Dreams by Derrick Jensen
Dear Derrick, Over the past several months, I’ve read your book Dreams not just once, but twice. It has been more than an intellectual foray. It has been an experiencing, a journeying, a nightly...
View ArticleThe Armed Man: A Mass for Peace (212)
“This is a very important piece of music, a very powerful piece of music,” says Ken Hardin, conductor of Sierra Master Chorale. In advance of their performances on May 17 and 20, 2012, he provides a...
View ArticleDavid Korten: “The Great Turning”
David Korten’s inspiring and extensively-illustrated presentation of his new book The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community. David says we are at a defining moment in all of human history....
View ArticleJoanna Macy: Active Hope Reconnects Us to Life
Joanna Macy’s talk in Grass Valley, California, August 24, 2012 Michael Stone: For young people, the future isn’t what it used to be. Joanna has been an activist for five decades. She’s an...
View ArticleConnect the Dots: Systems in Collapse (Video)
Our close friend Ivey Cone hosted and produced Connect the Dots: Systems in Collapse, a panel discussion with Nevada City, CA activists Terra Nyssa, Tom Grundy and myself in late March, 2013. It’s a...
View ArticleWhat Do You Think Is Worth Fighting For? (240)
“There are very sober people talking about the possible death of entire oceans. The end of fish. If that’s not worth fighting for, what is?” Activist and author Derrick Jensen asserts that industrial...
View ArticleWhat is GENUINE Sustainability?
I’ve looked forward to meeting Rick Reese since I read his thoughtful and highly readable book What is Sustainable: Remembering Our Way Home a year ago. Rick’s driving question is “what is genuine...
View ArticleA Pathfinder for the Future Primitive
My curiosity was piqued when I read a review of Miles Olson’s Unlearn, Rewild: Earth skills, ideas and inspiration for the future primitive in Richard Reese’s Sustainable or Bust. For nearly a decade...
View ArticleWhat Is Sustainable? (271)
“We’re a mining society. We mine the soils, the groundwater, the forest, the minerals, the fish… We’re destroying non-renewable resources. There’s no future in it.” Richard Reese, author of What is...
View ArticleUnlearn, Rewild — Inspiration for the Future Primitive (276)
“My journey has been as a squatter living close to the land, building cabins, living with friends, learning how to live really intimately with the land by hunting, foraging, scrounging … dancing...
View ArticleLove, Intelligence and Art — Musings on the Natural World, part 1 (325)
Derrick Jensen reflects on the bird and frog songs he loves, and the richness of longtime relationships with natural places where one lives. By contrast, and especially in cities, our sensory input is...
View ArticleLove, Intelligence and Sex — Musings on the Natural World, part 2 (326)
I asked Derrick Jensen whether he believed in God. “I believe in something,” he replied. “There is some animating force or something. Life is so complex and so extraordinary, and even our individual...
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