[ad_1] May 7, 2021– Actor Jeremy Irons narrates this historic film by The Gaia Foundation and the African Biodiversity Network, in collaboration with MELCA Ethiopia, Navdanya International and GRAIN. In it, we learn how our world has gone from a vast foundation of diversity, created over thousands of years, “to genetically modified seeds designed to…

[ad_1] May 6, 2021– For decades, Sister Marilyn Lacey has aligned her energies and aspirations with refugee communities in the United States, as well as in some of the most devastated corners of our world. She describes her leap into the refugee universe in her impressive book, ‘This Flows to Me: A Story of God…

[ad_1] May 5, 2021– In “For Little Creatures Like Us”, Sasha Sagan, daughter of astronomer Carl Sagan, “explores the worlds of ritual and tradition from a scientific point of view. Sagan is not religious, as are her scientifically minded parents. When became a mother, she wanted to find a way to incorporate ritual and tradition…

[ad_1] May 4, 2021– “‘Our origins are from the earth. And so there is in us a deeply rooted response to the natural universe, which is part of our humanity,” wrote Rachel Carson reflecting on our spiritual link with nature shortly before awakening consciousness. modern environmental. The rewards and redemptions of that elemental but endangered…

[ad_1] May 3, 2021– Hope is often seen as the anticipation that circumstances will improve in the future, but in this article environmentalist and social activist Kate Davies suggests that intrinsic hope is based on the here and now. Applying 6 habits of mindfulness to daily life will allow us to live from a place…

[ad_1] May 2, 2021– “I’m not sure who first saw the twisted, almost transparent, three-inch bodies of elvers or baby eels. But I think it was my energetic five-year-old because I remember his face. When he told me, he had run all the way back to our house through the woods and up our steep…

[ad_1] May 1, 2021– For more than twenty years, artists Richard Lang and Judith Selby Lang have been collecting plastic trash dumped on a pristine beach at Point Reyes National Seashore. Their meditative practice, and the art they make with the collected debris, is a little song of hope in the face of the global…

[ad_1] April 30, 2021– Deanna Van Buren designs restorative justice centers that, instead of taking the punitive approach used by a system focused on mass incarceration, treat crime as a breakdown of relationships and justice as a process where all stakeholders come together to repair that gap. “Imagine a world without prisons,” says Van Buren….

[ad_1] April 29, 2021– “In her moving book, My Grandfather’s Blessings, Rachel Remen says,” You don’t need money to be a philanthropist. We all have assets. You can be a friend of life with your own hands. “I am grateful to be able to be a friend of life with my own hands through the…

[ad_1] Apr 28, 2021– ‘Arbejdsglaede’ is a wonderful Scandinavian word that literally means ‘work-love’ or ‘happy work’. There is no direct translation for this word in the English language, so Maptia decided to use crowdsourcing to explore its meaning. More than 200 people who love their job shared three words that describe how they felt…