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As South Africa’s political parties vie for attention with policies and manifestos that lack vision, creativity and impact try this one on for size. It is a wonder full creation of the best of human ideas and optimism founded on…
Continue readingInhabit explores the many environmental issues facing us today and examines solutions that are being applied using the ecological design process called “Permaculture”. Permaculture is a design lens that uses the principles found in ecosystems to help shift our impact…
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It was Freedom Day in South Africa and I had taken myself on an extended and much missed artists’ date. I had braved an open mic poetry event at Kalk Bay Books the previous evening and was curious to see…
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Fiona van Haeringen thought that Poetry and Business were incompatible but she was inspired to flip the classic performance review – as championed by the corporate world – and put Nature as the manager evaluating the overall performance of the…
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It is our pleasure to welcome Julie and Jerry Brown, authors of The Psychedelic Gospels: The Secret History of Hallucinogens in Christianity, as our featured authors for January. Their book takes the reader on an anthropological journey throughout Europe and the…
Continue readingLaken Brooks, University of Florida What do witches have to do with your favorite beer? When I pose this question to students in my American literature and culture classes, I receive stunned silence or nervous laughs. The Sanderson sisters didn’t…
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By Melissa Baird Entangled World -How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, & Shape Our Futures “They are inside you and around you. They sustain you and all that you depend on. As you read these words, fungi are…
Continue readingAnd that’s not even the most interesting thing about them Gregory Moore, University of Melbourne With massive fronds creating a luxuriously green canopy in the understory of Australian forests, tree ferns are a familiar sight on many long drives or…
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By Skye Mallac R. A. Dalkey explores savvy saving ideas that don’t cost the earth Picture this: you’re a working-class individual with no inheritance to your name, COVID-19 has just hit, the world is rolling into a collective lockdown, the…
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The budget required for project ‘Save Civilization’ is estimated to be 1/3 of the U.S. Military Budget, which at the time of making this documentary was set at $598bn – this is according to Prof. Lester R. Brown, founder of…
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While visiting South Africa in 2012, Julian Palmer, psychoactive plant expert and spiritual trip guide, quickly realised there was a substantially large enough ‘plant medicine’ community here to warrant a Psychoactive Plant Conference. Khanyisa’s vision is to bring forth…
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The Bushman – A photographic and prosaic celebration of the last of the true ancestors of Southern Africa It is rare to come face to face with a true Khoi-San and to celebrate their wisdom and beauty in the natural…
Continue readingHow Now, a Sustainable Brands inspired publication, leads its readers on a journey as we seek to explore HOW to innovate brands for sustainability NOW See Less
Continue readingPosted by Chris Agnos on Films for Action “The whole process of nature is a process of immense complexity and it is really impossible to tell whether something that happens in it is good or bad.” A parable about life and nature narrated…
Continue readingBy Caspar Henderson, Featured on the Ecologist All too often language is used to objectify nature, writes Caspar Henderson. But there’s another, older vocabulary – introduced in this ‘counter-desecration phrasebook’ – that achieves the reverse: connecting us with the wonders of…
Continue readingBy Sophie McAdam on True Activist ‘The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible’ is a short film featuring Charles Eisenstein, author of Sacred Economics and The Ascent of Humanity. Produced by Sustainable Human and with stunning direction by Ian MacKenzie, it…
Continue readingBy Glenn Hickling on Creative Boom Watching documentaries is a healthy pursuit for creatives: it fills your brain with more dots to join up, and can make you feel more arty and up for it just from being in the…
Continue readingBy Lia Labuschagne Things to do in Moer & Gone Places by Jacques Marais ‘It is a feeling. It is that immaculate sense of headspace that you get when you realise that you have – against all odds in our crowded…
Continue readingBy Lia Labuschagne Gardening for Butterflies by Steve Woodhall & Linday Gray Here is something to help us plan and plant our outdoor spaces so that they invite butterflies and moths to visit. Butterflies are a sign of healthy gardens and…
Continue readingBy Lia Labuschagne Elon Musk – How the billionaire CEO of SpaceX and Tesla is shaping our future by Ashlee Vance Thinking green has become not only the right thing to do, but also profitable in the right hands. Concepts about a…
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