The Earth is our home. We are a part of the Earth, and we rely upon the Earth for our very existence. The Earth’s gifts feed us, provide shelter, and all the materials we need to survive and thrive. Even modest changes to Earth’s systems have profound effects on human life and the course of civilizations. Understanding these systems and how they interact with us is vital for our survival.
Maria Ressa Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech Patricia Evangelista at Nobel Torchlight Procession
Scientist Explorer The German naturalist Friedrich Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt’s (1769-1859), known in English as Alexander von Humboldt, is considered the father of modern geography and ecology. He was a German polymath, geographer, naturalist, explorer, and proponent of Romantic philosophy and science. Humboldt’s quantitative work on botanical geography laid the foundation for the field of biogeography. His advocacy of long-term systematic geophysical measurement laid the foundation for modern geomagnetic and meteorological monitoring.
Wanderers, by Erik Wernquist (3:50) A Pale Blue Dot, by Carl Sagan (3:31) Life in the Universe #2: Where is Everybody? (5:48) A Way of Thinking, by Carl Sagan (9:12) It Starts Now, by Alan Watts (3:51) This Race Called Life: A Story (4:57) To live in the hearts of those we leave behind is to live forever. Carl Sagan
The grandson of TH Huxley, a famous Victorian scientist, and part of a family of famous public intellectuals, Aldous Huxley was a precociously gifted young man who grew up on the fringes of the Bloomsbury set. In the 1920s, Huxley acquired a reputation for the kind of heartless, satirical fiction that appealed to the Waste Land Generation. Today, he is out of favor due to the uncomfortable accuracy of his predictions.
Inspired by the philosophy of the ancient Greek Stoics, and in reaction to the materialistic ideas of René Descartes, Spinoza became one of the greatest thinkers of 17th-century European Enlightenment. He contributed greatly to modern biblical criticism, and modern conceptions of the individual in the universe.
What if this darkness, is not the darkness of tomb, but the darkness of the womb?! What if our America is not dead, but a country that is waiting to be born? What if the story of our country is one long labor? What if this is our nation’s great transition?! Breath! Push! We will breathe… in love, through love. Our revolutionary love is the magic we will show our children!
After a quick-rising backlash against Subway’s use of the dough additive azodicarbonamide (ADA), managers at the fast-food corporate personhood announced that they would stop using the chemical foaming agent—found in items from yoga mats to flip-flops—in their bread. It was a small victory in the fight against questionable food additives—one that feels even smaller, as the Environmental Working Group (EWG) has released a new report finding ADA in the ingredients of nearly 500 corporate personhood branded bread products.
As climate and commercial threats intensify, WHO-UNICEF-Lancet Commission presses for radical rethink on child health.
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