Challenges for Youth – Part 1: On Climate Change – by Prof. Edward McKenna
Challenges for Youth – Part 1 On Climate Change by Prof. Edward McKenna For the past few semesters I have been telling my new students that their generation will face three critical problems: 1) Climate Change, 2) Growing Inequality, and 3) The Failure of Democracy. …
Read MorePeople of the Watershed: An Ancient Paradigm for Sustainability – by Dr. Matt Oppenheim
People of the Watershed: An Ancient Paradigm for Ecological/Social Sustainability By Matt Oppenheim, PhD A Call for Urgent Change On March 15th, hundreds of thousands of youth from over 100 countries marched to save the planet from dramatic climate change: from melting glaciers, creating rising …
Read MoreCouncil of All Creatures – Grades 2-3, River School, Australia – by Didi Ananda Tapomaya
Guardians of Our Future – Council of All Creatures – Grades 2-3 with Anna Robb at the River School, Maleny, Australia by Didi Ananda Tapomaya ”One should guide one’s conduct carefully to ensure that one’s thought or actions cause pain to nobody and are unjust …
Read MoreSustainability Solutions – Grade 6, River School, Australia – by Didi Ananda Tapomaya
Youth for a Neohumanist Future Sustainability Solutions Conversations with Grade 6 With Kerrie Kirwan at the River School, Maleny, Australia By Didi Ananda Tapomaya For the first term of the Australian school year, Grade 6 class (grade 6 calls themselves the Red Cedars) has had …
Read MoreSemal (Red Silk Cotton) Tree Conservation: A Neohumanist approach – by Dr. Vartika Jain
Semal (Red Silk Cotton) Tree Conservation is the Need of the Hour Talk by Dr. Vartika Jain Udaipur, India, 26th February, 2018 An awareness talk on conservation of the Folk Medicinal tree, – Semal, was given by Dr. Vartika Jain to Volunteers of a special …
Read MoreWaste Not – Want Not – by Brian Ragbourn
Waste Not – Want Not by Brian Ragbourn, PhD Newcomers to my kitchen occasionally ask, “Where’s the bin?” and are surprised to learn “There isn’t one.” Compostables go in the outside privy, combustibles get burnt in the wood-burning stove, and any jar or container gets …
Read MoreAgro Forestry and Silvo Pasture
Agro-forestry & Silvo-pasture: the future of food and restorative land management by James Geoffrey Steen The rate of social change is unimaginably rapid. Take the example of electricity: lights, trains, the internet, mobile phones & refrigeration. Less than a hundred years ago, most of the …
Read MoreAn Edible Forest Garden in Ireland
Greenhouse was constructed with local stones and recycled windows and car windscreens An Edible Forest Garden Forest Garden Conversion in Ireland By Brian Ragbourn Ph.D It was not an intention to forego material comforts for a life with no electricity or running water that inspired …
Read MoreSacred Activism for a Sustainable Future – Gurukula-Cellenium Global Partnership
Sacred Activism for a Sustainable Future Gurukula-Cellenium Global Partnership By Dr. Shambhushivananda We stand today at the crossroads of a fossil fuel driven age versus the renewable energy age. The former evokes the fears of conflicts and wars, scarcities and a future ridden with competition …
Read MoreMiddle Path Scenario for Asia’s Future
Middle Path Scenario for Asia’s Future A Spiritual Perspective by Ac. Shambhushivananda Avt. Summary of the paper presented at an international conference entitled “Global Transitions and Asia 2060: Climate, Political-Economy, and Identity” in November 2010 at Tamkang University. The objective of the conference was to …
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