Check out Julia Barnes' extraordinary watercolors of marine creatures. The Canadian filmmaker's documentaries are The Sea of Life and Bright Green Lies.
Hear Hector Aristizabal tell how he transformed his wounds into medicine-- and then invite you to do the same.
For two decades, Benedictine nuns in Kansas have taken on Netflix, Amazon and Google. Tiffany Stanley reported for the Associated Press that even when their stocks amount to only $2,000, the nuns propose resolutions at shareholder meetings. For examples, they've requested that Chevon assess its human rights policies, and that Amazon publish its lobbying expenditures.
Erik Fernholm and colleagues have named inner development goals (IDGs) to develop skills for sustainable development. I don't follow Fernholm's belief that "we have the technology" to create a sustainable society (unless we call drastic reduction of production and consumption "technology"); but I welcome the "scaffolding" he provides for people to discuss the relationship between our inner lives and global happenings. Internationally, 700 hubs now discuss these themes. There's also a summit October 16-18 in Stockholm and online. In Nate Hagens' interview, Fernholm talks about cultivating change from the inside out and billionaires who realize that the money they've acquired comes from luck"and they are obliged to return the money to the public.
Amerissa Giannouli lists people who educate for degrowth.
Cultural Survival posted 15 Calls to Action on Indigenous Peoples Day.
South Africa's Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela won the 2024 Templeton Prize for exploring ways to nurture deep empathy between victims and perpetrators of conflict and avoid "the passing on of grievance and a sense of victimhood from one generation to the next."
Andrew Nikiforuk calls last July's tech meltdown a wake-up call. "If you hate being hostage to opaque digital systems owned by a few," he says, "join the great unplugging."
In the NY Post, Brooke Kato reports that some social media influencers now boast that they're "underconsuming-- "and they're not influenced by corporate ads.
Check out John-Scott Legg's conversation with Joe Allen, on the human-machine interface.
Read why novelist Ann Patchett regrets signing up for email. N.B. to access The NY Times online, go through your public library's hub.
In Northern Arizona, The Hualapai Tribe filed a legal challenge to planned lithium mining that would impact a sacred spring. In late August a judge ordered a temporary halt to preliminary drilling.
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