(Community/Courses) Common Earth creates the space for you to have insights that shift your understanding and empower you to leverage your actions through a cross-disciplinary exploration of the root causes of and solutions to the climate crisis.

One way that Common Earth does this is through a series of unique and comprehensive learning programs designed to deepen participants’ understanding of climate and socio-economic issues from a broad perspective, allowing us all to see the interconnection and dependencies of seemingly disparate issues.

(Text) “The Yijing (i-Ching), also known as the Book of Changes, dates back from more than 3,000 years, is one of the oldest and most revered texts in Chinese literature and philosophy. The cosmological philosophy of the Yijing (i-Ching) emphasizes harmony in the universe and understanding the rhythms of change. Its core teaching emphasises that by recognizing patterns and aligning with natural cycles, individuals can navigate life’s challenges with wisdom, confidence, and clarity. This balance between change and constancy is the essence of the I Ching’s timeless wisdom.” -Dr Michael Heng

(Text) The Tao Te Ching describes the Tao as the source and ideal of all existence: it is unseen, but not transcendent, immensely powerful yet supremely humble, being the root of all things. People have desires and free will (and thus are able to alter their own nature). Many act "unnaturally", upsetting the natural balance of the Tao. The Tao Te Ching intends to lead students to a "return" to their natural state, in harmony with Tao.[29] Language and conventional wisdom are critically assessed. Taoism views them as inherently biased and artificial, widely using paradoxes to sharpen the point.[30]

Wu wei, literally 'non-action' or 'not acting', is a central concept of the Tao Te Ching. The concept of wu wei is multifaceted, and reflected in the words' multiple meanings, even in English translation; it can mean "not doing anything", "not forcing", "not acting" in the theatrical sense, "creating nothingness", "acting spontaneously", and "flowing with the moment".

(Text) Robin Wall Kimmerer. Remarks by Dr. Kimmerer on worldview and indigenous scientific perspective in the face of rapid global change. This work represents a core perspective of which we are greatly inspired.

(Text) Hester Baer. Drawing on and contributing to queer theory’s widespread reshaping of modes of inquiry in the humanities, queer ecology calls into question what is understood as ‘natural,’ including ideas, practices, bodies, landscapes, and temporalities, and in so doing opens up new ways of conceptualizing the interrelationship of organisms and their environments.

(Text) Intro to Symbiotic evolution with microbes and the work of Lynn Margulis

“One theory of evolution is that selection occurs through genetic variation within collective groups of organisms (e.g. an animal and its microbes)”

(Text) Walter Russell. This text was considered by Nikola Tesla as “the revelation of this age” and recognized by many in Quantum studies. “An exact science of the One visible and invisible universe of Mind and the registration of all idea of thinking Mind in light, which is matter and also energy”