Humans & Nature

Root & branch: Humans in a dance with their environment.

PERMACULTURE Farmer Shares How To GROW HEALTHY FOOD Yourself

The story of separation can be vividly seen in the human-nature divide. Treating the environment as a resource that should be used for the benefit of humankind has ultimately led to its abuse and destruction. Today, the world economy has become the ‘end,’ and nature and humans have become the ‘means,’ the resources for the economy. Believing

Christine Wamsler • What the Mind Has to Do With the Climate Crisis

"The world is your body, you breathe it, drink it, eat it, it lives inside you, and you only live and think because this community is doing well. So: nature? You are nature, nature is you. Natural is what happens. The word is useless as a divide, there is no Human apart from Nature, you have no thoughts or feelings without your body, and the Earth... See more

Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies • Interview: Kim Stanley Robinson - Farsight

"The real problem of humanity is the following: We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions and godlike technology."

— Renowned sociobiologist Dr. E. O. Wilson

Center for Humane Technology • CHT Welcome 2 of 3: The 6 Tenets of Humane Technology

“Life runs on sunlight. Life rewards cooperation. Life builds from the bottom up. Life banks on diversity. Life recycles everything. Life builds resilience through diversity, decentralization, and redundancy. Life optimizes rather than maximizes. Life selects for the good of the whole system. In short, life creates the conditions conducive to... See more

Thomas Klaffke • Natural Intelligence

Let us try a thought experiment which might make this clearer. In order to calculate the rate of economic growth, it is necessary to treat all of the activities in which money is handed over as essentially interchangeable. According to the World Bank, agriculture currently makes up around 4% of global GDP. Seen in these terms, the growing of food

Dougald Hine • Helpless Growth

What goes too long unchanged destroys itself. The forest is forever because it dies and dies and so lives.

What can we do now? Well, there's a

whole lot of things really. We can begin the work of limiting the damage we do to nature and that's, of course, the obvious one and is underway in many very good organisations and human beings in the world today. But I think we also need to reestablish some sense of who we are and what we're doing here. And I

UnHerd • Dr Iain McGilchrist: We Are Living in a Deluded World

“Yet when we understand winter in the natural world, we realize that what we see out there is not death so much as dormancy. Some life has died, of course. But much of it has gone underground, into hibernation, awaiting a season of renewal and rebirth. So winter invites us to name whatever feels dead in us, to wonder whether it might in fact be