Living Earth

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Earth-Based Wisdom: Learning the Original Idea from the Living Earth

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Traditional cultures “are what shaped us and caused us to be what we are now,” writes Jared Diamond in The […]

Published in Spring | Summer 2015 By J.E. Williams

Living Human Living Earth: A Super-Ordinate Goal

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How do we collectively transform ourselves, our communities, and our civilization to move toward a future of our highest collective […]

Published in Spring | Summer 2015 By Ben Levi

Watershed

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I work in nature because we are nature… My materials come from the earth to which they return… Learning to […]

Published in Fall | Winter 2014 By Martin Hill

Ecosophy: Nature’s Guide to a Better World

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Storytelling The most exciting and beneficial things I believe happened to humanity in the past century were physicists’ recognition that […]

Published in Spring | Summer 2014 By Elisabet Sahtouris

Ecology and Religion

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Island Press, January 2014 Ecology and Religion is a foundational text for environmental studies and religious ecology. It is a distillation […]

Published in Spring | Summer 2014 By Rick Clugston

Development in the Ecological Age

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Do you live in a developed nation or a developing nation? If your nation has an extensive system of roads, […]

Published in Spring | Summer 2014 By Charles Eisenstein

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

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People are intimately tied to our natural environment. Our bodies are composed of water, we need clean air to breathe, […]

Published in Spring | Summer 2014 By Kirsten Gallo

The Living Universe: Why Do We Need to Know Whether or Not the Universe is Alive?

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We shape our lives according to the way we view the world. Our perception and understanding of that world govern the decisions we make and the underlying motivations. People's outlook on the world has for centuries been dominated by the general view of the Universe as it is given by the science of physics.

Published in Fall | Winter 2013 By kosmos

Enlivenment: A New Bios for our Relation to the Natural World and to Ourselves

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People often call for ‘changing the system’ and seek to reform the ‘free market’ approach that turns everything, including life […]

Published in Fall | Winter 2013 By Andreas Weber

World’s First Successful ‘Rights of Nature’ Lawsuit

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Setting the Stage In January of 2007, Richard and I went on a wonderful vacation to Vilcabamba, Ecuador, famous as […]

Published in Fall | Winter 2013 By Norie Huddle