PART 1: THE ALPHABET VS. THE GODDESS – HOW THE TECHNOLOGY OF IMAGES IS FEMINIZING THE PLANET AND RESTORING THE ENVIRONMENT
Is it just a coincidence that the wholesale destruction of the environment paralleled the decline of Goddess-worshipping cultures and the traditional power of women in society? Author and surgeon Leonard Shlain provocatively attributes both to the rise of alphabetic literacy. Buy It!
PART 2: ECOLOGICAL MEDICINE – HEALING HEALTH CARE
Did medicine’s separation from nature propel our health care system into its current crisis? Join Dr. Andrew Weil and nurse and health activist Charlotte Brody as they describe how Ecological Medicine reunites the interdependence of medicine and nature, and restores the feminine principle in healing. Buy It!
PART 3: ECOLOGICAL DESIGN – THE ARCHITECTURE OF NATURE AND DEMOCRACY
John Todd, an ecological designer in the field of biomimicry, imitates nature’s evolutionary genius to serve human ends harmlessly by using nature’s processes as the design for buildings, technologies and practical solutions to environmental devastation. Educator David Orr suggests that true ecological design can take place only in a society willing to ask, "How would nature do it?" Buy It!
PART 4: ORGANIC AND BEYOND – TOWARD THE DE-INDUSTRIALIZATION OF AGRICULTURE
The biology of farming is complex and requires attentiveness to nature’s own ways of doing things, characterized by interdependence of relationships. Author and attorney Andrew Kimbrell is leading the Organic and Beyond Movement—a food revolution that offers health and food security for future generations and rejects the destructive industrial food production model. Buy It!
PART 5: THE TROJAN GENE – GENETIC ENGINEERING AND THE FUTURE OF NATURE
A handful of profit-driven biotechnology corporations are rewriting the genetic code of the tree of life, radically altering the composition of our food and releasing self-replicating genetic pollution into the natural world. Farmer Percy Schmeiser, technology expert Andrew Kimbrell, and Native American professor and farmer John Mohawk explore the implications of genetic engineering on the food we eat, the farmers who raise our food, the natural world and society. Buy It!
PART 6: THE ART OF RELATIONSHIPS – FROM ECOLOGY TO HEALING
Ecology is the superb art of interdependent relationships. Author and physicist Fritjof Capra, Native American educator Jeannette Armstrong, and medical researcher Jeanne Achterberg describe the complex and interconnected relationships inherent in living systems that can help heal our environment, our societies, and us. Buy It!
PART 7: WHO'S IN CHARGE? HOW COMMUNITIES ARE OUTLAWING CORPORATE FACTORY FARMING
Why can powerful corporations legally pollute communities and override local decision making? Attorney Tom Linzey is working to restore democracy by challenging the underlying laws and assumptions that give corporations civil rights without civil responsibilities. Buy It!
PART 8: RACE AND PLACE – A BIRTHRIGHT TO CREATION
It’s a fact of life that communities of color and low-income communities suffer the worst environmental damage. Urban planner Greg Watson, physician Martha Arguello, and activist and scholar Carl Anthony show how these communities have found practical ways to reclaim the health and well-being of both their places and their health.
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PART 9: PEACE MEANS COMING BACK TO THE TABLE – TRANSFORMING URBAN WAR ZONES
War is a daily reality for many people living in the inner city, and restoring the environment starts by first restoring people. Aqeela Sherrills from Watts in South Central Los Angeles, who brokered the historic peace treaty between the notorious gangs the Crips and the Bloods, sees that model now spreading across the country and the world.
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PART 10: RESTORING LIFE'S FABRIC – THE BIOLOGICAL BOTTOM LINE
Is the economy the most important thing? Canadian geneticist, author, and television producer David Suzuki says the economy is just a subset of ecology. Drawing on native wisdom and state-of-the-art science, he vividly demonstrates that what we do to what surrounds us, we do to ourselves, and suggests how to restore the fabric of the biosphere. Buy It!
PART 11: RETURNING TO THE ROUNDHOUSE – REVOLUTION FROM THE HEART OF WOMAN
The environment in developing countries of the South has often suffered most, and how these nations relate to the environment from here on is a make-it-or break-it factor in planetary survival for all of us. Ethiopian visionary Bogaletch Gebre depicts how the interconnecting forces of environment, economy, women, health and ecological technologies are creating a future environment of hope. Buy It!
PART 12: INDIGENEITY – BECOMING NATIVE, STAYING NATIVE
What would life be like if we could hear the land ask us to be a certain way, a way that leads us and the Earth back to wholeness and health? Native American activists, educators, and leaders Jeannette Armstrong,Leslie Gray, and Katsi Cook share an inspiring earth honoring vision of what it means to "re-indigenize" ourselves. Buy It!
PART 13: THE END OF SUSTAINABILITY – THE ENVIRONMENT AS A HUMAN RIGHT
A healthy environment is not just a biological issue, but also a fundamental human right. Acclaimed social entrepreneur and author Paul Hawken proposes that we need to go far beyond "sustainability" as a guiding principle and dare to create a restorative economic system founded in social equity and power for all. Buy It!
