23 Nov 12 | Pot TV
Live broadcast from the recent Cannabis Roots Conference in Vancouver, featuring some of the world’s leading experts in the historical, spiritual and religious use of psychoactive plants. Video.

19 Nov 12 | Leary Archives, Harvard gazette
The largest collection of its kind, the Ludlow Santo Domingo Library includes centuries of art, literature, and popular culture artifacts related to altered states of mind, and has now been acquired by the Harvard Houghton Library.

13 Nov 12 | Interview: Jennifer Jacquet, Edge
A conversation with anthropologist Joseph Henrich who’s program is to convince people that they should stop distinguishing cultural and biological evolution as separate in that way. He wants them to think of it all as biological evolution.

11 Oct 12 | Ian Steadman, Wired
The cities of the future will have waste-to-energy plants, not shopping malls or churches, at their centre, according to urban designer Mitchell Joachim of Terreform ONE.

5 Oct 12 | Larry Gabriel, Yes!
What happens when the Motor City transforms itself into the capital of grow-your-own food of the United States? A success story in urban agriculture.

5 Oct 12 | Right Livelihood Award
This year’s group of four Laureates highlights the essential conditions for global peace and security: nonviolent resistance, arms industry as part of the problem, human and women’s rights, preservation of our precious ecological resources.

1 Oct 12 | Mina Holland a.o., Guardian
A mobile phone database for dairy farmers and a strain of sweet potato that can help fight child blindness. These are just two of the imaginative new ideas helping to transform a continent.

12 Sep 12 | Interview: Jonathan Talat Phillips, The Huffington Post
Alex Grey discusses how he turned from suicidal nihilist to visionary artist, the convergence of psychedelics and Tibetan Buddhism, holding together a marriage involving two artists, and live-painting musical favorites on stage.

12 Sep 12 | Interview: Rob Hopkins, Transition Culture
Charles Eisenstein, author of Sacred Economics, talks about how to make money as sacred as everything else in the universe.

29 Aug 12 | David McConville, Buckminster Fuller Institute
Visionary and inventor R. Buckminster Fuller insisted that the sense of separation from nature is a dangerous illusion, and that humanity’s evolutionary success is dependent on learning from the emergent behaviors of whole systems.

23 Aug 12 | Pema Yezer, Bhutan Times
The tiny Himalayan nation, best known for promoting Gross National Happiness as a measurement of national progress, is attempting to make the transition to only employing organic agricultural methods by 2020.

24 Jul 12 | The Beckley Foundation
In early July, the President of Guatemala, Otto Pérez Molina, signed the Beckley Foundation Public Letter calling for an end to the War on Drugs. Video.

14 Jul 12 | Marco Tempest
Join Swiss magician and illusionist in an adventure where digital technology and illusion brings to life one of the world’s greatest inventors, Nikola Tesla, the incredible genius of this Wizard of Electricity, The Man Who Lit The World.

10 Jul 12 | Rachel Armstrong, h+
A city is a place you want to live in, grow up in, fall in love in, see your family thrive in and when you pass on, you will bestow it with traces of your life that remain entangled in its fabric. After all – it is your city.

10 Jul 12 | Interview: Alok Jha, Guardian
Professor David Nutt discusses his book Drugs – Without the Hot Air, and argues that society’s prohibition of psychedelic substances is preventing groundbreaking science. Audio.

5 Jul 12 | The Buckminster Fuller Institute
The Living Building Challenge has been selected as the winner of the 2012 Buckminster Fuller Challenge.

27 Jun 12 | Interview: Tony Vigorito, Reality Sandwich
Forty-odd years ago, there was a countercultural moment, a brief, shining moment, as it were, when the eyes of a generation glimpsed the Eden beneath the veil. Tom Robbins is one of these unruly pioneers from those times.

13 Jun 12 | Katherine Gustafson, Yes!
Ten years ago, the residents of the crime-ridden Quesada Avenue neighborhood in San Francisco started planting gardens – and everything changed.

5 Jun 12 | Martin Lewis, AI, You Tube
Mini-documentary about the recording of the song “Forever Young” by Pete Seeger featured on the album “Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan Honoring 50 Years of Amnesty International.”

1 Jun 12 | Robin McKie, Guardian
They were the stone-age equivalent of Glastonbury festival. People gathered in their hundreds to drink, eat and party every summer at revelries lasting several days and nights. Young men met women from nearby communities and married them.