Posts in Deep Ecology
Sustainability, Deep Ecology, Sacred Connection

Sustainability is often referred to as “deep ecology” and it considers the ecosystem as a living whole of which humanity is only one part. In this complex web of interrelationships all species are dependent upon each other, and it is this dynamic pattern of inter-relationship that needs to be sustained. No one part can be considered as separate from the whole.

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Jim Wallis In Conversation with Margaret Atwood

President and founder of Sojourners, Rev. Jim Wallis welcomes best-selling author Margaret Atwood for a conversation on the effect that debt — monetary, spiritual, and ecological — are having on people and the planet. Together, they explore why Margaret’s groundbreaking novel, “The Handmaid’s Tale,” is even more prescient today, and why loving your neighbor means loving your neighbor’s oxygen, too.

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Practice Resurrection, Wendell Berry's Manifesto

The season of Eastertide is the season of resurrection, the season of new life. Arriving at the same time as the emergence of spring, we have all around us evidence that from the cold, hard, seemingly barren ground, astonishing wonders may emerge. Wendell Berry has learned from the earth and offers us his manifesto for practicing resurrection.

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We Are Water Protectors, by Carole Lindstrom

We Are the Water Protectors, written for 3 – 6 year olds, nurtures and strengthens the inclination to safeguard Mother Earth. Written by Carole Lindstrom, tribally enrolled with the Turtle Mountain Band of Ojibwe and a fierce water protector herself, with accompanying pictures by Michaela Goade, an award-winning designer and illustrator of Tlingit descent, it is a thoughtful reflection on the interconnectedness of water and those who must care for it.

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The Great Turning, Joanna Macy

At a time when everything we love seems to be at risk, Joanna Macy offers a kind of road map for this unique moment in human history when we must come alive to our truest power, to "look straight into the face of our time," and to participate in the Great Turning. What is the Great Turning? It is, as Joanna describes it, the shift from the industrial growth society to a life-sustaining one.

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Thawing Arctic Permafrost seems like a Distant Threat. It’s not.

For people living in the Arctic, climate change is hacking away at their foundation. It drives storm surges, washes out roads and clogs rivers with sediments. It produces sinkholes and triggers landslides capable of altering the topography and tilting houses. The climate crisis is even seen by some as a form of environmental racism — a problem created down south and suffered up north. Susan Nerberg, from Broadview.org headed up north to witness these dramatic changes.

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What It Means to Be Human, Jane Goodall

Krista Tippet from The On Being Project, interviews Jane Goodall. Goodall’s early research studying chimpanzees helped shape the self-understanding of our species and recalled modern Western science to the fact that we are a part of nature, not separate from it. From her decades studying chimpanzees in the Gombe forest to her more recent years attending to human poverty and misunderstanding, she reflects on the moral and spiritual convictions that have driven her, and what she is teaching and still learning about what it means to be human.

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The Art of Being Creatures. Wendell Berry and Ellen Davis

In this podcast from The On Being Project with Krista Tippet, Krista speaks with one of her beloved teachers, Ellen Davis, as they ponder the world and our place in it, through sacred text, with fresh eyes. We’re accompanied by the meditative and prophetic poetry of Wendell Berry, read for us from his home in Kentucky. If you are interested in how our Biblical text connects to the environmental movement, here is a wonderful exploration of farming, scripture, and how we are bound in a sacred relationship with our earthly home.

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