When you prepare your dinner, do you ever go out to your garden to pick tomatoes and lettuce to make your salad or do you go to your fridge? Have you ever gone to your window sill to pluck out a few leaves of basil to mix into your pasta? …continue reading
The recent years brought about many leaps and bounds in technology and science. This also is the time where connectivity and the internet has boomed to it’s hilt. This means we can communicate with anyone. The internet allowed us show the world who we are through social media. Millennials and …continue reading
Our recent lives have become very stressful. We feel like we are about to explode at any moment. Many people sit in their desks with their minds flying away else where filled with stress and burned out feelings they have to bury in order to finish a work day. Meditation …continue reading
Engaging a More Intimate Economy By Crystal Arnold In its highest expression and use, money is a tool of connection, and its exchange generates relationship— the invisible infrastructure of culture. The design of money and the concept of time are primary organizing principles of society. Individual understanding and collective agreements …continue reading
Green Beings Plant Mind, Planetary Mind By Jesse Wolf Hardin The secret to: the understanding and protection of any element or aspect of Nature lies in our subjective identification with it, and the degree to which we recognize or “grant” it sentience: the ability to feel. As a …continue reading
Six Transition Conversations that Matter By Shaktari Belew Have you ever tried thinking of your life in terms of design? It can get very amusing pretty quickly. Try thinking about both the overall design of your life, what you do every day and why (the Meta design), as well as …continue reading
Creating Communities of Good Neighbors www.goodneighbors.net A Whole Systems Approach to Community and Transition By Shaktari Belew The distinguished man slowly traversed the room with a methodical gait. Every eye fixed on his entrance, surprise washing over each face. He sat down quietly, as though ready to work—yet caught somehow …continue reading
Honoring the Duh-Design Principles By Shaktari Belew If the science behind Climate Change, Peak Oil and population growth are true, and the realities of global financial insecurity keep unfolding all at once, we are in for change in capital letters. Why not proactively address those changes now, while we still …continue reading
It Does Pay to Fight Environmental Success Stories By Jackie Alan Giuliano, Ph.D. Flower in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies, I hold you here, root and all, in my hand, Little flower – but if I could understand What you are, root and all, and …continue reading
By Deborah Mokma Each summer, when our local farm stand offered its produce for sale to the community, my parents were sure to be on hand. My mother’s delight was obvious from the first ear of sweet corn she lovingly chose to the last tomato of the season. A friend …continue reading
By Debi Smith Rachel Corrie, a US citizen, was run over and killed by an Israeli Army bulldozer in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, March 16, 2003. Rachel, who was 23 years old, was non-violently protesting, with other members of the International Solidarity Movement, the razing of a Palestinian physician’s …continue reading
By Jeffrey M. Smith The American Academy of Environmental Medicine states,“Genetically Modified foods have not been properly tested and pose a serious health risk. There is more than a casual association between GM foods and adverse health effects. There is causation.” Last May the American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) …continue reading
The US is Warned “Wake Up to Global Warming Threat” Despite the warning of the “Climate Change and Our Nation” report, corporate interests in the US managed to undermine the climate negotiations in the Netherlands last November. Global warming could end cold winters in the Northeast and wipe out the …continue reading
When most of us think of astrology, we think about our natal sign and not much else. Do you know what some of the major influences are though, that define these Zodiac signs. First and foremost is the Sun. It is the center of all life and represents a person’s …continue reading