Y On Earth

Connecting the dots between personal, family, and community strategies for enhanced health and wellbeing at the “grass roots” level on the one-hand, and global systems-change strategies for stewardship, regeneration, and sustainability on the other, Y on Earth is a tour de force written for a diverse audience of parents, students, early-career professionals, and seasoned executives. An epic journey through 33 chapters of interconnected topics, Y on Earth provides key insights from modern science and ancient wisdom alike, and will guide you through a journey of discovery, awakening, and action. Y on Earth is built on an essential underlying foundation: our power to choose our lifestyles, our priorities, and our collective cultural future—is among the most potent forces in the world. And, when our individual power of choice is woven together in communities and companies working for the greater good, this power is amplified, catalyzing deep systems-change for the greater good. 

Y On Earth is organized in four sections

PART 1: WE ARE WHAT WE EAT AND WE ARE SOIL

PART 2: CULTIVATING THE LIFE WE REALLY WANT

PART 3: ACTIVITY, AGENCY, EMPOWERMENT AND VOCATION

PART 4: CREATING THE CULTURE AND FUTURE WE REALLY WANT

Aaron William Perry is an impact entrepreneur, philosopher, consultant, and father. His background and expertise in sustainable agriculture, food, energy, finance, and business development, combined with a love for history, writing, soil, and nature make him uniquely positioned to craft and deliver this tour de force to readers. His subsequent books include the epic novel Viriditas: The Great Healing is Within Our Power; the regenerative business and economics tome: Our Biggest Deal: Pathways to Planetary Prosperity (featuring 33 case study vignettes and essays from 28 thought leaders); several children’s books (Celebrating Soil, Celebrating Water, Celebrating Honeybees); the Soil Stewardship Handbook; and a collection of his poetry and his son’s visual art: Poesis: Flowing Along a River of Time.

PART 1: WE ARE WHAT WE EAT AND WE ARE SOIL

1 Place (A Verb): Our Home, Our Selves 

2 Grow: We Are Soil 

3 Water: Is Life The Driving Force Of All Nature

4 Harvest: We Reap What We Sow 

5 Cook: Cultivating Family & Community At The Hearth 

6 Eat: Real Food & Thrive 

7 Waste (Not): There Is No “Away” (& Celebrating Compost) 

8 Steward: Caring For Our Common Home 

PART 2: CULTIVATING THE LIFE WE REALLY WANT

9 Balance: A Key To Deep Intelligence & Robust Health

10 Unplug: When Less Is More & More Is Better

11 Walk: Our Bodies & Minds Are Built For This

12 Wonder: Living In Awe & Reverence For Sublime Creation

13 Connect: We Are Our Relationships, We Are Our Networks

14 Delight: Celebrating Creation & Exquisite, Sensual Spirituality

15 Listen: What Sayeth The Winds & The Ancestors? 

16 Think: Our Minds Are Great Ecosystems

17 Speak: Mustering Courage & Actualizing Our Humanity

PART 3: ACTIVITY, AGENCY, EMPOWERMENT AND VOCATION

18 Demand: A Most Powerful Future-Shaping Force

19 Work: To What End Our Toil & Call?

20 Earn: Conscious Capital Meets Natural Capitalism

21 Give: Deep Well-Being Through Service

22 Make: What Wrought We With Our Hands?

23 Build: Shaping Place, Shaping Us 

24 Move: Integrating Body & Mind 

25 Power: Unprecedented Magnitude & Responsibility

PART 4: CREATING THE CULTURE AND FUTURE WE REALLY WANT

26 Envision: To What Future Will We Turn Our Attention? 

27 Create: Calling One & All, The Best & Brightest 

28 Change: The Only Way To Get Where We Really Want To Go

29 Cultivate: We Are Our Intention & We Create Us

30 Love: All We Need & We Need All Of It!

31 Pray: Cultivating & Practicing Love

32 Heal: Our Gateway To Becoming Whole & Restoring Gaia

33 Culture (A Verb): We’re Creating It. You & I. Right Here. Right Now.