Fireflies, cicadas, and other kin: a climate change story
I rescued a firefly this morning, giving it a lift outside from the bathroom floor. What would Summer be without fireflies? To my dismay, climate change may yield an answer.
Saved Places
Can you picture a future with scarce water, scarce green plants, no trees? Small and remote insular communities bound together by necessity? Climate fiction is often dystopian because …
Litany for the Earth
Consider: the world needs evolutionary change. Not the kind of evolution that’s slow and increment. Evolutionary as in revolutionary, transformative. Consider:
Beltane 2020
The first of May, a time to dance, to weave colorful ribbons about a maypole. A time to celebrate the uplifting, the fertile, the greening. A time to make love. Yet this year, I am as attuned to what is below as what is above ground.
Singing to the Trees
A few years back, eight of us wrote this song for trees as part of a ritual to protect them from the ash borer and strengthen the Living Web. I sing this song as I walk the woods and meadow of a native plant sanctuary. Perhaps you’d like to join me.
Connecting
Humans, like most beings, thrive when we share intimacy. Yet I’m writing this amidst a pandemic, a time to practice social distancing in order to flatten the curve (please!) and stop the spread of this new virus. Still, we can connect with one another.
Here are some tips for connection.
Ecosystems are People
Rivers, wild rice, the animal kingdom, and other elements of Nature are People. The right of Nature to exist, to regenerate…does not detract from human rights.
When the Earth is Our Teacher
Picture this: you stand in a grove of trees; rocks, moss, and ferns cradle the massive furrowed trunks that rise from wide roots to soar far above. Dappled sunlight reaches...
Ki: Pronoun of the Revolution
How do we address and refer to non-human beings? Relegating trees and canines to the same classification as a metal table, an it: nope, doesn’t feel right. I attended a talk with
Climate Emergency: Act Now
A sailboat blocked traffic in busy Times Square for hours in NYC: Extinction Rebellion has arrived in the US. While XR began in the United Kingdom, it has spread to...