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.
The Ground Beneath Our Hearts
On September 12, 2015, Radical Joy for Hard Times partnered with ten communities around the world that have been severely affected by mineral extraction. From a journalist's visit to a children's cemetery in a polluted [...]
Earth Exchange in the Hunter Valley
NOTE: Radical Joy for Hard Times is honored that Australian philosopher-author-activist Glenn Albrecht, who coined [...]
Earth Exchange at Rocky Flats-Standley Lake
from Sasha: We did the Earth Exchange last Monday, and here is a brief description [...]
Gentle Waters, Wild Earth
What an amazing and beautiful time we had along Crooked Creek in rural Missouri. We [...]
From the Lake District to Dorset
As we set off for our vacation in West Dorset, we expected to find many [...]
Kilvey Earth Exchange
My mother had an operation the day before the Global Earth Exchange, so due to [...]