What else have I left off my maps? What truth have I yet to discover?
Author: Peter Schulte
Peter Schulte is the founder and editor of Kindling. Peter is also Senior Digital Engagement Associate for the Pacific Institute and the UN Global Compact's CEO Water Mandate, connecting businesses to sustainable water practices. Peter holds a B.S. in Conservation and Resource Studies and a B.A. in Comparative Literature from University of California, Berkeley, and an M.B.A. in Sustainable Systems from Pinchot University. He lives in Bellingham, WA, USA with his wife, son, and cat.
Swap our shampoo in a bottle for bar shampoo
One example: Trader Joe’s has a Peppermint & Tea Tree Shampoo Bar. Instead of a liquid, packaged in a plastic bottle, this is just like a bar of soap. One fewer plastic bottle in the landfill or in the ocean!
The savannas
If someone asked you what the defining characteristic of humanity was, what would you say? If someone asked you what human nature was, what would you say?
The second voice
What I’m beginning to see is that there are two distinct voices within me. There’s the one I’ve been listening to loyally my whole life that is telling me that I am incomplete and wants to be whole. And then there’s the one who has been waiting patiently, telling me I am whole as I am, and calling me down the right path of my life, like a beacon in the fog.
Donate old political signs to help bees stay warm and safe
Now that the campaign season is over, what do we do with all those political yard signs? Trash them? Keep them for memories’ sake? Florida beekeeper Alma Johnson has a better idea: donate them to help keep her honeybee hives warm.
The Enlightenment
De Witt’s lynching, perhaps more than any other single event, possessed Spinoza to write what are now considered some of the seminal texts in modern thought. What Spinoza could not have known, was that he – along with Hume, Kant, Leibniz, Rousseau, Voltaire, and many others – were also writing among the first chapters of The Story of Progress.
Is “normal” in America really worth saving?
After all that we’ve seen over the last four years and last several centuries, are there still core values and aspirations that we can build around together? What exactly is it that we want to build back?
The Dark Ages
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 have pejoratively referred to as the “Dark Ages.”
Protect Angelenos from oil and gas pollution
Will you take a minute to send an e-comment to LA County Supervisors and the LA County Department of Regional Planning urging them to protect Los Angeles communities from oil and gas activities?
How food forests can help us build healthy, thriving, beautiful communities
Food forests (or forest gardening) are a gardening or land management technique that seek to create a forest – usually in an urban environment – that is entirely devoted to growing edible plants.