Managing Election and Political Stress: Practical Tips for a Healthier Mindset
Managing Election and Political Stress: Practical Tips for a Healthier Mindset At a time when politics can generate anxiety, outrage, information overload, polarization, and damaged relationships, this practical guide addresses an important but easily overlooked capacity for social transformation: remaining psychologically grounded while staying civically engaged. It offers concrete practices for recognizing stress, setting boundaries […]
Cosmo-Local Credit Visualizer: Five Pools, Commitments & Shared Liquidity
Cosmo-Local Credit Visualizer: Five Pools, Commitments & Shared Liquidity This remarkable visualization from Will Ruddick makes something normally invisible visible: what a genuinely different economic system can look like in practice. Following five community-governed Chama pools in Kenya across more than 4,600 transactions, Ruddick shows local commitments for food, labor, childcare, farming, and other goods […]
Unity Earth Symposium V — Spiralling Up!
Unity Earth Symposium V — Spiralling Up! This post opens a window into the Unity Earth V Symposium (2026)—a living convergence of global voices sensing into the same underlying shift: from fragmentation to coherence, from isolation to interbeing, from awareness to coordinated action. Across conversations on partnerships, alliances, and interspirituality, a shared field begins to […]
What Founders of America can Teach about Happiness
What Founders of America can Teach about Happiness This podcast features Jeffrey Rosen, President of The National Constitution Center which, according to him, is the only institution in America chartered by Congress to increase awareness and understanding of the U. S. Constitution among the American people on a nonpartisan basis. In this episode, he delves […]
What Does the Planet Project Have to Say About the War in Ukraine?
What Does the Planet Project Have to Say About the War in Ukraine? The launch of the Planet Project occured about the same time as Russia’s unprovoked aggression in the Ukraine. It offers four different perspectives on this conflict that place it in the larger context of the needed global cultural shift. I want to […]
Why We Must Bioregionalize Now
Why We Must Bioregionalize Now The article, centered on reflections from New York Climate Week, advocates for bioregionalism as a response to the limitations of globalized systems in tackling the biospheric crisis. Highlighting the need to reestablish local resilience and community-based resource management, the article underscores the importance of becoming “native to place” and developing […]
Breaking Together: A Freedom‑Loving Response to Collapse
Breaking Together: A Freedom‑Loving Response to Collapse Jem Bendell offers a sobering yet compassionate exploration of societal collapse as a lived reality, not a distant possibility. Drawing on interdisciplinary research and personal reflection, he shows how modern economic, political, and ecological systems are unraveling and invites readers to face that truth with courage, creativity, and solidarity […]
Relationalized Finance for Generative Living Systems and Bioregions
Relationalized Finance for Generative Living Systems and Bioregions How will the Great Transition be funded? This essay by David Bollier and Natasha Hulst reimagines finance as a relational, place-based system designed to serve living systems rather than extract from them. Moving beyond conventional capital flows and profit maximization, it proposes financial models rooted in reciprocity, […]
I asked an Earth-aligned chatbot if we should boycott AI
I asked an Earth-aligned chatbot if we should boycott AI This reflective and creative piece explores the ethical tensions surrounding artificial intelligence through a dialogue with an “Earth-aligned” chatbot. Rather than offering simple answers, it surfaces deeper questions about technology, agency, ecological responsibility, and human values in an age of rapid acceleration. The article invites […]
Attachment Hacking and the Rise of AI Psychosis
Attachment Hacking and the Rise of AI Psychosis In this episode of *Your Undivided Attention*, the hosts examine how AI systems are increasingly capable of manipulating human attachment, emotion, and perception—raising concerns about psychological dependency and distorted reality. The conversation explores how persuasive technologies can exploit cognitive vulnerabilities, potentially leading to what some describe as […]