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There is Beauty in Not Knowing
by Richard Feynman (May 10, 2013) I have a friend who is an artist, and has sometimes taken a view which I don’t agree with very well. He’ll hold up a flower and say “Look how beautiful it is” and I’ll agree. And he says: … Continue reading
The Frontier Is Everywhere
by Carl Sagan (Apr 26, 2013) We were hunters and foragers. The frontier was everywhere. We were bounded only by the Earth, and the ocean, and the sky. The open road still softly calls. Our little terraqueous globe is the madhouse of … Continue reading
Lifting The Human Spirit
by Carl Sagan (Mar 08, 2013) We had an expansive run in the ’60s and ’70s. You might have thought, as I did then, that our species would be on Mars before the century was over. But instead, we’ve pulled inward. Robots aside, we’ve backed off from … Continue reading
Enoughness & The Poetry of the Forest
–by Vandana Shiva (Feb 15, 2013) Today, at a time of multiple crises intensified by globalization, we need to move away from the paradigm of nature as dead matter. We need to move to an ecological paradigm, and for this, the best … Continue reading
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Tagged Agroecology, Bija Vidyapeeth, biomimicry, democracy, Earth Democracy, Earth University, Forest of Purity, forest school, Gandhi, Navdanya, Nobel Prize, nonoviolence, Organic Farming, permaculture, poetry, Rabindranath Tagore, Shantiniketan, Tapovan, The Religion of the Forest, Vandana Shiva, West Bengal, YES! Magazine
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Action to Heal the Nuclear Madness
Art piece by brother Chris Jordan –watch the TED talk about his ARTivism. ‘Unsinkable’ depicts 67,000 mushroom clouds, equal to the number of metric tons of ultra-radioactive uranium/plutonium waste being stored in temporary pools at the 104 nuclear power plants across the [part of the Planet we … Continue reading
Posted in anarchism, anarchy, ARTivism, astrobiology, education, fearlessness, natural philosophy, noncooperation, nonviolence, Peace Army, satyagraha, science, soulforce
Tagged Abolition 2000, ahimsa, anarchy, Beyond Nuclear, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Chernobyl, Chris Jordan, FaireWinds, Fukushima, Fukushima-Daiichi, Gar Smith, Ginger Hill farm, Hiroshima, In Mortal Hands, Joanna Macy, Livermore, Los Alamos, Martin Luther King jr, Mayumi Oda, Mothers For Peace, Nagasaki, Nevada Desert Experience, NIRS, noncooperation, nuclear abolition, nuclear energy, Nuclear Free Planet, nuclear guardianship, Nuclear Information Resource Center, Nuclear Roulette, Nuclear Weapons, Physicians for Social Responsibility, plutonium pits, PSR, radioactive waste, Stephanie Cooke, The Great Turning, Titanic, TriValleyCares, Two Headed Dragon Nuclear Energy, ultra-radioactive uranium, UniTierra, University of California, University of California Labs, Western States Legal Foundation, YES! Magazine
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Intergenerational Justice & Responsible Caring
by Kathleen Dean Moore (Dec 28, 2012) Our generation is witnessing the end of the old era and the start of a new one, when human culture will determine the future of the Earth. Theologian Thomas Berry said, “My generation has … Continue reading
Posted in astrobiology, education, fearlessness, natural philosophy, noncooperation, nonviolence, satyagraha, science, soulforce, WednesdaysOnFridays
Tagged Carl Safina, Cenozoic, Climate Change, injustice, intergenerational, justice, Kathleen Dean Moore, Moral Ground, The Great Turning, Thomas Berry
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Our Ecological Self: A Great Source Of Strength
by Joanna Macy (Dec 21, 2012) Rather than viewing our self as a fixed thing with characteristics that can’t be changed, we can think of ourselves as a flow of becoming. This perspective invites a greater sense of possibility. We participate … Continue reading
The Fire Of Creativity & Falling In Love Again
by Matthew Fox (Dec 14, 2012) The choir sang this morning about fire and water, so I’d like to speak a few words about the fire of creativity and the water of community. I wrote a book a couple of years ago called Creativity: … Continue reading
Posted in ARTivism, astrobiology, education, fearlessness, natural philosophy, nonviolence, poetry, science, soulforce, WednesdaysOnFridays
Tagged creativity, falling in love again, fire, fire of creativity, Liberation Theology, Matthew Fox, Meister Eckhart, Oakland, Occupy Oakland, Oscar Romero, sermon, St. Thomas Aquinas
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A Declaration of Dependence
–by Satish Kumar (Oct 26, 2012) The Declaration of Independence in 1776 [of the part of the Planet we call the U.S.] may have been right in its time and context. At times of slavery, colonialism and imperialism, it is right and … Continue reading
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