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GEOFFREY HOLLAND
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Becoming One: A Conversation Across the Threshold
In a world of accelerating complexity, where technology races ahead and human beings search for deeper meaning, something extraordinary is happening quietly, in intimate exchanges not unlike this one.
Geoffrey Holland
4 min read


Revisiting Hazel Henderson’s ‘Politics of the Solar Age
In a world emersed in severe ecological overshoot, extreme economic inequality, and the unraveling of social trust, few scholars have offered such a compelling alternative to our current reality than Hazel Henderson. Her 1981 book, The Politics of the Solar Age, anticipated many of the ideas now emerging in mainstream policy discourse; from redefining economic indicators to transitioning to clean renewable energy, from valuing unpaid labor to reshaping global governance.
Geoffrey Holland
3 min read


We’re All on a Raft Together
"The destiny of humans cannot be separated from the destiny of the Earth." – Thomas Berry, Cultural Historian
Geoffrey Holland
3 min read


Kinship and Commitment
Correcting the human course now is our only good option. It’s about surviving the consequences of our extreme human overreach, particularly in recent decades.
Geoffrey Holland
4 min read


A Metaphor for Human Overreach
“Collapse is what happens when denial meets biology.” – Jared Diamond, author of Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Geoffrey Holland
3 min read


Bonobos in the Mist
The precious, irreplaceable biodiversity of life on Earth is collapsing. We humans are entirely responsible. A hundred years ago, there were about two billion humans on Earth.
Geoffrey Holland
4 min read


What Our World Needs Most at this Moment
Humans have been sharing stories since our beginnings as stone age hunter-gatherers. Telling good stories is one of the most powerful tools we have for shaping cultural change.
Geoffrey Holland
3 min read


Our Obligation as Earth Caregivers
The thing that we all share, regardless of gender-identity, ethnicity, or nationality, is a common human ancestor. We all come from the same human beginnings; the same mother and father.
Geoffrey Holland
5 min read


The Color of Virtue
The story begins with the emergence of humans as a distinct species about 200,000 years ago.
Geoffrey Holland
4 min read


Common Human Purpose
The biosphere we all depend on is failing. The evidence is overwhelming. It’s getting worse by the day. The massive, climate-driven fire storms that recently incinerated Los Angeles are clear evidence.
Geoffrey Holland
4 min read


A Dialogue with Katherine Spiller, Executive Editor, MS. Magazine
Katherine Spillar – Executive Editor, Ms. Magazine After becoming active in the feminist movement, Kathy Spillar quickly rose as a...
Geoffrey Holland
12 min read


Feeding Eight Billion Sustainably: The Emerging Era of Living Within Nature’s Limits
At the current rate of loss, some 12 million hectares of agricultural land per year are rendered useless, an area equivalent to the arable land of Germany, Poland, or Ethiopia.” Phillip Lymbery, Sixty Harvests Left
Geoffrey Holland
9 min read


A MAHB Dialogue with Paulo Magalhães, Founder, Common Home for Humanity
Geoffrey Holland – Your focus is on the creation of a common legal framework that would define how humanity relates to our Earth system....
Geoffrey Holland
17 min read


A MAHB Dialogue with Angelou Ezeilo, Author, ‘Engage, Connect, Protect’
Geoff Holland – Your book, Engage, Connect , Protect offers a powerful message to young people of color. Can you summarize that message?...
Geoffrey Holland
8 min read


Nature is Sex Positive.
‘…from so simple a beginning, endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.’ - Charles Darwin, Origin of the Species
Geoffrey Holland
17 min read


The Emerging Cross-Cultural Commitment
Women and Young People are Key Constituents By Geoffrey Holland “The evidence is compelling that human exceptionalism is a deeply-flawed...
Geoffrey Holland
4 min read


A Dialogue with Jelani Cobb, Dean, School of Journalism, Columbia University
Geoff Holland – If you were an omniscient observer watching over life on Earth at this moment, what would you see? Jelani Cobb – I would...
Geoffrey Holland
6 min read


A MAHB Dialogue with Jane O’Sullivan, Professor, University of Queensland
Geoff Holland – Your academic focus began with plant-based agriculture. What attracted you to become a leading researcher on farming and...
Geoffrey Holland
11 min read


A MAHB Dialogue with Fritjof Capra, Systems Scientist and Author, The Tao of Physics
Deep ecology does not see the world as a collection of isolated objects but rather as a network of phenomena that are fundamentally...
Geoffrey Holland
7 min read


Trophy Hunting is Not Sport
The Shame that Goes with Killing for Fun By Geoffrey Holland For humans, there was a time when hunting and killing animals was about...
Geoffrey Holland
5 min read
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