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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Foreword by Caroline Myss
Introduction
Part 1: We Snooze. We Lose.
Chapter 1: Understanding What We’re Made Of
A Stroke of Good Fortune
Our Spiritual Skeleton
Why the First Chakra Is Important
The Earth Is an Energy Being Too
Our Common Immune System
Nature as the Cure to Our Disconnection
A Marriage Made in Heaven
How We Start Healing
Chapter 2: The Bed We Have Made
The Microcosm of Us
New Orleans PK
The Widening Impact of Global Warming
Drying Up—Our Dwindling Water Resources
The Heat Is On
Saving the Oceans: Earth’s Blue Heart
The Age of Wildfires
Stormy Weather
A Hurricane Cassandra
The Coming of the Whirlwind
Prophets without Honor
The Way We Were
Part 2: Waking Up
Chapter 3: Oil Is One
The Opposite of Nature
Spindletop: The Mother of All Salt Domes
Oil and the Open Road
The Merchants of Light
The Birth of the Energy Age
Changing the Face of War
Fueling the Postwar Boom
Emerging Uncomfortable Trends
The End of Easy Oil
Mining the Deep
Keystone XL: The Real Price of Remote Oil
Boom Times in the Bakken
Gas Fracking: Cracking the World Open
Squeezing Oil from Rocks
Coal: The Eighteenth-Century Ideal
Rainforests, Oil, and the Air We Breathe
Externalities: The Real Cost of Things
Different Kinds of Efficiencies
Seeing Ourselves Anew
Where We Go from Here
Chapter 4: Seeds of Discontent
The Seed Savers
The Seed Safes
The Dangers of Lost Seed Diversity
A Slow Process That Hit the Fast Track
The Seed Changers
The Case of the Unknown Illness
Fail: GMOs Enter the Marketplace
Farmers: GMO Crop Contamination and Farmer Liability
Environment: Frankenfish and Gene Jumping
Us: GM Products We Live with Today
Biotech and Industrial Agriculture Myths
How Did GMOs Get Past the FDA in the First Place?
The Distinction Is the Difference
Public Distrust Is Driving More Openness
The Seed Healers
The Modern Origin of Our Break with Nature
The Cost in Despair
The New Earth Stewards
Part 3: Your Earth Calling
Chapter 5: Reconnecting to the Earth
Stepping into Your Soul’s Journey
Witnessing Yourself: Keeping a Journal
Waking Up: Learning to Look
Your Place on Earth: Seeing Where You Live
Learning Your Bioregion
Waking Up: Learning to Listen
Biodynamics: The Earth’s Healing Power
Findhorn: Mother Nature as Miracle and Mystery
Beginning an Earth-Based Spiritual Practice
Getting Started: Reconnecting to the Earth
Forgiveness Prayer
Chapter 6: The Alchemy of Action
What Moves You?
Start with Dirt
Plant (or Help Tend) a Vegetable or Flower Garden
Plant a Meditation and Healing Garden
Be a Conscious Consumer
Grow Hemp (If It’s Legal)
Getting Started on Your Activism
Earth-Advocacy or Green Organizations
How to Fight Fracking
GMOs and Global Food Security
Healthy Living, Eating, and Gardening Organizations
Ocean Conservation and Action
Offset Your CO2
Repurposing and Design
Seed Saving and Activism
Tree Advocacy Groups
The Act Part of Action
Civil Disobedience: Putting Skin in the Game
Climate Activism
Everything Breathes Together
Bibliography
Notes
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
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