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.
HOST REGISTRATION IS OPEN!
Our 10th Global Earth Exchange, Daring To Bear Witness, is on June 22, 2019! Learn more about the Global Earth Exchange or check out our map of current Exchange Event registrations below.
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. Join us this year on Saturday June 22!
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REGISTER TO HOST!
Our 10th Global Earth Exchange, Daring To Bear Witness, is on June 22, 2019! If you’re ready to practice Radical Joy, please register to Host your Exchange Event as part of our Global event.
RECENT EXCHANGE EVENTS REGISTERED
See where other Hosts are participating this year!
Click on the map to see details about other 2019 Global Earth Exchanges
LATEST EXCHANGE EVENTS REGISTERED
Water in the World
Location Name: Marla’s HouseHost: Marla Ferguson
Wounded Place Type: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers
This is a Private event.
For the Waters of Denmark
Location Name: Tranekaer, DenmarkHost: susanne joergensen
Wounded Place Type: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers
This is a Private event.
Remembering gratitude
Location Name: Gors Fawr stone circleHost: Julie Heavens
Wounded Place Type: Climate change | Historic & Cultural Sites
This is a Private event.
GLOBAL EARTH EXCHANGE STORIES
Feed your soul with stories of heartache and radical joy!
Keep coming back! Featured stories will change regularly.
Indigenous Soul Awakens at Black Rock
I am sitting in the late afternoon sun of a summer evening on ancient limestone rocks on the shores of the Great Salt Lake— a vast desert lake, 7 times saltier than the ocean, an [...]
Forest Ninja Summer Camp
Thriving Roots Wilderness School offers the Forest Ninja Summer Camp with our amazing lead instructor, [...]
A town affected by violence
From the 2016 Global Earth Exchange Un pueblo afectado por la violencia (A town affected [...]
For the Hayarkon River and the Young Woman Who Almost Drowned in It
From the 2013 Global Earth Exchange: We chose the Hayarkon River as a wounded place [...]
Beauty for the Country of Ukraine June 21, 2014
Ukraine joined June 21 for worldwide movement Global Earth Exchange. This bird is placed on [...]
For the Hayarkon River and the Young Woman Who Almost Drowned in It
We chose the Hayarkon River as a wounded place for 2 reasons. First, it has [...]