Whale watching tours in Baja are huge business. So are eco-lodges in the Amazon, run by indigenous tribes who now need English lessons so they can improve customer service for tourists. Polar bear safaris are booming, because people will pay through the nose to go and see the bears before they go extinct: Time Limited [...]
There is a growing movement to bring our lives back into conscious relationship with nature’s cycles (in recognition that humans are a part of nature, not apart from nature). Reconnecting the movements of all life brings us closer to the earth and to our bodies natural rhythms. There are a few transition points of the [...]
Why the environmental movement has failed to protect the environment. Introducing the “Free Nature Movement” and why like abolition and suffrage it can succeed in freeing nature from humanity.
Environmentalism is not a movement. For a political campaign to be considered a movement, it has to drive a new right into the constitution. Recycling and carpooling [...]
A friend recently brought up in conversation the fact that he is finding himself moving into a state of no longer being able to see separation between energy, or spirit, and matter. This resonated a lot with me, having been pondering a similar feeling of late. In the current dualistic paradigm people who know how [...]
Readers may be interested in a new festival highlighting the collaboration between ecology and experimental dance. The point is to create dances that encourage audiences to seek solace in nature, promote understanding of ecological challenges, and inspire the underlying feelings that make any of us want to act on behalf of the earth.
Dance, the language [...]
In her book, Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature, Janine Benyus introduces a new way of conceptualizing nature’s design as a holistic and valuable teacher.
For so much of humanities existence our focus has been on the exploitation and extraction of resources from our natural world. Biomimicry (Bios, meaning life, and mimesis, meaning to imitate) is concerned [...]
“My art is meant to be political in a welcoming way- letting the message seep in,” explains paper-cutting artist Nikki McClure. Her art inspires people to live more simply and sustainably, while enjoying life itself.
Her paper-cuts include short and simple, but powerful words and messages like: “Embark; Transcend; Save Your Strength; Find it For [...]
The book Seedfolks by Paul Heischman is a story of one person making a difference. In this case, it is a little girl who inadvertently inspires a community garden in a vacant lot in inner-city Cleveland.
While everyone else is sleeping, this little girl tiptoes out of her apartment, armed with a water thermos and some [...]
Check out this online comic strip about a city girl named Luz (Light in Spanish), who recognizes big changes coming with the scarcity and rising prices of petroleum.
The strip begins with Luz writing her list of “Skills We Need to Learn for Survival After Peak Oil”. She pictures herself collecting and purifying rainwater, transporting large [...]
Storyteller Michael Meade leaves crowds inspired and rejuvenated. He beats his hand drum and booms his voice, spreading myths and poetry of various cultures around the world, integrating them with modern life. The crowd becomes completely engaged, as myths meld with their own feelings, memories, dreams, and worries.
Michael reminds us that we create our world! [...]
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