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 […]
Blue Forest
Blue Forest is a nonprofit conservation finance organization that brings people, finance, and science together to restore and protect forests, watersheds, ecosystems, and communities. The organization builds partnerships with investors, land managers, nonprofits, Native Nations, private companies, and the public sector to catalyze the funds and partners needed to make restoration projects happen. Blue Forest […]
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 […]
An Immense World
Pulitzer Prize-winning science journalist Ed Yong opens a door most of us never knew existed. His 2022 book introduces the concept of the “Umwelt”—the unique sensory bubble each animal inhabits—and then takes us on a journey through dozens of them: the magnetic field a sea turtle navigates by, the electrical pulses fish use to communicate, […]
Becoming Earth
Becoming Earth by Ferris Jabr, New York Times bestseller and winner of the Rachel Carson Environment Book Award, reveals life’s profound influence on our planet through acclaimed science writing that transports readers to extraordinary places—a former gold mine nearly one mile underground, an experimental nature reserve in remote Siberia, an observatory on a dizzyingly tall […]
This Is Your Mind on Plants
This Is Your Mind on Plants by Michael Pollan, #1 New York Times bestselling author, offers a radical challenge to how we think about drugs and an exploration of the powerful human attraction to psychoactive plants—and the equally powerful taboos surrounding them. Pollan dives deep into three plant drugs—opium, caffeine, and mescaline—throwing the fundamental strangeness […]
Michael Pollan
Michael Pollan has been writing books and articles for over thirty years about the places where the human and natural worlds intersect: on our plates, in our farms and gardens, and in our minds. Pollan is the author of eight books, six of which have been New York Times bestsellers, with three—including How to Change […]
Terry Tempest Williams
Terry Tempest Williams has been called “a citizen writer,” a writer who speaks and speaks out eloquently on behalf of an ethical stance toward life. A naturalist and fierce advocate for freedom of speech, Williams has consistently shown how environmental issues are social issues that ultimately become matters of justice. She has testified before Congress […]
Ferris Jabr
Ferris Jabr is the New York Times bestselling author of Becoming Earth and a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine. Becoming Earth won the Rachel Carson Environment Book Award and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Oregon Book Award, with reviewers describing it as an “electrifying” and […]
Sean Kelly
Sean Kelly, Ph.D. is Professor of Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), specializing in integral ecology, environmental humanities, religion and ecology, integral theories and philosophies, Jungian and transpersonal psychology, archetypal cosmology, Romanticism and German Idealism. Sean Kelly received his Ph.D. in Religious Studies from the University of Ottawa in […]
The Responsibility Process
The Responsibility Process is a behavioral science framework and the world’s first proven how-to approach for understanding, teaching, and taking personal responsibility. The framework helps people apply their innate leadership ability to face and overcome any challenge by operating in freedom, power, and choice—and encouraging those they lead to do likewise. The organization’s purpose is […]
Positive Psychology Center
The Positive Psychology Center at the University of Pennsylvania, directed by Dr. Martin E.P. Seligman, promotes research, education, and dissemination of Positive Psychology, resilience, and grit. Positive Psychology is the scientific study of the strengths that enable individuals and communities to thrive, founded on the belief that people want to lead meaningful and fulfilling lives, […]
The Enneagram Institute
The Enneagram Institute was created in 1997 by the late Don Richard Riso and Russ Hudson to further research and development of the Enneagram, one of the most powerful and insightful tools for understanding ourselves and others. At its core, the Enneagram helps us see ourselves at a deeper, more objective level and can be […]
Spiritual Midwifery
Spiritual Midwifery by Ina May Gaskin, originally published in 1976, introduced an entire generation of young women to the possibility of home birth and breastfeeding while breathing new life into the all-but-vanished field of midwifery. Now in its fourth edition, this classic book on home birth includes updated information on the safety of natural childbirth, […]
The Epigenetics Revolution
The Epigenetics Revolution by Nessa Carey provides a readily understandable introduction to a field that can potentially revolutionize our understanding of the structure and behavior of biological life on Earth. Epigenetics explains why mapping an organism’s genetic code is not enough to determine how it develops or acts, showing how nurture combines with nature to […]