We are tasked in this time of great change and transition to learn exactly who we are – interdependent beings that are only as strong and healthy as the life-forms and raw materials are that surround them. As we witness all around us and throughout the world the wholesale destruction and pillaging of the “natural capitol” of the planet – the once thriving and abundant biodiversity in places untouched by modern acts of human exploitation and extraction – we respond in a variety of ways to halt this process of self-immolation and suicide from actually terminally taking place. But at the same time we recognize that fighting against a system gone mad does a great deal to reinforce that madness, and makes the maniacs bent on filling their pockets because they can and have been taught to do so, come up with all sorts of new and innovative ways of…