It has been clear for decades that our modern industrial consumer lifestyle is harmful to the environment.

Rachel Carson sounded the alarm back in 1964 with her book Silent Spring, which started the environmental movement and led to the creation of the Environmental Protection Agence (EPA).

Yet more than 50 years later, environmental and social conditions are worse than ever.

We need to rediscover how to be sustainable.
To move from being apart from nature to being a part of nature once again.
— David Attenborough

What really makes a difference in the environment is the collective effect—for better or worse—of how each of us live every day. We could see that in 2020 when so many places went on lock-down because of the covid-19 pandemic. It only took three weeks of reduced automobile traffic for polluted skies to clear.

Nature has been renewing life on Earth for millions of years. It’s time for the human species to learn what every other species already knows. It’s time to take our place in the ecosystem of the earth and live by the laws of Life.

The Lifely Group offers inspiration and practical information on how we can make a transition from living as industrial consumers to living oriented to Life. Virtually all of the problems we face in our world today stem from operating on an industrial viewpoint, Regardless of what actions we may take superficially, the only way to truly solve these problems is to change our basic underlying assumptions that determine our actions, individually, as a society, and as a species

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
—Albert Einstein

We have been working on a new way of thinking and living for more than thirty years. We call this "lifely" because it is rooted in Life. In industrial society, we live to be consumers. In Life, we live to be humans. 

When we started this website in June 2019, we had a section on this home page about how industrialization is destroying the lives of humans and the Earth. But then the covid-19 pandemic came along and our industrial culture collapsed all around us. Now, in 2021 we need to rebuild our shattered society on a new foundation.

Today we feel an urgency to release this information—even incomplete, even in a rough form—because it needs to start being applied more and more widely right now.

The door has opened.

Our big crisis will soon be seen as a big opportunity.

Something has changed since the pandemic. Whereas some people want to go back to what they call 'normal', some (actually many) are having life-changing realizations that parallel your industrialization-to-nature idea. That's why I think your work and your site are a 'fit' for these times. It's there for those of us looking for a 'way' or even looking for the courage to venture out and find a way. It's a value match for us who could use, not only a guide, but a community, too. A meeting place.

Many thank yous for sharing your new adventures with all of us. Right thing, right time, rightly 🙂

Katherine M.

The Lifely Group Websites

At the moment, The Lifely Group is made up of six interconnected websites, but who knows what could happen as we continue to expand!