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Environmental Health
We cannot be healthy without a healthy environment.
- Publications Articles
- June - August 2004
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The Tactics of Hope
How Social Entrepreneurs Are Changing Our World
As reports funnel in from around the globe documenting the deterioration of the environment as well as widespread poverty, disease, and human rights abuses, a perceived lack of urgency in public policy can be immensely disheartening. Tactics of Hope addresses these frustrations, by profiling the heroic deeds of 30 socially-conscious players on the world-stage.
- Publications Books
- April 30, 2008
- 256 pages
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"Sources and Solutions of Our Contemporary Global Challenges" with Joanna Macy
Former IONS president James O'Dea interviews eco-philosopher Joanna Macy, PhD, who is a scholar of Buddhism, general systems theory, and deep ecology. She is also a leading voice in movements for peace, justice, and a safe environment.
- Audio Interviews
- 2006-12-01
- 00:33:55
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The Dominant Animal
Human Evolution and the Environment
Renowned Stanford scientists Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehrlich believe that intelligently addressing today’s great environmental and social challenges requires a clear understanding of how we evolved and how we’re changing the planet.
- Publications Books
- June 30, 2008
- 440 pages
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Monkeyluv
and Other Essays on Our Lives as Animals
How do imperceptibly small differences in the environment change one's behavior? What is the anatomy of a bad mood? Does stress shrink our brains? What does People magazine's list of America's "50 Most Beautiful People" teach us about nature and nurture? What makes one organism sexy to another ...
- Publications Books
- September 15, 2005
- 224 pages
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"Frontline Spirituality" with Starhawk
Author and global justice activist, Starhawk, one of the most respected voices in modern earth-based spirituality, talks with host Stephen Dinan about permaculture, spiritual activism, and our sacred connection to the environment. She recommends taking at least five minutes each day to simply observe nature and deepen our sense of reverence for life around us.
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2008-10-14
- 01:04:42
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"Healing Ourselves, Healing Our Planet" with Bruce Lipton
Bruce Lipton's keynote at the Consciousness and Healing conference, July 6-11, 2005, in Washington, DC. Here he uses cellular evidence to show that our bodies are made in the image of our environment, nature. This perspective seamlessly integrates the material and spiritual worlds, as then our spiritual development is none other than to form a living, healthy, planetary super-organism.
- Audio Lectures
- 2005-07-10
- 01:02:26
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"Optimal Health and Human Flourishing" with Elliott Dacher (class 8 of 8)
Integral Health and Human Flourishing
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Week 8 of the course Optimal Health and Human Flourishing.
The integral approach to health appreciates the contributions of the four central aspects of the human experience – biology, consciousness, inter-personal relationships, and inter-connection with culture and the environment. Session 8 explores these four aspects and emphasizes the central role of inner development.
- Audio Optimal Health
- 2011-11-16
- 02:00:36
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Consciousness and Healing Forum: Deepak Chopra (part 2 of 2)
Deepak argues that consciousness is the phenomenon, and all else is the epiphenomenon. Just as our DNA differentiates skin, bone, and organs, our consciousness differentiates perceptions, cognition, moods, behavior, biology, social interaction, personal relations, the environment, and forces of nature.
- Audio Lectures
- 2005-03-23
- 00:18:53
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Foundations of Worldview Literacy (class 2 of 6)
What Shapes My Worldview?
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Week 2 of the course Foundations of Worldview Literacy.
In this second class we explore factors that shape our worldview, including family, culture, biology and environment.
- Audio Foundations of Worldview Literacy
- 2012-09-19
- 01:27:54
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"Worldshift" with Ervin Laszlo (sample)
Evolution Or Extinction - Your Way To Evolution
Author Ervin Laszlo, PhD, discusses his theories of evolution and the tipping point which determines whether we head toward mass extinction or a sustainable world. Ervin emphasizes the importance of recognizing our connection to each other.
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2008-12-09
- 00:03:00
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Essential Shifts Interview: Bruce Lipton (sample)
Join one of the most adventurous biologists of our day for a look at how a revised vision of biology can help create a template for a new society. Dr. Lipton explores topics such as how our consciousness shapes our biology, the power of fractals, and how human civilization is passing through stages that mirror aquatic, reptilian, and mammalian development.
- Audio Interviews
- 2006-05-15
- 00:03:00
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"Eating with Reverence" with Shannon Kring Buset
Food for the Soul
For centuries, the Balinese have offered up daily prayers for the entire life cycle of food, from the planting of the seed to the harvest, and from the preparation of ...
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2011-08-24
- 00:58:16
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Men in Black Dresses
A Quest for the Future Among Wisdom Makers of the Middle East
Men In Black Dresses takes the reader behind the walls of desert monasteries, Sufi enclaves, ancient cathedrals and mosques -- where the author knocks, uninvited, and waits for the wise men to allow her in ...
- Publications Books
- November 1, 2003
- 284 pages
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"Building True Wealth" with Catherine Austin Fitts (excerpt)
IONS Editorial Director Matthew Gilbert and radical financial guru Catherine Austin Fitts engage in a thought-provoking conversation based on the analogy of big business as a "tapeworm." Catherine argues that If we want clean water, fresh food, sustainable infrastructure, sound banks, lawful companies, and healthy communities, we are going to have to finance and govern these resources ourselves.
- Audio Shorts
- 2006-01-03
- 00:13:20
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"Transformative Practices" with Fred Luskin
Fred Luskin makes the distinction between justice, reconciliation, condoning and forgiveness. Forgiveness does not mean you condone the action. It doesn't mean you have to reconcile with or like the person who did it. He says that forgiveness is a skill that can be learned and he will describe tools and techniques we can use to transform our lives through the practice of forgiveness.
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2010-11-10
- 00:57:16
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"Eating with Reverence" with Shannon Kring Buset (extended Q&A)
Food for the Soul
What does the way in which we in the US raise, purchase, prepare, and eat our foods say about us?
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2011-08-24
- 01:02:09
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Journey with IONS to a Sustainable Future
This short video debuted at IONS' 40th anniversary celebration at EarthRise Center on January 20th, 2013. This was the opening day of our new Environmental Education Center, which showcases plans to develop EarthRise into one of the most environmentally sustainable retreat, education, and research centers in the world.
- Video Shorts
- 2013-01-20
- 00:02:30