In a world were each and everyone of us gets 24 hours a day, but our useful time is less than that if you take sleeping and the daily chores of life into consideration, it would seem almost impossible to become biophilic less we are commited and make the time to plan a whole life revamp and change. Biophobia is pervasive and in a lot of ways related to the creature comforts some of us, but not most of us on earth, consider as daily ocurrences or even necessities. In most instances, those in the know and aware of these plus many other problems in modern and even post-modern society, require a complete eco-lift emergency intervention. Some of us are limited by our resources and current phase or station in life at the moment, but we can all start using our hands and body to connect with Earth little by little but in conscious and meaningful ways. The author lists some of these ways, and I may add maybe creating practical compost system right at home or an apartment or studio. Start by buying more plants for your place of dwelling and even buying plants useful as herbs or spices to have around the kitchen. Then we can extend these efforts to include a garbage-run and cleaning of our immediate neighborhood, river bank, park or even forest nearby. These small steps can add, witin our time and resources, to start generating some biophilia in our lifes so that our subconcious gets used to these smalls acts of recognition, gratefulness and honoring of the Earth that so humbly, on its veneer, allows us to plant and harvest for every single bodily need we can ever have. Not all of us will be able to live or build an ecohome or have the luxury to live in a proper eco-village, but those of us lucky enough to be able to can inspire those city dwellers to build more vertical gardens in their walls and plaster the top of their buildings with gardens, grass or even trees. Architects need to be inspired and include nature more and more in their designs, to a great extent this already exists, but their application and fruition is not fast enough in many places. Many cultures, actually a bit less than half of the world still live on less than $2.5 dollars a day, and these people live on marginally ghetto like niches of poverty without the basic city-based infrastructure to support their migration to the city. These are country dwellers or jungle folk that abandon their ancestral place of birth and living to become citizens pursuing their dreams of western style education, life style and comforts. One can hardly blame these communities for wanting a "better" life for their children and for themselves. After all, cities do offer a variety of services and resources that have been pulled together and distributed to the many. Most of us "pay-ride" on these resources as taxes or utilities, and we have become helplessly dependant on them. However, the untold story of these massive migrations leaves behind a trail of tears composed of lost culture, languages, ancient plant and medicine knowledge and the introduction to a very stressful and demanding way of life that might end up, as the author points out so eloquently, in mental disorders as a reaction, especially on those new citizens, to their total loss of their culture being their ecology and swapping that for a cement, concrete, piped and glass reality that does little for their unconscious ecological needs. It is a given that the city-reality has propelled many advances in science, technology, medicine, art and the material and currency wealth of this world. It has done so, as we can testify from the writings early in this century and the one before and the behest of a consuming and production equation that excludes Earth's well-being and most people 's ecological sensitivies to the point of a complete disconnection with our most basic instincts. It is probable we have experienced just shoving food into our mouths, not knowing where it came from, with even less knowledge of what nutrients it has, as we browse for more and more information about these very same subjects even. Instead of sharing a meal we have prepared with a meaningful friend, loved one or a stranger we can connect to. We are eating alone and on our own more and more. Tables full of happy memories have been transformed into couch potato dinners in front of our favorite form of distraction. Who can blame us for doing this, when even I partake of this lifestyle at the moment. Mother Earth keeps paying the dear price for so many, if not all, the comforts we long for or already have in our lifes. I believe in a small group of dedicated individuals united in a single cause changing their societies for the better. Afterall, the forces of positive change multiply not only add. The truth is that it might take a generation or two to see the results, but start we must as those early ecological pioneers of the 60s an before even did. Maybe it is too late to reverse the damage done so far, but whatever we have left is worth taking care off by first acknowledging it, make it part of our daily routine and then conserve it for future generations with the warning label that nature can be destroyed by mankind such is the reach of our current technology and science; however, it can also flourish if we leave Nature to just be, it will not only heal itself, but it will heal us as part of the process. It's a tall order to aboard this personal journey without a compass and completely at loss within and around ourselves and our biophobia sitting in front of our computers or holding our portable devices reading all we can about Earth, it is time for action, with our hands and bodies, this is where change starts to take shape and generate results. We need, just as much, beacons of light and knowledge that can guide our journeys into biophilia and beyond. Thank you Carlita Shaw for being one of those beacons people can turn to in their desperation in trying to figure out just what in the world is going on in their lifes, where are those lifes going, and maybe noticing that one of the goals of our life on earth is to leave it in a better condition that we have found it. Let's just take action at the grass root levels and also in activists ways to demand of our elected leaders and the leaders of industries that we need change faster than it can possibly we conceived. Ecological solutions will take us from A to B, but ecological imagination will take us all over the Universe of scenarios and ideas we need to explore in order to find a way into biophilia in harmony with nature just as some of our ancient cultures were able to pull off, live off and leave behind for us as a gift, let us not squander it as to make it disappear, and potentially, us with it. It has become a matter of collective self-preservation at this point, maybe that is why a significant portion of us decide to commit suicide or develop mental disorders witnessing or having the intuition that the time for self-preservation has begun. Let's ride this wave of self-prevation to make the desserts bloom, to green our cities and biophile our souls and psyche. Writing about it is a start.