Life-Giving Life On what surprised him most about humanity: “Man surprised me most about humanity. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.”…
Retreat from Meat “By eating meat we share the responsibility of climate change, the destruction of our forests, and the poisoning of our air and water. The simple act of becoming a vegetarian will make a difference in the health of our planet.” -Thich Nhat Hanh – The World We Have: A Buddhist Approach to Peace and Ecology When I became vegetarian three years ago, I told myself that if I ever went back to eating meat, it would show…
face THE NATURAL WORLD “Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.” -E. O. Wilson The environmental dilemma of today is profound. Perhaps the ultimate conglomeration of every other issue we are facing. Simultaneously a battle against ourselves and a negotiation of peace with the planet. We are battling a notion of human exceptionalism with the notion that we are an exception to the laws of nature. We are an un-unified society trying to address an already blurry…
A Throw-Away Culture “The planet will be here for a long, long, LONG time after we’re gone, and it will heal itself, it will cleanse itself, ’cause that’s what it does. It’s a self-correcting system. The air and the water will recover, the earth will be renewed. And if it’s true that plastic is not degradable, well, the planet will simply incorporate plastic into a new paradigm: the earth plus plastic. The earth doesn’t share our prejudice toward plastic. Plastic…