the MINDFUL SOCIETY

From health care to education, music to law, police work to the environment, we have the latest developments on how people are working to move our society in the direction of greater mindfulness, awareness, and caring for each other.

In a powerful autobiographical essay, the poet, sage, and environmentalist Gary Snyder traces his lifelong commitment to the environment and calls on all creative people to rise in its defense.

bell hooks explains how Martin Luther King’s vision of life based on a love ethic could heal our world. Hear more about improving our lives: livestream of Creating a Mindful Society.

Dana Fleur talks to Madeline Bruser, author of The Art of Practicing: A Guide to Making Music from the Heart.

Gratitude for this beautiful, self-organizing universe where we live, says Joanna Macy, author of World as Lover, World as Self, is the foundation of environmental responsibility.

Have we chosen numbness over social and political involvement? Author Margaret Wheatley on silence as a choice, and the cost of not speaking up.