Iceland's open prisons, Kvíabryggja and another, offer a unique perspective on rehabilitation. With minimal security and a focus on communal living, these facilities prioritize...
Most people have been taught that the fastest path to economic growth runs through the wealthy -- give investors more money, and prosperity will eventually trickle down to...
Something strange happens to companies after they win. They stop trying to earn your loyalty and start finding ways to make your loyalty irrelevant. The pattern is everywhere...
Artificial lights disrupt the migratory patterns of billions of birds each year, leading to fatal consequences. New research shows that even ground-level lights can significantly...
In an age where trust and faith are increasingly tested, it is vital to recognize the duality of human nature. While the media often highlights violence and negativity, there are...
Across the 2026 Democratic primaries, something the party establishment did not plan for is happening in plain sight. A 29-year-old attorney knocks off a 30-year incumbent in...
A heat wave does not just make you sweaty and miserable. It turns the landscape into a loaded gun, dries out every blade of grass until it crinkles like paper, and then pulls the...
A strait 33 kilometers wide at its narrowest point carries roughly 20% of the world's seaborne oil and LNG — and when it closes, the bill doesn't get sent to the generals who...
Europe is baking under another record-breaking heat wave, and this one arrived right on the heels of temperatures in May that had no business existing. Meanwhile, Asia...
We are so accustomed to the status quo that we think this is how it has to be. Old institutions are tenacious, and they have long tentacles rooted in history and in a multitude of choices made by our ancestors. Law, history, religion, science, and culture all play a role in keeping us entrenched in dysfunctional structures...
As revolution is a highly charged word that stirs fear in many quarters, it's useful to get clear here about what it does and does not mean in the Age of Aquarius. It simply means a "turning back," and implies that power has somehow been...
It's plain to all freedom-loving people that the Internet is either the battleground for freedom, or the means by which love workers will achieve freedom without battle. One way or the other, some of us, at least, must know how to use the most powerful instrument of freedom since the printing press...
From the level of our soul, we all made agreements to be here at this time. Our job is to usher in a new way of life, an entirely new reality. Like midwives, we are here to help in giving birth to a golden age of manifestation upon the Earth...
One of the most powerful rituals in which we currently engage is the highly stylized way we think about warfare. Why is it that, knowing as we do the horrendous damage war does to everything it touches, we still speak the language of glory and victory?
The failure of world leaders to act on the critical issue of global warming is often blamed on economic considerations. Putting aside the absurdity of prioritizing a human-created and adaptable tool like the economy over caring for everything that allows us to survive and be healthy, let’s take a look at the economic reality...
The dire events of 2007-2011, strange as they look from the usual economic perspective of policies and numbers, make perfect sense within the context of history and astrology. The financial calamity of the early 21st century, and the climate of fraud and folly that made it possible, are exactly what we could expect at the end of the Piscean Age.
Today the average calorie travels something like 1,500 miles, were told, to reach our tables. Whole fleets of 747s exist just to fly kiwi fruits to the US from New Zealand. It is time to grow locally adapted varieties right at home, or...
The struggle for our minds is about waking up to the great social and cultural change happening in our midst; pulling our minds away from distraction, ignorance, and old programming; and realizing the transitions that our physical and spiritual worlds are moving through. It is imperative that...
Community gardens deliver their biggest added value when they're sited in places like parking lots and abandoned industrial sites. However, two neighbors in Vancouver have put together a new kind of community garden. It's made up of the backyards of residents in two city blocks...
We intuitively know that if we are going to recapture the American spirit, it will be because millions of our citizens will begin to see the power of being connected and moving in the same basic direction, regardless of our inevitable and necessary differences...
Darwin suggested that togetherness and cooperation, like the kind we saw initially on 9/11, is positively adaptive for human beings. According to Dacher Keltner — a professor at the University of California at Berkeley — “Survival of the kindest” is as important a principle as “survival of the fittest.” “We have been designed to care about...”
Rachel Carson's legacy looms huge. Many people have the impression that climate disruption is the worst environmental problem humanity faces, and indeed, its consequences may be catastrophic.
The journey to a new way to be human involves mindful choices. The freedom to nurture, cultivate, and choose is a gift that begins with you. So — what will you do? Who will you be? Your choices and mine matter...
Before we can choose productive myths for our lives we must be sure to weed out the bogus myths first. Some of these will be very deeply rooted, and therefore harder to deal with. One of the marks of a bogus myth is that it acts like carrot-and-stick persuasion. So, for example, if we take a look at some political myths, we'll see that...
Chocolate isn't the only American staple produced by slaves. On some Ivory Coast farms, child slaves harvest coffee beans as well as the cacao pods that yield cocoa beans. More than 7,000 tons of Ivory Coast coffee arrive in the U.S. each year...
Contact with the natural environment can be powerfully restorative to our well-being. Prisoners who can look out of their cells get sick less often, and patients in hospitals recover more quickly when...
What if changing the world started with getting to know your neighbors? Cultural creatives are proving it's not just possible—it’s already happening.
Many people are afflicted with catastrophobia — an intense fear of catastrophes. This new word is intended to name a psychological syndrome that causes individuals and societies to think an end is coming soon. Our surface minds are filled with floating images of disaster, guilt, and suffering.
There are increased energies pouring into the Earth and the danger here is that the varied social matrixes in which many people live will flood the mental airwaves with increased images of catastrophes, apocalypse, and perpetual warfare. The Armageddon meme will be likely to work overtime...
We are on a long journey together, yet this is just the beginning of our new lives and of our work in co-creating new worlds. We are a growing band of pioneering souls scattered in every culture, field, discipline, age, and background. We can have compassion for all others and ourselves. We are...
The journey of Odysseus in Homer's 'The Odyssey' offers profound insights into healing...
Fostering a legacy of joy empowers individuals to inspire authentic self-expression in...
Junk emotions like anxiety, anger, and jealousy can hinder personal well-being and...
Awareness meditation shifts focus from traditional breath techniques to observing...
The exploration of precognitive dreaming reveals a profound interconnectedness within...
Negative moods can linger and affect overall well-being, but identifying their triggers...
A rare celestial formation is quietly reshaping the foundations of everything we know —...
You don't need a week in silence at a mountain retreat to feel spiritually alive again....