Anthropocentrism and Quietism: Scylla and Charybdis for an Integrated Migration-ecological Ethics? By Gary Slater When seeking to develop an ethics that integrates concern for ecological devastation with international migration, rich material abounds. Worthwhile responses to these challenges can be found that range from the empirically rigorous to the culturally potent Read more
Indigenous Cosmovision Challenges Us to Move from Restoring to “Re-storying” Ecosystems By Daniel Bryan Recently, I accompanied a Humans for Abundance team to the community of Mushullakta with master ecosystem restorer, Omar Tello. In a workshop on interconnecting cultural traditions to ecosystem restoration, we defined the community’s ecosystem as a Read more
When a Pandemic Makes the Impossible, Possible By Dion Forster What has been particularly interesting for me in this coronavirus pandemic is how things that we believed were impossible, suddenly became possible. I call them “possible impossibilities.” Can you imagine just a year ago that international travel could be almost Read more
Rethinking Personhood Beyond the Human: An Online Counterpoint Conversation on Occasion of the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day, 22 April 2020 A special event, featuring David Abram, Teya Brooks Pribac, Whitney A. Bauman, and Kocku von Stuckrad Many regard the celebration of the first Earth Day, on 22 April 1970, Read more
Rewilding Cultures: Self and Spirituality By Jay Johnston Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo, © Jay Johnston 2018 The term ‘rewilding’ is in danger of being absorbed into buzzword oblivion. Its initial radical remit tempered, popularized, and expanded to such a degree that its meaning is so multifarious it borders the meaningless. The Read more
Let’s Get Metaphysical: A Response to James Miller on Cosmology and Practical Action on the Environment By John J. Thatamanil Photo credit: “Yin Yang” by Sapperlott is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 In a July 16th blog for this site, I suggested that religious believers who are broadly theistic need some compelling account of Read more
The Other Side of the Mountain: Art, Ritual, and Climate Change By Susannah Crockford June volunteers to go first. She stands with legs apart in a firm stance, speaking slowly with a fixed gaze, “I am timeless. I am mystery. Humans have taken it upon yourselves to know me, conquer Read more
Making Senses: Poetic Knowledge of Nature in Science, Art, and Shamanic Ritual by Kocku von Stuckrad Download a PDF Version of this essay (6 MB) Abstract The five senses of seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, and touching are regarded in European and North American tradition as the central channels through which human Read more
Ten Theses on Academia, Society, and the Planetary Future: A Counterpoint Manifesto by Whitney A. Bauman & Kocku von Stuckrad [For a German version of this manifesto, please click here.] 1. The so-called “Anthropocene” is the result of several thousand years of human thought-regimes that emphasize human domination and exceptionalism. Read more