Gem Andrews is born & raised in Northeast England, around Liverpool, so it was a bit of a surprise to find that the beautiful music she makes owes much to Americana and Alt-country influences. All the more since she's spent the last few years in Berlin, Germany. Honesty, vulnerability, and twang come powerfully through Gem's music.
Our ways of thinking about the Earth, and our place in it, produce radically different outcomes for life on the planet, including a possible ecological crash for humanity and many other species. Changing those ways of thinking will be central to a better future, which led Jeremy Lent, author, integrator, and founder of The Liology Institute, to shine a light on our journey, of thought & action in his profound new book is The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity's Search for Meaning. This is the last in a 3-part series.
Past/current religious/spiritual influences:
Buddhism, Earth-Based Spirituality, Jewish, Taoist
All Featured Music:
Creation Is Laughing - by Carol Johnson
In searching for the why of what we need to do to have a sustainable world, we need to sort out our connection to the Earth, and Jeremy Lent, author, integrator, and founder of The Liology Institute, does that in his amazing new book is The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity's Search for Meaning. This is part 2 of a 3-part series.
Past/current religious/spiritual influences:
Buddhism, Earth-Based Spirituality, Jewish, Taoist
All Featured Music:
We Belong to the Earth - by Magpie
Swimming to the Other Side - by Magpie
BONUS: Earth Anthem - by The Turtles
The Minnesota Music Coalition is a statewide network of artists, industry professionals and music supporters who care about creating and sustaining a vibrant popular music community. Ellen Stanley, aka Mother Banjo, is their executive director and shares samples of the wonderful work & music across genres from the coalition.
Jeremy Lent, has an MBA, is an author, integrator, and founder of The Liology Institute. His amazing new book is The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity's Search for Meaning, which is all about understanding and leveraging humanity's fundamental drives toward sustainability of our species and the planet.
Past/current religious/spiritual influences:
Buddhism, Earth-Based Spirituality, Jewish, Taoist
Diane Patterson takes us on an odyssey of spirit-based music, close to the Earth. From moon lodge to addiction healing to holy rains to long roads, Diane sings evocatively of the power to change and be changed.
Day Zero is coming to Cape Town, South Africa. What happens when a city of four million people runs out of water? Our host, Peterson Toscano, chats with two Cape Town residents, Helen Moffett and Judy Abrahams. Together they explore "Day Zero," the day when their city will turn off the water to the taps.
On this Spirit in Action, we'll get past propaganda and agendas by sharing first-hand Israeli & Palestinian stories of the Occupation. Lucy Duncan of the AFSC's Friends Engage program, who is on the steering committee of the Quaker Palestine Israel Network, guides sharing by Dalit Baum, an Israeli Jew who started the on-line resource Investigate and is co-founder of WhoProfits.org; and Sandra Tamari, a first-generation US Palestinian who currently works with the Adalah Justice Project on Arab minority rights in Israel and has worked for years with the St. Louis Palestinian Committee and the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights.
Charlie Parr is a singer/songwriter dynamo, touring constantly & widely, sharing his down-home music of the American country blues genres. For a person who battles constantly with depression, his music is powerfully enlivening, played on either his 12-string or resonator guitars, or sometimes on his banjo. A life-long Minnesotan, Duluth is his occasional refuge from the road.
A key element to changing the world is having a voice, and that is what Jim Page provides for a wide variety of Peace & Justice efforts, using his bully pulpit to call for free speech, freedom from corporate tyranny, and much more. Since the 1970's Jim has broadcast the message loud and clear from ground zero in Seattle, WA.
Past/current religious/spiritual influences:
12 Step Community, Catholic Worker, Socialism, Zen Buddhism
All Featured Music is by Jim Page:
Whose World Is This - from Whose World Is This
Didn't We - from Music from Big Red
Over My Dead Body - from Ghost Bikes
The Great Stone Wall - from Collateral Damage