All Together Now

All Together Now - Action on the Global Climate Crisis - 01/17/13

A talk with Anna Goldstein, US Campaigns Manager for 350.org, about the dynamic interrelatedness driving climate change; also, 350.org's divestment campaign, the Climate Forward demonstration in DC on Presidents Day weekend, and the Global Power Shift event in Istanbul in June; poem by Mary Mackey

All Together Now - Life Rules! - 01/10/13

A talk with Ellen LaConte about her book Life Rules: Nature's Blueprint for Surviving Economic and Environmental Collapse about the planetary Critical Mass of interrelated crises, Earth's "steep economic learning curve," creating lifeways that mimic Life's ways, and transitioning to "Earthonomical communities and regions"; poem by Mary Oliver

All Together Now - The Millionth Circle - 01/03/13

A talk with the Jungian analyst Jean Shinoda Bolen about her books on activist women's circles, including Urgent Message from Mother: Gather the Women, Save the World (jean.bolen.com); also her efforts through the United Nations to get a UN 5th World Conference on Women in or before 2020 (5wcw.org); the successful carbon tax in Ireland; the "Pray-In for the Climate" in front of the White House on Rev. MLK, Jr's 84th birthday; poem by Elizabeth Spires.

All Together Now - Dreaming the Preferred State - 12/27/12

A talk with Peter Warshall, a specialist in biodiversity, conservation-based development, and a founding co-director of the Dreaming New Mexico project, which has developed community-based methods of creating ways to arrive in what Buckminster Fuller called the "preferred state" regarding renewable sources of energy, local foodsheds, and a Fair-Trade state by 2020 (DreamingNewMexico.org); also PW's thoughts on the human microbiome as part of biodiversity (more Relational Physiology!); poem by Galway Kinnell

All Together Now - Our Responsibility to Be Optimistic - 12/20/12

A talk with Jonathon Porritt, cofounder of Forum for the Future (forumforthefuture.org) in London and former Chair of the UK Sustainable Development Commission, on the "psychodynamics of optimism in an apocalyptic age" (jonathonporritt.com); also engaged reflections on the meaning of Advent; poem by Rev. Alla Renee Bozarth

All Together Now - Meanings of Chanukah - 12/13/12

Meanings of Chanukah -- a talk with Rabbi Michael Lerner, editor of Tikkun magazine (now in its 26th year!) and author of "How to Do Chanukah 2012" and 11 books, including most recently Embracing Israel/Palestine; he is also the Executive Director of the Network of Spiritual Progressives; tikkun.org; poem by Louise Gluck

All Together Now - Meanings of Our Lady of Guadalupe - 12/06/12

Meanings of Our Lady of Guadalupe -- the season of Advent; the Virgin Mary's syncretic blendings; Pussy Riot's imprisonment after singing their Marian prayer as part of the anti-Putin movement in Russia; a conversation about Our Lady of Guadalupe with Ana Castillo, editor of the anthology Goddess of the Americas (anacastillo.com); a recording of Pussy Riot's prayer to Mary; poem by Patricia Monaghan

All Together Now - Cooperation Circles - 11/29/12

A talk with Rev. Charles P. Gibbs, Executive Director of United Religions Initiative (uri.org) about URI's planetary network of 560 locally initiated Cooperation Circles in 82 countries; each Cooperation Circle (consisting of at least 7 people from at least 3 faith traditions) decides on a local project that will further interfaith cooperation, help end religiously motivated violence, help to create cultures of peace, justice, and healing for the Earth and all living beings; their relational approach to cultivating peace draws from The Moral Imagination: The Art and Soul of Peacebuilding by John Paul Lederach; poem by Galway Kinnell

All Together Now - What We Are Not Hearing in the Presidential Campaign - 10/25/12

A talk with Sarah van Gelder, executive editor of Yes! Magazine, about issues that need to be addressed in the current electoral campaigns; her "Climate Emergency Action Plan"; also new discoveries about the nature of bacteria in the human body (they do a lot of good!), which is causing a new, relational perception of the microbiome of humans; poem by Robert Bly

All Together Now - Obsolete Assumptions of Corporate Capitalism - 10/18/12

A talk with Jerry Mander about his book, The Capitalism Papers: Fatal Flaws of an Obsolete System; why it's time to move on beyond  the foundational premises about pressure for endless material growth on a planet of finite resources; other fatal flaws of the system; our megashifts toward a new economics; poem by Robert Bly