David Seidenberg argues that the biggest existential threat to Israel isn’t Iran or human rights—it’s climate change.
Ecological Transformation
Climate Strike – What an Amazing and Inspiring Day
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Rabbi Lerner and Cat Zavis share photos and their experience from the Climate Strike in San Francisco.
Ecological Transformation
The Collective Asteroid of Human History
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The “Pyrocene” is upon us. Tom Engelhardt paints a disturbing picture of the climate crisis that threatens us now and in future generations.
Emancipatory Spirituality
Peril and Promise
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In a time of global uncertainty, Rev. Dr. Alton B. Pollard III stresses the need for unshakeable spiritual leadership.
Ecological Transformation
The Amazon
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Leonardo Boff debunks myths and offers a socioecological perspective on the intricacies of the Amazon Rainforest.
Ecological Transformation
Another Resource for Lovers & Activists on behalf of Mother Earth
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In this time of crisis, Matthew Fox provides daily meditations “to contribute to the struggle that clearly must take place both within us and in society.”
Ecological Transformation
ESRA–the Environmental and Social Responsibility Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
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Tikkun & the NSP’s Environmental and Social Responsibility Amendment to the Constitution (ESRA), aims to bring back economic power to ordinary citizens.
Ecological Transformation
Matthew Fox on Developing Environmental Consciousness
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Matthew Fox urges to the graduating class of Oberlin College to “stand together in the choice […] to see our species thrive and all these other species with it.”
Ecological Transformation
What It Means to be “Great” on a Planet Going Down
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David Bromwich tells us that if we fully understood the dimensions of the coming environmental disaster, every news program would start with at least the first item being the latest environmental news.
Emancipatory Spirituality
Mystical Activism: Transforming a World in Crisis
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John C. Robinson argues that the solution to our many crises lies in the human psyche and, more specifically, in “the right-brain’s natural mystical consciousness.”
Ecological Transformation
Before Healing, We Need Connection
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Roger Gottlieb advocates for an ecological democracy that counts humans and non-humans alike—animals, trees, insects—as members of its political community.
Ecological Transformation
From Dust to Dust: The Universe and Us
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Dan Brook uses the metaphor of dust to point out the extraordinariness of human existence––and our interconnectedness with everything else.
Arts & Cultural Critique
Reflections on a Line by Anna Akhmatova*
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“The sea that tumbles onto shore is not the sea / we waded in as kids. We’ve changed its nature.” A new poem from Jon Swan.
Arts & Cultural Critique
Gazing
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“so now we […] may nightly observe […] the deft undoing of what we once / had thought would long endure.” A new poem from Jon Swan.
Ecological Transformation
Book Review: The End of Ice by Dahr Jamail
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Deena Metzger calls Dahr Jamail’s new book a record of “the terrible knowledge, moral anguish, and great love of a journalist who embeds himself in the physical reality that the natural world is suffering.”