The magazine on peak oil and the Transition movement
Dianne Monroe weaves her dreams and visions in Sebastopol, California. She's an Expressive Arts Facilitator, writer, and photographer offering workshops and personal mentoring for personal evolution and transformation, supporting people in the discovery and deep understanding of their voice and place in this world and these times. e-mail her or visit her website.
They are as close as the trash strewn vacant lot near where we live, as distant as melting polar ice caps – those places that humanity, both knowingly and unknowingly, has damaged. They can be painful to see and think about, easy to turn away from. Yet each of these places has something to share with us. How can we open our hearts to those places wounded and broken by human activity? And how do we do this in a way that offers healing, renewal, genuine hope and a path … [Read more...]
This is an amazing time to be alive! “Yeah, right,” my inner cynic says, “crumbling economy, peak oil, peak everything, melting ice caps, mass extinctions…" The list goes on and on, all woven together, I remind my cynic within, by the fact that we're living in a time when the old is crumbling, which is when there's the greatest opportunity to create something new. And that is an amazing time to be alive! If you're alive today, you're part of this Great Unraveling/ Great … [Read more...]
The generations growing up today will inhabit a very different world from the one we've known. Less energy, climate change and economic crisis will shift expectations and possibilities greatly, delivering both challenges and new opportunities. How can we nurture children so they can grow into adults who are able to survive, thrive and contribute to new ways of being with the Earth and each other? I ask myself this question whenever I look into the hopeful eyes of the children whose lives I … [Read more...]
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