It has now become clearer to me than ever before that the challenge confronting the world is to find innovative forms of verbal and written communication to enable us to resolve disputes nonviolently.
Nature is seeking to redress a balance that human effort and technology has consistently violated. She will continue to do so until we either change our ways or face the intensifying devastation of our modern way of life.
The evidence gathered over centuries of disasters, natural and man-made, is overwhelming. The vast majority of people, when a disaster hits, behave in the aftermath as altruists.
As close readers of this blog might recall, last summer President Obama took a meeting with Mephistopheles - the representative of the Devil - for o...
While it might seem like the more organizations helping the better, it's not actually true.
Animals left in the wake of a natural disaster need your help! Left without their owners, food, shelter, or medical attention many could die.
The world's third largest economy suffers a giant earthquake. A civil war in Libya and tumult in the Middle East cause crude-oil prices to climb. Poor harvests around the world make food prices soar. And Washington is doing nothing.
The Climate Post Offers a Rundown of the Week in Climate and Energy News Last Friday, Japan was rocked by a magnitude 9.0 quake--its most powerful ea...
If you've been traumatized, either in person or by watching it on TV, what can you do to release the effects from your system?
Japan's first week of this crisis has revealed to the world what many Japan watchers have known for many years -- that it was woefully unprepared to deal with an inevitable severe earthquake and its repercussions.
As I watch these dramas unfold, I am struck once again by the strength and fragility of our human life. If we do not understand the one, we will not truly understand the other.
In the face of disaster in Japan, can we stop our fearful thoughts? Can we even go a step further and maintain a calm state of mind that breeds more calm?
There is no question that the devastation caused by the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear accidents in Japan, already estimated at $180 billion, will ge...
Long before the disasters at Chernobyl or Three Mile Island, nutritional scientists, environmental groups and public health educators including proponents of the macrobiotic approach to diet and way of life sat down to discuss what actions one should take in the event of a nuclear attack or accident.
We are truly learning an enormous cosmic truth: We are one. And we are meant to use that truth to pray together, heal our fellow human beings together and heal our beloved Earth together.
Of the reactors in the U.S., about one third of them are boiling water reactors, using the same technology as the Fukushima Daiichi reactor in Japan.