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Revisiting the Politics of the Solar Age Hazel Henderson’s Vision for the Best Kind of Human Future
By Geoffrey Holland In a world emersed in severe ecological overshoot, extreme economic inequality, and the unraveling of social trust,...
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We’re All on a Raft Together The Simple Wisdom We Keep Forgetting
By Geoffrey Holland "The destiny of humans cannot be separated from the destiny of the Earth." – Thomas Berry, Cultural Historian In a...
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Kinship and Commitment Humanity Together Behind Common Purpose
By Geoffrey Holland Correcting the human course now is our only good option. It’s about surviving the consequences of our extreme human...
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A Metaphor for Human Overreach
By Geoffrey Holland “Collapse is what happens when denial meets biology.” – Jared Diamond , author of Collapse: How Societies Choose to...
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Bonobos in the Mist
By Geoffrey Holland The precious, irreplaceable biodiversity of life on Earth is collapsing. We humans are entirely responsible. A...
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What Our World Needs Most at this Moment
By Geoffrey Holland Humans have been sharing stories since our beginnings as stone age hunter-gatherers. Telling good stories is one of...
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Our Obligation as Earth Caregivers
By Geoffrey Holland The thing that we all share, regardless of gender-identity, ethnicity, or nationality, is a common human ancestor. We...
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The Color of Virtue
By Geoffrey Holland The story begins with the emergence of humans as a distinct species about 200,000 years ago. For nearly all of the...
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Common Human Purpose
Our Obligation to Future Generations By Geoffrey Holland The biosphere we all depend on is failing. The evidence is overwhelming. It’s...
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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...
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Feeding Eight Billion Sustainably: The Emerging Era of Living Within Nature’s Limits
By: Geoffrey Holland “At the current rate of loss, some 12 million hectares of agricultural land per year are rendered useless, an area...
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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....
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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?...
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Nature is Sex Positive.
By Geoffrey Holland ‘…from so simple a beginning, endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.’ -...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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