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Gaia"s Call

Listen to the call of the Earth and take action.

Taste the sweet nectar of stories and articles that make your spirit soar. Gaia"s Call is the whispered secret between the pages, urging you to become an Eco-Guardian for our planet"s wonders. 📚✨ Listen to the call of the Earth and take action. wbradfordswift.substack.com

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18:32

Gaia Call 2.0 – Episode One

Gaia"s Call ·

2026/01/16

Hello everybody. this is Brad Swift of Gaia’s Call and this is Gaia’s call, but this is 2.0. And as you will notice, it’s not just me, it’s also Marla from the Eco Chapter. Hey Marla.Hi. How are you?I’m good. I’m good. And I’m looking forward to this.And I’m a little trepidatious about it, you know, it’s it is a first, a lot of firsts are coming my way these days. but I’m also excited about it because we’re here. first we’re going to kind of just share our background and how we got connected. also

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11:02

Raising Children—and Ourselves—for the World That’s...

Gaia"s Call ·

2026/01/09

Living Through the Polycrisis - This is part three. Part one is here, and part two is here.When I think about the future now, I don’t start with graphs or projections. I start with my grandkids, Logan and Piper. And just as importantly, I start with their parents—Amber and Justin—the generation standing in the narrow, demanding passage between what was and what’s coming.The future stopped being theoretical the moment I held my grandchildren. It took on faces, laughter, scraped knees, curious

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12:06

The Great Turning Begins at Home

Gaia"s Call ·

2026/01/02

Living Through the Polycrisis — Part Two of a Three-Part One Cause Reflection (Part One is Here.)Author’s Note: I called an audible over the holidays, feeling like we could all use a break from dealing with this challenging topic—the Polycrisis, here we are in the New Year of 2026 which could, according to many experts, be a make or break year, so let’s dig in. Once you stop trying to outrun the polycrisis, you start asking a different kind of question: What does a good life look like now?By

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11:01

The Polycrisis We’re Already In

Gaia"s Call ·

2025/12/19

(Living Through the Polycrisis — Part One)You’re not imagining it. Something fundamental really is breaking down. And if you’ve been sensing that—feeling it in your body, your conversations, your sleep, your worry for the kids and the future—you’re not weak, pessimistic, or “too negative.” You’re paying attention.I don’t remember exactly when I first heard the terms metacrisis or polycrisis. It was probably sometime shortly after I began writing One Cause: Breaking Free from the Four Great

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12:48

Attainment vs. Attunement:

Gaia"s Call ·

2025/12/12

I’ve been setting up a small growing area in my basement these past few weeks—a little winter haven where I can keep veggies going through the cold months and continue my slow but curious experiment with hydroponics. At first, it was all about the task. Get the shelving in. Set up the lights. Hang the timers. Figure out the water flow. Make it efficient. Make it productive. Get it done. And in the middle of it all, I caught myself doing something I’m not proud of: I started beating myself up for not

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11:24

Conversations Across Time:

Gaia"s Call ·

2025/12/05

(Part One of a Possible New Series: Conversations Across Time)A few nights ago, during one of our Community After Hours gatherings here in the mountains, a participant tossed out an idea about how we might draw more locals into our growing web of community. I wish I could tell you exactly what he said—but the suggestion itself evaporated before I arrived home.What did stick with me was the spark it ignited.I found myself thinking:What if we could interview notable, difference-making people who are

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10:39

How Strange People Change the World

Gaia"s Call ·

2025/11/28

Links to Parts Oneand Two.There comes a moment on any meaningful inner journey when you suddenly realize something quietly radical: you no longer fit the default settings of the culture around you. You still look the same, sound the same, and move through grocery stores, coffee shops, and family gatherings the way everyone else does. But something in your internal operating system has been rewritten. And even though no one can see that shift from the outside, it begins to shape everything you

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9:41

The Strange Man’s Inner Game

Gaia"s Call ·

2025/11/21

(Part Two of the “Strange Man” Mini-Series — read Part One Here.)Sometimes the most important spiritual work doesn’t happen on a meditation cushion or in the quiet of early morning vows. Sometimes it happens in a kitchen—with kids playing, coffee brewing, and a grown daughter calling you a “strange man.”If you missed Part One of the story, here’s the short version:I rescued the used coffee grounds from my daughter’s barista-level machine, packed them neatly into an empty takeout box, and placed the

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8:14

My Daughter Called Me a Strange Man

Gaia"s Call ·

2025/11/14

Toward the end of a recent visit with my daughter, Amber, and the grandkids—Logan racing a plastic dinosaur across the living room battlefield and Piper dancing around with a squeal that could wake the ancestors—I decided to fix myself a cup of coffee, in part because they have one of those barista-level machines that makes a cup so smooth it practically hums a lullaby. So there I was, savoring the thought of a rare mug of delicious Joe, when the machine politely informed me I needed to empty the

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9:55

Tapping the Sun's Potential for a Regenerative Future

Gaia"s Call ·

2025/11/07

Imagine greeting the sun each morning, not just as a source of warmth but as a symbol of untapped potential. That’s what I’ve done for over two years which is what led me to writing today’s article/podcast. Every day, Earth receives an astonishing 173,000 terawatts of energy from the sun. Yet, humanity's annual energy consumption is only around 20 terawatts. In other words:A single day’s sunlight provides far more than we need to power our entire planet for a year. This raises a simple but profound

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9:02

Interlude of Inspiration: From Homo sapiens to Homo...

Gaia"s Call ·

2025/10/31

It feels fitting that this piece arrives on Halloween—a day when we flirt with shadows and celebrate transformation…of sorts.After all, Frankenstein was never just about monsters. It was about creation without conscience—knowledge without wisdom, invention without care.In many ways, we’ve been living our own version of that story as Homo technologicus—powerful, brilliant, but disconnected from the living whole.The time has come for a new creation story—not stitched together from parts, but born of

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9:29

The Fourth Quarter

Gaia"s Call ·

2025/10/24

I took a long walk through the woods this morning with Rascal, my ever-eager walking partner and four-legged philosopher-in-residence. No phone. No podcasts. Just crisp leaves underfoot, a rising breeze, and the steady rhythm of paws and boots side by side.Out there on the trail, something stirred in me.A quiet voice reminding me:We’re in the Fourth Quarter now.Not just me. (I’m 76.) All of us…all humanity.And the question pressing in is this:How will we play it?Four Fingers in the AirIf you’ve ever

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11:43

Projects That Matter

Gaia"s Call ·

2025/10/17

For a long time, I thought the answer was just doing more.More writing. More coaching. More composting. More sharing. More everything.But here’s what I’ve come to realize: doing more only really matters if we’re doing what matters—to us. Purposefully. Joyfully. In alignment with what we love and long to protect.Taking action as an Eco-Guardian doesn’t mean becoming a full-time climate activist (although it could lead there). It might mean planting a single tree with your child… starting a weekly

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11:25

Becoming the Kind of Person Who Acts

Gaia"s Call ·

2025/10/10

For a long time, I thought the solution was just doing more.More writing. More coaching. More composting. More advocacy.I thought the world needed me in action.And it does.But what I’ve come to understand—what life has been teaching me, especially over the past few years—is that before we change the world, we must change our relationship to the world. That’s really what One Cause is all about. Releasing the four Great Untruths and embracing and living from the four Great Truths. And that requires

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7:18

What is an Eco-Guardian-in-Training? Are You One?

Gaia"s Call ·

2025/09/26

Not long ago and more nights than I care to remember, two questions kept me awake at night.What is an Eco-Guardian-in-Training (EGIT)?And are you one?The questions wouldn’t let me go. They prompted me to remember a time from my past when I co-founded the Life On Purpose Institute and, for 22 years, watched thousands of people begin their journey by taking the Life On Purpose Self-Test. That simple tool became the first step for countless people clarifying and living into their Divinely Inspired

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6:45

One Cause: Section Three – Inspired Action

Gaia"s Call ·

2025/09/12

A Letter from the FogDear fellow Ego-Guardians-In-Training,If I’m being fully transparent, this next part of the journey—moving from vision to action—feels both exhilarating and daunting. I’ve spent months now weaving together the threads of One Cause—laying out the Great Untruths that got us here, and the Great Truths that could guide us home. We’ve imagined a possible new future or at least a framework for one. We’ve planted the seed of a youth movement. And now… we’re standing at the edge.It’s

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10:30

Inspirational Interlude: When a Seed Becomes a Movement

Gaia"s Call ·

2025/09/05

Last November, something cracked open in me.The U.S. presidential election results had just landed, and like many, I was holding out hope for leadership that might finally meet the moment—leadership that could help steer us away from collapse and toward regeneration. Truthfully, I didn’t hold out a lot of hope that either political parties’ candidates would focus sufficient efforts on our global climate crisis, but I felt pretty confident that at least one of them would make some effort in the right

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18:49

End of Summer Loving Homestead Update

Gaia"s Call ·

2025/08/28

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11:24

Innovation, Imagination & Regeneration

Gaia"s Call ·

2025/08/15

“Bring out the secrets of nature for the happiness of humanity.”—Thomas EdisonWhen you think of a genius, you might picture someone like Thomas Edison—brilliant, prolific, and ruthlessly practical. He held over 1,000 patents, lit up the world with electricity, and helped create entire industries.And yet, one of his lesser-known quotes reveals something deeper:“Anything that won’t sell, I don’t want to invent. Sales are proof of utility, and utility is success.”What if that had been different?What if

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12:44

The Call to Heroism in a Time of the Great Unraveling

Gaia"s Call ·

2025/08/08

A Heroic MomentIt started with a phone call.It was a Thursday night. Ann and I had just settled in when Amber, our daughter, called. Their basement was flooding. Justin, her husband, had been called away as a first responder, and she needed help—immediately. “No big deal,” I thought. I packed a bag, grabbed some clothes, and drove up the mountain to their home. I figured I’d help vacuum the water, maybe stay the night.I had no idea we were stepping into a storm that would soon be named Helene.By 2

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