This week on Sustainability Now!, your host, Justin Mog sits down for an expansive conversation with Laura Obenauf about moving towards healthy ecology - the imperative to make space for quality relationships and consciousness as practiced by traditional cultures and indicated by the latest science. Laura is working on an Ecology and Spirituality MA and is taking a pause to focus on possibilities of community-level impact. Her program particularly focuses on indigenous cosmologies, traditional ecological knowledge, animistic worldview and bridging the gap (transforming modern industrialized consciousness) from the mechanistic paradigm to holistic recognition of consciousness that better aligns with Gaia Hypothesis, the latest quantum physics and dividual relationship that indigenous populations have been practicing all along.

Laura recommends these Books and Resources:- Ervin Lazslo's Science and the Akashic Field: An Integral Theory of Everything - Freya Matthews' The Ecological Self (Panpsychism - the philosophy that blends ancient animism with latest quantum physics)- Rupert Sheldrake's Morphic Resonance: The Nature of Formative Causation- Mark A. Schroll's Transpersonal Ecosophy Vol. 1: Theory, Methods and Clinical Assessments- Tyson Yunkaporta's Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World- Robin Wall Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass- James Lovelock's Gaia

As always, our feature is followed by your community action calendar for the week, so get your calendars out and get ready to take action for sustainability NOW!

Sustainability Now! airs on Forward Radio, 106.5fm, WFMP-LP Louisville, every Monday at 6pm and repeats Tuesdays at 12am and 10am. Find us at http://forwardradio.org

The music in this podcast is courtesy of the local band Appalatin and is used by permission. Explore their delightful music at http://appalatin.com