There is a new way forward with the environmental crisis. We do not need to stand by while our politicians fail us. The answer lies with our imagination and the empowerment of ordinary people.
We can discover this new way forward by reframing the problem around a few core ideas such as
The Earth is a Higher Power
We certainly are amazing creatures and it is hardly surprising that we have come to think of ourselves as somehow ‘in charge’ of the world. Yet science teaches us that we arose from the Earth, a great and powerful living system on which we absolutely depend. Read More…
The Art of Creating Shared Imagination
It is vital that we come to feel our relationship with the Earth, to treat it with the respect it deserves and to dread its disruption. Traditional societies knew something that we have neglected. They knew how to create shared imagination. Read More…
The Three Phases of Human History
To deal with the environmental crisis we need to work together across the world like never before. The key to creating such cooperation is shared imagination. We are about to make our relationship with the Earth the most important aspect of our lives and enter a new phase of human existence. Read more…
You can read more about this in an ebook, which delves deep into our human condition and reveals a path out of our current predicament. It is available here
The book concludes that there are a few simple actions, that can be taken at a neighbourhood level all across the world, which might shift the way that we think and feel about the Earth. Articles will follow on this site that give details of these practices.
The first article entitled Changing the world – one neighbourhood at a time is available here
The second article entitled Setting places apart out of the deepest respect for nature is now available here
The third and final article in this mini-series summarises the practices introduced so far and introduces a new movement called Neighbourhoods for the Earth. The article is entitled ‘Attending to the rebirth of a culture’ and is available here.
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