When I watch the news, it’s all about what we’re lacking and what’s going wrong. It feels paralyzing. The problems are so big, how can we possibly address them? We are depleting our resources, warming up the planet and fighting with one another about all of it. Collective Wealth But what if…

We’ve been inundated with bad news these last few years-the pandemic, climate change, racial injustice, the threat of massive species extinction and now military invasion. Its gets overwhelming-these problems feel too big to tackle. But with biodiversity, there is something we can do-you and me, right in our own backyards. Why Take Action? …

Our current economic system has us stuck in “money thinking” where everything valuable has a price and what doesn’t get measured in dollars isn’t valued. But there’s so much in our world that is valuable regardless. If we rethink our wealth in terms of air, water, the biosphere, we are…

We live in a money economy. I know that sounds obvious, but it has profound implications for how we see the world. We measure everything in terms of money in this society. Even “time is money.” We decide if something is worth doing by how much money it can bring…

Do humans have a natural role on this planet? I recently watched Growing Native: Great Lakes, an American Public Television special about the tribes who live around the Great Lakes, and was fascinated as one of the tribal members talked about the white corn. She explained how the people need…

From the center of Reality, the whole circumference of life is seen to be completely harmonious, for when the center is found, it becomes clear that the enumerable radii all converge from the circumference towards a single point. Maharishi Maresh Yogi I’m learning to see my life as if I…

My mother loved butterflies. Her house was full of them. Not the real kind, but butterfly pins, embroidered butterflies, painted butterflies, chains of quilted butterflies, even those on a wire that you stick in a potted plant to decorate it. …

What do you do when you’re grappling with a bunch of random ideas all at once? So many of our digital tools are linear: word processors, spreadsheets, etc. Sometimes you just need a wide open, unstructured space to capture thoughts as they come. …

How do you bring about lasting change? Caroline Avanzo was a dedicated human rights lawyer and worked for 15 years in various NGOs and for the United Nations. She advocated for the victims of human rights violations and sought to influence state policies and practices. And yet the violations continued-the…