By Kenny Ausubel — 2014
The world is experiencing the dawn of a revolutionary transformation to becoming an ecologically literate and socially just civilization.
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In a very special interview, Satish Kumar shares his greatest adventure, inspiration and how we can find connection with the Earth.
For fifty-plus years, Joanna Macy has been helping us to face the Earth’s urgent and deepening crisis, to look without turning away, and to engage.
Branchings of belief from the lovely common root of “holy” and “whole” in the interleaving of all things.
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Village as a field is a state of mind, a nexus of relationships, is constituted in the heart. It has many forms and many possibilities.
A deeper issue underlies each one’s part in the malaise enveloping the planet’s ecosystems—and its origins date back to long before the industrial revolution. To truly bring ourselves into harmony with the natural world, we must return to seeing humanity as part of it.
In this interview, Buddhist eco-philosopher and author Joanna Macy discusses her life and work. From her anti-nuclear activism in the late 60’s to her work with deep ecology, Joanna expresses the need to live within an ethic of care for the earth.
In 1973, a book claiming that plants were sentient beings that feel emotions, prefer classical music to rock and roll, and can respond to the unspoken thoughts of humans hundreds of miles away landed on the New York Times best-seller list for nonfiction.
Op-Ed: His papacy has been a consistent rebuke to American culture-war Christianity in politics.