Nature :: Spirit
Exploring kinship in a living, animate world
Showing 12 essays tagged climate change
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55. Orbs of Buttery Goodness
Or, what my avocado tree has to say about world relations
Mar 22, 2025
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50. A Huge Climate Win in Hawaiʻi
Led by young people. But why are kids doing this work?
Jul 3, 2024
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35. What We Truly Burn For
On the power ordinary people have to limit climate change—more than we think!—especially if we make choices by honoring our deepest values
Sep 18, 2022
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31. Looking Toward the Dawn
How to discern changes based on old mindsets from changes that are truly fresh and new, inspired by an image from a meditative spirit journey
Mar 6, 2022
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26. What’s Good for Creeks
Water as our earliest beloved—how I learned to cherish it and how everyone can work for its well-being
Jul 31, 2021
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16. Loving the Earth: A New Traditional Value
Choosing different values, with Xiye Bastida (Otomi-Toltec) of the climate movement; Nemonte Nenquimo (Waorani) of the Amazon rainforest; and Simon Pokagon (Potawatomi), a Great Lakes writer of 1893
Oct 16, 2020
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15. Reimagining Community
How community could support individuals, not mass-produce them, and how West African traditional values could help
Oct 2, 2020
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14. Everything Is Alive and We Are All Relatives
On the philosophy shared by Indigenous people around the world; some wise words from Hawaiian philosopher Manulani Aluli Meyer; and how to open your heart to the land-community where you live
Sep 18, 2020
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5. On Masks and Fear and a Truer Story of Nature
What denial of a virus has to do with whiteness
Jul 3, 2020
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Seeing Each Other Through
Reimagining community, care, and nature in a time of distance
Mar 20, 2020
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We have to put the health of the Earth absolutely first. It will mean listening with humility to what the animals and plants and trees and insects need to thrive. It will mean putting their needs first, for they were here first; they prepared the Earth to be friendly to human evolution. Our lives depend on their lives, our health on their health. It will mean loving the Earth, the body of us all. Transforming the law to value ownership less, and health and life more.