Each of us has the ability to act powerfully for change; together we can restore that ancient and sustaining harmony.

We all live downstream

Most North Americans know that human-caused global warming is real, even if political leaders don't always reflect or act on that knowledge.

There are some things in the world we can't change- gravity, entropy, the speed of light, and our biological nature that requires clean air, clean water, clean soil, clean energy and biodiversity for our health and well-being. Protecting the biosphere should be our highest priority or else we sicken and die. Other things, like capitalism, free enterprise, the economy, currency, the market, are not forces of nature, we invented them. They are not immutable and we can change them. It makes no sense to elevate economics above the biosphere.

So now the challenge is to imagine a different world where our wealth is in human relations and the things we do together, and we learn to live in balance with the rest of nature.

The one thing I feel is very hopeful, however, is the overwhelming participation of women in the movement for change.

Change is never easy, and it often creates discord, but when people come together for the good of humanity and the Earth, we can accomplish great things.