Radical Joy for Hard Times is an organization, practice, and worldwide community that gives back to those places on Earth that have given so much to us and can’t give what they used to.
EVERY PLACE MATTERS
Radical Joy for Hard Times is a worldwide community of people dedicated to bringing meaning, beauty, and value to places that have been damaged by human or natural acts.
We are willing to face the sorrow we feel when the places we care about have been hurt and to respond not by turning our backs but by boldly stepping forth to spend time with these places and offer them gifts of love and gratitude for all they have given to us. We believe that in these troubling times, taking care of the places where we live in the present, even as we work for a better future is an essential tool for survival.
Listening to the land and to one another, we discover a new sense of belonging. We gain the courage to go through hard times, for we see that it is always possible to give beauty and kindness. We recognize that all places, like all people, have inherent value. We discover that, although we may disagree with our neighbors about some things, we share a deep and abiding love of place.
We understand that we are all connected in the common ground beneath our hearts.
RADICAL JOY VALUES
We can’t wait to love the places we’re losing.
2019 Global Earth Exchange
Daring to Bear Witness
To do the RadJoy Practice takes a fierce love of a place and the courage to face it and make beauty for it when it’s fallen on hard times! And on the day of the Global Earth Exchange people all over the world do this bold act of caring with outrageous creativity on the same day.
Saturday June 22!
EXCHANGE EVENTS REGISTERED
See where other Hosts participated this year!
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GLOBAL EARTH EXCHANGE STORIES
Feed your soul with stories of heartache and radical joy!
Keep coming back! Featured stories will change regularly.
From the Lake District to Dorset
As we set off for our vacation in West Dorset, we expected to find many sadly neglected areas along the roadside and around service stations as we journeyed and had planned to do ‘guerrilla sowing [...]
Kilvey Earth Exchange
My mother had an operation the day before the Global Earth Exchange, so due to [...]
Smooth Rock Croc
It was really fantastic to share this event with a friend. We saw all this [...]
The Occasional Beauty of Barbed Wire
The land we were on for our wilderness rites of passage program is private land [...]
Pilgrimage in a Burnt Forest
I head into the Sierras to explore the area burnt by the Donnell Fire in [...]
Church of the Woods Earth Exchange
The people of Church of the Woods in Canterbury, NH, USA, gathered on a little [...]