Regeneration and Resilience

Celebrate World Localization Day June 20, 2021

16 June 2021 Leave a Comment

A celebration of the emerging worldwide localization movement which aims to restore the community fabric and human-scale, ecological economies, with a central focus on local food systems. Wherever you are and however you can safely gather, we hope you'll join millions of people who, as part of the worldwide local food movement, are giving rise to a better future from the ground up. Watch the 3-minute video featuring Findhorn Fellow, Helena Norberg-Hodge, and find out how you can get involved … Watch video

A letter to my granddaughter ~ Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

19 May 2021 2 Comments

What is the world into which you are walking, and what is the landscape you will pass on to your children and grandchildren? Will it be alive with the truth of the Earth or the false promises of technology, the distortions of social media? What are the stories that will guide you, the communities that will support you? Rather than sharing stories sitting around the firelight, laughing and feeling community, or gossiping over backyard fences with neighbours, we live more and more disembodied in … Continue reading

Restoring our Relationship with Earth: An Educational Approach to a New Civilization

12 May 2021 Leave a Comment

Satish Kumar, Indian British activist and speaker, co-author, Transformative Learning: Reflections on 30 Years of Head, Heart, and Hands at Schumacher College and Lynne Twist, co-founder of the Pachamama Alliance and founder of The Soul of Money Institute. Watch video

The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry, A Poetry Film by Charlotte Ager & Katy Wang

23 February 2021 1 Comment

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Facing Adversity: Choosing Earth, Choosing Life | Film Trailer

10 February 2021 Leave a Comment

Facing Adversity: Choosing Earth, Choosing Life is an hour-long documentary that explores the magnitude, depth, and speed of our growing planetary crisis, and the opportunity to meet this crisis consciously. The film begins with a visual exploration of key adversity trends facing humanity and includes short stories from people around the world being impacted by these trends. Then it turns to the opportunities within the crisis — to recognize and engage with the interdependence of life and the … Watch video

It’s no Longer Survival of the Fittest, But an Extension of Generosity to Others | Paul Stamets

12 January 2021 Leave a Comment

“The hubris of humans is thinking that we’re smarter than nature, right? And thinking that all this technology is going to save us. None of this technology will save us unless it’s invested in the natural systems.” Paul suggests that we could not only learn a lot from studying nature more closely, we could benefit from emulating the inter-connected way that species in the natural world survive. Consequently, we need to reframe our scientific understanding of how the world operates beyond the … Continue reading

Everything is possible with Sanda Ojiambo | Outrage and Optimism Podcast

25 November 2020 Leave a Comment

While many of us are catching our breath, the world is transforming how it will conduct business as usual by pressing the proverbial ‘reset’ button on what appears to be “everything we do and how we do it.” - to quote Lindsay Levin. And this is the perfect moment to reset everything, right? We’ve seen economic inequality grow exponentially, we’ve seen the gender gap resist closing, and we’ve watched the climate crisis reveal itself not just on television, but in our own backyards. And, not to … Continue reading

Metamorphosis ~ Dr Jude Currivan

12 October 2020 Leave a Comment

A caterpillar exists to eat. Its aim is to consume as much as possible. When there is nothing left to devour, evolution forces its isolation into becoming a chrysalis; within which it dissolves. In the breaking down of its old form, a new form begins to evolve into a butterfly. One morning, it breaks through the wall of its chrysalis. It waits for its wings to dry in the warmth of the Sun, and then it flies. A butterfly exits to pollinate. Its aim is to sip the sweetness of flowers. And as it … Continue reading

How to Make a Revolution | Starhawk

9 August 2020 Leave a Comment

BE LIKE MUSHROOMS. Spread your mycelial threads, underground, and connect them, out of sight. Extrude them, extend them, link them, clamping one to another in a pattern with no center to destroy, no head to cut off. Then exude. Sweat out the revolutionary fervor that dissolves old structures, that breaks toxins apart. Extend your reach, link root to root. Trees feed their young through subterranean fungal webs. Be a conduit. Take in. Share. Be like mushrooms, ephemeral, mostly … Continue reading

The old world died in March. The new world is yet to be born. | Robin Youngblood

5 August 2020 3 Comments

I've now heard around a hundred different theories, some call them 'Truths', about COVID-19. I have a different point of view. Imo, COVID was sent through the animal messengers by Mother Earth herself to put us in Time Out, like the very naughty, destructive children we have been, in order to get us to reflect and examine what we've been doing and STOP destroying the planet, animals, and ourselves...in that order. Secondly, rather than disconnecting us, she is teaching us that we are ALWAYS, … Watch video