What’s in a Name?
Exploring Group Dynamics along with Group Semantics
America’s Democracy in an Era of Collapse
An election reflection from a Gaian perspective.
Questions at the End of the Nuclear Age
Seventy-five years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, do we know how we will guard the poison fire we have created for millennia to come?
Say Three Hail Marys and Clean Up the River
It turns out that environmentalists have their own form of penance and ablutions: river and beach cleanups.
What are you doing to commemorate Earth Overshoot Day?
This August 22nd is the day when we start consuming beyond Earth’s biocapacity for the year. How will you spend this day?
A note of solidarity
Every time any one of us is hurt—black or white, human or not—it wounds us all. The waves of pain ripple outward, often times overturning only the vessels of the victims’ loved ones, and concentrating the pain there. Other times these waves become great tsunamis of anger and frustration, which wash over the whole world. And rarely, but it does happen, these seismic sea waves sweep away the systems of injustice that have been pulling us apart and injuring us one and all. Here is praying that this is one of those moments.
Aloha. Shalom! Go with Gaia?
A short reflection on the power of words and how we use them to part.
A Reflection on What the Gaian Way Means to Me
With the next Gaian Conversation focusing on what Gaianism is all about, I couldn’t help but get personal this week.
Encountering an Essential Lesson in the Church Forests of Ethiopia
How a religious system has played a key role in preventing total deforestation of Ethiopia and what we, Gaians, can learn from this.
Forest Meditation, Sunday Forest School, and Sassafras Tea Time
Imagining the Gaian Sunday Service
Distilling Meaning from Meaninglessness
Is the universe and human life truly without meaning? If so, can we live our lives in ways that extract meaning from that meaninglessness?
The Four Dimensions of Change
In exploring the four dimensions of change, it becomes clear that we, ourselves, are at the center of that change—and that this process is a lifelong journey, not a sprint.