Creating social change
Living through the Unraveling
In previous posts, I've referred to The Great Unraveling and The Shattering -- two ways of describing these times we're experiencing right now. Horrifying terms, but they beg the question: What can we do about it?
Virtual field trip: Gangsta Gardener
Ron Finley has been an artist and food activist in South LA for many years. He is renowned for changing the laws regarding growing food in L.A. parkways.
A fresh start
In the Environmental Change-Makers (ECM) of 20 years ago — yes, it’s really been that long! — we focused a lot on the little things: taking your cloth bags to market, learning to compost, using real reusable dishes and cloth…
Resurgence
poem: astonished I / notice green shoots
The Third Great Revolution
Eco philosopher Joanna Macy declares we are in the midst of the Third Great Revolution in the history of mankind
Still the airport
poem: still the airport gleaming / with faux promises
Unseen
poem: firm white domes crest garden soil / sporophores / like icebergs
Ignore-ance
poem: Gotta dash to soccer practice
Ode to the Myco-miracle
poem: fuzzy as a teddy bear, you thread across my compost pile.
What are climate solutions?
Although the media now mentions climate change far more than they used to, nearly all this news is still focused on climate-as-a-problem, and climate-as-drama. Very very few of these many articles end with "here's what you can do." In that,…
