And how it can serve life again. Science started with a great idea. Observe Nature with an open mind and see how things really work. Before science, truth was found by following authorities like Aristotle or the Pope. People assumed that ancient texts such as the Bible were infallible. People…

We can’t work together and kill each other at the same time. “War is the worst thing in the world. It’s the most insane, most destructive, least sustainable thing humans do.” Caitlin Johnstone 21st Century political / economic systems seem to have left humanity with two choices. We can die…

Grow food and Native plants instead. Photo by Joshua J. Cotten on Unsplash When I was a child of the suburbs, I enjoyed our family’s lawn. We lived in a suburb of Buffalo, New York, and in the summer my brothers and I would play football or croquet, or just…

Native plants heal us if we let them. Plants are the basis of all life on land. Without plants, there would be no animals. In modern scientific / capitalist society, though, we only value plants that can make money, those we can sell, eat, wear, or enjoy looking at. Plants…

Insects are our friends. Help them live, they’ll help us thrive Why is the world threatened with death of nearly all higher species, including humans? It’s not climate change. More threatening by far is the collapse of insect populations, sometimes called the insect apocalypse. We tend not to care about…

Eight ways the MIC wins support for endless wars When the US occupied Vietnam in the 60s, a huge antiwar movement developed and helped bring an end to that horrible war. Demonstrations in Washington drew hundreds of thousands of protestors, and millions more supported them around the country. After losing…

Gaza Green Girls reclaiming their lives through agriculture “This land is not merely soil; it is our strength, hope, and soul.” Aseel Al-Najjar What do you do as a young woman living under siege, threatened by periodic bombing and shooting, held captive in Gaza, sometimes called “the world’s largest open…

Which side are you on? Eight years ago, the Standing Rock Sioux nation led a volunteer army fighting to defend water from pollution by the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), which transports tar sands oil from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico for export. The defenders ignited the passions of the…

Nature can heal us if we let it. If, like most people, you grew up in a corporate capitalist world, you are insane. It’s not your fault. It’s just that the ways we have been taught to see the world are dangerous lies, and it takes years of effort and guidance to unlearn them. …