by Synergetic Press | February 25, 2016 | Sustainability & Ecology
Tony Juniper was interviewed for Forbes by John Converse Townsend to talk about about climate change, sustainability, and how nature is actually the basis of economic activity. Here are a few of the responses that Tony gave, and you can read the full interview here....
by Synergetic Press | December 21, 2015 | Sustainability & Ecology
David Suzuki called the UN Paris agreement a milestone in the Anthropocene Era, and an indication that “the Age of Humans won’t necessarily lead to an age of destruction.” (The Guardian) While I’m as optimistic as they come, it’s clear that humanity needs...
by Synergetic Press | November 18, 2015 | Consciousness & Psychedelics, Fiction, Poetry & Art
The world has lost a leading visionary artist in Paul Laffoley, who passed away on November 16th, 2015. His paintings featured mandala-like imagery, making heavy use of text and trans-disciplinary symbolic elements. His architectural background comes through in his...
by Synergetic Press | October 7, 2015 | Sustainability & Ecology
In the following video, John Allen, inventor, conceiver and co-founder of the Biosphere 2 project, describes the interconnection among all of the systems of life on Earth, how humans have been altering these processes, and how exploring and studying these systems with...
by Synergetic Press | July 30, 2015 | Present & Past Events
Join Mark Nelson, PhD, for a signing of his award-winning book, The Wastewater Gardener: Preserving the Planet One Flush at a Time. Mark your calendars to join Mark on August 9th at Bookworks, a locally-owned and operated independent bookstore in Albuquerque to get...
by Synergetic Press | July 28, 2015 | Sustainability & Ecology
Tony Juniper originally wrote this article for the Winter 2014 issue of YES! Magazine. Those who fail to learn from history are destined to repeat it, goes the saying. While there are few historical parallels to the existential threat posed by climate change, there is...
by Mitch Mignano | June 27, 2015 | Consciousness & Psychedelics
How did the leaders of the American Buddhist community find their way to spiritual practice? And why does sacred and tribal art look so, well. . . psychedelic? These were a few of the topics discussed at the Rubin Museum’s book launch event for the new,...
by Synergetic Press | June 18, 2015 | Sustainability & Ecology
The Anthropocene: The Human Era and How It Shapes Our Planet by Christian Schwagerl (Synergetic Press) Woe is Earth. Drilled silly, dumped on, farmed out, fished out, and cloaked in a burka of carbon—who does the planet have to thank for this dire state of affairs?...
by Jana Drakka | June 12, 2015 | Consciousness & Psychedelics
Every moment of every day we ritualize ourselves, busily re-creating that which we believe ourselves to be. Everything we are is a habit learnt from the past. Beyond the functioning of the autonomic nervous system (our lungs breathe, our heart beats its own rhythms),...
by Synergetic Press | May 3, 2015 | Releases & Announcements
On April 25th, 2015 Nepal was struck by the most powerful quake the country has experienced in 80 years, 7.8 magnitude. The epicenter was just 50 miles west of Kathmandu, and devastated much of the city with death tolls in the thousands and many still missing. We send...