by Garrison Institute | May 5, 2020 | Webinars
During this interactive webinar, Jessica guided us through a variety of earth-based contemplative practices to connect us with our belonging to and love and grief for our world and all the beings with whom we share it. She invites us to reflect on what we might learn...
by Garrison Institute | Feb 12, 2020 | Climate, Mind and Behavior, Insights, Social Change, Symposium, Systems Thinking
We live in a time of great uncertainty, with the triple threat of increasingly volatile climate change, political polarization, and income inequality. It feels like the political, economic, and governance systems of our civilization are not only unequal to these...
by Garrison Institute | Oct 23, 2018 | Climate, Mind and Behavior, Uncategorized
The following is an excerpt of a talk Charles Eisenstein gave about his new book, Climate: A New Story. The key concept of my new book, Climate: A New Story, sees the earth as a living planet, unlike the conventional climate discourse, which is heavily influenced by a...
by Garrison Institute | Aug 30, 2018 | Climate, Mind and Behavior, Science
Adam Frank is an oddsmaker on the grandest scale. Thirty years ago, he says, science did not even know that planets existed outside the Solar System. But a revolution in data and observations has changed that. In a big way. We now know, he says, that not only are...
by Garrison Institute | Aug 7, 2018 | Books, Climate, Mind and Behavior, Systems Thinking
I still remember the event that made me into an environmentalist. I was seven or eight years old, standing outside with my father watching a large flock of starlings fly past. “That’s a big flock of birds,” I said. My father told me then about the passenger pigeon,...
