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Nature is slowly winding down, and animals are beginning their migrations. The tractors and combine harvesters are out in full force, gathering the crops of onions, turnips and cereals. The fallow deer are beginning to come together in larger herds for the winter – all are making preparations for the colder months. Our ancestors did as much as they
... See moreJoanna van der Hoeven • Pagan Portals - The Awen Alone
“Though we live in a world made of gifts, we find ourselves harnessed to institutions and an economy that relentlessly asks, ‘What more can we take from the Earth?’ This worldview of unbridled exploitation is to my mind the greatest threat to the life that surrounds us. Even our definitions of sustainability revolve around trying to find the formul
... See moreInvoke a strong sense of human agency and responsibility.
Andrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
Most important: Can we begin to restore the health and integrity of the local earth? Not without restorying the local earth.
David Abram • Becoming Animal
There’s a lot of alienation; a lot of disaster porn. We need grieving rituals so we can go through our despair together, so we can face the losses we know are coming.
Andrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
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David C Korten • The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community
The most inspiring work in the world today is being performed by those who have undergone this initiatory passage, those who have returned with precious resources for a soulcentric or life-sustaining society. This is the descent of which Thomas writes, the mature hero's journey described by mythologist Joseph Campbell, the descent to the goddess po
... See moreBill Plotkin • Nature and the Human Soul: Cultivating Wholeness and Community in a Fragmented World
Nothing is created or destroyed; it just moves and changes, and this is the First Law. Creation is in a constant state of motion, and we must move with it as the custodial species or we will damage the system and doom ourselves. Nothing can be held, accumulated, stored. Every unit requires velocity and exchange in a stable system, or it will stagna
... See moreTyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
