We did our Earth Exchange at Manzanar Relocation Center, the site of one of ten American concentration camps. More than 120,000 Japanese Americans were incarcerated during World War II from March 1942 to November 1945. »

Many local people described how torn they feel, between the employment provided by the quarry for locals, and the noise, disturbance, danger and damage caused by the quarry and its traffic. It disturbs the bird »

Ithaca is a beautiful city that incorporates nature into many parts of its neighborhoods and streets. Stewart Park is right on the southern shore of Cayuga Lake. Cayuga Lake has been historically degraded but Ithaca »

We carried so much grief for the world and Earth into our ceremony. We created a ring of natural objects around a patch of green growth. After sharing stories, prayers, & song, we left feeling »

Three of us—Erika Dagress, Tom Schloegel, and I, Trebbe Johnson—chose for this 16thannual Global Earth Exchange the Seneca Army Depot, a 10,5878-acre site that, during the Cold War, housed the largest store of Army nuclear »

I loved “going to the beach” as a child. I would run full speed into the water and waves the second we arrived. I remember diving into the waves for hours and hours…. there was »

Helena and I were there as witness, speaking of the past and present, honoring the deeper truths now hidden in the past.

I was face to face with a Tawny the night I learned that their main food source, the Bogong Moth was in the first stage of environmental collapse.  Close up to this beautiful bird that »

We were in awe of the beauty of the lake and its surroundings, but our experience there was a bitter-sweet sensation. It is not permitted to enter the lake or go off the marked paths. »

I needed to get my hike in today before the heat comes. I grabbed my Rad Joy banner and set out to hear the birds. For the first half of my hike, I heard very »

We chose a residential site located in Manoa Valley on the island of Oahu in Hawaii for our Global Earth Exchange. In pre-European contact times, the area was mainly used for agriculture by Native Hawaiians »

We sat in the Patwin memorial area, and reflected about what Putah Creek and the village site must have been like 200 years ago when the Patwin lived there. The creek would have been their »

Solstice Saturday, June 21, in Woodstock, NY, eight of us gathered in the woods along the banks of the stream where we were headed a shortways upstream to the site of an ancient handbuilt dam »

From the ground level, evidence of the coal mines is indirect, as they are now covered up and secured. Though if you play around with Google Maps, you can get a sense of where some »

For our second year, our Global Earth Exchange brought together members of Lynda’s longstanding Active Hope group and family and friends inspired by Radical Joy’s ethos and practice, to observe the Summer Solstice with new »

After participating in pro-democracy rally and march in Buffalo, New York, my wife Laura and I felt the need to spend some time immersed in a more natural environment. Reinstein Woods was on our way »