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As we salute the setting sun and celebrate winter’s dark return this solstice season in the northern hemisphere may we clear our minds of that which no longer serves, awaken our souls to our naturally intelligent selves, re-direct our passion and purpose true north, and warm our hearts with renewed hope for a new spring.
To live is to breathe. And to breathe is to participate in the energetic flow of all life, giving and receiving, generations forward and generations past. No one rose root, fire ant, newborn child, chirping tree frog, or giant sequoia tree branch exists in isolation from anything else– at any level from a microscopic cell to the macrocosmic universe within which we all dwell.
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Naturally Intelligent Wildlife Wisdom Series Featured Animal: Peregrine Falcon Latin Name: Falco peregrinus Thank you for joining our Wildlife Wisdom audio recordings. These recordings feature animals from our Nature Sanctuary. Each recording illuminates the...
Tree’s Truth- Optimize Energy
The Tree's Truth: Lesson Four Conserve and Optimize Energy and Resources Not only does the forest operate on the principle of abundance for all and communal resource sharing to maintain health and vitality; the forest has also evolved since Devonian days to...
Tree’s Truth-Network Share
The Tree's Truth: Lesson Three Network, Share, and Protect Our Common Forest In my recent NIW interview with Peter Seligmann (CEO of Nia Tero, Board Chair for Conservation International), I had an epiphany when I heard him speak about the difference in...
Tree’s Truth- Defy Fear
The Tree's Truth: Lesson Two Defy Fear, Grow Against Gravity When a tree breathes, it absorbs oxygen and respires also carbon dioxide just like us. The process of respiration releases also vaporized water into the atmosphere from the highly sophisticated,...
Tree’s Truth Breathe
The Tree's Truth: Lesson One Learn to Breathe During the epic firestorm that besieged the Amazon and Australia this past year; we often referred to the forests as the lungs of the planet. As these forests burned and torched 10’s of 1000’s of hectares of...
Tree’s Truth
The Tree's Truth What We can Learn from Being Still Suffering the locked down blues in your home? You are not alone. Longing too for the moments when you felt the freedom, power and pulse of the planet in the mountains, the oak woodlands, the savannahs, and...
Chaos
Chaos: Riding the Tide of COVID-19 Seven Great BenefitsTake close look at this Chinese/ Japanese Kanji symbol for chaos. Doesn’t it look like a surfer dude, knees bent, arms out for balance, riding a wave? Yes, the Covid-19 pandemic is a big wave. Yes, you can...
Grounded: Corona Virus Good News
Grounded: Corona Virus Good News For Global Citizens As literally 1000’s of airplanes are grounded in an unprecedented effort to mitigate the spread (notice how I didn’t say, contain- seemingly impossible now with cases reported-and many more unreported/latent...
Gratitude
Embracing an Attitude of Gratitude The Secret to Greater Peace The wind was rich, smooth, peaceful, and inviting. We launched our paragliders from one of our favorite mountains in northern California and cruised over the giant coastal redwoods, winding left...
All the Difference in Davos 2020
All the Difference in Davos 2020 How Our World and World Leaders are Rapidly Changing It made all the difference to have at the heart of the 50th Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) a revitalization of the WEF’s Global Manifesto — and a...
Globalization 4.0: Valuing our Shared Humanity and Our Common Home- Part III
Our Nature Reality: Current State of the Biosphere The Biosphere Under Stress Every ecosystem on earth is under stress and individual species are adapting, migrating, or disappearing… permanently. The WWF 2018 Living Planet Report shows that the size of vertebrate...
Globalization 4.0- A Revelation in Natural Intelligence- Part II
Part II: Our Humbling Present and Our Desire to Shape a New Architecture for the Future Our Humbling Present: It is terrifying. In prehistoric times, we transcended nature’s biological checks and hunted large...
Re-imagining Global Influence and Impact
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times... It was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness...” This opening of Charles Dicken’s...
Globalization 4.0- A Revelation in Natural Intelligence- Part I
Part I: Our Past: From Eco-Earth Dwellers to Incredible Eco-Systemic Biosphere Destroyers As Yuval Noah Harari writes in his book, Sapiens, our genus Homo (humanoids) survived for 2 million years as mid-range predators among a number of other large mammals who roamed...
Dreamscape Immersive
FLASH ALERT: Premiere at Westfield Mall in LA Dreamscape premiered it's first title VR experiences at Westfield Mall in Beverly Hills, California this past weekend to a sold out crowd. Congratulations Bruce and the Dreamscape team!!! All your hard work paid...
Paradise Lost- California’s Fires, Burning
Historic, record-breaking fires swept through the State of California this weekend… and our new Governor Gavin Newsom announced, California in a state of emergency. Just as we dodged 1 bullet days earlier in the midterm elections, and reclaimed the House in DC…...
Surviving The Next Century – Part II
Building World Trust- A Revolution in Collaboration for Action is Underway So what are we doing to build world trust? The good news is that even though the scale, complexity, and threat of our climate-resource challenge is real and scary; we are naturally...
Surviving the Next Century Part I
Doubling Down on Global Climate Action (Featured in Thrive Global) Catherine Cunningham, PhD, Mission Possible: Awaken Natural Intelligence in Our World Title Image: Dr. Johan Rockstrom at the Global Climate Action Summit 2018 in San Francisco, Launching the...
Celebrating All Mothers and Nurturers Life- Part III Our Earth as Mother of Humanity and Nurturer of Life
In the end, it always comes down to earth… and for us-- as the family of life on earth and as a human species within that family; it is time for us to come down to earth, too. It's time for humanity to honor and to respect, and to do what we can to protect— the...
Celebrating All Mothers and Nurturers Life- Part II What Evolutionary Biology Can Teach Us About The Vital Importance of Our Biogenetic Ancestors as Nurturers of Humanity and Life
Since we’ve now blown the box top off of our definition of motherhood for humanity by including women of earth; why not light up the sides and expand our perception in another direction!? We’ve reflected on origin-of-life narratives to drive our expanded view of...
Celebrating All Mothers and Nurturers Life- Part I
What Origin of Life Research Can Teach Us About The Vital Importance of Women of the Earth in the Survival and Thrival of our Human Species An Ode to Mothers Everywhere A week ago Sunday we celebrated our mothers everywhere as the carriers of life and the bearers of...
Reunion Re-Tuning Our Naturally Intelligent Innate Self and Reuniting with our True Tribe
In Reunion, the prefix “re” (Re = Egyptian god of light) infers that there was once an inherent union (a singular bright light), then a separation, followed again by a union. I love applying the concept of Reunion to our global society, as it gives me hope...
Scent of a Woman; Scent of a Man–Our Naturally Intelligent Fragrant Future
As the perfumed scent of date night this Valentine’s Day still lingers in your heart and mind…and maybe also in your date night dress; you may be contemplating with a smile on your face, just how it is that the special scent of your partner- woman or man, could leave...
Wellness in the Workplace
The cultural meme and theme @CES2018 was #Whoa!!! Indeed, Whoa- Look at all the cool technology. Whoa-check out the lightning speed at which these innovative ideas seem to be traveling and disrupting one another across the IT marketplace. Whoa-How extraordinary that...
A Reflection on Artificial Intelligence
A Reflection on AI in Life and the Workplace There is no question that businesses are evolving their companies with a firm focus on integrating Artificial Intelligence more significantly and universally into the core operations and workflow of their departments,...
The “Why” of Natural Intelligence by Design
Why “Naturally Intelligent by Design”? Why this book? Why now? The "Naturally Intelligent by Design" book is important because we live on a beautiful, diverse, culturally and ecologically rich planet, Earth. But for most of us, this is NOT our lived experience on...
Life Begets Life: Future Vision & Regeneration in the Middle East
It was twilight in my garden when Fire first struck up a conversation with me. She was bragging about her power to rapidly recycle life, to instantly decompose dry wood to ashen dust. Beautiful, wild, and alluring as she was, I feared her. I feared her not because she...
Reflections on COP 21: Part III
Hello. My name is Amber. You know… that magic light at dawn and dusk; that torch pine perfume; that healing medicine? Yes, that’s me… sometimes also called cruel ancient sap, famous for entombing prehistoric insects! Take me on the Hero Journey to become a Nature...
Reflections on COP 21: Part II
Hello. My name is Amber. You know… that magic light at dawn and dusk; that torch pine perfume; that healing medicine? Yes, that’s me… sometimes also called cruel ancient sap, famous for entombing prehistoric insects! Take me on the Hero Journey to become a Nature...
Reflections on COP 21: Part I
Hello. My name is Amber. You know… that magic light at dawn and dusk; that torch pine perfume; that healing medicine? Yes, that’s me… sometimes also called cruel ancient sap, famous for entombing prehistoric insects! Take me on the Hero Journey to become a Nature...
The Road To and Through Paris COP 21
Hello. My name is Amber. You know… that magic light at dawn and dusk; that torch pine perfume; that healing medicine? Yes, that’s me… sometimes also called cruel ancient sap, famous for entombing prehistoric insects! Take me on the Hero Journey to become a Nature...
Pope Francis Delivers the Naturally Intelligent Message to the UN
POPE FRANCIS DELIVERS THE NATURALLY INTELLIGENT MESSAGE Human + Nature Moral Agenda to the UN General Assembly Hello. My name is Amber. You know… that magic light at dawn and dusk; that torch pine perfume; that healing medicine? Yes, that’s me… sometimes also called...