Ecology & sustainability

An Ecology of Mind: A Film Portrait of Gregory Bateson

25 February 2020 Leave a Comment

"An Ecology of Mind is a film portrait of Gregory Bateson, celebrated anthropologist, philosopher, author, naturalist, systems theorist, and filmmaker, produced and directed by his daughter, Nora Bateson. "The film includes footage from Bateson’s own films shot in the 1930s in Bali (with Margaret Mead) and New Guinea, along with photographs, filmed lectures, and interviews. His youngest child, Nora, depicts him as a man who studied the interrelationships of the complex systems in which we live … Watch video

Free Online Summit: Communities for Future hosted by the Global Ecovillage Network

23 January 2020 Leave a Comment

"The Online Summit: "Communities for Future - Our Response to the Climate Emergency" is an entirely free, online experience hosted by the Global Ecovillage Network (GEN) February 1-10, 2020. Join now: https://summit2020.ecovillage.org/ "As young people are taking to the streets, demanding that politicians take urgent action on the climate and ecological crisis, GEN is picking up the baton in terms of concrete manifestation of the needed change in our lives, our communities and … Watch video

Convenient Untruths – When Green Isn’t Green with Sir Julian Rose | WisdomHub TV

5 December 2019 Leave a Comment

"Our world is changing at a fast pace and the media is awash with information and opinions from many perspectives, it can be very confusing. At WisdomHub.tv we strive to feel the energetics behind everything that happens, to consider all angles and all with an eye on the bigger picture - the evolution of humanity. This is the reason we went to interview the acclaimed author, researcher, activist and farmer, Sir Julian Rose about his view on the state of the world and most importantly, what is … Continue reading

Thinking Outside the Grid | Steven Gorelick

13 November 2019 Leave a Comment

"As the planet heats up and critical resources run low, people will need to adapt in a number of ways. For those of us in the industrialized, over-developed world, one of the most important will be to replace our sense of entitlement with a sense of limits. Our high-consumption lifestyles will be difficult to disengage from – not because they are inescapable products of human nature, but because they are essential to the “growth strategies” of powerful big businesses. The irony is that … Continue reading

The Understory by Robert Macfarlane

6 November 2019 Leave a Comment

"Excerpted from his recently published book, Underland: A Deep Time Journey, “The Understory” is an examination of the life beneath the forest floor. Encountering the depth and complexity of communication that happens underground, Robert returns to the entangled mutualism at the root of language." Continue reading

Vandana Shiva: Everything I Need to Know I Learned in the Forest

22 September 2019 Leave a Comment

"We need to value nature’s biodiversity, clean water, and seeds. For this, nature is the best teacher. "The forest teaches us union and compassion. "The forest also teaches us enoughness: as a principle of equity, how to enjoy the gifts of nature without exploitation and accumulation. Tagore quotes from the ancient texts written in the forest: “Know all that moves in this moving world as enveloped by God; and find enjoyment through renunciation, not through greed of possession.” No species in … Continue reading

We, the peoples of the Amazon, are full of fear. Soon you will be too by Raoni Metuktire | The Guardian

3 September 2019 Leave a Comment

"You have to change the way you live because you are lost, you have lost your way. Where you are going is only the way of destruction and of death. To live you must respect the world, the trees, the plants, the animals, the rivers and even the very earth itself. Because all of these things have spirits, all of these things are spirits, and without the spirits the Earth will die, the rain will stop and the food plants will wither and die too. "We all breathe this one air, we all drink the same … Continue reading

Jane Goodall introduces the Interfaith Rainforest Initiative

28 August 2019 Leave a Comment

"Rainforests - ecological marvels, millions of years in the making - rainforests provide water and food and livelihoods for billions of people around the world. They contain a staggering diversity of life. They create the oxygen we breathe and regulate our climate. They are our life-support system. But rainforests are at grave risk. Every second of every day an irreplaceable rainforest the size of a football field is destroyed..... But there is still hope, where a different future awaits us, … Watch video

The zero waste revolution: how a new wave of shops could end excess packaging | The Guardian

20 August 2019 Leave a Comment

"Shops that minimise the environmental impact of our consumer habits are springing up across Britain. Could they help us avert catastrophe? "The smell in Natural Weigh, a zero-waste shop that opened a year ago in Crickhowell in mid-Wales, is lovely. The shop – filled with pasta, grains, seeds and dried fruit served from hoppers to avoid plastic packaging; washing-up liquid and laundry products that customers pump into their battered old squeezy bottles; fair-trade coffee and chocolate, plus an … Continue reading

Irish teenager wins global science award for removing microplastics from water

31 July 2019 1 Comment

"AN IRISH TEENAGER has won an international science award for his project which removed microplastics from water. "Fionn Ferreira, from Ballydehob in west Cork, has been named the overall winner of the 2019 Google Science Fair, a prestigious annual global science competition open to students aged 13 and 18. "Ferreira used ferrofluids, a combination of oil and magnetite powder, and magnets to extract microplastics from water. "In 1,000 tests, Ferreira was able to remove over 87% of … Continue reading