Human beings are a storytelling species. Stories provide the context for people to be able to filter the trillions of data that our senses take in every day, helping us to determine what we believe is important. The problem is that most people are not aware that what we call reality is, in fact, just a story. For example, The Unites States of…[Read more]

There is no such thing as an organism that doesn’t create an impact on the environment. The question becomes how much impact that organism is making and whether the environment can absorb that impact without severely affecting the entire ecosystem. The average American creates 12 times the environmental impact of the average Indian. Within…[Read more]

It can be safely said that modern, industrial farming is one of the most destructive practices on the planet today both for the health of the people and the planet. Genetically modified organisms (GMOs), factory farming, the use of pesticides and excessive nitrogen-based fertilizers, agricultural subsidies – all of these practices are…[Read more]

One of the main roots of our unsustainable society is the idea that human beings are somehow separate or independent from Nature and the rest of life. Its not so difficult to see how we have modeled Western culture based on this foundation. The signs are everywhere: in the way we live, enclosing our homes from the outside world as we try to keep…[Read more]