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Media and Green Cultural Citizenship

We need to bring awareness of global ecological and social systems into the discussion of media. By relegating issues of ecology and globalization to their usual professional divisions, we fail to confront the problem where we come into contact with it every day -- in our communication systems. (more)

Start With Universe

David McConville

Buckminster Fuller insisted that the sense of separation from nature is a dangerous illusion, and that humanity's evolutionary success is dependent on our willingness to learn from the emergent behaviors of whole systems. This led him to re-imagine a big picture in which our species is situated within the full continuum of creation. (more)

The Media Ecosystem

Corporate media and hamburgers have a lot in common. They succeed because they stimulate the pleasure centers of our brains. Media makers now have to make a turn toward planetary ecology to become aware of how our forms of mediation impact living systems. (more)

Answer to Henry Baum

Daniel Pinchbeck

We couldn't have far-flung Empire until we had writing and a standardized code of law; we couldn't have the modern democratic nation state until we had the printing press. We now have media technology that is fully interactive, and this points toward "direct democracy," or "Society without a State." (more)

We Are the 100 Percent: A Metta-tation for the Masses

Darrin Drda

Given how much is at stake—not only our individual futures but also perhaps that of humanity at large, if not life as we know it—do we really want to keep playing the tired old game of "us against them"? (more)

10-28-11
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We Are the 100 Percent: A Metta-tation for the Masses

Darrin Drda

Given how much is at stake—not only our individual futures but also perhaps that of humanity at large, if not life as we know it—do we really want to keep playing the tired old game of “us against them”? (more)

10-28-11
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Sacred Economics: Chapter 10, The Law of Return (Pt. 11)

Charles Eisenstein

The personal and planetary mirror each other. The connection is more than mere analogy: the kind of work that we force ourselves to do is precisely the kind of work that despoils the planet. We don't really want to do it to our bodies; we don't really want to do it to the world. (more)

Lotus in a Sea of Fire: Burning Buddhist Questions

Darrin Drda

While reflecting on Buddhism and Burning Man, I learned of a wildfire encroaching on a meditation retreat. It's an analogy for our crisis. As temperatures rise and natural systems decline, can people of conscience (and privilege) afford to spend so much money and time playing on the playa? (more)

Darwin's Pharmacy: Plants as Superpower

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)

Every Day We Choose

Frances Moore Lappé

Living fully during a time of historic crisis for our planet is possible only if we grasp how our individual choices address its very roots. To connect our passions with the world's needs, we must probe deeply enough to see the underlying patterns trapping us in this horrific mess. (more)

Self As City, City As Self

Michael Garfield

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This year at Burning Man's Entheon Village, I gave a talk on how evolutionary biology, developmental psychology, philosophy, architecture, and art challenge our constructed categories of "individual" and "collective," pointing us toward a new understanding of the self as a multitude and our communities as living, sentient beings. (more)

Self As City, City As Self

Michael Garfield

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This year at Burning Man's Entheon Village, I gave a talk on how evolutionary biology, developmental psychology, philosophy, architecture, and art challenge our constructed categories of "individual" and "collective," pointing us toward a new understanding of the self as a multitude and our communities as living, sentient beings. (Transcript of the talk with links to audio and video...)

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10-1-10
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Mycoremediation and Its Applications to Oil Spills

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While media reports focus on the Gulf cleanup and BP's liability, few mention the long-term consequences of the spill. There will be a surge in cancer cases, widespread degradation of wildlife habitat, and an array of complex strains on the ecosphere as a whole. As the hurricane season unfolds, we may see the greatest ecological disaster in hundreds of years. Mycoremediation is a valuable component in our toolset of solutions. [An RS Encore Presentation] (more)

Anger is an Energy

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Go to the window and look out at your street. Imagine the alternatives to what you're seeing; where did the materials out there come from, how could the ecology that created them and the people who made them be treated better? How could the resources you're seeing be used more positively? Are you really getting the most out of your time here? (more)

Prelude to the Noosphere: Report and a Vision

José Argüelles

To change our consciousness, to take advantage of the ascent that continues to occur even in the darkest hour of planetary crisis, we need only realize the example of the whole Earth, the Earth we see from outer space. This is the place to begin, for this is not only where we are, but who we are. (more)

The Least Thing Precisely

Jackie told me about the teas she grew, about her homemade jams and boysenberry wines, about the shiitakes she'd planted on a pile of logs, about the rainwater she harvested. She pointedly described permaculture as "the things your grandparents knew and your parents forgot." (more)

Nature's Providence and the End of Smug

Simon G. Powell

We have big heads. Large crania. These house big brains and also, it must be said, unlimited smug. Smug of such abundance that we tacitly promote ourselves as the greatest thing on two legs, the greatest species that ever ruminated on Earth. (more)

Climbing Kayford Mountain: Finding God & Facing Ecocide in West Virginia

Andrew William Smith

We saw the beauty of God's glorious creation unfolding before us in all its dramatic magic. From the same site, we witnessed unchecked human greed in the grotesque mechanical destruction of divinely created peaks. I can't claim any moral high ground; I am using coal to compose this piece on the war raging in Appalachia. (more)

Savage Moderns: Avatar-Style Ecocide in the Real World

Niall Fahy

The most lucrative movie of all time depicts the genocidal plight of an indigenous race that gets in the way of a mining operation. But we don't have to look to sci-fi for examples of this -- up to 300,000 West Papua natives have been killed to put gold in the chips of the computer you're looking at now. (more)