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Tagged with Eco-consciousness

Eco

It's No Trick: Cruelty in the Modern Age

Jill Ettinger

We’ve made laws to protect our wild world from extinction and exploitation, yet we still imprison and gawk at nature’s most awe-inspiring creatures. What does our treatment of fellow Earthlings say about the legacy we leave for future generations? (more)

8-7-09

Arts

Mediacology: Media Networks, Deep Ecology and the Dream of the Planet

Antonio Lopez

Are we evolving an ecologically oriented global consciousness, or just a technologically efficient corporate brain? It depends on whether or not we can decolonize the future. (more)

7-9-09

Commons

12th Hour For Arcology

Doctress Neutopia

Experiments in arcology are being conducted around the world, such as the low-carbon city being built on Dongtan, an island off Shanghai. Arcology not only disrupts the American Dream of life in suburbia, it replaces it with a new form of city design, a "biomorphic" city designed as a living entity based upon molecular structure. (more)

6-9-09

Eco

Waste is Not a Dirty Word!

Darren Flint

If Gaia is a single integrated organism, then mankind's pillage of the oilfields has been part of a natural process. We're scared and shamed by environmental degradation, but we're also amassing energy for future inheritors in a way that we ourselves can't envision. (more)

5-28-09

Psyche

The Inner Dimensions of Cosmic Rebirth

Joseph Giove

Now is the time we've been waiting for. It's not in 2012 or some other imaginary date in the future. It's about now; it is now. This is what the Rebirth Celebration is about on May 9-11, 2009. (more)

4-23-09

Commons

Building a Scaffold for Social Change

Daniel Pinchbeck

Most popular social networks are designed to support the "flattered self" and to make a profit for large corporations. Evolver.net is an independent network designed to engage people in transforming their own consciousness and their local communities. (more)

4-10-09

Eco

Eco-Community Design: A Proposal

Twist

A robust ecovillage design could be successfully marketed purely on an economic basis, as a solid investment opportunity now and even more so every year further down the road of oil depletion. (more)

4-9-09

Eco

What Now, America?

Jill Ettinger

Is the Wall Street economic meltdown gearing us up for a food crisis? Or, will we find our way to a better world with values and nutrients as our arsenal? (more)

3-30-09

Eco

The Gort Cloud: An Interdependent Community of Green Businesses and Their Customers

Richard Seireeni

The Gort Cloud is the invisible network that connects thousands of environmentally aware people. In building their companies and developing their products, the Gort Cloud has played a role – even if they don't know what it is yet. (more)

3-4-09

Eco

The Shape of the Universe

Howard Rheingold

If you are fortunate enough to share a neighborhood with a leafy elm, a gnarly oak, a soaring redwood, take another look at its silhouette against the sky. That self-similar 4-D explosion of branching branches is a clue to a cosmic riddle or two. (more)

2-12-09

Psyche

Melchizedek: Ecological War

Yakov Rabinovich

The concept of tsedeq (world in balance) brings powers to the ecological struggle which are only unleashed by religious belief. In doing this we are entitled to the name of Melchizedek, the title of the old Canaanite priest-king, the royal warrior who defends sacred ecology and resists the forces of capital. (more)

1-26-09

Commons

WORLDSHIFT!

Erwin Laszlo

Our unsustainable world will change for it must change—but will it change in time?  (more)

8-15-08

Commons

If I Were President...

Daniel Pinchbeck

What kind of policies would offer a meaningful response to our current situation? Unfortunately, the changes we need seem so far beyond the limits of current political discourse that it might be laughable if it weren't tragic. (more)

8-8-08

Life

The Psychology of Ecology

Ethan Nichtern

To date, the green movement has focused on the external world of objects and resources. But what about the internal landscape of consumption – the subtleties of our state of mind as we attempt to change our patterns? (more)

7-15-08

Eco

Rethinking GDP/GNP...

Greg Wendt

The very way that we measure our progress is flawed. It's time to measure global economic activity in a way that reflects our impact on the well-being of people and ecosystems. (more)

6-20-08

Eco

Plastic Eaters

Morgan Maher

Plastic bags take 1,000 years to decompose. A 16 year old student has developed a method that speeds the process to about three months. (more)

6-16-08

Arts

Media Permaculture

Antonio Lopez

How can we harmonize our approach to media with the principles of ecology? It's time for a more holistic understanding of media. (more)

6-9-08

Eco

Times Will Tell

Erin Shaw

A new online magazine, Ecotimes, puts the "logic back into ecological." (more)
6-9-08

Arts

Talking Trees

Morgan Maher

The Tree Listening Installation lets people hear water being pulled up from the roots to the leaves of any tree. (more)

5-22-08

Arts

And the Lilly Goes to...

Stephen Hershey

American poet and ecologist Gary Snyder has been awarded the 2008 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize.
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5-12-08

Arts

Council of Grandmothers

Erin Shaw

Thirteen indigenous grandmothers "work toward spiritual solutions for healing our planet" in the New York premiere of For the Next Seven Generations. (more)

4-29-08

Arts

Lightning Strikes Thrice

Charles Shaw

The LA-based art collective The Do LaB is returning for a third straight year with “Lightning in a Bottle," one of the most innovative eco-festivals around.
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4-22-08

Arts

Alexander Supertramp and the Failure of Individualist Escape

Andrew William Smith

Sean Penn's film Into the Wild rekindled the debate surrounding Christopher McCandless's dramatic departure from mainstream culture, and his tragic demise. It forces us to ask: how can we preserve “human community” without “returning to civilization?” (more)

4-18-08

Arts

One Man's Trash

Erin Shaw

UK artist Jason Lane turns reclaimed materials into unusual treasures. (more)

4-1-08

Eco

Shift Scenario: Averting Extinction

Jim Fournier

Biologists calls the current loss of biodiversity "the 6th Extinction." This is not the first time that life on earth almost exhausted its available resources before discovering how to jump to a higher order of complexity. Will we figure out how to make a similar transition? (more)

3-25-08

Arts

Can We Play Live Music with Whales?

David Rothenberg

[Terra Nova] • Experiments suggested that killer whales will trade riffs with human musicians. But as conservation became the major priority, scientists and activists neglected to pursue wailing with the whales. (more)

3-24-08

Life

Psychosynthesis: Speaking with Molly Young Brown

Mary Destri

How to move toward wholeness, integrating or synthesizing all the parts of the personality to work harmoniously together - incorporating wisdom from Buddhism, yoga, and other Eastern philosophies; Western spiritual traditions, philosophy, and psychology; and the emerging field of ecopsychology. (more)

1-23-08

Psyche

Ecoshamanism: A Talk with James Endredy

William McGillis

James Endredy teaches an earth-centered awareness practice called ecoshamanism, which counteracts habitual ways of living and helps us reawaken vital, primordial forms of knowledge and awareness. (more)

12-10-07

Psyche

Gaia vs. The Off-Planet Father

John Lamb Lash

If there is any real prospect of recovering and reviving Gnosis today, it will require looking closely at problems endemic to the Piscean Age, which the telestai were unable to solve, or denied the opportunity to solve. Deep ecology may well find the spiritual and mythic dimension it lacks in the Sophianic vision of the Mysteries. I cannot predict how this will happen, or even if it will happen, but I can offer a rough sketch of the conditions required for it to happen. (more)
5-29-07

Psyche

The Biospheric Dream Body

Paul Levy

The biospheric dreambody is a higher-dimensional aspect of ourselves that, just like a dream, is nonlocal and multi-channeled, as it is not
constrained by the apparent physical laws of the third-dimensional universe. It’s a deeper part of ourselves that expresses itself synchronistically both within ourselves and simultaneously in the outside world, through both our personal process and our collective body politic. Just like a dream, something important is being revealed to us in the process of its unfoldment, something that could have worldwide consequences for our planet’s current ecological crisis. (more)

5-18-07