Change is not only possible,
it's happening all around us every day
Change is not only possible, it's happening all around us every day
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Charmin, which is America’s number one toilet paper brand, is fueling a tree-to-toilet pipeline which threatens our climate, Indigenous communities, and the iconic boreal caribou.
Shifting Oregon Treasury holdings from risky fossil fuels to climate-safe investments increases the resiliency of the state and its people.
The federal Build Back Better reconciliation bill introduced by the U.S. House of Representatives is our best change to fund meaningful climate action. Send an email to your representatives now telling them to vote YES.
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Brighter Futures
Emerging models and ideas for new ways of doing and being
What if everyone had autonomy to serve the purpose of the organization how they saw fit, within their respective roles?
Ayahuasca is a hallucinogenic plant medicine that originated thousands of years ago among the indigenous peoples of the Amazon. It is capable of deep healing for a range of trauma, depression, addiction, and more while also offering insight into one's purpose and essence.
In the new economy, we redefine what it means for our society to grow and to be successful. Money becomes a means to other ends: well-being, sustainability, and equity. Our measure of success is when people are thriving.
Eating insect is not only an opportunity to expand our diets and find delicious food, it is essential for our sustainability and humane treatment of animals.
Humanity Is Beautiful
Draft excerpts from Kindling Executive Director Peter Schulte's upcoming book. Full library available to patrons only.
After the fall of the Roman Empire in the Fifth Century C.E., the Western world fell into what many Enlightenment-era historians and philosophers – and many people to this day – pejoratively referred to as the “Dark Ages.”
The Story of Progress tells of humans’ (or the West's) rise from the savagery of our origins to modern society’s civility, refinement, and goodness. It is the story of our inevitable ascent from barbarism to civilization.
We are in decline. We are a fraction of our former selves. We are destroying ourselves. And the only way forward is to finally accept how truly ugly, reckless, and depraved we have become.
Many of us believe that the world would be better off without us. Humanity is separate from and detrimental to the project of life here on Earth.
