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The Hanford nuclear site armed the atomic bomb that helped bring an abrupt end to World War II. But the Cold War turned Hanford into a major source of plutonium and of radioactive waste. A quarter-century after the Cold War’s end, Hanford workers continue to trace their health ills to waste-related exposures at the site.

Credits
Producer/Writer: Ken Christensen
Narrator: Ken Christensen
Editors: Ken Christensen, Amy Mahardy
Photography: Ken Christensen
Graphics: Madeleine Pisaneschi
Additional photography: Prelinger Archives, U.S. Department of Energy
Music: Daniel Pemberton, Chris Zabriskie, Bob Holroyd

Giles Hindle introduces applied systems thinking for managers and analysts, focusing on understanding organizations as complex wholes rather than just isolated parts. The video explores practical tools like rich pictures and the viable system model to foster experiential learning and improved decision-making.

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]]> https://oneearth.university/a-path-of-beautiful-questions/ Mon, 18 Aug 2025 07:56:27 +0000 https://oneearth.university/?p=10648 Read MoreA Path of Beautiful Questions
~~~PDF File — Use back arrow on browser to exit reader]]> What new developments might emerge if we shifted
our vocabulary of the spiritual life from answers to questions?

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]]> https://oneearth.university/reason-and-revolution-from-a-piagetian-perspective/ Tue, 08 Jul 2025 21:45:10 +0000 https://oneearth.university/?p=10642 Read MoreReason and Revolution from a Piagetian Perspective]]> July 8, 2025  — Replublished as a way of remembering
the many conversations I had with Joanna Macy about
the quest for a few that would actually express our predicament.

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To my friends around the world,

I am holding all us anti-nuclear activists in the Light 
as Joanna nears the end of her physical time with us, and
as we give thanks for her life and teachings.

I wanted you to see attached PDF featuring my new Hobbit
avatar & nom de plume,  Bleep Bloggins,     This article 
is one of the ways I understand my own grief, and in a
larger sense, my own life and my relationship with Joanna.

Reason and Revolution from a Piagetian Perspective:
How the Emerging Thinking Capacities of Young People
Collide with the Self-deceptions of the Society Around Them

https://OneEarth.University/wp-content/uploads/Reason-and-Revolution-from-a-Piagetian-Perspective-rev2.pdf

Perhaps this is also one of the elements in teen suicide
and adult drug addiction. People are driven mad by
the things they can’t allow themselves to see, to say, 
and to feel.  Joanna did all three, and allowed everyone
around her to do all three:  see it, say it, and feel it,
empowered by a compassion that reached further 
than we could know.

One of the deep topics I began to explore in my long
friendship/apprenticeship with Joanna was that
our grief for world was not something that we were
going to “work through” (in psychotherapy terms).
It was much more something that we were going 
to need to learn to live with, and carry more gracefully.
The wreck of the planet at the hands of runaway greed
is an ongoing process.  We will never be happy 
about it. A major way of “living with” would be to 
consciously cultivate more gratitude, (a theme that 
occurs in many teachings).  The more gratitude we
could cultivate, the more grief we could carry
without collapsing.  

Another important process would be to unmask 
the lies, so that we could struggle against them 
consciously, rather than have those lies drag us
into depression from hidden places in the psyche.
This to me is the meaning of Joanna’s Truth Circle 
exercise. Facing the truth so often means 
unmasking the hidden lies, even though most of us 
would prefer not to be in a giant fight about these things
(war, slavery, ecological suicide) with half  or two 
thirds of the world around us.   

Darn!   But, this is the truth of my situation, and 
Joanna has been a true friend on this difficult road.

Love and blessings,

Dennis]]> https://oneearth.university/vandana-shiva-talk-creating-a-sustainable-future-2005/ Wed, 23 Apr 2025 16:16:33 +0000 https://oneearth.university/?p=10608 Read MoreDr. Vandana Shiva speaking on “Creating a Sustainable Future” — 2005]]>

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Dr. Vandana Shiva speaking on “Creating a Sustainable Future” 
to audience of college and university student activists in 2005
(streaming audio courtesy of the Institute for Reverential Ecology — 40 min.)

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About Dr. Vandana Shiva (from https://navdanyainternational.org)

Vandana Shiva, a world-renowned environmental thinker, activist, feminist, philosopher of science, writer and science policy advocat, is the founder of Navdanya Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology (India) and President of Navdanya International. Trained as a Physicist at the University of Punjab, she completed her Ph.D. on the ‘Hidden Variables and Non-locality in Quantum Theory’ from the University of Western Ontario, Canada. She later shifted to inter-disciplinary research in science, technology and environmental policy, which she carried out at the Indian Institute of Science and the Indian Institute of Management in Bangalore, India. In 1982 she founded the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology (RFSTE), an independent research institute that addresses the most significant problems of ecology of our times, and two years later, Navdanya (‘nine seeds’) the movement in defense of biodiversity and small farmers.

In 2011 she founded Navdanya International in Italy and is Chairman of the International Commission on the Future of Food and Agriculture, co-founded with the then President of the Region of Tuscany.  Recipient of many awards, including in 1993 the Right Livelihood Award, also known as the ‘Alternative Nobel Prize’, and named among the top five “Most Important People in Asia” by AsiaWeek in 2001. Shes is a prolific writer and author of numerous books and serves on the board of the International Forum on Globalization, and member of the executive committee of the World Future Council.

 

]]> https://oneearth.university/frances-moore-lappe-speaking-on-hopes-edge-2005/ Wed, 23 Apr 2025 15:12:55 +0000 https://oneearth.university/?p=10591 Read MoreFrances Moore Lappé speaking on “Hope’s Edge” — 2005]]>

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Frances Moore Lappé speaking on “Hope’s Edge” 
to audience of college and university student activists in 2005
(streaming audio courtesy of the Institute for Reverential Ecology — 40 min.)

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About Frances Moore Lappé (from https://www.smallplanet.org/)

Frances Moore Lappé is the author or co-author of 20 books, many focusing on themes of “living democracy”—suggesting not only a government accountable to citizens but a way of living aligned with the deep human need for connection, meaning, and power. She has received 20 honorary doctorates from distinguished institutions across the country, mostly recently Indiana University in 2021.

Her first book, the 1971 Diet for a Small Planet, has sold over three million copies. Its 50th- anniversary edition was released in 2021 with features in The New York Times, Boston Globe, and other major outlets. In 2019, The New York Times Magazine interview with Frances began: “Frances Moore Lappé changed how we eat. She wants to do the same for our democracy.”

Her most recent publication, Crisis of Trust: How Can Democracies Protect Against Dangerous Lies (2023), dives into the roots of the American disinformation crisis and shares lessons from democracies leading the fight to combat harmful lies and promote truth.

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