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USAID, Three Blind Men, and The Elephant in the Room
USAID has been at the center of impassioned debate online recently. Here’s what you need to know to be informed.
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How to Eat Our Way to Enlightenment
There is one topic these days that is uniting people across the political divide. It is the issue of health. Food is one of the most crucial links between us and the natural web of life surrounding us. By focusing on how we grow food we also take bold steps Read more…
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Forgotten History: Alliance Between Slaves and Natives
During the early days of slavery in the American Southeast, native Seminole, Choctaw, Cherokee, and Creek Indians were known to raid plantations and free captive slaves. Despite their cultural differences, they recognized their common struggle against oppression at the hands of colonial rule. These original African and American people mixed their Read more…
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Regenerative Agriculture is our Common Ground in a Polarized World
It’s time to shift the narrative into solutions for the health of our planet and away from doomsday forecasts.
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How does Permaculture Create a Better Future?
If you often feel powerless or hopeless about climate change and social upheaval then this article is for you. With supply-chain interruptions, soaring energy costs, and climate change, we can find security through local and regional resilience. This boils down to abundant food, clean water, healthy ecosystems, and thriving communities. Read more…
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Solutions-Thinking: A Better Way to Bring Positive Change to the World
We are seeding inspiration…
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Collaboration is a Better Strategy for a Healthy Society
Competition helps us strive to better ourselves. It teaches us how to win and how to be graceful when we lose. Yet the foundation of our evolution as a species relies on our ability to collaborate. Lifting each other up creates mutual success and transcends the winner/loser paradigm. We are Read more…
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Lost Connection: How Nature Holds the Key to Our Healing
We generally accept and understand that humans are an integral part of nature. Being disconnected or out of balance with nature indicates illness. Indigenous people have never forgotten this perennial wisdom. Ancestral medicines and teachings have been preserved so that we can all heal as a species. The online Plant Spirit Read more…
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Whales and the Biosphere, an Unexpected Connection
As we seek solutions to healing our biosphere we have a lot to learn from the wisdom of Nature. Planet Earth is a finely-tuned living organism with a delicately balanced ecosystem. Yet the slightest force exerted at either end of a balanced scale can cause it to tip. Human activities like deforestation and fossil fuel Read more…
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How to Become More Self-Reliant and Sustainable Locally
Sourcing your food or products locally is less expensive and more healthy for you and the planet. Climate instability and supply chain disturbances will be catastrophic for places that aren’t connected to abundant farmland, water, and food sources. If you want to be resilient during global changes then learn the Read more…