Planet Project
The Planet Project exists to support the global shift toward a life-honoring, partnership-based planetary culture, using the word “Planet” to symbolize the wholeness and interconnectedness of all life—expressed in their tagline “All Life, One Planet.” Rather than building a movement of their own, the volunteer-driven U.S. nonprofit focuses on uplifting the many individuals and organizations […]
Dr. Andrew Weil
Andrew Weil, M.D., is the physician most responsible for bringing integrative medicine into mainstream awareness — and for insisting that the word “integrative” actually mean something. Trained at Harvard in biology and medicine, he spent years studying medicinal plants, traditional healing systems, and cultural approaches to health across the Americas and Africa before concluding what […]
Collective Imagination Practices Toolkit
The Collective Imagination Practices Toolkit, developed by the Collective Imagination Practice Community (funded by JRF Emerging Futures and hosted by Huddlecraft and Canopy), offers tools and practices to enable people to imagine more hopeful futures. The toolkit supports work that pays attention to who gets to imagine, centers diverse imaginations, and cultivates a range of […]
Domini: Insights
Founded by Amy Domini — widely recognized as one of the pioneers who proved that values-aligned investing could deliver competitive financial returns — this blog-style insights hub tracks the ongoing work of Domini Impact Investments across climate, community investing, ecological sustainability, human dignity, and corporate accountability. Domini began her career as a stockbroker in the […]
The Glorians
Born from a pandemic dream — a vow to create what Terry Tempest Williams calls the “Epic Documentation of the Glorians” — this essay collection defines a Glorian as an encounter with grace in the unexpected: an ant ferrying a magenta blossom across the desert floor, the sound of baby birds heard for the first […]
Thriving Communities
Thriving Communities creates documentary films that elevate community solutions to the challenges of our times, telling stories about “common people doing uncommon work for the common good.” Born from the joy and inspiration that founder Jerry Millhon found in storytelling while serving as Director of the Whidbey Institute in 2012, the organization produces two to […]
Regenerative Economics
Regenerative Economics by John Fullerton transforms how we see the economy—and what’s possible—offering a science-based, hopeful path beyond crisis thinking with a regenerative model that works like a living system. Fullerton, an unconventional economist and founder of the Capital Institute who left a 20-year career as Managing Director at JPMorgan in search of deeper answers, […]
Disaster as a Springboard for Thriving Resilient Communities
This article, published in December 2013 by the Society of Organizational Learning’s Reflections Magazine, explores what happens when catastrophe fundamentally shifts the world we know. On March 11, 2011, the triple disasters of earthquake, tsunami, and radiation leak devastated northeastern Japan. In the aftermath, people from throughout the country began to gather not just to […]
The Myth of Sisyphus
Sisyphus was a king of Corinth, legendary for his cunning—so clever and deceitful that he cheated death itself, twice. The first time, he tricked Thanatos, the god of death, into chaining himself up, so that no mortal could die until Ares intervened and freed him. The second time, Sisyphus talked his way back from the […]
The Myth of Amor and Psyche
Psyche is a mortal woman of such extraordinary beauty that the goddess Aphrodite grows jealous and sends her son Eros (Amor) to make Psyche fall in love with something unworthy. Instead, Eros falls in love with Psyche himself and arranges for her to live in an enchanted palace, visited by him only in darkness—she is […]
A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness
Michael Pollan takes readers to the most intimate frontier in science: the mystery of our own awareness. Drawing on neuroscience, philosophy, literature, Indigenous epistemology, and his own experiences with meditation and psychedelics, Pollan asks the question that has eluded centuries of inquiry — what exactly is consciousness, who has it, and why does anything feel […]
Flow Genome Project
Flow Research Collective brings together award-winning academics, artists, special operations commanders, professional athletes, Fortune 500 business leaders, and experts dedicated to peak performance, building world-class training programs on peak performance, optimal psychology, and leadership. The organization charges a premium for world-class trainings while open sourcing content for free, helping people make better sense of their […]
Becoming Gaia
Becoming Gaia: On the Threshold of Planetary Initiation by Sean Kelly addresses our living in end times—climate chaos, accelerating mass extinction, and signs of civilizational collapse drawing the Earth community into a planetary near-death experience. Yet these end times also mark the threshold of a new planetary identity in the making. Drawing on scholarship from […]
Ed Yong
Ed Yong is a Pulitzer Prize-winning science journalist and staff writer at The Atlantic, where his work has fundamentally shaped public understanding of biology, ecology, and the hidden complexity of life. Born in Malaysia and raised in Britain, Yong has spent his career finding the stories inside science that change how people see themselves and […]
I Contain Multitudes
Ed Yong’s 2016 New York Times bestseller arrived at a pivotal moment in biology, introducing a general audience to one of the most profound scientific shifts since Darwin: the discovery that every animal—including every human—is not an individual at all, but a living ecosystem. The trillions of microbes that inhabit us sculpt our organs, educate […]
Brett KenCairn
Brett KenCairn is the Founding Director of Center for Regenerative Solutions and Senior Policy Advisor for Climate and Resilience in the City of Boulder’s Climate Initiatives Team, where he coordinates the city’s nature-based solutions work. Brett has worked across the western U.S. in community-based initiatives in rural, Native American, and other marginalized communities, and is […]