Resources

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Resources

Books

Spiritual Ecology : The Cry of the Earth – edited by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

The first edition of this book fostered the emergence of the "Spiritual Ecology Movement," which recognizes the need for a spiritual response to our present ecological crisis. This second expanded edition offers new chapters, including two from younger authors who are putting the principles of spiritual ecology into action, working with their hands as well as their hearts.

Joanna Macy & Chris Johnstone: Active Hope Revised; How to Face the Mess We're in with Unexpected Resilience and Creative Power
Active Hope is about finding, and offering, our best response when facing concerns about our world situation. It offers tools that help us face the mess we’re in, as well as find and play our role in the collective transition, or Great Turning, towards a society and way of being that support the flourishing of life.

Robin Wall Kimmerer : Braiding Sweet grass

Sicelo Mbatha: Black Lion alive in the wilderness
James Bridle: Ways of Being, beyond human intelligence

Merlin Sheldrake : Entangled Life

Suzanne Simard : Finding the Mother Tree

Karen Bakker : The Sounds of Life: How digital technology is bringing us closer to the worlds of animals and plants

Articles:

Robin Wall Kimmerer:  The teachings of plants - finding common ground between traditional and scientific knowledge

Suzanne Simard:  Finding the Mother Tree 

Barbara Smuts: Encounters with animal minds 

James Bridle: If we can farm metal from plants, what else can we learn from life on Earth?

Podcasts

Emergence Magazine : When the Earth started to Sing by David Haskell

Emergence Magazine is an award-winning magazine exploring the threads connecting ecology, culture and spirituality. Our podcast features exclusive interviews, author-narrated essays, fiction, multipart series, and more.

Reframing Collapse with Lyla June Johnstone

Dr. Lyla June Johnston, who is of Navajo, Cheyenne, and European lineages, recently received her PhD from the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ Indigenous Studies Program, with a focus on Indigenous land stewardship. She also has a degree in environmental anthropology, with honors, from Stanford University, and a degree in American Indian education, with distinction, from the University of New Mexico. She has brilliantly woven her knowledge into her public speaking and multigenre art, including prayer, hip-hop, poetry, and acoustic music, while inspiring international audiences towards personal, collective, and ecological healing.