The Earth and Spirit Podcast fosters engaging conversations with change-makers working at the intersection of meditative spiritual practice, ecology, and social healing.

The Earth and Spirit Podcast fosters engaging conversations with change-makers working at the intersection of meditative spiritual practice, ecology, and social healing.
The question, of course, is what on earth is going to bring about the transformation that is needed; what is…
Arizona’s Gov. Doug Ducey — once known as the most fiscally-conservative of all border state governors —proposed earmarking a billion…
More than ever in recent history, the religious liberties of American citizens have been in the news lately, from government-enforced…
On February 27, Senator Elizabeth Warren, Democrat of Massachusetts, unveiled a bill that had the potential to positively affect the lives of millions of Americans. It was intended to immediately divert money from President Donald Trump’s border wall to the U.S. response to the coronavirus. At the time, we could only guess how badly such funds would be needed. Now, more than a month later, public health officials have informed New York Governor Andrew Cuomo that a minimum of 140,000 hospital beds and 40,000 Intensive Care Unit (ICU) beds will be needed by April 15 in his state alone to deal with the predicted peak of COVID-19.
You will never hear the words “water crisis” in the Arizona state government, Salt River or Central Arizona Project. And…
An ancient spring near Lukeville has slaked the thirst of desert travelers for centuries, but its days may be numbered…
Gary Paul Nabhan is a gardener, an agricultural ecologist, an ethnobotanist, and an ecumenical Franciscan brother based in Patagonia, Arizona….
The bulldozing of rare cacti and other species at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in Arizona for the Trump border wall has caused much controversy. But as it happens, this isn’t the first time bulldozers have altered this site.
In ethnobotanist and author Gary Paul Nabhan’s newest book, Food from the Radical Center: Healing Our Land and Communities (Island…
National Guardsmen, Go Home! Today 330 National Guard troops came to the Arizona-Sonora border 12 miles south of our home,…
President Trump has declared a national emergency to fund a wall along our nation’s southern border. The border wall issue…
Have you ever tried to grow a garden in your backyard, only to find that the dirt was too worn-out…
At least forty-seven species of birds that recently depended upon spring-fed habitats have not been recorded at the Quitobaquito oasis in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument since the border wall construction began nearly a year ago.
As conservation biologists and hydrologists who have collectively worked on the border at Quitobaquito Springs in Organ Pipe Cactus National…
This week, we’re airing a series of interviews called Bearing Witness: Voices of Climate Change. They’re stories told by longtime Arizonans about…