By Kenny Ausubel — 2011
The disconnect between the state of nature and the nature of the state is producing a state of emergency.
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CLEAR ALL
We need to value nature’s biodiversity, clean water, and seeds. For this, nature is the best teacher.
In the wake of the Paris summit, Vandana Shiva suggests a manifesto for sustainability.
The Great Turning identifies the shift from a self-destroying political economy to one in harmony with Earth and enduring for the future. It unites and includes all the actions being taken to honor and preserve life on Earth. It is the essential adventure of our time.
If you’re really paying attention, it’s hard to escape a sense of outrage, fear, despair. Author, deep-ecologist, and Buddhist scholar Joanna Macy says: Don’t even try.
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.
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.
It’s so ironic. A country that was established by white immigrants and refugees continues, year after year, to debate whether refugees and immigrants from other countries should be allowed to cross onto our sacred soil. - Chelsey Luger
Guardian editorial--No other spiritual leader is speaking out so clearly for the poor and for the environment in the developing world."