Welcome to This Is Hope, home for my book and blogs intended to inspire an objective understanding of what will work to rescue Earth and ourselves. Every decision we make, and each behavior we express creates our relationships with all else. Human ecology includes those relationships between us and other people, other species, and our shared ecosystems. This is the most complete big-picture arena for understanding how our power to cause destruction is also the source to stop it.
We either continue to live inappropriately, cruelly, and unsustainably, or we transform our behaviors and, by that, create a revolutionary, intentional new human ecology to stop our ecocidal insanity and begin the healing. Earth defines what we must do; we do not get to pick and choose only what we feel like doing.
The “Summary” page describes Seven Results we must achieve through our behaviors. Read Green Vegans/The New Human Ecology to go deeper. My blogs are below. Thank you, Will
The Emotional State of Vegans, Economists, Environmentalists, and…
Part I I recently came upon two blog posts that reminded me of the anguish many vegans feel when faced with the “great mystery”: why don’t environmentalists (and other advocacy groups) get the vegan message? Since it resolves so much of the environmental movement’s...
Vegans! Will You Rally Against Climate Change in September?
Yesterday, I promised an opportunity for VEGANS to be visible at international rallies and protests against Climate Change in cities around the world. Here are introductory links that explain it: http://peoplesclimate.org/global/?r=credo...
The Unlimited Vegan – Part III
Connecting to Power In parts I and II, we see how the founders of modern-day veganism anticipated the connections between the vegan principle and other pressing issues. It is our job to understand that those same issues, if left unsolved, are obstacles to achieving a...
The Unlimited Vegan – Part II
Making Sense of the Whole In part one, we saw how Donald Watson, Leslie Cross and other founders of the word “vegan” and the Vegan Society implied and then stated what it means to apply the vegan principle to the rest of our lives and the vegan movement. Their...
The Unlimited Vegan – Part I
The vegan community is missing an opportunity to tap into a vast source of power. If we want a vegan planet we start by stepping back to see the big picture. Up to now, we have heard how environmental sustainability, for example, is dependent upon a global switch to a...
Yet Another Nonvegan Excuse: Evolution Requires Meat
Nonvegans often claim that their ancestral dietary habits justify continued exploitation of others. Advocates for animal agriculture and other sectors like hunting, fishing, and trapping make this assumption without factual support and reveal a fundamental lack of...
The Vegan Movement and Verbal Nonviolence
Occasionally I’m reminded of how many vegans are working globally to transform humanity. Too often I forget this and shrink into a single person sitting at a keyboard on my desk. In my post today, I’m keeping them in mind, aware there are many people with their...
News: Olympic Games and Orca captures
As the February 14 demonstrations protesting the Taiji dolphin slaughters and captures draws near, do NOT forget the Russian captures of beluga, pilot, and orca whales. Stories about orca whales and Taiji dolphins taking part in the Sochi Olympic games have faded in...
Reclaiming “Humane” – Part 3
A DRAFT proposed definition of humane. In parts 1 and 2 I discussed why we need to update and reclaim the word humane. I’m offering a DRAFT updated definition below. It is unfinished, uses too many words, and needs revision. But it does begin to remove the...
Reclaiming “Humane” – Part 2
We need to look no further than the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to see how humane as applied to humans has evolved internationally. They state, “The actual meaning of ‘humane treatment’ is not spelled out, although some texts refer to respect for...
