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26. What’s good for creeks

July 31, 2021

Transcript Twenty years ago this summer I started something new. Something I had no idea how to do. It was related to the creek that ran beside our house in Oakland. I’d moved onto the property a few years before, charmed by the old house on a steep hill and especially by the seasonal creek…  Read More…

Tagged With: agricultural runoff, All We Can Save, climate change, creek cleanups, creek preservation, creeks, fertilizer, herbicides, land trusts, lawn turf, lawngrass, native plants, pesticides, restoring creeks, rights of nature, rivers, urban creeks, water is life, water quality, watersheds

 

25. Why doesn’t everyone love diversity?

June 26, 2021

Transcript We step down the slope of wet sand. Today the waves are small, breaking in soft foam around our ankles. We wade in deeper, settle our snorkel masks on our faces, and lift our feet from the sand, floating toward our local reef. My eyes roam over the rolling stretches of coral below us….  Read More…

Tagged With: Anabaptists, Augustine, authoritarianism, Calvinism, church discipline, control, coral reef, Crusades, democracy, diversity, feudalism, forest bathing, Inquisitions, intolerance, Karen Stenner, logic of authoritarianism, Mennonites, monoculture, original sin, persecution, pluralism, Roman Empire, social discipline, tolerance, tropical reef, Vine Deloria Jr.

 

24. A duty of care

May 28, 2021

Transcript “A duty of care.” I ran across the phrase this week in a book I was reading, To Speak for the Trees, by the botanist Diana Beresford-Kroeger. In the book Diana talks about growing up in Britain and Ireland—how she was orphaned at the age of twelve and then how her mother’s people, who…  Read More…

Tagged With: Aboriginal, aloha 'āina, care, caring, Celtic, Claire Hiwahiwa Steele, custodial ethic, duty of care, equality, ethic of care, Great Law of Peace, Haudenosaunee, Hawaiian, Indigenous, Indigenous values, Iroquois, kuleana, land, love, mālama 'āina, Mary Graham, Oren Lyons, Peasants' War, relationships with nature, responsibility, responsiveness, social justice

 

23. Going on a spirit journey

April 9, 2021

Transcript So I want to talk more about prayer or meditation on a path of nature spirituality. Of course on this path there are many possible kinds of prayer and meditation, but today I’d like to focus on one in particular: the practice of going on a spirit journey. I want to talk about this…  Read More…

Tagged With: coming into the heart, dethroning the ego, discernment, ego, love, meditation, mindfulness meditation, prayer, Spirit Helper, spirit journeys, still small voice, truth vs. ego

 

22. An inheritance problem

March 5, 2021

Transcript A long time ago there lived a very wealthy man who owned vast estates. The story says that he was a ruler, or government official, and this is how we know he was a landowner, because in his time and place, to have a seat in government you had to own land, and lots…  Read More…

Tagged With: afterlife, class system, equality, feudal system, inequality, inequality and health, inheritance, kingdom of God, law of property, potlatch, property law in history, property rights, Rich Young Ruler, Roman Empire, sharing, Vine Deloria Jr.

 

21. Committing to your hunger

February 2, 2021

Transcript If you’ve ever watched a nature documentary, you’ve seen a clip of it—a lion with muscles rippling sweeping across the savanna toward a zebra or gazelle. The lion is fully committed to the chase, bursting into top speed at a moment’s notice to satisfy their hunger. When it comes to getting their food, animals…  Read More…

Tagged With: ancient Greek philosophy, attitudes toward animals, attitudes toward nature, capitalism, circle of life, Earth justice, ecological niches, economic growth, greed, Hesiod, hunger, hungry beasts, joy, justice, labor, predator-prey relationship, profit, sharing, work

 
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