Nature :: Spirit
Exploring kinship in a living, animate world
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26. What’s Good for Creeks
Water as our earliest beloved—how I learned to cherish it and how everyone can work for its well-being
Jul 31, 2021
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25. Why Doesn’t Everyone Love Diversity?
Ecologists say that diverse communities are the most resilient. So why are so many white people afraid of diversity?
Jun 26, 2021
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24. A Duty of Care
Four Indigenous voices on how their communities build care for land and people into the fabric of life—and how care dropped out of Western public values
May 28, 2021
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23. Going on a Spirit Journey
A spiritual practice to open the heart and deepen your connection with nature
Apr 9, 2021
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22. An Inheritance Problem
What a story from Roman Empire times can tell us about making a world where equality is normal—and how it hinges on changing a legal system that protects property
Mar 5, 2021
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21. Committing to Your Hunger
On the confusion in Western thought about animals, appetites, and greed
Feb 2, 2021
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20. Finding Sweetness in Bitterness
Wise words from a Sufi teacher when times are tough
Jan 8, 2021
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19. Filling the Hungry With Good Things: A Christmas Meditation
The revolutionary song of a young mother-to-be about upending the social order
Dec 24, 2020
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18. A Crocodile, a Virus, and the False Promise of Supremacy
A crocodile attack on philosopher Val Plumwood sheds light on the "desperate delusion" of white COVID patients who, while dying, still deny the virus
Nov 20, 2020
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17. The Law Is in the Ground
How the Aboriginal elder Doug Campbell followed the law of earth—and how this law contrasts with Western law, designed to protect property
Oct 30, 2020
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16. Loving the Earth: A New Traditional Value
Choosing different values, with Xiye Bastida (Otomi-Toltec) of the climate movement; Nemonte Nenquimo (Waorani) of the Amazon rainforest; and Simon Pokagon (Potawatomi), a Great Lakes writer of 1893
Oct 16, 2020
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15. Reimagining Community
How community could support individuals, not mass-produce them, and how West African traditional values could help
Oct 2, 2020
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We have to put the health of the Earth absolutely first. It will mean listening with humility to what the animals and plants and trees and insects need to thrive. It will mean putting their needs first, for they were here first; they prepared the Earth to be friendly to human evolution. Our lives depend on their lives, our health on their health. It will mean loving the Earth, the body of us all. Transforming the law to value ownership less, and health and life more.