All Together Now

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

All Together Now - Bioneers' "Moonrise" of Women's Leadership - 10/11/12

A talk with Nina Simons, cofounder and coExecutive Director of the Bioneers network (bioneers.org) about her sense of the role of Relational Intelligence in transforming leadership; the Moonrise leadership program for women; the upcoming, 23rd annual Bioneers conference and simultaneous regional conferences about ecosocial solutions that work and "resilient communities"; poem by Lesel Mueller

All Together Now - America the Possible - 10/04/12

A talk with James Gustave (Gus) Speth about his new book, America the Possible: Manifesto for a New Economy; FDR's Four Freedoms; 7 steps in how change happens; the need for a Progressive fusion and for fusion voting in all states; the Green Party; poem by Walt Whitman

All Together Now - Women's Voices Creating a New Politics - 09/27/12

A talk with Marianne Williamson about her upcoming national gathering, Sister Giant (sistergiant.com) on the need to reframe the major political issues and also to get more women to run for office (marianne.com); the Women's Congress for Future Generations (wcffg.org); the Tea Party's voter suppression actions; ATN's Voter Registration Drive (deadline in most states is Oct. 6); poem by Mary Mackey