five Years On

Journal Article

How can it be that the return of wolves could somehow alter Yellowstone’s rivers and streams? Or that the presence of wolves would result in an increase in songbirds or amphibians? No one saw these things coming. Though still debated, the concept of the “trophic cascade” offers one explanation of what has transpired.

Published in Volume 24 Issue 5 By Randall K. Wilson, PhD

Like Water and Wind | Resisting Massive Offshore Energy Projects in the Pacific Northwest

Journal Article

The Pacific Ocean is the largest wilderness on the planet, home to millions of species. Life is most abundant near the shore: undersea reefs, kelp forests, seabirds, and whale migrations. Yet from Northern California to Alaska, the coast of the Pacific Northwest is increasingly threatened by industrial-scale offshore energy projects.

Published in Volume 24 Issue 5 By Erica Shugart

Reestablishing Kinship with All Life in a Time of Chaos

Journal Article

"This powerful being, so seldom seen by most of us, leaves us breathless. I look at the faces, each one with huge smiles of pure joy. “Did you see that? Did you see that?” The sky, the sea, the birds, the humpbacks, all create a symphony of beauty and connection that captures us fully and completely. Everything exists only in this time, this place."

Published in Volume 24 Issue 4 By Leah Rampy

Wealth as Responsiveness to Earth Wisdom

Journal Article

A Lakota elder challenges the prevailing Western notions of ownership and wealth by advocating for a return to the holistic understanding of existence found in Indigenous cultures. He emphasizes the importance of unlearning Western ideologies of possession and relearning Indigenous ways of being, which prioritize community, reciprocity, and harmony with the Earth.

Published in Volume 24 Issue 3 By Tiokasin Ghosthorse

Worldviews Conjured by Words

Journal Article

Do we have access to words and languages that are life-enhancing, that awaken our consciousness to an animate Earth and our place in a living cosmology? Do the words we choose, and the order in which we string them together, depict the world as a web of sacred systems with agency, or instead, tragically, as a vault of commodities and dead-matter resources for human use?

Published in Volume 24 Issue 2 By Osprey Orielle Lake