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A Religious Nature: Philosopher Seyyed Hossein Nasr on Islam and the Environment

By Elisabeth Eaves — 2015

In this interview, Seyyed Hossein Nasr, a university professor of Islamic studies at George Washington University, talks with the Bulletin’s Elisabeth Eaves about Islam and the environment.

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Soul Man

Satish Kumar has spent much of his life walking the Earth to spiritually connect with nature; now he wants environmentalists and all of us to forget gloomy predictions and follow in his footsteps. John Vidal reports

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John Vidal
2008
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Listening in with . . . Grandmother Flordemayo: Seeding the Future

Born into a lineage of healers in the highlands of Central America and now an indigenous elder, Flordemayo travels internationally, sharing wisdom and teaching respect for the earth. Here, she talks with Unity Magazine editor Katy Koontz about her life and her work.

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Katy Koontz
2020
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Try This Heart-Centering Meditation Before You Take a Forest Bath

Once you’ve decided on the time and location of your forest bath or decide to join a group journey into the forest, you’ve made a commit­ment to yourself and to Mother Earth.

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Julia Plevin
2019
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Widening Circles: An Interview with Joanna Macy

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.

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Emergence Magazine
2018
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Jane Goodall on the Meaning of Wisdom and the Deepest Wellspring of Hope

“A great deal of our onslaught on Mother Nature is not really lack of intelligence but a lack of compassion… True wisdom requires both thinking with our head and understanding with our heart.”

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Maria Popova
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To Be an Earth Ecstatic: Poet Diane Ackerman on the Spirituality of Wonder Without Religion

Branchings of belief from the lovely common root of “holy” and “whole” in the interleaving of all things.

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Maria Popova
2020
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Celebrating Earth Day Through Eco-Spirituality

Eco-spirituality is about helping people experience “the holy” in the natural world and to recognize their relationship as human beings to all creation. However, eco-spirituality isn’t just a philosophy or a prayerful way of life. For Sister Ginny, it has been a passionate call to action.

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Olga Bonfiglio
2012
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What Does Daoism (Taoism) Teach Us about Ecology?

There are four main principles of Daoism that guide the relationship between humanity and nature.

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Environment and Ecology
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Can the World Mend in This Body?

The author writes that what she does on behalf of healing any individual or being must also be healing, even if not directly extended, for the world itself.

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Deena Metzger
2018
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Satish Kumar—Peace Activist

In a very special interview, Satish Kumar shares his greatest adventure, inspiration and how we can find connection with the Earth.

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Saiki Wellness
2020
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