Editor’s Note The Great Turning has become a signature term that visionaries in our midst give to this defining point in human history—a phrase ushered into public awareness through the work of Joanna Macy and others who view human development as inextricably linked to planetary well-being.* Earth is issuing her own State of Our Union… Read more
To Choose Life by Molly Brown and Joanna Macy I call heaven and earth to record this day to your account that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both you and your seed shall live. Deuteronomy 30.19 As we confront the unprecedented crises in today’s… Read more
by Paul Severance It’s 3:23 in the morning, and I’m awake because my great, great, grandchildren won’t let me sleep. My great, great, grandchildren ask me in dreams: What did you do, while the planet was plundered? What did you do, when the earth was unraveling? Surely you did something when the seasons started failing… Read more
by Will Wilkinson “The environmental crisis may be the result of a recent and collective perceptual disorder in our species, a unique form of myopia which it now forces us to correct.” David Abram Sometimes a ¼ inch is enough to separate two worlds. I recently attended a weekend for men on Climate Change. I’d… Read more
by Kathleen Schomaker I am an ecologist, so I believe everything truly is related to everything else. The mystery and joy is to puzzle through how things are connected—by logic, intuition or synchronicity—and then how to walk and dance with what arises. Recently two readings came to my attention synchronously: Fate and Destiny: The Two Agreements of the Soul by Michael… Read more
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