What Life Knows

New Ideas from Biology Could Change the World
by Janine Benyus

The Earth is ringing—it is ringing off the hook. I feel like we’re in a dream and we’re moving through molasses to answer it. We’re heading for an evolutionary knothole. If we are to get through that knothole—and if we are to bloom on the other side as a keystone species and not an ecological dominant—the way we live our lives needs to make it possible for other species to live their lives. The first thing we have to do is to quiet human cleverness. Life survives through an accurate reading of its context. It takes a deep, deep listening.

How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World

by Paul Stamets

We all know that the Earth is in trouble. We have entered into the sixth major extinction on the planet.

Thinking Like Cathedral Builders

Green Building and Business for the Long Term
by John Abrams
John Abrams is cofounder and CEO of South Mountain Company, a thirty-year-old employee owned green design and building company located on the island of Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, and is the author of: The Company We Keep: Reinventing Small Business for People, Community, and Place. His family lives in a co-housing neighborhood that was designed and built by his company.