Eaarth Feels: Recent Episodes
Rose & Christine, Climate Podcasters and Bloggers
Has the endlessly gloomy climate news got you hiding under your covers with a case of overwhelm?
Join Christine and Rose for soul-based conversations about climate change that explore the idea that climate change is happening for us as much as it is happening to us.
If you are ready to shift your focus and secure the future for our kids and grandkids this is the podcast for you.
How do we reclaim joy and healing in a time of Climate Emergency? Eaarth Feels Podcast co-host Christine, self-described Climate Crone, as well as mother, author, and energy healer introduces her new podcast, Climate of Joy. Climate of Joy looks at the Climate Emergency that we are facing, and the opportunity that the current ecological and environmental, social, and economic planetary crises offer for dramatic spiritual and cultural healing.
If you are ready for a new conversation about climate change, check out Climate of Joy, available wherever you download your favorite podcasts. Or click here to head over to the podcast website.
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In this second episode of a two-part special COP27 podcast, Christine discusses how to apply a "bigger picture" perspective to the devastation of climate change with guest Sandra Boatman. Sandra is a skilled energy intuitive who embodies Divine Feminine ways of knowing and healing. Tune in for a conversation that ranges from practical energetic ways of releasing trapped emotions, and why that is important, to the planetary influences at this important time.
Join the Climate Cafe conversation on the first Saturday of every month for emotional and energetic support in this challenging time. It's free!
In this pre-COP 27 podcast, Christine discusses the world of vibrating energy and connection revealed by quantum mechanics. How can those of us who are alarmed about the climate emergency apply that information to our current situation? Christine explores this question, adding insights into other dimensions that she has glimpsed in her work as a spiritual detective and intuitive energy healer.
If you want to share your feelings about climate change in a supportive circle, and have the opportunity to shift them using energy techniques, you are invited to join the Climate Cafe circle that Christine leads on the first Saturday of every month on Zoom. Click here for more info.
In this pre-COP 27 podcast, Christine discusses the world of vibrating energy and connection revealed by quantum mechanics. How can those of us who are alarmed about the climate emergency apply that information to our current situation? Christine explores this question, adding insights into other dimensions that she has glimpsed in her work as a spiritual detective and intuitive energy healer.
If you want to share your feelings about climate change in a supportive circle, and have the opportunity to shift them using energy techniques, you are invited to join the Climate Cafe circle that Christine leads on the first Saturday of every month on Zoom. Click here for more info.
It's 2022 and the Climate Emergency continues. Rose and Christine chat about what is ahead for them personally and for Eaarth Feels podcast.
Our stories are our greatest medicine. Speaking our story is the first step to healing ourselves and the world we cherish.
Imagine shoes, meat , vodka, jet fuel and concrete using captured carbon as an essential key ingredient. The technology is already here.
This story originally appeared in The Guardian and is part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story.
Spoiler Alert Does Apple TV's Ted Lasso, featuring a relentlessly optimistic American recruited to coach a professional English soccer (or football, if you aren't North American) team, have any insight to offer those of us who are kept awake at night because of the climate emergency? The show's second season includes an episode entitled "Do the Right-est Thing" and in today's podcast Christine and Rose discuss what, if anything, this popular show has to teach us about doing just that in a time of global climate change.
As we continue to watch the old paradigm crumble and experience the birth pangs of a new world emerging this timeless essay from the Lebanese-American Poet Kahlil Gibran seems especially relevant.
Every dollar we invest is a vote for the world we want to create. With a bit of research our investment dollars can support and hasten a more just and sustainable economic paradigm.
Simply stated, what’s better for plants and wildlife is better for the climate. Author Paul C. West explains where we need to begin and why.
This story originally appeared in The Revelator and is part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story.
A quick reminder from Elizabeth Gilbert: We all have the ability to illuminate our corner of our world.
In a rapidly heating world, we don't have time for etiquette,
In fact, as authors Mary Annaïse Heglar and Amy Westervelt, remind us, it is precisely the noncongeniality of the the youth climate movement that is finally making fossil fuel companies uncomfortable.
This column is part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration cofounded by Columbia Journalism Review and The Nation to strengthen coverage of the climate story.
In a rapidly heating world, we don't have time for etiquette,
In fact, as authors Mary Annaïse Heglar and Amy Westervelt, remind us, it is precisely the noncongeniality of the the youth climate movement that is finally making fossil fuel companies uncomfortable.
This column is part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration cofounded by Columbia Journalism Review and The Nation to strengthen coverage of the climate story.
The not-very-ambitious agreement to come out of COP26 has left many climate-concerned people around the world discouraged and angry. Rose and Christine discuss what happened in Glasgow this month, as well as the recent extreme flooding in British Columbia that has cut off the West Coast of Canada from the rest of the country.
Does hearing about another species going extinct make you feel angry? Author John R. Platt thinks that is a good thing.
This story originally appeared in The Revelator and is part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story.
In a rebroadcast of the five women panel presented at the virtual 2021 Parliament of World's Religions, Pat Fero, Clare Dubois, Shannon Thompson, Linda Bender and Rose Tenaglia Dunn share how their journey of communication with Gaia has led them to step beyond their comfort zone to take action on her behalf.
In order to address the climate emergency, the amount we need to consume needs to drop dramatically. Then why are we consuming MORE?
Everything that has ever been created by humanity began as a thought, a dreaming, an imagining. Envisioning the world our hearts know is possible is the beginning. Ms Heglar explains.
This essay originally appeared in The Nation and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story.
As pivotal UN climate talks begin at the COP26 summit in Glasgow on October 31st, this podcast episode spotlights youth whose voices are not often heard at climate negotiations, but who will be living with the impacts of a less stable climate all their lives. Six young people from around the world, including from those countries being most impacted by climate destabilization already, send a message to the leaders meeting in Glasgow.
In response to the "grave threat" of climate change, heads of the world's major religions united at the Vatican to issue an unprecedented joint appeal to government leaders at next month's United Nations climate summit, calling for "urgent, radical and responsible action" to drastically curb greenhouse gas emissions and for the world's wealthiest countries to lead in healing the planet.
The United Kingdom will host the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow, United Kingdom, on November 1 to November 13, 2021. Will world leaders commit to making the changes necessary?
"No matter what he says today, remember, Shell has spent millions covering up the warnings from climate scientists, bribing politicians, and even paying soldiers to kill Nigerian activists fighting against them, all whilst rebranding to make it look as though they care and that they have the intention of changing."
This week's Best in Climate article, originally published on CommonDreams.org, discusses how brilliantly climate activist Lauren McDonald articulated the frustrations of many at Shell's climate inaction & obstruction. McDonald was sharing the stage with the Shell CEO Ben van Beurden at a TED climate conference in Edinburgh Scotland. COP26, the UN Climate Conference, begins in Glasgow on October 31st.
"It is helpful to know that to care about others, much less about the environment or the quality of life on the planet, is extremely recent in the evolution of consciousness of millennia." Dr David Hawkins
This episode of Eaarth Feels is a discussion of climate change, and the other environmental challenges we are facing, in the context of psychiatrist Dr David Hawkin's Map of Consciousness.
Climate change and environmental destruction have inspired court cases around the country and the globe, aimed at protecting the natural world. Journalist Katie Surma gives us a brief history and provides us hope for Earth's future.
This story originally appeared in Inside Climate News and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story.
Climate Breakdown is undeniable and no one is coming to save us. How do we step into this moment? Rose reminds us we are the ones we have been waiting for.
"Our leaders are lost," said Nakate of Uganda, "and our planet is damaged."
This week's Best in Climate article highlights the recent addresses by youth climate activists Vanessa Nakate and Greta Thunberg at Youth4Climate summit. Originally published on CommonDreams.org.
Continuing our monthlong coverage on Climate anxiety, Shannon Thompson, the founder of Shakti Rising, shares insights with Rose from her 22 year history leading a trauma informed women's change organization.
In one Kenyan village, citizens are paid to plant mangroves rather than cut them, reducing deforestation and furthering economic and climate sustainability for the future.
In the year that has been transpired since we last spoke with thanatologist (climate grief specialist) Kriss Kevorkian, we have been hit head on with flooding, hurricanes, building collapse, droughts and wildfire. Neck deep in the knowledge of human caused climate change, Kriss offers her wisdom to help us cope .
In an excerpt from her 2012 novel "Flight Behavior" Barbara Kingsolver's characters explain the goal of 350 ppm and the frightening aspect of global temperature rise in a language every lay person can understand.
Michele Smith shares her journey to founding the Resiliency School and offers a three step process to help us build our resilience muscle.
Jillian Ambrose, the energy correspondent at Guardian News and Media details ways our climate grief is holding us back from taking action.
This story originally appeared in The Guardian and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story.
Barcelona, Sidney, Los Angeles, along with Canada's largest cities, Toronto and Vancouver, have signed the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty.
This week guest's on Eaarth Feels is Lyn Adamson, co-chair of Climate Fast and Canadian Voice of Women for Peace. She discusses the proposed treaty, and shares what gives her hope in this time of climate emergency.
"Despite decades of climate negotiations, we have not stopped adding to CO2 in the atmosphere. Rather, the process is speeding up. That is why it is so urgent that we have a global agreement to immediately stop any new fossil fuel projects, to phase out existing uses of fossil fuels, and to go full tilt into a renewable energy future with everything we’ve got."
This week's Best in Climate article makes the case for a global Fossil Fuel Nonproliferation Treaty, inspired by the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT).
"Climate change and all of the problems in the world are energetically based, because we are all energy, whether we realize it or not."
Energy healer Sandra Boatman talks with Christine about the possibility that the roots of the planetary environmental crisis originate in human consciousness. They explore how this understanding can revolutionize how we think about ourselves and the world around us and offer practical ways to raise our own, and the planet's, level of consciousness.
David Attenborough and scientist Johan Rockström detail the current state of Planet Earth while offering a hopeful path of action to avert this ongoing crisis.
This story originally appeared on Mongabay.com and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story.
Wildfires, floods, and now the dire IPCC report , collectively humanity is being traumatized by our uncertain future. Rose talks with psychotherapist Patricia Fero about naming this intense emotion and ways we can help one another through .
In this time of upheaval and division, Corina Luna Dea offers this powerfully hopeful essay reminding us that it is not too late for us to embrace our true nature as caring beings.
The IPCC report released on August 9, 2021 is clear: We are at a tipping point. Escape from human-caused climate change is no longer possible. Without immediate, rapid and large-scale reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, it will be impossible to limit warming close to 1.5°C or even 2°C Climate change is now affecting every continent, region and ocean on Earth, and every facet of the weather. Humanity must take action.
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.
This is our all hands on deck moment. Can we choose to focus on the optimistic signs that humanity is ready for the challenge ahead? Richard Matthews, author of The Green Market Oracle, gives us compelling reasons for hope.
Through an unprecedented wave of lawsuits, America’s petroleum giants finally face a reckoning for the devastation they have knowingly caused by fossil fuels.
This story originally appeared in The Guardian and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story.
"So began the Monks Wood Wilderness experiment, which is now 60 years old. A rewilding study before the term existed, it shows how allowing land to naturally regenerate can expand native woodland and help tackle climate change and biodiversity loss."
This week's Best in Climate article discusses the benefits of doing nothing to reclaim wilderness except leaving the land alone to naturally regenerate.
"There’s really no escaping fear, you can’t pretend it doesn’t exist. So how do we live with that fear? How do we process it?"
In this Best in Climate episode, Christine shares the advice of the Be Here Now Network's teachers on ways to respond to the chaos of the current situation, politically and otherwise, with love, compassion, and equanimity.
This article was written by Noah Markus on behalf of Love Serve Remember Foundation, and originally posted on RamDass.org.
"Climate change is a global problem with local impacts.
This summer I and my neighbours, along with the people of Lytton, and countless others across Turtle Island are feeling the consequences of our collective reckless disregard of the climate consequences of burning fossil fuels. This summer the wheel of karma is turning to expose the devastating effects of our culture’s worship of profit over anything else, including life itself."
In this week's Best in Climate episode, Christine looks at this summer of reckonings. She discusses the traumatic discoveries of unmarked graves of children at Canadian Indian Residential Schools, her current situation as a potential climate refugee fleeing wildfires, and how she brings together the very different perspectives of a climate activist and a spiritual coach working with energy healing.
"I’ve been a 'climate change warrior' for over ten years. It’s been like climbing uphill over loose gravel—for every step forward, we slid back two.
The slow progress hasn’t been for lack of solutions.
The slow progress has been for lack of relationship."
In today's Best in Climate episode, published just after the July 4th celebrations in the United States, Davia Rivka shares the experience of sitting down to talk climate change solutions with people across politic divides.
Recorded after the historic cancellation of the Keystone XL pipeline project, Rose and Christine discuss whether activism is making a difference in creating the change we need in a time of climate crisis.
"The solution is clear: fossil fuels must be kept in the ground. Leaders, not industry, hold the power and have the moral responsibility to take bold actions to address this crisis."
In this Best in Climate episode, Christine reads the letter recently signed by the Dalai Lama and 100 other Nobel Laureates urging world leaders to cooperate and stop the expansion of fossil fuels globally.
Read more at https://fossilfueltreaty.org.
urge cooperation at Climate Summit to stop fossil fuel expansion
As we watch climate change take hold, we are already seeing widespread natural disasters, tremendous biodiversity loss and the immigration of climate refugees. It seems that humanity is failing abysmally in our responsibility as stewards of our beautiful Planet Earth. More than a mere scientific, economic or political debate, the climate crisis may be moral dilemma of our time.
The Climate change and biodiversity loss crises are irrevocably intertwined. Their solutions must be as well.
There is no going back. Now that we have recognized our interconnectedness, how do we move forward to a more balanced, equitable world? The answer may lie in the Haudenosaunee Seventh Generation Principle.
If rich countries want a livable planet for themselves, they'll have to pay what they promised. This weekend’s summit will show whether they will. This story originally appeared in The Nation and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story.
Lawns cover 50 million acres of land in the USA. A full 2% of our land mass. And they feed no one.
We spend $30 Billion yearly to maintain them.
Imagine if we put those resources to better use.
The Haudenosaunee Confederacy, comprised of the Mohawks, Oneida, Cayuga, Onandaga and Seneca Peoples, offer their Thanksgiving Address as a central prayer to the Natural World, thanking each life-sustaining force for the abundance it brings to all our lives. This address speaks aloud mutual respect, conservation, love, generosity, and the responsibility to understand that what is done to one part of the Web of Life, we do to ourselves.
The Haudenosaunee Confederacy, comprised of the Mohawks, Oneida, Cayuga, Onandaga and Seneca Peoples, offer their Thanksgiving Address as a central prayer to the Natural World, thanking each life-sustaining force for the abundance it brings to all our lives. This address speaks aloud mutual respect, conservation, love, generosity, and the responsibility to understand that what is done to one part of the Web of Life, we do to ourselves.
Carbon Capture and Sequestration is our best hope for solving the climate crisis. Richard Matthews, author of The Green Market Oracle, gives us a fundamental lesson in this existing, viable and cost effective technology.
" 'Inner social action' is necessary in order to make our outer actions productive."
In this article published before his death in 2019, spiritual guru Ram Dass addresses the fine line those of us who care deeply about social justice and the health and sustainability of the planet find ourselves walking these days; we need to pay attention to the material world while maintaining a healthy inner balance. This article was originally posted on ramdass.org, and is written by Ram Dass & Raghu Markus.
"How, in our modern world, can we find our way to understand the earth as a gift again, to make our relations with the world sacred again? I know we cannot all become hunter-gatherers--but even in a market economy, can we behave 'as if' the living world were a gift?"
Robin Wall Kimmerer is a plant ecologist, writer, and Distinguished Teaching Professor at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse, NY and a member of the Potawatomi First Nation. In this podcast episode, Rose and Christine discuss what Kimmerer's 2013 book, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, has to teach us about being in a reciprocal relationship to the Earth.
The opening chapter from Robin Wall Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass recounts the Indigenous story of Creation, Skywoman Falling, and asks if humanity can learn from its elders.
Today's youth have inherited a planet already experiencing the devastation of global warming. What would they like their elders to understand about this crisis? Ten Youth Climate Activists weigh in.
Richard Matthews, author of The Green Market Oracle, details the turn around the Biden administration has made in its first 100 days to address the impending climate crisis.
At the age of fifteen, Jens Peterson began his climate change journey, authoring What We Leave: A Caretaker's Guide to an Ill Planet. Now nineteen, Jens offers a blueprint for each of us to become environmental advocates.
The closing chapter from Jens Peterson's What We Leave: A Caretaker's Guide to an Ill Planet envisions the catastrophe to our world If We Do Nothing.
What if your every trip to the grocery store helped counteract climate change? Hear how Turner Wyatt and Leah Graham of Upcycled Food Association are working to make that vision a reality.
Mark Reynolds, Executive Director of Citizen's Climate Lobby, makes the case that now is the time to enact a carbon tax.
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Journey with ex pat Kristen Krash to the cloud forest of Ecuador where she is regenerating the land with organic cacao at Sueno de Vida.
When our lives are disrupted by crisis, can we look beyond the distress to view the moment as an opportunity for introspection, action and change? In this compelling essay, Eilene Zimmerman details the personal growth trajectories of three individuals who have thrived in new directions because of the pandemic. Will we apply this lesson of resiliency to the impending climate crisis?
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In this extended Earth Day episode, 14 food systems professionals share their expertise on ways individuals can counteract climate change at home.
What do you know about the origins of Earth Day? Sarah Pruitt provides the background of this yearly celebration on April 22.
At this time of ecological devastation and climate emergency, when things seem hopeless, what difference can one person or group of people make? Rose and Christine discuss how the findings of Quantum Physics can inform our experience of these difficult times, including the importance of staying connected to life's mystery and loving the world despite the crises we are facing.
Can we replicate the same sense of urgency for climate change that we showed for Covid-19? Rebecca Solnit shows us why we must.
This story was originally published by The Guardian, and is republished here as part of the Covering Climate Now www.theguardian.com/enviroment/series/covering-climate-now partnership to strengthen the media's focus on the climate crisis.
Satish Kamir, Editor Emeritus of Resurgence & Ecologist magazine, insists that reverence for nature should be at the heart of every political and social debate as he reminds us of the interconnection of all living things.
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This story was originally published by The Guardian, and is republished here as part of the Covering Climate Now www.theguardian.com/enviroment/series/covering-climate-now partnership to strengthen the media's focus on the climate crisis.
In 2019 Dr. Erlijn van Genutchen took an employee assignment, to help make the company she worked for more sustainable, to heart. The result from her desire to leave a huge positive footprint on the world? A 365 sustainable decision challenge documented daily on social media, garnering a 55k+ twitter following, now become book and social movement.
In this Call to Action, Kristen Krash shares her five plus years of learning as she and her partner continue regenerating degraded land in Ecuador into a lush food jungle. "Conserving forests and regenerating stripped land are our best chances for mitigating climate change, period. "
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Two scientific journal studies published in recent weeks detail the environmental destruction of our oceans in ways not previously contemplated. How much longer can humanity ignore the damage we are causing?
DRAWDOWN lists the education of girls as the #6 solution to counteract Global Warming. What would the world look like if we opened classrooms to the 62 million girls worldwide who currently are currently denied education? The possibilities are life changing for all of us!
Fifteen women, representing hundreds of years of women's empowerment work, discuss the need for humanity to embrace collaborative, compassionate feminine energy at this time in order to heal Mother Earth.
"Here is the challenge of our time, dear beings: To truly open our hearts to the wonders of Interbeing, to live a connected, open-eyed, open-hearted, wide-awake life of awareness and responsiveness to what is happening on our beloved planet, this comes with a cost. And that cost is an intensity of grief."
Modern mystic Amber Samaya is an artist, a visionary, and an oracle. In this reflection shared on her website, ambersamaya.com, she shares her experience of deep grief of "being born into an earth family that is poisoning each other and our one and only home." Samaya also calls to each to experience our grief, for in experiencing it lies to key to our personal and collective healing.
As children communicating with the natural world was a part of our everyday life. Travel back to a time when you KNEW you were a part of something larger. Can remembering our truth help us avert the climate crisis?
Can humanity view nature as “an ally,” not a foe, in the quest for sustainable human development? U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres makes this plea as we confront three simultaneous environmental emergencies: climate change, biodiversity loss, and air and water pollution.
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Our differences can be divisive OR if we can remain curious, they can offer us an opportunity to look for solutions with new eyes. Author Dana Simson, author of Come Together, suggests ways we can dispel the drama and collaborate toward a livable future .
Mother Nature issues yet another warning in the guise of unusual freezing temperatures in Texas. resulting in the life threatening shutdown of infrastructure. In an absurd twist, fossil fuel funded politicians and media continue to negate the connection. Bob Koehler provides clarity.
What if counteracting the climate crisis were as simple as reallocating where you spend your dollars? Liz Christou, author of Spend Green and Save The World, joins Rose to discuss what's possible when we spend mindfully.
Carl Safina responds to the January 2021 paper "Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future". in which 17 climate experts concur : 1) Future environmental conditions will be far more dangerous than currently believed. 2) Questioning what political/economic system is prepared or even capable to handle these impending disasters, 3) acknowledgement of "an extraordinary responsibility on scientists to speak out candidly and accurately when engaging with government, business, and the public"
In this special edition of Eaarth Feels Podcast, eleven climate professionals from around the globe address how individual actions can thwart the biggest existential crisis known to humanity.
Have you noticed how petroleum products are everywhere you look? Our everyday lives are completely enmeshed , from our modes of transportation to the aspirin we take to alleviate our headaches.
In this opinion piece printed on February 5, 2021 in the New York Times, Michael Patrick F. Smith uses his first hand knowledge as an oil rig swamper to illustrate how pervasive our oil addiction is, why our dependence will not disappear soon and and suggest ways we can better support the men and women in the oil industry as we make the transition away from fossil fuels.
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As the government of India sets its sights on corporate investment and exponential GDP growth, their legislature passed three new agricultural bills in September without input from the millions involved in small farms. In response, tens of thousands of Indian farmers, and workers in support of the farmers, have taken to the roads and streets, shutting down highways and rails in an effort to be heard.
In this February 1, 2021 essay by George Spain-Warner from Exploratree.blog we are given a look at the on-going capitalism vs climate fight and the opportunity to evaluate the impact Covid-19 has had since it stepped into the ring.
Plastics have become an essential part of our modern lifestyle. They are lightweight, durable and cheap. But here’s the thing...though they offer numerous benefits, plastics originate as fossil fuels and emit greenhouse gases from cradle to grave. Perhaps once we add in their environmental costs, they aren't a bargain after all.
Despite the worldwide downturn of energy use due to Covid-19 in 2020, global renewable energy capacity set a record and 2021 is expected to be even better.
Richard Matthews is the owner and principle writer of The Green Market Oracle, covering the convergence of sustainable capitalism and the global environment. Richard's articles have been featured in over 50 publications including a United Nations Development Programme report, Scientific American, ENN, and CleanTechnica.
As we look forward to a more just, equitable future can we shift our economic model away from merely continual growth to incorporate both a social foundation for all peoples as well as an ecological ceiling?
British Economist Kate Raworth has created Doughnut Economics as this future looking model, now being adopted in progressive cities around the globe.
*"Global people’s movements and women leaders have been organizing for decades for climate justice, and community-led solutions. We the people continue to act with fierce love for our communities and the planet in mind, and will hold those accountable for the damage they have done, while continuing to offer a different path forward. We call for the protection of Mother Earth, and we envision a healthy, thriving, just world for current and future generations. This moment must be a turning point, there is no other option."*
Osprey Orielle Lake and Katherine Quaid ofWomen's Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN) make the case that climate justice cannot be achieved without women's leadership, particularly the leadership of women of color and Indigenous women. Originally published on CommonDreams.org.
Every dollar we spend creates the world we live in. Creating change can be as simple as reallocating those dollars. By shifting our investments can we fuel the world our hearts know is possible?
Christine and Rose are joined by Dr. Craig Jonas, founder of CoPeace, who believes it is possible to grow your money for good.
In Chapter 8 of The World We Have, Thich Nhat Hanh reminds us of our inter-being with all of Nature, while emphasizing that as we kill off our natural environment we are essentially bringing about our own demise.
Thich Nhat Hanh is a Vietnamese Buddhist monk, poet scholar and human rights activist. He has traveled the world for over 50 years speaking about the need for peace.
In Chapter 8 of The World We Have, Thich Nhat Hanh reminds us of our inter-being with all of Nature, while emphasizing that as we kill off our natural environment we are essentially bringing about our own demise.
Thich Nhat Hanh is a Vietnamese Buddhist monk, poet scholar and human rights activist. He has traveled the world for over 50 years speaking about the need for peace.
Bob Koehler, an author and self-described peace journalist, talks about how the current chaos may be just the thing we need to spring us forward into action and evolve into a more peaceful, just, and renewable society.
"As the New Year asserts itself — a year that begins in global lockdown and political shock-and-awe — an extraordinary question emerges: Are we on the brink of real change?"
Robert Koehler, a self-described "Peace Journalist" and author of Courage Grows Strong At the Wound, looks at whether there is a possibility of true evolutionary change at this moment in history.
Happy New Year! In the first Eaarth Feels conversation of 2021, Rose talks about gardening in the increasingly dry and hot southwestern United States, with Arizona- based public health nurse and avid gardener Ronda Seifert*.
Note: Ms Seifert is sharing her own views, not those of her employer.
The costs of climate crisis reach beyond mere property values and infrastructure systems. Will shifting the focus to the significant human dimensions of the climate problem motivate more aggressive policy responses to avoid the worst costs to public health?
ViJay Limaye, climate and health scientist in NRDC's Science Centers, makes the case.
The end of the year is the perfect time to reassess your charitable giving. Christine and Rose recount their favorite organizations that are leading the way to combat climate change. Are any of these organizations on your list?
It should be noted that neither Christine nor Rose are financial planners. These charities are their personal favorites only.
"The time has come for the nations of the world to embrace a new approach to world politics that treats the preservation of the biosphere as a core national interest and a central objective of national security policy. Call this new mindset ecological realism.”
Robert Koehler, a self-described "Peace Journalist" and author of Courage Grows Strong At the Wound, makes the case that it's time for ecological realism to replace the outdated "political realism" that currently dominates geopolitics.