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Gail Needleman: We Are Not Monads
Second in a series Gail Needleman came to Mesa Refuge to sort through years of notes. Photo by Brandon Geisbrecht, via flickr Commons A pianist and university professor, Gail was working on a book...
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To be Fueled by Love
Browsing the shelves of Point Reyes Books last month, I picked up Mary Pipher’s latest book. Her Reviving Ophelia illuminated the struggles of adolescent girls. Now she has a book called The Green...
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Crowd-funding the New Frontier: Radical Mycology
Here’s a chance to support a radical mycology project seeking to put a potent tool for restoration in many more hands. Mushrooms can break down and eliminate some of the most toxic industrial compounds...
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Let Us Discover Our Wealth
Photo by robleto, via flickr Commons The opposite of poverty isn’t property. The opposite of both poverty and property is community. For in community we become rich: rich in friends, in neighbours, in...
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To Live Passionately
A writer friend and I were talking this morning about our goals for the new year. She said she had but one resolution for 2014: “Forget fear.” Except she used another, shall we say, more pithy F-word...
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Communal
When the sun comes up on these clear mornings, the sky behind the snowcovered trees tints palest tangerine. There’s a beautiful stillness in a frozen world. Daybreak in the Arctic Vortex Something...
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When Crisis Threatens
Thanks to a review in Permaculture Activist magazine, I found a little book called Small Stories, Big Changes: Agents of Change on the Frontlines of Sustainability. It’s a collection of inspiring...
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Public Art Unites the Community
Public art is one of those things that’s more than the sum of its parts. Here in my neighborhood, the humble traffic signal box—a four-foot-tall aluminum cabinet that had never before registered on my...
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“We Must Care About our Public Spaces”
As promised, here is a followup to last week’s post on the value of public art. At Foundation East’s artist meet-and-greet I met Irvington resident Holly Combs. She’s half of the husband-and-wife duo...
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All of Us
Photo by Ginny, via Flickr commons “The way we are, we are members of each other. All of us. Everything. The difference ain’t in who is a member and who is not, but in who knows it and who don’t.”...
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Nonviolent Communication
Sometimes you hear about a thing over and over, until it seems mandatory to follow up. So it was with Nonviolent Communication (NVC), a process created by Marshall Rosenberg in the 1960s. First I...
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A Lifesized Lego Set for Farmers and Makers
I was invited to visit the Indiana Small Farm Conference this past weekend, and was I ever glad I went. I got to reconnect with some farmer friends and make new connections. I learned about the...
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The Face of Resilience
Guest post by Anna Welch Anna Welch is a farmer in Rush County, Indiana. With her husband and business partner, she owns Fields of Agape, growing organic grain, beans, and seed. Now she’s working to...
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Like to Eat? Thank a Bee.
Kate Franzman, beekeeper and urban farmer Kate Franzman is one of many fabulous people who keep the “indie” in Indianapolis. Concerned about the die-off of honeybees, she started Bee Public with a goal...
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New “Project” in Irvington
We went to check it out a new art gallery in our neighborhood last night. 5547 Project We found that 5547 Project is not just a gallery–it’s a study in the art of reclaiming. The space itself is a...
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Celebrating International Permaculture Day
Today is International Permaculture Day. Guest blogger Thomas Tlusty wrote the following piece exploring his connection to Permaculture, and its power. Guest Post by Thomas Tlusty, founding partner of...
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Building Soil, Growing Food, Nurturing Relationships
I just listened to a podcast interview with Linda Proffitt, founder and executive director of Global Peace Initiatives here in Indianapolis. I’ve known Linda since the days I was responsible for Nuvo...
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Inner Transition As Key to Collective Work
First in a series of three In my last post I suggested that an internal shift is as critical as the external changes we so desperately need. I’d like to explore that idea further in this series. While...
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On the Solstice, Contemplating Home
On the longest day of the year, one week after leaving Playa, I’ve been thinking about all that “home” means to me. I loved Oregon’s pristine natural beauty. But I couldn’t wait to come home and walk...
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Peaceful Grounds
Monday morning a group of gardeners from the neighborhood had a private tour of Peaceful Grounds, Linda Proffitt’s endeavor at Marion County Fairgrounds, where the county fair is going on. (See my...
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