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"We are in proportions that are just beyond language. We are in mythology. And how do you write about something that is larger than language? Maybe you have to understand beauty and poetry and love. Who do I love that will experience this in the hard way?" "The Last Ice Age" Emergence Magazine presents "Shifting Landscapes"—a four-part documentary series, directed by Emmy- and Peabody-nominated filmmakers Adam Loften and Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee, exploring the power of art and story to orient us amid the darkness of our time. In the series' third film, Icelandic storyteller Andri Snær Magnason uses myth to help us fathom the immense scale of transformation engulfing the Earth. "For Andri, climate change is like a black hole: so big it exceeds what our minds can grasp. We understand it not by looking straight at its center, but by looking at its edges—to the stories that can bring it into focus. On a journey retracing his grandparents’ annual spring pilgrimage to Iceland’s Vatnajökull glacier, he searches for the narratives that lie at the periphery of the climate crisis, in both scientific data and his family’s memories. Witnessing the inevitable decline of Europe’s largest ice cap with his son Hlynur, Andri pulls on the ties of love that connect generations to try and see what the immense changes he has seen in just one lifetime will mean for the future of the planet." Watch "The Last Ice Age" and experience this series: https://lnkd.in/dtRnpe5N Learn more about Emergence Magazine: https://lnkd.in/d3BKtwXD #SpiritualEcology #EmergenceMagazine

Sustainable Economies Law Center cultivates a new legal landscape that supports community resilience and grassroots economic empowerment. SELC provides essential legal tools – education, research, advice, and advocacy – so communities everywhere can develop their own sustainable sources of food, housing, energy, jobs, and other vital aspects of a thriving community. In partnership with Kalliopeia, SELC is holding Sacred Legal Circles, a special offering to land and housing projects that center spirituality, the sacred, and/or non-dominant/non-Western worldviews. Learn more about this grantee partner by following the link in our stories. #SpiritualEcology #GranteePartner #LandCare

Grantee partner Dr. Suzanne Simard recently attended the fourth annual Awi'nakola - Tree of Life Gathering on Kwakiutl territory, Vancouver Island in British Columbia. Dr. Simard discussed Mother Tree Project’s forest regeneration work at the research sites in a recently clear-cut, ancient old-growth forest, estimated to be about 1,000 years old. Less than 3% of this diverse, productive ecosystems remain in the province and the trees are still being clearcut. "We ended our gathering in a clear cut with sała, a Kwakwaka’wakw mourning ceremony for the forests that have been destroyed. Hosted by Kwakwakawakw chiefs, this is the first time in 14,000 years that sała has been held for our non-human kin." Learn more about Dr. Suzanne Simard: https://lnkd.in/gE5ZJRc6 Image credits: Awi'nakola - Tree of Life and Dr. Suzanne Simard. #SpiritualEcology #LandCare

"We are using our bodies to put down those prayers because underneath this asphalt our ancestors still hear us and they are calling on us to continue." — Corrina Gould, Sogorea Te Land Trust Local Indigenous photographer Ashley Salaz took these engaging images at grantee Sogorea Te' Land Trust's event celebrating the rematriation of the West Berkeley Shellmound last month. Evident from these photos, it was a great honouring, with an opening ceremonial prayer dance led by 13 Pomo and Ohlone tribal members, which included Sogorea Te Land Trust Co-Founder Corrina Gould with her daughter, granddaughter and other relatives. Learn more about this liberation celebration here: https://lnkd.in/d8ciNabN Photographs used with permission from the artist. Find more of her brilliant work on Instagram: @mingus.mouse Learn more about this grantee partner: https://lnkd.in/dQpz6pS4 #SpiritualEcology #GranteePartnerMedia #LandCare #WomensLeadership

Congratulations to grantee partner Earth Law Center, whose film "Last Stand: Saving the Elwha River's Legacy Forests" has been raking in film festival selections and awards. This inspiring documentary about the halt of timber sale along the Elwha River, and the interconnected web of life upon which salmon, orcas, rivers, forests, and humans all depend, features Elizabeth D., Earth Law Center's Director of Legal Advocacy. It is an important resource with deep lessons about the global importance of these older, structurally complex, naturally regenerated, and uniquely carbon-dense, temperate rainforests and their role in mitigating climate change. Watch the entire film here: https://lnkd.in/ehzsVy4s Learn more about grantee Earth Law Center: https://lnkd.in/dkUMfgCN #SpiritualEcology #GranteePartnerNews #LandCare

Learn more about Mother Law at grantee partner Land Justice Futures' free online introduction to this mandate and movement. "Mother Law and Complicit No More are all at once maps, keys and medicine for the restoration of right relationship with creation. Guided and supported by our Indigenous and Black movement elders, we bring an Introduction to these concepts and movements to you in an hour of storytelling." Learn more, and register for the August 19 online event here: https://lnkd.in/dTBHv4Y9 In this image: The Mother Law Collective at the 2023 Gathering, clockwise from top-left: Sarah Augustine (Tewa descendent); Tela Troge (Shinnecock); Beverly Jacobs (Mohawk); Estensei Pangowish (Anishnawbe kwe); Sr. Pat Siemen, OP (Adrian Dominican Sisters); Janelle Orsi (SELC); Libby Comeaux (Loretto Community); Pamela Pembleton (Mohawk); Sarah Bradley (Land Justice Futures); Brittany Koteles (Land Justice Futures); Pat McCabe (Diné); Clanmother Louise Herne (Mohawk); Faithkeeper Diane Schenandoah (Oneida); Michelle Schenandoah (Oneida). Learn more about grantee partner Land Justice Futures: https://lnkd.in/daDkyCSy #SpiritualEcology #GranteePartnerEvents #LandCare

In this episode of Post Carbon Institute's "What Could Possibly Go Right?" series, Sherri Mitchell talks through a number of different ways in which to positively approach "this potent time of change" clearly and courageously. The founding director of grantee partner Land Peace Foundation, Sherri shares advice on how to: ・Start thinking about who are we beyond the stories that we tell, including the narratives carried forward from problematic pasts. ・Learn to sit in a space of rootedness and visualize the world that we most want to inhabit, then become a citizen who is able to live there, in a peaceful, just and equitable way. ・Get energy from aligning ourselves with those energies that were creating something new, that were about imagining and building the possibility of a new reality. ・Be conscious with our use of technology and aiming to reconnect our bodies to the earth and its teachings. Listen here for more wisdom: https://lnkd.in/dGWS2WhS Learn more about the Land Peace Foundation: https://lnkd.in/dNU4wRvu #SpiritualEcology #GranteePartnerFeaturedMedia #LandCare #WomensLeadership #FoodSovereignty #IndigenousLanguage

"Traditional Knowledge or TEK is a responsibility and to be able to put into action the gift of that knowledge and wisdom from the elders and community members ceremonial leaders... what benefits the tribe is also going to benefit society." —Frank K. Lake Grantee partner The Cultural Conservancy's founding executive director and CEO, Melissa K. Nelson, interviewed two Native scientist colleagues at the annual 2023 Ecological Society of America conference in Portland, Oregon. Listen to this conversation in the latest Native Seed Pod podcast, where they discuss Indigenous ecologies, the history of the TEK section, and data sovereignty. Frank Kanawha Lake is a Research Ecologist and the Tribal Liaison and Climate Change contact for the Pacific Southwest Research Station, USDA Forest Service, and Dr. Lydia Jennings is an environmental soil scientist. Learn more and listen here: https://lnkd.in/dsdnq6cv Learn more about The Cultural Conservancy: https://lnkd.in/d7CcbTAA #SpiritualEcology #GranteePartnerMedia

"I descend from that mountain, but also the mountain has taught me, has spoken to me, has shaped me, has transformed me in how I walk in this world." —Pualani Case "Born Was the Mountain" by Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder is an investigative story published by Emergence Magazine in 2018, which explores the discord between the Native Hawaiian and astronomical communities that continues to play out on the summit of Mauna Kea, a sacred mountain that was earmarked for the construction of the biggest telescope on Earth. Grounded in interviews with land defenders, and interwoven with photography and archival footage, this story gives more context to "Aloha ‘Āina"—the second film in the new Emergence Magazine's Shifting Landscapes documentary film series. Revisit this article here, or explore the feature for the first time: https://lnkd.in/djfPCjd8 #SpiritualEcology #EmergenceMagazine

Land Justice Futures believes that religious communities—and the lands they love—can be a powerful part of a just, equitable, and livable future for all of us. Find free educational resources for faith communities, the land and climate justice movements, and all those seeking to create a new paradigm of racial repair, ecological regeneration and transformation of our relationship to land on the LJF learning platform: - a free introductory 5-part course on Land Justice; - a video library of the last 18 months of free public programs, case studies, interviews and more; - downloads of our Land Justice Imagination Briefs; and - registration links for upcoming events. Find these resources here: https://lnkd.in/dQ7SxgJT Learn more about grantee partner Land Justice Futures: https://lnkd.in/daDkyCSy #SpiritualEcology #GranteePartnerResources #LandCare