Yesterday’s Sunday New York Times Magazine included a real jewel of an article: Is There an Ecological Unconscious?. You’ll want to read it.

Rather than do a commentary on the article, I wanted to offer a sort of annotated list of links of people and concepts mentioned in the article. Here they are, in [...]

Friday is the deadline for registering for Regenerative Design Institute’s distinguished Ecology of Leadership (”EOL” for short). If you’ve been awakening to a need for deep change in your life (or a way to respond to change that’s already happening), this program will provide a way to hold your vision and tools for moving [...]

We live in a time of great change, and during great change, leaders always emerge. If we’re going to be the change we seek, we should also be prepared to be the leaders we seek.
Many of us Permies have an innate distrust of authority, and many of us associate authority with leadership. But [...]

The new newsletter from Great Turning Times makes some interesting points about how we cope with all the pessimistic information about the probable future that we receive from sources we trust. I think it’s well worth a read by anyone interested in permaculture. The author had the experience of watching a documentary about [...]

hepherd Bliss is a Sebastopol area farmer, writer, Vietnam vet and peace activist, and psychology teacher at Sonoma State…I’ve gotten to know him for his work as an ardent supporter of backyard chickens. He recently published an article, Agrotherapy: Farms Heal. Permies will recognize themes they’ve heard or experienced before:
Though the words agropsychology [...]