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A Lost Small Town: Running Errands in the Wake of Emotional Violence, USA
An emotional massacre has taken place in these little towns. And now we are expected to act as if — this never happened at all.
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Cultivate A Habit Of Small Acts Of Sedition
Written by Caitlin Johnstone It is not easy being someone who cares about the world and opposes...
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The Good World
Charles offers a contemplation on generosity, goodness and gratitude.
Read More A Plant-Based Diet May Lower Severity of COVID-19 Illness by 73 per Cent
Participants who followed plant-based diets had a 73% lower chance of moderate to severe COVID-19 illness, whereas those who followed low-carbohydrate, high-protein diets were 48% more likely to have moderate to severe COVID-19 illness.
Read More A Gathering of the Tribe (a short film by Charles Eisenstein)
It is time for us to come together. To gather, to rise, to love, to LIVE! You are not alone. I promise you, you are not alone.
Read More Covid-19 Injectables: Have You Been Given Proper Informed Consent?
ATTENTION: All providers and recipients of the Covid-19 injections. All individuals have certain inalienable rights: informed consent and bodily autonomy being two of them.
Read More The Journey of Soul Initiation: An Interview with Bill Plotkin
Bill Plotkin, author of Soulcraft and The Journey of Soul Initiation, provides guidance for the descent to soul – the dissolution of current identity; the encounter with the mythopoetic mysteries of soul; and the metamorphosis of the ego into a cocreator of life-enhancing culture.
Read More Radical Compassion: Our Evolutionary Imperative
We find ourselves accelerating towards the precipice of extinction. How did we get here? And is there any way we can avoid hurtling into the abyss? The concept of “Radical Compassion” offers us an intriguing lens through which to find some answers to these questions.
Read More 10 Environmental Books We’re Reading This Spring (The Revelator)
From climate change to wildlife trafficking, these new books tackle the toughest problems of the day, along with vital solutions.
Read More From Breaking Down to Breaking Through (in just 8 minutes)
What do all living beings and living systems share? They have the capacity to turn “breaking down” into “breaking through.”
Read More Change the World – Right Here, Right Now
Right here, and right now, the insanity of the human condition is playing out on the Earth. The cause? Humankind’s total breakdown in connection with each other and our natural world.
Read More Expert IPCC Reviewer Speaks Out – Says Going Vegan is the #1 Remedy
According to Dr. Carter, we’re facing “the most rapid extinction Earth has ever experienced.” But there are solutions: “The most effective, definitively effective, immediately effective, readily doable action that everybody in the world can do is Go Vegan. In theory, we can all do that. If we do that, emissions drop immediately.”
Read More Yes, It’s All the Fault of Big Oil, Facebook and ‘The System’. But Let’s Talk About You This Time
The idea that individuals can’t solve the climate crisis has gained momentum in progressive circles. They say we can’t change the world by shaming each other for air travel or eating meat. But how much are ideals worth if they don’t demand sacrifices?
Read More Joanna Macy: Post-doom with Michael Dowd and Barbara Cecil
Joanna Macy, Deep Ecologist and founder of “The Work that Reconnects,” shares her wisdom for how to live a fulfilling life in these uncertain times.
Read More Society Is Made Of Narrative. Realizing This Is Awakening From The Matrix
In the movie The Matrix, humans are imprisoned in a virtual world by a powerful artificial intelligence system in a dystopian future. Life in our current society is very much the same. The difference is that instead of AI, it’s psychopathic oligarchs who are keeping us asleep in the Matrix. And instead of code, it’s narrative.
Read More Got Joint Pain? Why Dairy is a Bad Idea
Arthritis, joint pain, muscle aches. They’ve plagued us all at some point or another. But can joint pain be preventable through a mere change in diet?
Read More How to Make a Veganic No-Dig Garden
How to grow using no dig methods veganically, also known as “stock free”, without animal manures or other animal derived inputs.
Read More Hundreds Of ‘Elite Athletes’ Interested In Plant-Based Diet Following ‘The Game Changers’
Producer James Wilks says the documentary has inspired ‘Olympic gold medalists in various sports to UFC fighters to top players in the NBA’.
Read More Navigating Global Crisis: Developing Personal and Collective Resilience [A Recorded Webinar]
The current COVID-19 crisis has given us a strong taste of a globally shared crisis, and yet this is likely to be just the first of a series of global crises that we personally and collectively must imminently face. Join Dr Paris Williams in this free experiential/multi-media workshop aimed at fostering personal and collective awareness and resilience.
Read More The Taste of Wild Water
Author Stephen Buhner shares a personal experience of intimacy with the natural world and the transmission of this connection through the generations.
Read More Why You Should Go Animal-Free: 18 Arguments for Eating Meat Debunked
Unpalatable as it may be for those wedded to producing and eating meat, the environmental and health evidence for a plant-based diet is clear.
Read More The Human Metamorphosis: Paris Williams
This week we have a discussion with Dr Paris Williams. We discuss the transition that took Paris from world champion hang gliding athlete, to the depths of an intense personal inner transformation and awakening that led him on a journey of exploration of the human condition.
Read More 16 Essential Books About Environmental Justice, Racism and Activism [The Revelator]
These books provide insight into the problems that plague people and the planet, while also offering solutions for a more just future.
Read More Grieving My Way Into Loving the Planet
Being fully present to what is happening in the world is a radical act that can transform grief into action.
Read More Life May Itself Be A Koan
The koan is a dilemma, a mystery which the rational mind cannot solve. The key to the resolution of a koan is a shift in the being of the student which allows for a new understanding of the question itself.
Read More Meat/Mental Health Story Latest in Fake Nutritional Science
“Meat Improves Mental Health,” mainstream media blasted out this week, without mentioning the “study” was funded by an “unrestricted research grant through the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association.” Such fake science from the meat industry is becoming more common as people drop meat.
Read More 14 Inspiring New Environmental Books to Read During the Pandemic
New books by Carl Safina and other experts offer lessons for making this a better planet — for both humans and wildlife — even while we’re stuck at home.
Read More Finding Courage in Troubled Times
If you’re worried, it’s understandable. There’s panic in the air and anxiety in our bones. And fear is a healthy response to danger.
Read More Every Act a Ceremony
Can a reunion of the ceremonial with the pragmatic offer us a profoundly different way of seeing the world, and means to live in harmony with each other, other living beings, and the Earth?
Read More Now’s a Great Time to Become a Backyard Naturalist — Here’s How
Connecting with nearby nature can give people a much-needed boost — and help save wildlife, too.
Read More 16 Teachings from COVID-19
Corona holds a mirror that reflects our relationship with ourselves, with the Earth, with each other and with the broader systems we live in.
Read More Erosion and Evolution: Our Undoing is Our Becoming
Erosion and evolution. Shadow and light. Death and rebirth. These are some of the strands that the acclaimed author, naturalist and activist Terry Tempest Williams weaves together in the face of today’s broken world.
Read More Climate Grief: How We Mourn a Changing Planet
The enormous transformations to our planet from climate change can have powerful effects on our emotions, making us grieve for what is lost.
Read More What Determines Coronavirus Survival?
What determines COVID-19 survival if you are infected? Do we have any control over it? Using periodic animations, this video covers the virus’s mechanism for reproduction, how the virus claims its victims, and how to lower major risk factors for fatality.
Read More 7 Vegan Nutrition Tips to Help You Fight the Coronavirus
As the novel coronavirus continues to spread around the world, these vegan nutrition tips could help you boost your immune system.
Read More Living Gratefully in the Time of Coronavirus
“As life becomes harder and more threatening, it also becomes richer, because the fewer expectations we have,
the more the good things of life become unexpected gifts that we accept with gratitude.”
This Graph Will Show You the Carbon Footprint of Your Protein
Even the most sustainable meat is worse for the environment than plant-based protein.
Read More Ecopsychology: How Immersion in Nature Benefits Your Health
A growing body of research points to the beneficial effects that exposure to the natural world has on health, reducing stress and promoting healing. Now, policymakers, employers, and healthcare providers are increasingly considering the human need for nature in how they plan and operate.
Read More This Song Was Made to Heal You
“Sustainable Human” knocks another one out of the park. Watch and be prepared to be deeply touched… and don’t forget to turn up the sound!
Read More What It Truly Means to be a Vegan
Many people have the wrong impression when it comes to what it means to be a vegan. Under this definition, do you consider yourself to be a vegan?
Read More Did Going Vegan Help the Tennessee Titans Win?
Vegan chef Charity Morgan has helped 15 athletes from NFL team the Tennessee Titans to adopt a plant-based meal for the health benefits.
Read More How To Be A Mentally Sovereign Human
Written by Caitlin Johnstone We all showed up naked, slimy and clueless in a world of inexplicable...
Read More January’s New Environmental Books (The Revelator)
The Revelator’s list of new environmental books for January 2020.
Read More Bearing the Burden of Climate Change and Extinction
How do we live with the pain of knowing what we’ve lost and what’s coming?
Read More On Courage
What does it mean to be courageous? This short video provides an eloquent answer through powerful images that encourage further consideration of the question.
Read More Arnold Schwarzenegger Commends Joe Rogan for Changing His Mind About the Game Changers
The actor Arnold Schwarzenegger—who is featured in the documentary,The Game Changers—is proud of Joe Rogan for having an open mind about the benefits of a plant-based diet.
Read More Top 21 Heartwarming Movies for Animal Lovers
The holiday season is the perfect time to cozy up with these top 21 movies for animal lovers. From animated classics like Bambi to new favorites like Frozen 2, these are our top picks for heartwarming movies that the whole family can enjoy.
Read More On Being Alone
On a solo canoe trip down the Green River, paddling through the Canyonlands of southeast Utah, Craig Childs reflects on what it means to be alone in the wild.
Read More A Physicist’s Message for Humanity
In this thoughtful video, physicist Peter Russell pays tribute to kindness, suggesting that the world would be a drastically different place if we all showed one another more consideration
Read More Peter Singer on the Lives You Can Save
In Moral Philosopher Peter Singer’s hands, the questions that motivate a moral life are startlingly simple. But if you take them seriously, living morally can be both very rewarding and very challenging.
Read More Sustainable Home Decor Guide: Ethical and Eco-Friendly Design Tips
Sustainable home designs can help both people and businesses avoid having a negative impact on the environment. By choosing an eco-friendly manufacturer, designer, or by simply looking deeper into the footprint and profile of the materials and companies they work with, people can reduce their carbon footprint by being more conscious of the decor they put in their homes.
Read More Falling in Love with the Earth: An Invitation to Healing and Connection
Feeling inextricably connected yet small in relationship with the natural world can lead us swiftly to a sense of the sacred.
Read More November’s Best Environmental Books (Listed by The Revelator)
This month’s new books dig deep into the need for diverse environmentalists, climate adaptation, wildlife coexistence and the Green New Deal.
Read More How Much Would Giving Up Meat Help the Environment?
It is no secret that steaks and chops are delicious. But guzzling them incurs high costs for both carnivorous humans and the planet.
Read More Can the Social Order Be Transformed through Personal Practice? The Case of Nonviolent Communication (NVC)
NVC can contribute to our collective ability to face and transform social conditions and systems, including, in particular, capitalism. Despite this potential, in actual practice, there is the risk that NVC, like other forms of psychotherapy and personal growth, can risk acting as a narcotic, making people happier to live in dysfunctional social systems.
Read More This Is How to Go Vegan When You Have a Tight Budget
This is a useful how-to guide for people who want to incorporate affordable, delicious plant-based food into their diet.
Read More There is Infinite Hope, But Not For Us: Interview with Barbara Cecil & Dahr Jamail
In this episode of Transitions, Barbara Cecil and Dahr Jamail, co-authors of the ‘How Then Shall We Live?’ series published at Truthout, are interviewed about what they feel it means to openly and honestly face the unprecedented global ecological collapse presently taking place.
Read More “Rethinking Madness” Book Review – A Little Madness is Required to Change the World
Is it possible that the dilemmas and insights that those deemed “mad” grapple with are the very same ones that we all must grapple with in order to change our systems and save our world?
Read More Not Worth Going Vegan for the Climate?
Going vegan won’t help the planet? Not worth it for the climate? All of these notions are based on the EPA’s figures for livestock emissions. Why are they drastically different than the FAO’s reports? Time to investigate.
Read More Joker Star Joaquin Phoenix Explains Why He Went Vegan
Acclaimed actor and animal rights activist Joaquin Phoenix speaks about his family’s transition away from eating animals at the age of 3, and his lifelong commitment to being vegan and speaking out for animals.
Read More The Complicated Reasons People Eat Meat
Why do people eat meat? The answer about our beliefs, habits, and ethics is more complicated than you might think.
Read More The Greta Thunberg Helpline
If you’re a grown adult enraged by 16-year-old activist Greta Thunberg, satirist Mark Humphries and his co-writer Evan Williams have created a new service that could help.
Read More Changing How We Eat Is Complicated
A successful transition to a more plant-based diet requires not only motivation but capability and opportunity. This review summarizes existing research on what helps (and hinders) that process.
Read More At 45, I’m Healthier and Happier Than I Was in My 20s
Start by adding a variety of whole grains, vegetables, fruits, and legumes to your diet. Then try ditching meat, dairy, and junk food. You will never know how good it feels until you feel it for yourself. I’m never going back; I’m only moving forward.
Read More Wild Mind: Reclaiming Our Original Wholeness
It’s time to take another look at ourselves — to re-enliven our sense of what it is to be human, to breathe new life into ancient intuitions of who we are, and to learn again to celebrate, as we once did, our instinctive affinity with the Earth community in which we’re rooted.
Read More The Climate Is Changing And So Must We
The threat of climate change requires us to change. If we can all act together with continuing lifestyle changes, our kids will be grateful.
Read More These 7 Vegan NFL Players Get Their Power From Plants
Vegan NFL players — including Cam Newton and Wesley Woodyard — are proving you don’t need meat to succeed in football. More athletes than ever are going vegan.
Read More Actually, There’s Nothing Fake About Fake Meat
What is “fake meat”? Vegan meat is the healthy, sustainable, and inevitable next step in the evolution of meat — so why are labeling laws calling it fake?
Read More New Review Shows Plant-Based Diet May Reduce Rheumatoid Arthritis Symptoms
A plant-based diet may benefit individuals who experience rheumatoid arthritis (RA), according to a review of clinical trials and observational studies published in Frontiers in Nutrition in September 2019.
Read More 4 Ways You Can Have a Positive Impact on the Planet
Take action today to protect the Earth.
Read More How to Have Difficult Conversations
Campaigners aren’t known for being contemplative. By definition they are trying to change something beyond themselves. But what if collective introspection made us into better campaigners by improving our ability to listen and learn, especially from those we disagree with?
Read More The Work Of Love Is To Love
My own time on earth has led me to believe in two powerful instruments that turn experience into love: holding and listening. For every time I have held or been held, every time I have listened or been listened to, experience burns like wood in that eternal fire and I find myself in the presence of love.
Read More In Their Own Words: The Challenges Of Being Vegan
Being vegan involves far more than dietary choices. This doctoral dissertation examines the communication challenges and coping strategies that can protect, maintain, and enhance vegan identity.
Read More Facing Extinction
Catherine Ingram offers deep meditations on the terrifying possibility of near term human extinction.
Read More Ecological Trauma and Common Addiction
Rex Weyler defines “ecological trauma” as the experience of witnessing – consciously or not – the pervasive abuse and destruction of the natural world, of which we are a part, and for which we have a primal affinity.
Read More How to Get Better at Thrift Shopping
“Shop second-hand” is a message often touted by eco-minded individuals, myself included. “It’s good for the planet! It’s good for your wallet!” we say, which is all good advice, but usually that’s where it ends. Fortunately, some professional guidance for navigating thrift stores is at hand.
Read More Raise Your Children to Be Happy, Healthy and Complete
Raising your children as conscious individuals is the best gift you can give to your children
Read More Revelator’s 16-plus Best Environmental Books of August
Things are heating up — and not just because it’s August. This past July was the hottest month in recorded history. That makes this month’s new books about climate change essential reading, along with other important new titles on pollution, wildlife, oceans and Indigenous peoples.
Read More How to Shop for Safe Organic Foods
Whether you’re just starting out on your organic journey or you’ve been a long-standing practitioner, getting a refresher on what organic is and how to identify organic ingredients is always a good idea.
Read More 11 Years, 40,000 Trees & a ‘Crazy’ Hero: Meet Chitrakoot’s Tree Man
How did a single person’s efforts lead to a forest spanning five acres in Bundelkhand, a region notorious for its arid geography, sparse rainfall, and decade-long droughts?
Read More Why We Owe It to Ourselves to Spend Quiet Time Alone Every Day
By not giving ourselves the minutes — or hours — free of devices and distractions, we risk losing our ability to know who we are and what’s important to us, says physicist and writer Alan Lightman.
Read More Tinkering with Intent
Blair realized early in life that he didn’t need a lot to live, and that money and material possessions were not important. Instead he has chosen to value happiness, creativity, and well-being. He shares those values through his public gallery, where there is the chance to be irrevocably changed.
Read More How to Sprout Your Own Plant-Based Foods at Home!
If you’re following recent health trends, then it’s probable that you’ve come across the idea of sprouted foods. While some health trends should be taken with a grain of salt, others have a bit more backbone to them. Sprouted foods happen to be one trend to take note of!
Read More 2020 Dietary Guidelines: Vegan vs Low Carb Battlefield
A recent US dietary guidelines meeting which consisted of public comment made for some interesting low carb and plant-based drama. This is 4 hours distilled into something interesting.
Read More New Study: Eating More Plants Cuts Cardiovascular Disease Risk by a Third
Diets higher in plant foods are associated with a substantially lower risk of cardiovascular disease and death, according to new research published in the Journal of the American Heart Association.
Read More One Breath Around the World
A stunning video providing us with a truly immersive journey through the underwater world of our planet.
Read More Wild Imagination
One antidote to the colonization of the mind is the wild imagination. Cultivating the extraordinary human capacity to imagine alternate possibilities is, I believe, at least part of an essential navigation strategy for our times of multiple crises and ecological peril.
Read More Rich Roll, Ultra-Athlete | Reclaiming Your Vitality with a Conscious Lifestyle | 2017 CEO Summit
Rich Roll shares his journey from a lifestyle of an unconscious eating and alcohol addiction that took a toll on his health and well being to to reclaiming his vitality with conscious eating and lifestyle habits.
Read More Why I’m Not a Vegetarian
A non-graphic, fact driven look at veganism and vegetarianism. Particularly, how basic math keeps vegetarian animal products forever intertwined with meat and a look at several studies comparing health benefits of these diets.
Read More Look Inside this Plant-Strong Hospital and Meet the Cardiologist Who’s Leading the Charge (Video)
Robert Ostfeld, MD, is taking giant leaps forward to bring plant-based nutrition into Montefiore hospitals, including screening Forks Over Knives at patients’ bedsides.
Read More The Work That Reconnects: A Tribute
In this hour-long tribute to “The Work the Reconnects,” Pat van Boeckel explores the stories of activists who have used Joanna Macy’s writings to enhance and support their service and their lives.
Read More Vegan Cyclist Breaks 6,800 Km Record on Hash Brown Diet
Vegan cyclist Abdullah Zeinab set a new record and he did it on a diet of mostly hash browns.
Read More 6 Simple Steps for Mindful Eating
If the term “mindful eating” conjures up visions of lithe Los Angelinos in expensive yoga pants meditating over a plate of raw greens, you are not alone. But the truth is, mindful eating is so much more than that; and in fact, I maintain that it is one of the best diets out there.
Read More Organic Gardening Helps Inmates Kick Drug Addiction
Orgainc gardening is being used to rehabilitate prison inmates battling drug addiction. One particular location, at HMP Rye Hill in England, has seen its Mandatory Drug Test failure rate go from 30 percent on average to zero in one year since implementing an organic gardening program.
Read More Arnold Schwarzenegger ‘Terminates’ Myths About Protein In Upcoming Vegan Documentary
Austrian-American actor and bodybuilder, Arnold Schwarzenegger, says he ‘terminates outdated myths about protein, strength, and performance’ in the upcoming vegan documentary – Game Changers.
Read More Why These 7 Doctors Are Vegan
A vegan diet is just what the doctor ordered. As the health benefits of a plant-based lifestyle are going mainstream, these doctors are leading the charge on advocating for plant-based nutrition as medicine.
Read More Native Habitat’s Ripple Effect
If you’re frustrated by habitat loss and climate change, and wonder if there’s anything you can do about it, there is – you can create habitat.
Read More Carnivore and Vegan Diet Swap: Shocking Blood Results
A carnivore and a vegan dieter switched diets for 30 days. Here are the results from the blood tests tied back into the research.
Read More 10 Powerhouse Vegetables to Start Eating More Of
A study ranked fruits and vegetables for nutrients most strongly associated with reduced chronic disease risk.
Read More How Going to Harvard May Turn You Vegan
Vegan Harvard University philosophy professor Christine Korsgaard explores animals’ value in a new book and activist Earthling Ed asks students on campus to ask the same question
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