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Michele Blackburn – Time for a Solotime in Nature
Michele Blackburn talks about the importance of taking the time to commune with nature whether it’s for five minutes or for 44 days on a solo Sacred Passage. Sacred Passage, and the shorter program called NatureQuest, are a powerful Awareness Training and meditation retreat, combined with a guided, contemporary solo quest in the wild. This [...]
Biomimicry – Ask Nature
Imagine 3.8 billion years of design brilliance available for free, at the moment of creation, to any sustainability innovator in the world. Imagine nature’s most elegant ideas organized by design and engineering function, so you can enter “remove salt from water” and see how mangroves, penguins, and shorebirds desalinate without fossil fuels. Now imagine you [...]
John P Milton, founder of the Way of Nature
John P Milton describes Sacred Passage, and its shorter program called NatureQuest, are a powerful Awareness Training and meditation retreat, combined with a guided, contemporary solo quest in the wild. This solo is inspired by the classical Native American Vision Quest, but is different from native vision quests in that it focuses on a powerful [...]
John P Milton on Sustainable Leadership
John P Milton @ Naturakademin gathering to dialogue about Sustainable Leadership, November 2010.
Bill Mason – Waterwalker
This feature-length documentary follows naturalist Bill Mason on his journey by canoe into the Ontario wilderness. The filmmaker and artist begins on Lake Superior, then explores winding and sometimes tortuous river waters to the meadowlands of the river’s source. Along the way, Mason paints scenes that capture his attention and muses about his love of [...]

