The ballot initiative action project is a way of assuming agency as ecological disaster grows increasingly imminent. Harnessing individual ability and momentum for a collective effort is a way of acting out community and planetary oriented ideals. By working alongside other people, one is able to see the needs of “the self” as collective, and in this case, as ecological… Read more »
Contemplative practices can act as a way of reorienting our connection to the world. Personally, there is a very real sense of calmness and connectedness I feel during contemplative practices, and I believe this is because contemplative practices help re-center the individual within time and living systems. This centering allows for a new and more inspired appraisal and approach to… Read more »
Knowing that radical changes must occur requires reconciliation of different earth-related mortalities and understanding the interconnected fates of the bodies living on and with this planet. The mortality of our earth, the species living on it, and humans in particular, must be faced with seriousness and gravity in order to accept and submit to radical changes in earth living. To… Read more »