Biomimicry Institute
The Biomimicry Institute is embarking on a 10-year vision to dramatically scale the impact of biomimicry on the biggest challenges facing the world today. Since its founding 20 years ago, the organization has worked to spread the practice of looking to solutions developed by living organisms over billions of years for insight and inspiration toward […]
Braiding Sweetgrass
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer weaves together Indigenous wisdom and scientific knowledge to reveal what plants have to teach us. Kimmerer, a botanist and member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, brings her dual perspective as scientist and Indigenous knowledge holder to explore the gifts of […]
Fantastic Fungi
Fantastic Fungi, a film by Louie Schwartzberg, takes viewers on an immersive journey through time and scale into the magical earth beneath our feet—an underground network that can heal and save our planet. Through the eyes of renowned scientists and mycologists like Paul Stamets, and best-selling authors including Michael Pollan, Eugenia Bone, and Andrew Weil, […]
Kiss the Ground Documentary
Kiss the Ground is a full-length documentary narrated by Woody Harrelson, shedding light on a “new, old approach” to farming called regenerative agriculture—a practice with the extraordinary ability to balance our climate and feed the world. The film unveils a game-changer to our climate crisis: the Earth’s own soil. At a moment when the future […]
Biggest Little Farm
The Biggest Little Farm chronicles the eight-year quest of John and Molly Chester as they trade city living for 200 acres of barren farmland and a dream to harvest in harmony with nature. Through dogged perseverance and embracing the opportunity provided by nature’s conflicts, the Chesters unlock and uncover a biodiverse design for living that […]
Entangled Life
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake takes readers on a mind-bending journey into the hidden world of fungi. When we think of fungi, we probably think of mushrooms—but mushrooms are only fruiting bodies, analogous to apples on a tree. Most fungi live out of […]
Initiation into a Living Planet
In this in-depth essay, Charles Eisenstein asks us not to get too caught up in the scientific definition of life, but instead to feel into the truth that the planet is a living system and to order our priorities accordingly. The essay explores our relationship to climate change through this lens, inviting readers to move […]