Occupy may be an ethically motivated, bio-psycho-social response to a systemic process that is being perceived as a threat to the collective organism. (more)

In the wake of Margulis's work, it is clear that relentless competition is not the sole theme of life. We have to acknowledge symbiosis as a key operating principle of life on Earth and install that operating principle within our culture. (more)

Only in recent years has food production been pushed out beyond the city boundaries. Today's challenge is to bring food back into our cities, "past forward" to a 21st century model that joins new technologies with the old reality that food has to grow somewhere -- ​the closer, the fresher. (more)

Biologist and geoscientist Lynn Margulis composed a grand and powerful view of the living and the non-living through her uncanny ability to lean forward and see the smallest inhabitants of the Earth and then to leap back at the speed of thought to conceptualize the entire planet. This seeing from soil to space marked a unique scientific endeavor. (more)

The closer one examines life the more apparent does natural intelligence become. Like brilliant ideas and hypotheses made literal flesh in space and time, natural intelligence is what you see when you look down a microscope at a cell. The genetic code is itself an expression of natural intelligence. Codes are the hallmark of intelligent activity. Nature got there first.  (more)

Green Maps contribute to policy change, reverse over-development plans, foreground environmental justice issues and create new opportunities for green infrastructure.  The world is a beautiful place. Come and join me from the place where you stand, and help everyone see it that way. (more)

In responding to global climatic change we must evolve, and this evolution begins with the recognition of plants, and the Earth itself, as a super power whose weaponry is temperature change, rising ocean levels, and emergent and proliferating diseases. (more)

For decades, the Rocky Mountain states have been the center of an extreme right-wing culture that celebrates the image of man as "warrior." Now, a campaign of intimidation and disinformation has led to the gray wolf's removal from the Endangered Species List. Wolf blood will flow across the Rockies this fall and winter, but the killing might backfire. (more)

Reality Sandwich is partnering again with Guaria de Osa in Costa Rica, and the shamans of the Secoya tribe from Ecuador, for two plant medicine council gatherings this July. (more)