Thinking Outside the Ring
Lots of couples are getting married during COVID-times. But does that really mean ring sales need to go up? Why not a new more meaningful and sustainable custom?
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?
Without Solidarity, There’s No Survival
If we can’t end racism, we can never achieve true sustainability.
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.
The Gaian Solar Meditation
Here’s a shiny new meditation for you to try and a science lesson to boot!
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?
The Parable of the Tree in Need
A story about a girl who helped another, and who in turn was helped as well.
Keeping It Simple: Gaian Dietary Norms
Michael Pollan said it best: “Eat food, not too much, mostly plants.”
Introducing “Digesting,” a new Gaian variation of Tonglen
What do a Children’s Scifi Novel and a Tibetan Buddhist Meditation Have in Common?
Answer: They both suggest a similar way to draw in suffering and send out relief.
Celebrating and Finding Stillness in the Summer Solstice
What are you doing for the summer solstice? Perhaps a day of silence to balance the energy of the day?
Grappling with the Spectre of Death
Could COVID-19’s shiniest silver lining be a heightened salience of mortality?
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.