Living Earth Archive
A documentary history of Living Earth Activities
This inventory of pages from our archives contains documents that have appeared on our website over the past few years, announcements and descriptions of events, community discussion groups, retreats and public forums that Living Earth has offered to our community in order to inform, support and empower us all to take the steps needed to create deep personal and cultural change.
We hope the links to to our events provide you with a documentary history of Living Earth as well as a taste of our commitment to deep cultural change. We urge you to join us!
Writings by Betsy Toll
Essays, Commentary, Reports
- Evo Morales, I Believe Only in the Power of the People; Inaugural Address [pdf] [word]
- David Korten, Living Economies, Vibrant Communities [pdf] [word]
- David Korten, Renewing the American Experiment
- C.A. Bowers, On the Misuse of Our Political Language
- Wendell Berry, A Citizen's Response: National Security Strategy
- Margaret J. Wheatley, From Hope to Hopelessness
- Kelpie Wilson, A Virtual Ecotopia
- Ronnie Dugger, Let's Act in the Democratic Emergency
Living Earth Events
First Friday Community Potluck
Brief introduction to topics discussed
- Permaculture and Post-Carbon Social Ecology
- Public Power: Power to the People!
- Creating Democracy: Citizen Deliberative Councils
- Creating Alternatives to Empire
- The Politics of Food
- Climate Change
- Cultural Shifts: Doing and Being
- Looking to Findhorn: Creating Community
- Hijacking America
- Cultivating non-violence in speech and action
Public Talks, Discussion Groups, Actions and Forums
- Powerdown: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World
- Matters of Conscience and War. A Public Forum with Kim Stafford and others
- Taking Heart: An evening with Joanna Macy
- Impacts of War: a Public Forum
- Creating Democracy
- Citizen's Dissent: Book Discussion