CHE Café: How States Can Lead on Environmental Health
Join Host Kristin Schafer for a conversation with Susan Kaplan, an environmental health lawyer and professor, and Sarah Doll, longtime leader of the Safer States coalition, for a discussion on rollbacks in federal regulation of chemicals and how the potential for state action offers hope.
A Terrapsychological Glance at Bolinas, California
In this playful terrapsychological exploration of Bolinas, California, Summer 2025 Visiting Scholar Craig Chalquist exemplifies how his worldview brings the land around us to life, affecting our decisions, thoughts, and our relationship with the land itself.
A Call for an Earth-Honoring Worldview
In this concluding article, Summer 2025 Visiting Scholar Craig Chalquist summarizes his residency experience, which exemplified for him how imaginative modes of consciousness allow us to perceive places, beings, buildings, and the elements, normally considered mute objects, as speaking presences, and how tending the living presence of place helps assemble a worldview that centers Earth, humaneness, justice, equity, reenchantment, participation, and imagination.
Invitation to Land All Around Us
In this invitation to Land All around Us, Summer 2025 Visiting Scholar Craig Chalquist invites us to join him as he embarks on his residency. In his worldview, imagination, story, and creativity let us tune in on a Greater Conversation unfolding continually within us and with the land around us. He asks: How are we called to respond deeply and soulfully to our turbulent time? Might that response include joining others to weave into being a new worldview?
There Is a Field
In this concluding article from 2025 Visiting Scholar Jeanine M. Canty, Jeanine summarizes the synchronicities that happened during her residency, giving examples of how living in relationship with the phenomenal and transpersonal worlds allows for harmonious relationship with our more earth-based selves.
Invitation to Reclaiming Wildness
In this invitation to Finding Wildness, 2025 Visiting Scholar Jeanine M. Canty invites us to join her as she embarks on her residency. She offers a framework for her worldview, some of the projects she brought with her, and what she hoped to find during her residency.
Opening the Channels: The Medicine of Nature
We are living in times of great change. Many of us are holding a vision, carrying the seeds, and tending the soil of a regenerative future on this beautiful Earth. The Commonweal Garden is a place where the vision of this regenerative future has long been tended. Join Anna O’Malley, physician-healer, lover of nature, and […]
Beyond Survival: Sustaining Human Agency in Challenging Times
Join Commonweal Board Chair Katherine Fulton and Executive Director Oren Slozberg for a conversation with Graham Leicester, founder of International Futures Forum, to explore how we respond to the polycrisis in “a world we do not understand and cannot control.”
Narrative, Resilience, and Social Change
Join Host Susan Grelock-Yusem for a conversation with ORA Researchers Susan James and Urmitapa Dutta to explore the question: How do we respond to these times—not just through individual stories, but through the larger work of changing our collective narratives?