Welcome, Wild Times: Conversation with Resilience Leaders in the Global South
Join Host Michael Lerner in conversation with Manisha Gupta from Start Up! in India in part 2 of our series talking with the co-creators of Commonweal’s Omega Resilience Awards global resilience community.
What Does Love Have To Do With It? Bringing Mystery to Peacebuilding, Part 1
In this series, join Host Serena Bian in speaking with those who bear witness to the best and worst of humanity, holding a courageous moral imagination. Working and witnessing the front lines of injustice, war, climate change, these peacebuilders, mystics, and storytellers hold space for the miraculous to emerge, refusing to be bound by a perceived reality of “what is possible.”
Welcome, Wild Times: Conversation with Resilience Leaders in the Global South
Join Host Michael Lerner in conversation with Nnimmo Bassey from Health of Mother Earth Foundation in Nigeria, in part 1 of our series talking with the co-creators Commonweal’s Omega Resilience Awards global resilience community.
Living by Poems
Join Host Michael Lerner for a reading and conversation with poet Jane Hirshfield, a lay-ordained practitioner of Soto Zen.
Writing as Legacy: What Do We Leave in the Earth for the Future to Find?
Join Michael Lerner in conversation with storyteller and storycatcher Christina Baldwin, talking about Christina’s lifework and her beautiful forthcoming novel The Beekeeper’s Question, which chronicles life and the social issues stirred on the Homefront during World War II.
CHE Café: Petroleum 238: A 7-Year Investigation of Oilfield Radioactivity
In this CHE Café discussion, join Host Kristin Schafer to explore the topic of toxic byproducts of the gas and oil industry with author Justin Noble, Dr. Larysa Dyrszka, and James Brugh, a tribal member of Fort Berthold in western North Dakota.
CHE Café: Multisolving for Climate, Chemicals, and Health
Join Host Kristin Schafer with biologist and systems thinker Dr. Elizabeth Sawin and chemicals expert and clean production advocate Beverley Thorpe as they explore opportunities to prioritize solutions that concurrently address climate change and the global crisis of chemical contamination—while also improving public health, equity, and economic vitality.
Rejoice! Our Times Are Intolerable
Join Host Michael Lerner for a reading and conversation with writer, educator, conservationist, and activist Terry Tempest Williams about her extraordinary journey navigating grief and loss, about her life and work, and about the hope she holds for our world.
Rising to the Occasion: Practical Hope in a Global Polycrisis
Host Michael Lerner joins Commonweal board member Katherine Fulton in conversation with Graham Leicester, who has pioneered new ways to navigate and even thrive in this complex era.