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2023 Kadonneiden Lajien Muistopäivä Helsinki

Remembrance Day for Lost Species in Helsinki 2023

Date: November 30, 2023
Author: Panu Pihkala
Location: HESY Animal Cemetery, Haaga
Wounded Place: Animals + Birds + Insects

On November 30th, there was first a session organized by the Finnish social and health sector project about eco-anxiety and eco-emotions (www.ymparistoahdistus.fi). This “morning coffee roundtable”, a hybrid event, focused this time on ecological grief …

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Honoring the waters

Date: July 22, 2023
Author: Polly Howells
Location: The place where the water leaves the Ashokan Reservoir to begin its journey to New York City
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers | Other

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From Desolate Land to Magical Garden

Date: July 13, 2023
Author: Phoebe Godfrey
Location: Willimantic CT
Wounded Place: Animals + Birds + Insects | Personal | Plants | RadJoy Philosophy | Toxicity

Last year we planted a tree in our garden to replace a 100 year old maple tree that fell in a hurricane ( our second tree lost to one). We decided to keep the fallen …

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Crossroads UCC Healing Garden

Date: July 10, 2023
Author: Rob Copeman-Haynes
Location: Deelta, BC,Canada
Wounded Place: Animals + Birds + Insects | Children's Events | Other | Plants | RadJoy Philosophy | Trees

This boulevard was a high-maintenance “no place” producing only grass clippings which were taken away to the local green-waste supplied turf farm. There was only a hedge to hide behind for humans, and no benefits …

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The Willows at Red Oak recovery

Date: July 7, 2023
Author: Lynn Wadsworth & Becky Barth
Location: Asheville, NC
Wounded Place: Other | Personal | RadJoy Philosophy

A small group of women at The Willows at Red Oak recovery in  Asheville, North Carolina led by Lynn Wadsworth and Becky Barth gathered  to participate in a Global Earth Exchange. We each shared stories …

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Hope and Resilience

Date: June 27, 2023
Author: Lizabeth Kashinsky
Location: Honolulu, HI
Wounded Place: Plants

About two years ago, I did my Global Earth Exchange with a Hawaiian medicinal plant called noni. Noni is considered one of about 25 Hawaiian canoe plants, meaning it was one of the plants the …

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Holy Canopy

Date: June 23, 2023
Author: Rachel Forgasz
Location: Brian's Seat, Gadubanud Country (Lavers Hill), Australia
Wounded Place: Climate change

12 members of the Earth Listening Circles of the Deep Adaptation Forum visited places local to them and did an Earth Exchange, as part of a global collaboration to listen to wounded places. I walked …

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A dead tree starting a new life

Date: June 20, 2023
Author: Marla Ferguson-Leak
Location: My backyard in Grand Junction, Colorado
Wounded Place: Animals + Birds + Insects | Trees

When we moved to our new home in Grand Junction last November there was a very large tree in our backyard that had all of its major limbs cut off. It was naked and dying. …

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Helsinki Earth Exchange 2023

Date: June 19, 2023
Author: Panu Pihkala & Sofia Laine
Location: Vallilanlaakso, Helsinki
Wounded Place: Industry & Development | Trees

(From Sofia) I have known Vallilanlaakso almost 20 years and enjoyed this solid large natural space with diversity of trees, bushes, a small river and hills. It has been for all these years an important …

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Ashuelot River Park – Messages of Joy, Prayers for Healing

Date: June 19, 2023
Author: Renee Toll-DuBois
Location: Ashuelot River Park, Keene NH
Wounded Place: Historic & Cultural Sites

It was Monday Juneteenth. We went to the public park in Keene that is Ashuelot Park, as the Ashuelot River flows through it on its 64-mile journey to the CT River. There were many more …

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Ocean Cradle & The Altar of the Broken

Date: June 19, 2023
Author: Tania Haberland
Location: The ocean in front of my home MaKaza Makara in La Gaulette, Mauritius
Wounded Place: Climate change | Natural disasters | Oceans + Lakes + Rivers | Toxicity | Waste

It was a stormy windy blustery early tropical winter morning and new moon low tide. I gathered flowers (beauty),  a sprig of neem (purification) and an old benitier clam shell (restitution  —  that should  be …

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The Tension

Date: June 18, 2023
Author: Alison Cornish
Location: Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts
Wounded Place: Animals + Birds + Insects | Personal

In the garden that I share with our neighbor, there is a row of blueberry bushes, and then another of raspberries. It’s getting closer to harvest for both, so the blueberry bushes are now shrouded …

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Earth Listeners Collaborative Global Earth Exchange

Date: June 18, 2023
Author: Earth Listening Group Members of the Deep Adaptation Forum
Location: wounded places in several countries in USA, UK, Germany, Lebanon, and Australia
Wounded Place: Animals + Birds + Insects | Climate change | Historic & Cultural Sites | Industry & Development | Natural disasters | Oceans + Lakes + Rivers | Personal | Plants | Toxicity | Trees | War & Violence

Becky Orf, Oak Savannah, outside of Silverton, Oregon, USA I went to a surviving oak savannah outside of Silverton, Oregon, that has some of the oldest white oaks left in Oregon (100+ years old).  At …

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Witness to Healing

Date: June 18, 2023
Author: Lisa McCall and Autumn Van Ord
Location: Wyman Park Dell, Hampden, MD
Wounded Place: Animals + Birds + Insects | Toxicity | Trees | Waste

Each year we have returned to this location, we have seen improvements. This year, the area felt more cared for than ever. Hardly any trash was strewn over the land and rocks in the stream. …

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Persistence of Birds

Date: June 18, 2023
Author: Joy Kreves
Location: Washington Crossing Park, NJ
Wounded Place: Animals + Birds + Insects | Climate change | Historic & Cultural Sites | Natural disasters | Plants | RadJoy Philosophy | Trees

My friend who is a birder came with me this year for the Global Earth Exchange.  Right away when we reached the spot I’d chosen, she began to notice all the birds.  She fondly remembered …

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Nature Reserve or Caravan Park?

Date: June 18, 2023
Author: Glenn and Jill Albrecht
Location: Walka Water Works, Maitland NSW, Australia
Wounded Place: Animals + Birds + Insects | Historic & Cultural Sites | Industry & Development | Plants | Toxicity | Waste

I went to Walka to look at the way it is being “improved” according to the local government. Thousand of people now are objecting to a proposal to excise some of this historic public park …

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Ashdown Forest

Date: June 17, 2023
Author: Sarah Pimenta
Location: Ashdown Forest, West Sussex
Wounded Place: Trees

Ashdown Forest is an area of natural beauty in West Sussex, England. It is also one of the very few remaining areas of extensive lowland heath left in Europe. This rare and threatened landscape is …

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Cutting

Date: June 17, 2023
Author: Ruhie Duffing
Location: Flen, Södermanland, Sweden
Wounded Place: Trees

I have started to feel uncomfortable with this way of highlighting rape—as I see it rape of a forest .. As with victims of abuse selling stories of pain and deep damage seems equally disrespectful …

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The L.A. River Culvert

Date: June 17, 2023
Author: Sione V.
Location: 103 S Myers St, Los Angeles, CA 90033
Wounded Place: Animals + Birds + Insects | Historic & Cultural Sites | Industry & Development | Oceans + Lakes + Rivers | Plants | RadJoy Philosophy

I live close enough to the LA river to walk to my chosen location. Getting to the river itself meant scaling a few chain link fences and crossing a large railway yard; however I was …

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Mountainside

Date: June 17, 2023
Author: Terry Le Page
Location: Oak Glen, CA
Wounded Place: Natural disasters | Trees

12 members of the Earth Listening Circles of the Deep Adaptation Forum visited places local to them and did an Earth Exchange, as part of a global collaboration to listen to wounded places. A beloved …

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Current River

Date: June 17, 2023
Author: Sasha Daucus
Location: Doniphan, MO
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

12 members of the Earth Listening Circles of the Deep Adaptation Forum, facilitated by Sasha, visited places local to them and did an Earth Exchange, as part of a global collaboration to listen to wounded …

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Wrightsville Beach

Date: June 17, 2023
Author: Kelly A. McConnell
Location: Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina
Wounded Place: Industry & Development | Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

12 members of the Earth Listening Circles of the Deep Adaptation Forum visited places local to them and did an Earth Exchange, as part of a global collaboration to listen to wounded places. This is …

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Trees living in a historic battleground

Date: June 17, 2023
Author: Samar Zebian
Location: Ain Ksour (Chouf area), Lebanon
Wounded Place: Historic & Cultural Sites | Trees

12 members of the Earth Listening Circles of the Deep Adaptation Forum visited places local to them and did an Earth Exchange, as part of a global collaboration to listen to wounded places. Nadine Saidi …

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Dyarubbin

Date: June 17, 2023
Author: Pete Whitecross
Location: Sackville Reserve, Hawkesbury River), NSW, Australia
Wounded Place: Historic & Cultural Sites

12 members of the Earth Listening Circles of the Deep Adaptation Forum visited places local to them and did an Earth Exchange, as part of a global collaboration to listen to wounded places. Sackville Reserve …

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Beloved Forest

Date: June 17, 2023
Author: Michaela Conzelmann
Location: St. Georgen, Germany
Wounded Place: Trees

12 members of the Earth Listening Circles of the Deep Adaptation Forum visited places local to them and did an Earth Exchange, as part of a global collaboration to listen to wounded places. St. Georgen, …

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The River Severn

Date: June 17, 2023
Author: Emma Mary Gathergood
Location: Worcester, England
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

12 members of the Earth Listening Circles of the Deep Adaptation Forum visited places local to them and did an Earth Exchange, as part of a global collaboration to listen to wounded places As l …

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Access (Hunting Island State Park, South Carolina)

Date: June 17, 2023
Author: Yvonne Dalschen
Location: Hunting Island State Park, SC
Wounded Place: Climate change | Industry & Development | Natural disasters | Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

(Yvonne Dalschen is one of the members of Kinship Photography Collective who participated in this year’s Global Earth Exchange) This was my first visit to Hunting Island State Park in South Carolina. It’s a beautiful place …

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Infrared Meditation on Manitowoc River Flowing into Great Lake Michigan

Date: June 17, 2023
Author: George Lottermoser
Location: Manitowac River, WI
Wounded Place: Historic & Cultural Sites | Industry & Development

(George Lottermoser is one of the members of Kinship Photography Collective who participated in this year’s Global Earth Exchange) To participate in the Global Earth Exchange, you make an offering of beauty “somewhere.” I chose “home …

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Chattooga River

Date: June 17, 2023
Author: Frances Bukovsky
Location: Asheville, NC
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

(Frances Bukovsky is one of the members of Kinship Photography Collection who participated in this year’s Global Earth Exchange) On June 17th I was photographing on the Chatooga River, a place I had never been …

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Revisiting the John B. Robert Dam

Date: June 17, 2023
Author: Beate Sass
Location: Albuquerque, NYM
Wounded Place: Animals + Birds + Insects | Industry & Development | Natural disasters | Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

(Beate Sass is one of the members of Kinship Photography Collective who participated in this year’s Global Earth Exchange) I chose to photograph at the John. B. Robert Dam in Albuquerque, New Mexico for the …

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Visiting Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest for the Global Earth Exchange 2023

Date: June 17, 2023
Author: Lynne Buchanan
Location: Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest
Wounded Place: Trees

(Lynne Buchanan is one of the members of Kinship Photography Collective who participated in this year’s Global Earth Exchange) The Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest is one of the last old growth forests in the Eastern …

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Wounded and Beautiful in my Neighborhood Parks

Date: June 17, 2023
Author: Judy Todd
Location: Portland Oregon - The Willamette River Watershed in the Pacific NW
Wounded Place: Historic & Cultural Sites

A simple visit and walk through the arboretum of trees, native plants and birds flying through reminds us that we all need such places to share together. That isn’t always possible for marginalized people who …

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Treephilia

Date: June 17, 2023
Author: Jennifer J. Wilhoit
Location: Highway on Bainbridge Island, WA
Wounded Place: Trees

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A Gift for our Outer Harbor

Date: June 17, 2023
Author: Jennifer Fendya
Location: Outer Harbor, Buffalo, NY
Wounded Place: Animals + Birds + Insects | Climate change | Industry & Development | Oceans + Lakes + Rivers | Plants | Trees

Along with so many others who know the Outer Harbor as an exquisite place to walk, bike, skate, fish and enjoy beautiful sunsets on Lake Erie, my friend Kate and I were frequent visitors to …

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Listen to the Forest: Speak Grief, Create Beauty

Date: June 17, 2023
Author: Center for Responsible Forestry (CRF) and Multifaith Network for Climate Justice (MNCJ)
Location: Box of Rain Timber Sale, Whatcom County, WA
Wounded Place: Animals + Birds + Insects | Historic & Cultural Sites | Industry & Development | Plants | Trees

The intention of this ceremony started as a vision of a funeral for Box of Rain forest.  Some of us were blessed to be in intimate relationship with this forest before the clearcut.  Spending time …

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Bringing Joy to Wounded Places

Date: June 17, 2023
Author: Claire
Location: Ireland
Wounded Place: Waste

On 17th June, 2023, I set out on my journey to bring joy to a wounded place. I did so wondering why I was doing this on my own. Why had I not invited other …

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Call from the Land

Date: June 17, 2023
Author: Brooke Gilley
Location: South Milwaukee Masonic Temple (demolished in 2008)
Wounded Place: Historic & Cultural Sites

After thinking about my vision, I contemplated what way I could do to heal this land on an energetic level and physical level.  There are not many sources on how to properly energetically heal a …

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Calling for mangroves

Date: June 17, 2023
Author: Jay
Location: Cornmeal Creek
Wounded Place: Animals + Birds + Insects | Historic & Cultural Sites | Industry & Development | Oceans + Lakes + Rivers | Personal | Plants | RadJoy Philosophy | Toxicity | Trees | Waste

12 members of the Earth Listening Circles of the Deep Adaptation Forum visited places local to them and did an Earth Exchange, as part of a global collaboration to listen to wounded places. We visited …

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Sahli Preserve

Date: June 17, 2023
Author: Joanne Martin
Location: Sahli Preserve
Wounded Place: Industry & Development

I have never visited Sahli on a Saturday, but I invited my friend Cristina to experience this gem of a preserve for us to create an Act of Beauty. There were kids, adults, fisher people, …

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A Medicine Wheel for the Global Earth Exchange

Date: June 17, 2023
Author: Shemmaho Goodenough
Location: Castlegar, British Columbia, Canada
Wounded Place: Climate change | Other | Personal | RadJoy Philosophy

We gathered at the site, arriving over about 20 minutes, and we were ready to start around 11:00.  We looked the site over, which was in the sun, then made a circle near there in …

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Whose Home?

Date: June 17, 2023
Author: Reggie Marra & Shari Specland
Location: Northfield, Connecticut
Wounded Place: Other | Personal

We walked the tree line, avoided some dense poison ivy growth, and selected a somewhat barren area near the base of a tree. We took some time to silently reflect on what this space has …

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Ohio River, Louisville, KY, USA

Date: June 17, 2023
Author: Shachaf Polakow
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Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

A visit to The Ohio always brings mixed feelings, one can see beautiful wildlife and nature, people enjoying the open public spaces, but on the other hand, there are many factories, plants, barges with coal …

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Access

Date: June 17, 2023
Author: Yvonne Dalschen
Location: Hunting Island State Park, South Carolina, USA
Wounded Place: Climate change | Historic & Cultural Sites | Natural disasters | Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

This was my first visit to Hunting Island State Park in South Carolin. It’s a beautiful place of comic scenes of escaping toddlers, flying umbrellas and bright red sunbathers. It’s sea, sand, shells, crabs, loggerhead …

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In Praise of the Bobolinks

Date: June 17, 2023
Author: Trebbe Johnson
Location: Greensprings Natural Cemetery, Newfield, NY
Wounded Place: Animals + Birds + Insects

I am a volunteer at Greensprings Natural Cemetery, where I also have a plot and where some of my husband’s ashes (those not in the garden of our former home) are interred. The 130-acre cemetery …

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Seeing a Familiar Place Differently

Date: June 17, 2023
Author: Carol Warren
Location: Central Park, Davis CA
Wounded Place: Historic & Cultural Sites | Industry & Development | Plants | Trees

12 members of the Earth Listening Circles of the Deep Adaptation Forum visited places local to them and did an Earth Exchange, as part of a global collaboration to listen to wounded places. This park …

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The Song of the Wetlands

Date: June 17, 2023
Author: Kim Salinas Silva
Location: North Providence, Rhode Island
Wounded Place: Animals + Birds + Insects | Climate change | Oceans + Lakes + Rivers | Plants | Trees

When we moved here seven years ago, this was a thriving spot with families of geese and ducks, peepers frogs, foxes and coyotes. Children skated on its sturdy ice. Now, drought has taken over, it …

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Revisiting a degraded sacred site- Broomrigg 2023

Date: June 17, 2023
Author: Harriet Sams
Location: Broomrigg, Cumbria, UK
Wounded Place: Historic & Cultural Sites | Industry & Development

In 2010, a group of Rad Joy participants went to the site, when the plantation was mature, soaring above our heads. We found a terribly degraded, forgotten site, which, for whatever reasons, was being allowed …

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Surviving Oak Savannah

Date: June 14, 2023
Author: Becky Orf
Location: Silverton, Oregon
Wounded Place: Natural disasters

12 members of the Earth Listening Circles of the Deep Adaptation Forum visited places local to them and did an Earth Exchange, as part of a global collaboration to listen to wounded places. I went …

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Honoring the Fallen Ones and Celebrating a Survivor

Date: June 14, 2023
Author: Lynne Buchanan
Location: Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest
Wounded Place: Climate change | Plants | Trees

This is the third old growth forest in the Southeastern United States that I have visited recently.  The first one I went to was the Moody Forest in Georgia and the second was the Albright …

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One Mile Creek, Grade D

Date: June 13, 2023
Author: Kim Manley Ort
Location: Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario
Wounded Place: Climate change | Oceans + Lakes + Rivers | Plants | Toxicity | Trees | Waste

One Mile Creek meanders through my town of Niagara-on-the-Lake, a tourist town surrounded by agricultural land. It travels mostly through private properties, eventually flowing into Lake Ontario. For all of the more than ten years …

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Strawberries

Date: June 10, 2023
Author: Ramey Rieger
Location: Germany
Wounded Place: Plants | Toxicity | Waste

12 members of the Earth Listening Circles of the Deep Adaptation Forum visited places local to them and did an Earth Exchange, as part of a global collaboration to listen to wounded places. This is …

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Puri Lumbung Beauty

Date: July 30, 2022
Author: Ibu Yudhi Ishwari
Location: Munduk, Bali, Indonesia

Ibu (Ms.) Yudhi Ishwari and members of the staff of Puri Lumbung Cottages have participated in the Global Earth Exchange every year since our very first one in 2010. This mountainous region of north Bali …

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Healing Blessing for the Land

Date: July 10, 2022
Author: Bonnie Sundance
Location: Ridge Road, Nederland, CO

The forest in this place was destroyed by fire on this day 6 years ago along with the cabin in which I was carrying out my life livng in close connection to the Earth and …

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Stop, Look Both Ways, and Listen

Date: July 5, 2022
Author: Sasha Daucus
Location: Highway Junction in Ripley County, Missouri

I did my Global Earth Exchange at the junction of two state highways where I had a car accident. I learned after the accident that this place was a dangerous intersection with relatively frequent accidents. …

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The wounded place is me

Date: July 5, 2022
Author: Andy Carnahan
Location: Echo Point/Viewpoint Lookout, Morton National Park, New South Wales Australia

We intended to go to Viewpoint Lookout for our Earth Exchange on a road that will soon be closed. Circumstances overtook us and we completely forgot to go. Then heavy rain set in (over 400mm …

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progress versus nature

Date: July 2, 2022
Author: Beatrice and River's end farm
Location: Walker bay, Western Cape, South Africa

It’s been a few years, entering bird images with a tiny garbage project initially. Over the years, the area receiving my attention has grown. The garbage has taken different forms. Round-up (glyphosate) openly being used …

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Goodbye to the greenbelt

Date: June 27, 2022
Author: sarah Pimenta
Location: West Sussex, England

As well as building large housing estates that are eroding the countryside—since the pandemic in particular many people are also building on their own homes, gardens and green spaces being replaced with extra structures, gardens …

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For the rivers, trees, Ukraine

Date: June 27, 2022
Author: Jennifer Fendya
Location: Tioughnioga riverbank

There weren’t a lot of words exchanged amongst the 4 humans and one pitbull who took part in our Earth Exchange experience, and we moved around the grounds separately, each engaged in our own earthy …

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Breath of life

Date: June 26, 2022
Author: Seini
Location: Manukau Harbour, New Zealand

This year, I ventured out solo for my exchange with the earth, pursuing a moment of sunshine that had broken through after a week of rain; pursuing stillness. Travelling on my trusty bicycle, I chose …

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A private ceremony

Date: June 26, 2022
Author: Claire Hayes
Location: Cootehill, Ireland

Because of the personal nature of this ceremony, the person who offered it wishes that it not appear on the internet.

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Rio Grande

Date: June 26, 2022
Author: Atherton Phleger
Location: Rio Grande, Albuquerque NM

I have seen the immediate aftermath of wildfires, as well as landscapes that are a few years into their recovery, but I hadn’t ever seen a landscape in mid-term recovery. I went anticipating absolute devastation, …

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Wally Farms

Date: June 26, 2022
Author: Nancy Kuster
Location: Wally Farms, Ancram, NY
Wounded Place: Other

The farm team at Wally Farms did our Global Earth Exchange yesterday by honoring the land and the original inhabitants, planting a flower spiral (incorporating found objects from the farm) and then all “shaking” to …

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Oso Mudslide, again.

Date: June 26, 2022
Author: Mike Beck
Location: Oso, Wa

I came again this year for the Global Earth Exchange to the community of Oso, Washington.   My first visit was 2014 while I was at my daughter’s in the Pacific Northwest shortly after Spring …

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The Bird Chair of weekend trash

Date: June 26, 2022
Author: Glenn and Jill Albrecht
Location: John Tucker Park

Finding beauty in the discarded.

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For Those Who Saw No Other Way

Date: June 26, 2022
Author: Lauren Chambliss, Liz Maxwell, Trebbe Johnson
Location: 626 Thurston Avenue, Ithaca, NY

Lauren: Today we went to a place that symbolizes the despair and hopelessness so many young people feel.  Cornell Campus’ Thurston Ave Bridge is well-known both for its extraordinary beauty and its dark history of …

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A World of Loss

Date: June 26, 2022
Author: Marla Ferguson-Leak
Location: Our Orchard in Palisade, Colorado

The wounded place that I chose for my ceremony was the whole world. There are SO many things happening in the world today that are negative and hurtful on SO many levels that it is …

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Persistence

Date: June 26, 2022
Author: Joy Kreves
Location: My back yard, Ewing, NJ

Because the grove destruction was to take place over a 2-week period, I did several GExs. The first one was the most remarkable. I picked up some broken cane sections, broken flower pot and other …

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Along the Haw River

Date: June 25, 2022
Author: Kate Bunney
Location: Haw River, NC

I am often walking along the river —to be in relationship and prayer with this incredible being …. So, it was a beautiful opportunity to connect this time with the other folks around the world …

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sticks with moss on top, in a bog!

Date: June 25, 2022
Author: This Place Project
Location: Loglands, Hull, U.K.

This Earth Exchange came half way through a project we have been doing here in Hull called This Place, which has been about trying to explore our connections to Land, Community and our Selves… The …

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Imagining What’s Been Lost

Date: June 25, 2022
Author: Lizabeth Kashinsky
Location: Hilo, HI

Due to some uncertainty about travel dates, I was not able to plan an Earth Exchange with my community this year and I ended up traveling on the day of. As I sat on a …

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Wounded and Beautiful in my Neighborhood Parks

Date: June 25, 2022
Author: Judy Todd
Location: Portland Oregon - The Willamette River Watershed in the Pacific NW

REPORT: Radical Joy for Hard Times 12th Annual Global Earth Exchange Saturday, June 25, 2022 Peninsula Park & Rose Garden   Portland Oregon’s first public rose garden with a historically designated bandstand, community center and …

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Song for Barstow Mine

Date: June 25, 2022
Author: Christi Strickland
Location: Barstow Mine, Spirit Gulch Colorado

Four friends hiked up Spirit Gulch in Ouray County, Colorado to visit the Barstow Mine. The mine operated from 1895-1930, extracting primarily fluorite, copper, and silver. When we came upon the mine, situated at 11,000 …

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Treephilia

Date: June 25, 2022
Author: Jennifer Wilhoit
Location: Bainbridge Island

I created a bird up image standing (on its tail) against the mossy, lichen-covered bark of the pear tree.

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Transformations over Time

Date: June 25, 2022
Author: Janet Keating
Location: Apple Grove, WV

Twenty-four years ago, I posed for a victory photo at a site near Apple Grove, WV, with two other wonderful women—friends and colleagues at the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition (shuttered in February 2022).  In 1998, …

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A Wounded Creek

Date: June 25, 2022
Author: Polly Howells
Location: DEC Boat Launch, Sandy Road, Kingston, New York

We were a group of 11 who gathered at the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation’s Boat Launch on the Lower Esopus Creek in Kingston, NY. The Lower Esopus Creek meanders 35 miles from …

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Big Tree

Date: June 25, 2022
Author: Jess Kovach
Location: Big Tree Park, Longwood, Florida

Shared the Global Earth Exchange with the land of and old tree Friend, the 3000 year old Senator, just a few years ago stood as the oldest Bald Cypress in the World. 10 years ago …

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Halaco, A Wounded Place on Ormond Beach, California

Date: June 25, 2022
Author: David Lutz and Farion Pearce
Location: Former Halaco Aluminum smelting plant Sight

This is our (Farion Pearce and David Lutz) third visit to this site, 2010, 2012 and 2022. Steve Nash joined us in 2012 and returned this year. Steve and David worked at the wastewater treatment …

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Marking Closure, Deep Silence

Date: June 25, 2022
Author: Anne Stine
Location: Modoc National Forest, CA

We were in Modoc National Forest, next to Lava Beds National Monument. This is one of my base camps of many years. I was there with my base camp support, we were marking the closure …

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Paradox and Transformation in the “Aloha State”

Date: June 25, 2022
Author: Christopher Quiseng
Location: Hilo Bay, Hawaii

On June 25th, 2022, my 7-year-old son and I set off on a journey to explore the Hilo breakwater, a 2-mile-long man-made wall extending out to sea, separating the Hilo Bay from the open ocean. …

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My body as the hurting landscape

Date: June 25, 2022
Author: Desdra Dawning
Location: Olympia, WA

My original plan for this year’s Earth Exchange was to go to the Capitol Lake here in Olympia, which was created to form a reflection pond for the capitol building on the hill above. And …

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Dragon Bird

Date: June 25, 2022
Author: Deborah J Milton
Location: Bainbridge Island, WA

Two of us were available to make prayers for our wounded world. We went to a crowded beach where many young people were swimming, despite the toxic waters. It’s natural for us humans to seek …

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Earth Exchange at Putah Creek

Date: June 25, 2022
Author: Carol Warren
Location: Putah Creek, Winters, CA, USA

My Earth Exchange today was along Putah Creek near Winters, CA. This creek stretches from mountains north of Lake Berryessa to the Sacramento River delta area. It was a source of food, water, basket materials, …

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Extractive sand and rock for the building industry

Date: June 25, 2022
Author: Harriet Sams
Location: Creuse, France 23210

My daughter and I went to a local dump of many tonnes of unwanted road surface chippings. It had been gathered up after a recent resurfacing project when it had been put onto the road …

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Development in Florida

Date: June 25, 2022
Author: Janice Rous
Location: Maitland, Florida

Sadly deveopment in florida is everywhere I made an offering to the land after spend the day at a small island in the intercostal Sadly the motor boats and tourists pollute every place in florida …

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Beauty in a Small, Neglected Pond

Date: June 25, 2022
Author: Trebbe Johnson
Location: Ithaca, NY

In the spring, the pond has a few inches of water in it, and wood frogs and peepers congregate there and sing all day and all night. But then the warm weather comes, and the …

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Renewal Waters

Date: June 23, 2022
Author: Federico Hewson/Hannah Alongi
Location: Berlin - Hasenheide Park
Wounded Place: Climate change | Industry & Development | Natural disasters

We chose this place as our wounded place because it is suffering from an extreme drought. It was the site of an Amusement Park that has run for 1 month every year since the 1960s. …

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Habari Pond Ceremony

Date: June 23, 2022
Author: Krystyna Jurzykowski, Sandy Skrei, and High Hope Ranch
Location: Glen Rose, TX

Our water ceremony, again at Habari Pond (which, because of the ongoing drought, is down to 10-15%), was the location on June 21st – also the day of signing for the signing of the transfer …

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Renewal Waters

Date: June 23, 2022
Author: Federico Hewson/Hannah Alongi
Location: Berlin - Hasenheide Park

We chose this place as our wounded place because it is suffering from an extreme drought. It was the site of an Amusement Park that has run for 1 month every year since the 1960s. …

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Global Earth Exchange for Wyman Park

Date: June 20, 2022
Author: Autumn Van Ord and Lisa McCall
Location: Wyman Park, Baltimore, MD

This year we were wont to find garbage because the area is continuing to be cared for. The body of the RadJoy Bird is from a weed called cleavers that has a sticky property. The …

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A Big Difference

Date: June 19, 2022
Author: Autumn Van Ord and Lisa McCall
Location: Wyman Park, City of Baltimore

At the very first Global Earth Exchange we held at Wyman Park, we were faced with a landscape full of trash; after heavy rains the water would back up where the stream was forced underground …

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A Forest of Burns and Beauty

Date: June 17, 2022
Author: Sara Harris and Sahara Chaldean
Location: Healdsburg CA

We are all members of a year-long book group called The Living Earth Book Club. The first book we read this year was Radical Joy for Hard Times. We have just finished To Speak for the …

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Elemental Wisdom | how to live in right relationship with earth

Date: June 16, 2022
Author: christine morro
Location: Camas Sgiotaig, Singing Sands, Isle of Eigg, Scotland

a circle an act to encourage life,  acknowledge kinship with the human and more than human world, humbly ask for instructions on how to live in right relationship with earth

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Larchfall: Beauty in and for a Damaged Larch Forest

Date: January 22, 2022
Author: Trebbe Johnson and Andrew Gardner
Location: Thompson, PA
Wounded Place: Natural disasters | Trees

Although I have walked in this preserve, just a mile from my home, many hundreds of times over the past 30 years, there are always surprises. Today was no exception. First, I woke up in …

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Making beauty, making prayers

Date: July 24, 2021
Author: Deborah Milton
Location: Pritchard Park, Eagle Harbor Drive Northeast, Bainbridge Island, WA, USA
Wounded Place: Historic & Cultural Sites | War & Violence | Waste

We returned to Pritchard Park where we’ve gone several other years. A Superfund site and the place where Japanese-American islanders began their long journey to internment camps right after the bombing at Pearl Harbor. Six …

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Date: July 8, 2021
Author: Laurie Levites
Location: Port Townsend, WA
Wounded Place: Other

Creating a safe space       Sometimes failing     Sharing space Learning what that means

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A Ceremony for Jabu

Date: July 1, 2021
Author: Janet Frangs
Location: Durban, South Africa
Wounded Place: Animals + Birds + Insects

Two gorgeous elephants, Jabu and Morula were “released” from 32 years in captivity into the Okavango Delta. They were set free (although that is a relative term because they were chased from pillar to post …

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Goodbye to Our Houses Lost in the Glass Fire

Date: June 25, 2021
Author: Linda Sartor
Location: Sonoma County, CA
Wounded Place: Natural disasters

We walked around to each of our ten house sites (12 homes) and other misc. out buildings that burned down completely in the Glass Fire in Sept. 2020.  We read out loud a description of …

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Sorting Things Out When It All Goes to Pot

Date: June 20, 2021
Author: Sasha Daucus
Location: My Back Deck
Wounded Place: Personal

This place, which I used to feel very happy about, has become a place I avoid, as it triggers feelings of not having done well enough at balancing work & play as well as not …

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Wyman Park Global Exchange

Date: June 19, 2021
Author: Autumn Van Ord and Lisa McCall
Location: Wyman Park, Baltimore, MD
Wounded Place: Plants | Trees | Waste

Lisa McCall and Autumn Van Old have been coming to Wyman Park for this event since 2011. The Stoney Run flows through Wyman Park on its eventual way to the Chesapeake Bay. The stream is …

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Savannah River

Date: June 19, 2021
Author: Simona Perry
Location: Savannah, GA
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

Many members of our global community do their RadJoy practices to honor places that have been hurt by ecological assaults. Sometimes people make gifts for places that have suffered social injustice. For the 2021 Global …

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Binding Vision & Voice

Date: June 16, 2021
Author: Megan Hollingsworth
Location: LIvingston, MT
Wounded Place: Personal

My practice was to bind my own body as representative of all mothers and children who have been denied their visions and voices, exploited, polluted, and otherwise abused within the context of a social system …

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Sarah Holtham Fun

Date: June 14, 2021
Author: Joe Holtaway
Location: London, UK
Wounded Place: Children's Events

The week that RadHoy’s Global Earth Exchange took place coincided with a lockdown project we had where we took photographs of ourselves in connection with the earth and had an online exhibition. These young Earth protectors …

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Gratitude and Relationship

Date: June 13, 2021
Author: Sandy, Oregon
Location: Sandy River, Dodge Park Oregon
Wounded Place: Animals + Birds + Insects | Oceans + Lakes + Rivers | Personal | Plants | Trees | Waste

Two days prior to Global Earth Exchange I hiked around the Sandy River near Dodge Park (Oregon) to consider the best way to show appreciation and honor this area. I took pictures of graffiti and …

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For Wingello State Forest

Date: June 13, 2021
Author: Andy Carnahan
Location: Wingello State Forest, NSW, Australia
Wounded Place: Animals + Birds + Insects | Trees

Our Global Earth (Gift) Exchange 2021 was for logged pine plantation at Wingello State Forest in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, Australia. It was hard and painful. The forest was burnt in our …

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Acts of Beauty around an old recovering Olive Tree

Date: June 13, 2021
Author: Sanda Hrzic
Location: Brač, Croatia
Wounded Place: Animals + Birds + Insects | Climate change | Historic & Cultural Sites | Personal | Plants | Trees | War & Violence

First photo: In the middle is a black hole of a burned old tree. A Long time ago, it was an strong olive tree, but a big fire took it away 70 years ago, (along …

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Under the Dying Cherry Tree

Date: June 13, 2021
Author: Marla Ferguson-Leak
Location: Palisade, Colorado
Wounded Place: Trees

Two close friends and I came together under the large cherry tree in my yard that is dying due to an early freeze and an infestation of insects and a contagious fungus. I asked each …

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A Radical Day of Loss, Grief, Joy and Love

Date: June 12, 2021
Author: Judy Todd
Location: Diverse-Oxbow Park on the Sandy, A Portland home & A Portland Garden
Wounded Place: Animals + Birds + Insects | Climate change | Historic & Cultural Sites | Oceans + Lakes + Rivers | Personal | Trees

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Linden Tree Stump Medicine

Date: June 12, 2021
Author: Anne Hemenway
Location: Onteora Lake, Kingston, NY
Wounded Place: Industry & Development

Anne, John, Medicine Buddha & many others are saving—from devastation of proposed concrete and steel production plant—Onteora Lake, Pickerel Pond, extraordinary wildlife, Bluestone wild forest in Kingston, NY, with the help of Linden tree stump …

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Soda Mountain-Cascade Siskiyou Earth Exchange

Date: June 12, 2021
Author: Anne Stine
Location: Cascade Siskiyou Monument, Ashland, OR
Wounded Place: Industry & Development | Trees

On June 12, eight lovers of Radical Joy met with Dave Willis, chair of the Soda Mountain Wilderness and Cascade Siskiyou Monument, on the land itself. Each year Dave chooses a site he wants us …

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GlobalEarthExchange2021

Date: June 12, 2021
Author: Kinde Nebeker
Location: Bear Lake, UT
Wounded Place: Industry & Development

I walked to the fields where my sister, her two kids and I had done a Global Earth Exchange in 2015. These fields had been in my family for five generations and now a cousin …

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Honouring people who died during the past year

Date: June 12, 2021
Author: Claire Hayes and Jennifer
Location: Dartrey Forest, Cootehill, Co. Cavan, Ireland
Wounded Place: Other | Personal

As we set out on our walk through the beautiful forest, we took turns picking stones from the path. Each stone represented someone we knew who had died during the past year. We took turns …

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Mutilated Trees Along River Road

Date: June 12, 2021
Author: Joy Kreves
Location: Titusville, NJ
Wounded Place: Trees

Why I chose the location:  I frequently drive along River Rd to get to towns north of me. Every year trees along the road are trimmed back for the power lines. THIS year, an entire …

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Vulnerability and shadows

Date: June 12, 2021
Author: Beatrice Pook
Location: Stanford, Western Cape, South Africa
Wounded Place: Personal

My gift to Earth is the talking stick and my own vulnerability when attempting to speak from the heart and whole being, shadows included…

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Cultivating Radical Joy in an age of 5G

Date: June 12, 2021
Author: Julia Casciola and Alice Ashwell
Location: Cultivating radical joy in an age of 5G, / Wynberg, Cape Town, South Africa
Wounded Place: Other

5G and an antidote of joy We met in a loved suburban garden, with 5G all around. Each of us carrying grief and shock at the impact of EMFs on our lives and the body …

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Peace at Piscataway Park

Date: June 12, 2021
Author: Seini & Shanta
Location: Piscataway Park, MD
Wounded Place: Animals + Birds + Insects | Historic & Cultural Sites | Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

We were surrounded by dragonflies, cicadas, and the sweet smells of pollinating plants as we wandered through the tree-shaded trails of Piscataway Park. As always, the water drew us. The shoreline was scattered with driftwood …

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Sand dune healing

Date: June 12, 2021
Author: Sharon Olver
Location: Devon UK
Wounded Place: Animals + Birds + Insects | Oceans + Lakes + Rivers | Plants | War & Violence

The exchange was enacted at a place where vehicles have torn up the landscape, destroying stability and biodiversity for military practice. Giving the gift of the colour organge for healing trauma, I created a mandala …

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Earth Listening ~ Earth Sandwich

Date: June 12, 2021
Author: Sasha Daucus
Location: 1. Australia; 2. Germany; 3. UK ; 4. Isle of Mann; 5. USA; 6. USA ; 7. USA ; 8. Canada
Wounded Place: Animals + Birds + Insects | Climate change | Historic & Cultural Sites | Industry & Development | Natural disasters | Other | Personal | Plants | Trees

Members of the Deep Adaptation Earth Listening Circle, who live around the world and meet weekly on Zoom, created an “Earth Sandwich” together. The idea is that people in different places on the globe are …

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12th annual Global Earth Exchange

Date: June 12, 2021
Author: shemmaho Daystar goodenough
Location: Zuckerberg Island
Wounded Place: Historic & Cultural Sites | Industry & Development | Oceans + Lakes + Rivers | Waste

I decided to make this event very accessible, in the sense that it was close to town, and to include children, as this type of ceremony is a perfect focus and activity to include children …

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Howells 2021

For Bluestone Wild Forest

Date: June 12, 2021
Author: Polly Howells
Location: Kingston, NY
Wounded Place: Industry & Development

We created our Global Earth Exchange on the border of a parcel of land on which there is a proposed manufacturing facility that will produce steel and precast concrete bridge decking. The proposed factory is …

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From Abandoned to Grateful

Date: June 12, 2021
Author: Charity Wessel
Location: Abandoned Hospital
Wounded Place: Industry & Development

This hospital sits idle in my town and as a result, the medical care is also idle. We have a small clinic now, but this is a rural area in Nevada and resources are limited. …

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Reciprocal Medicine

Date: June 12, 2021
Author: Lizabeth Kashinsky
Location: Honolulu, Hawaii
Wounded Place: Personal | Plants

I was supposed to be camping off the grid in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park this past weekend, and had intended to hold the Earth Exchange there. However, I was so depleted from an incredibly demanding …

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Healing place/family lineages

Date: June 12, 2021
Author: Pierce Murray
Location: Tongva, Luiseno,Kizh, Cahuilla territories in Riverside, CA
Wounded Place: Personal

Healing the hurts and wounds of our family lineages on the cracked concrete covering the earth of our family home.

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“We do care … we love it”

Date: June 12, 2021
Author: Glenn Albrecht
Location: Duns Creek, NSW, Australia
Wounded Place: Waste

Jill and I have been offended for a week or so by roadside litter on our local Duns Creek Road, so for our 2021 Earth Exchange we decided to go and clean it up and make a …

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Treephilia 2021

Date: June 12, 2021
Author: Jennifer J. Wilhoit
Location: Nearby forested acreage
Wounded Place: Animals + Birds + Insects | Industry & Development | Oceans + Lakes + Rivers | Other | Personal | Plants | Trees

I spent a while exploring the area, appreciating its beauty and feeling grief about its imminent destruction. I then gently gathered the items for my bird and created him in a place where some leveling …

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A Glacial Experience

Date: June 12, 2021
Author: Michael Beck
Location: Holgate Glacier, Alaska’s Kenai Mountains
Wounded Place: Climate change | Other

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Industrial Waste by the Salish Sea (south Puget Sound)

Date: June 12, 2021
Author: Desdra Dawning
Location: The shore of the Salish Sea called West Bay (southernmost tip of the Puget Sound) in Olympia Washington
Wounded Place: Industry & Development | Oceans + Lakes + Rivers | Waste

I wanted to go there to feel the barrenness of the land, stripped of vegetation, beside a very old structure still standing. I have driven by many times, but never walked down to the field. …

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Chestnut Horse Tail

Date: June 12, 2021
Author: Robin Blakeman
Location: My home
Wounded Place: Personal

I have a love/hate relationship with my backyard, which is admittedly “overgrown” with what some would call weeds & small trees. It is also beautiful in terms of being a shady green space. I do …

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River Bird

Date: June 12, 2021
Author: Simona Perry
Location: Lower Savannah River, Georgia USA
Wounded Place: Historic & Cultural Sites | Industry & Development | Oceans + Lakes + Rivers | Personal | RadJoy Philosophy | War & Violence

Standing on the banks of the lower Savannah/Westobou River right below the Houlihan Bridge at the public boat ramp, looking southeast I stand with Ernie by my side pondering the enormous industrial cranes of the …

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Attending to Nature’s Call

Date: June 12, 2021
Author: Mary H. Reaman & Tree of LifeCommunity
Location: Dayton Ohio -
Wounded Place: Personal

15 members of Tree of Life Community met as  a wounded place.  Since covid, our vibrant, thriving spiritual community feels as if it has been clear-cut.  Just prior to the shut-down we were a growing …

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Keating 2021

The Farm

Date: June 12, 2021
Author: Janet Keating
Location: Glenwood, WA
Wounded Place: Animals + Birds + Insects | Climate change | Natural disasters

From my window on the world, 2020 bleeding into 2021, has been a time of incalculable losses across the globe and personally.  A combination of a pandemic and politics gone-wild has stressed us in ways …

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Honoring missing and endangered cottonwoods

Date: June 12, 2021
Author: Trebbe Johnson
Location: Ithaca, NY
Wounded Place: Industry & Development | Trees

New piers are being constructed along the Cayuga Inlet, one of the channels at the southern end of Cayuga Lake in Ithaca. This development has resulted in many old cottonwood trees being cut down. Eight …

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Cleveland Embodied Lake Erie Lovers

Date: June 12, 2021
Author: Elizabeth Meacham
Location: Lake Erie Bluffs, Ohio, USA
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

It was an amazing blessing to be together in person, to hold hands, to look into each other’s eyes, and to even share food. We took time to share what we had brought to represent …

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Uranium dumps in France

Date: June 12, 2021
Author: Harriet Sams
Location: La Creuse, France
Wounded Place: Industry & Development | Mineral extraction | Waste

An eye of golden broom flower lay right at the junction of two paths. One path leading around a flooded river valley and the other to an old uranium mine. Hot and dusty, we began …

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What’s in the Dirt?

Date: June 11, 2021
Author: Katie Case
Location: Townhome development in metro Atlanta
Wounded Place: Industry & Development

I have lived in this new townhome development since last October, 2020. Since it’s a community still under construction, I have borne witness to how devastating a construction zone can be on the surrounding environment. …

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in wildness we trust

Date: June 11, 2021
Author: christine morro
Location: northport bay, long island ny
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

aware that our waters are threatened by acidification, climate change, careless dumping of toxins and runoff from fertilizers I offered a blessing…that we as humans remember our place on earth, as stewards and earth keepers. …

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Peace by Putah Creek

Date: June 11, 2021
Author: Carol Warren
Location: Putah Creek, Davis CA
Wounded Place: Historic & Cultural Sites | Industry & Development | Trees

I love the peace of this place. I sat under a 150 year old coast live oak and watched a mother duck and her chicks swim up the creek. Squirrels and jays darted here and …

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love over time

Date: June 10, 2021
Author: caroline fairless
Location: wilmot nh
Wounded Place: Personal

We had to cut a tree whose root ball had shifted during a microburst, leaving the crown of this white pine leaning toward our bedroom. We left twelve feet of tree with the idea to …

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Florida Waters Earth Exchange

Date: June 6, 2021
Author: Jess Kovach
Location: Hangars Beach, Fl Atlantic Ocean
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

We held a Global Earth Exchange at the water’s edge in Florida on the Atlantic coast. Many sea turtles had nested and laid eggs the night before all along this beach. We could see the …

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Memorial for ancient mother trees

Date: June 6, 2021
Author: Terry Dance Bennink
Location: Songhees First Nation
Wounded Place: Historic & Cultural Sites | Trees

I stood in silence and thanked the land and felled trees for offering me a home, despite their suffering.

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Souls In-earthed

Date: May 24, 2021
Author: Ranae Hanson
Location: Kirkbridge Center, Fergus Falls, MN
Wounded Place: Animals + Birds + Insects | Historic & Cultural Sites | Trees

The Kirkbride Cemetery itself and the Poor Farm Cemetery. Both are full of graves, most unmarked. Crates with rusting bindings edge the cemetery; each crate has five grave markers engraved with names and dates of …

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Rethinking the Small Things

Date: May 20, 2021
Author: Susan Gillotti
Location: Norwich, VT
Wounded Place: Trees

I’m thinking about the small things we do that harm nature. I planted a pyramidal Norway Spruce four years ago. I wanted the tree to block my view of a neighbor’s bathroom window, one without …

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Beauty in the Marsh

Date: May 19, 2021
Author: Debby Herman
Location: Apalachin Marsh
Wounded Place: Trees

I love to walk in the Apalachin Marsh near my home. The trail itself is nothing out of the ordinary, but the trees are very special to me. They are huge and old, stately and …

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College Students on Dredged Land

Date: May 5, 2021
Author: Jo Huxster
Location: St. Petersburg, Florida
Wounded Place: Climate change | Industry & Development | Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

Every Spring semester, I teach a course called Climate Change Communication. The material is fascinating but, at times, tough and discouraging. Often my students come to the class hoping that there is a secret formula …

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Recreating beauty in a wounded national park

Date: June 27, 2020
Author: Andy Carnahan
Location: Morton National Park, Echo Point Lookout, Australia
Wounded Place: Animals + Birds + Insects | Climate change | Natural disasters | Trees

The south-east of Australia lost much of its wild places over the (southern) summer of 2019/20. Uncontainable bush fires ran through from August 2019 to early February 2020. People died, houses were lost and forest …

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Overhauling

Date: June 27, 2020
Author: Beatrice Pook
Location: Stanford, South Africa
Wounded Place: Climate change | Personal

This year’s story: I found this sign in a shop and found it amusing as I work mainly as a massage therapist and this seemed appropriate and funny. By now, a few months later and …

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Beck 2020

What is a “worthwhile action”?

Date: June 25, 2020
Author: Mike Beck
Location: Navarre, FL
Wounded Place: Other | Personal | Trees

 What constitutes a “worthwhile action” when the whole of Earth is sick and wounded, when people are so without a sense of place they are willing to set what passes for theirs on fire?  So, …

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Roses of Renewal

Date: June 24, 2020
Author: Federico Hewson and Marcelo Kuna
Location: Berlin Wall Memorial
Wounded Place: Historic & Cultural Sites

The Corona virus and the George Floyd riots have showed sickness on many levels – from personal health, the luxury to breathe, and to the larger colonial forces still at work in wounded times. The …

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Trebbe 2020

For an Old Apple Tree That’s Gone

Date: June 24, 2020
Author: Trebbe Johnson
Location: Thompson, PA
Wounded Place: Trees

Last week an old apple tree in our front yard had to be cut down. It hadn’t been doing well for years, and it had stopped making apples. The apples it used to bring forth …

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Martin 2020

Enemies

Date: June 23, 2020
Author: Joanne Martin
Location: Darlington, PA
Wounded Place: Industry & Development | Mineral extraction | Personal

This year I am acutely aware that what I was called to do was heal my relationships with the people I am judging to have wounded the land. This became an uncomfortable practice as I …

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Weinbaum 2020

Centered at Home

Date: June 22, 2020
Author: Fran Weinbaum
Location: Montpelier, VT
Wounded Place: Other | Personal

This year, I placed the Radical Joy banner on our front door along with the “welcome but keep your distance” sign and a heart from Montpelier’s annual Valentine Phantom who leaves hearts ALL OVER Montpelier. …

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Herman 2020

But the trees never came back

Date: June 21, 2020
Author: Debby Herman
Location: Apalachin, NY
Wounded Place: Industry & Development | Mineral extraction | Trees

There are woods in back of my house that are very dear to me—I walk on the trails most of the year, and cross-country ski on them during the winter. Those woods and trails are …

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Wounded Rivers/Wounded People

Date: June 21, 2020
Author: Janet Keating
Location: Green Bottom, WV
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers | War & Violence

Story & Experience This year, 2020, I once again, returned to the banks of the Ohio River near Green Bottom, WV for my Global Earth Exchange. The Ohio River is the most polluted River in …

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Treephilia with Redcedar

Date: June 21, 2020
Author: Jennifer Wilhoit
Location: Bainbridge Island, WA
Wounded Place: Personal | Trees

This was my tenth Global Earth Exchange in support of Radical Joy for Hard Times. Each year I have followed the suggested steps for engaging this ritual. Because of the utterly unprecedented times we are …

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Herman Panorama 2020

But the Trees Never Came Back

Date: June 20, 2020
Author: Debby Herman
Location: Apalachin, NY
Wounded Place: Trees

There are woods in the back of my house that are very dear to me—I walk on the trails most of the year, and cross-country ski on them during the winter. Those woods and trails …

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Overhauling 

Date: June 20, 2020
Author: Beatrice Pook
Location: Stanford, South Africa
Wounded Place: Animals + Birds + Insects | RadJoy Philosophy

Beatrice Pook Stanford, South Africa This year’s story: I found this sign in a shop and found it amusing as I work mainly as a massage therapist and this seemed appropriate and funny. By now, …

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For Travelers at the Border

Date: June 20, 2020
Author: Carol Zuccarino
Location:
Wounded Place: Historic & Cultural Sites | Other

Carol Zuccarino is volunteering and living at a shelter on the border of Mexico to work with asylum seekers. She sent the following description of their Global Earth Exchange: Yesterday our small group of three …

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Beck 2020

What is a “Worthwhile Action?”

Date: June 20, 2020
Author: Mike Beck
Location: Navarre, FL
Wounded Place: RadJoy Philosophy

What constitutes a “worthwhile action” when the whole of Earth is sick and wounded, when people are so without a sense of place they are willing to set what passes for theirs on fire?  So, …

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Recreating Beauty in a Wounded National Park

Date: June 20, 2020
Author: Andy Carnahan
Location: Morton National Park, Echo Point Lookout, Australia
Wounded Place: Animals + Birds + Insects | Natural disasters

The south-east of Australia lost much of its wild places over the (southern) summer of 2019/20. Uncontainable bush fires ran through from August 2019 to early February 2020. People died, houses were lost and forest …

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Radical Joy for Hard Times: Healing ourselves as we try to heal the world around us

Date: June 20, 2020
Author: Jo Huxster and Climate Communication class
Location: Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, FL
Wounded Place: Climate change

Although I like to think that taking my Climate Change Communication class is a rewarding journey, I know that can also be emotionally taxing. We spend the entire semester talking about climate change, obviously, so …

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Claire (Huxster) GEx 2020

Climate Change Communication Class – Eckerd College

Date: June 20, 2020
Author: Claire
Location: Skaket Beach, Orleans Massachusetts
Wounded Place: Climate change

Claire is a student at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida. The class, taught by Joanna Huxster, has participated in RadJoy’s Global Earth Exchange for several years. This year, because of the COVID pandemic, the …

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Hughes Austin 2020

Gratitude for nature’s spaces

Date: June 20, 2020
Author: Eugene Hughes and Louise Austin
Location: London, England
Wounded Place: Personal | Plants

Louise and I decided to give gratitude to our nature spaces (Louise’s balcony and my garden ) that nurtured us through lockdown. We each spent time there at the weekend, reflecting and being with the …

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Lasting Stewardship

Date: June 20, 2020
Author: Anne Stine
Location: Modoc National Forest
Wounded Place: Climate change | Personal | Trees

Modoc National forest is the homeland of the Modoc native peoples who were, like so many other native peoples, were driven from their homes force marched from northern California to Oklahoma where they were forced …

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Forgiving and figuring out

Date: June 20, 2020
Author: Marla Ferguson
Location: Palisade, CO
Wounded Place: Personal | Trees | War & Violence

I have had a very difficult time doing this practice this week. I loved the zoom introduction and speakers last week and followed all of the questions and responses online even though I haven’t participated …

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Garden Earth Exchange

Date: June 20, 2020
Author: Carol Warren
Location: Davis, CA
Wounded Place: Plants

Our Earth Exchange this morning was at the garden I have been attending. It is a lovely garden enjoyed by many in the city park, although its beauty is now “western” artifice. This dry place …

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Stack

Bird for trees lost to a building site

Date: June 20, 2020
Author: David Stack
Location: Wauwatosa, WI
Wounded Place: Industry & Development

We visited a site that was cleared of trees for the building of a hotel and honored the site.

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Wyman Park Global Earth Exchange

Date: June 20, 2020
Author: Lisa McCall and Autumn Van Ord
Location: Wyman Park
Wounded Place: Plants | Waste

Again, Autumn Van Ord and I went to Wyman Park in Baltimore City to have our Earth Exchange. We continue to feel elated that this park been cleaned up and cared for by the city. …

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Skrei 2020

High Hope Ranch Global Earth Exchange

Date: June 20, 2020
Author: Trebbe Johnson
Location: Glen Rose, TX
Wounded Place: Other

Here is a sequence from High Hope for our 7th year in participation with the Global Earth Exchange… A full group was gathered; folks from Austin and Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex who came for a Solstice …

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Radical Joy for Land That Isn’t There

Date: June 20, 2020
Author: Annie Hess and Women of the Moon Circle
Location: Chesapeake Bay, VA
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

Eight of us gathered, socially-distanced, under the trees at the edge of a sheer drop-off overlooking the Chesapeake Bay. For generations the spot was known in the community as a beloved spot for picnics, church …

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For Travelers at the Border

Date: June 19, 2020
Author: Carol Zuccarino
Location: Las Cruces, NM
Wounded Place: War & Violence

Carol Zuccarino is volunteering and living at a shelter on the border of Mexico to work with asylum seekers. She sent the following description of their Global Earth Exchange: Yesterday our small group of three …

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Huxster

Healing ourselves as we try to heal the world around us

Date: May 10, 2020
Author: Jo Huxster and 2019-22 Climate Communication Class
Location: Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, FL
Wounded Place: Climate change

Although I like to think that taking my Climate Change Communication class is a rewarding journey, I know that can also be emotionally taxing. We spend the entire semester talking about climate change, obviously, so …

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Climate Change Communication Class—Eckerd College

Date: May 4, 2020
Author: Claire
Location: Skaket Beach, Orleans Massachusetts
Wounded Place: Climate change

Skaket Beach, Orleans Massachusetts. This beach is one of my favorite places on the Cape to watch the sunset. The bay you see in the picture is becoming more and more of a wounded place. …

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Honoring Healing Waters

Date: July 19, 2019
Author: Sandy Shea
Location: Slate River, near Crested Butte, CO
Wounded Place: Historic & Cultural Sites | Mineral extraction | Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

We met in the early morning on the summer solstice at the river.  Our group included elders, parents and children.  Together we created a ceremony where all participants added to our communal offering to acknowledge, …

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Tlholego

Date: July 3, 2019
Author: Dumisani Madhlophe
Location: Tlholego Village, South Africa
Wounded Place: Other

Good morning all, I personally had and felt a rush of rejuvenating experiences, moments and thoughts. I came to Tlholego as a neo-nomad, looking to experience exactly what a former scout would expect… Normal camping, …

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All Are Our Relations

Date: June 30, 2019
Author: Corinna Stevenson
Location: Ravenwood, Sayward, Vancouver Island, BC, Canada
Wounded Place: Animals + Birds + Insects | Climate change | Oceans + Lakes + Rivers | Plants | Trees

Once, all people lived in close relationship with nature. Time and history have withered the bond between the human and the other-than-human world. Despite this, the Earth and All Our Relations continue to generously give …

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Smooth Rock Croc

Date: June 29, 2019
Author: Zoe Elliston
Location: Essex, VT
Wounded Place: Industry & Development

It was really fantastic to share this event with a friend. We saw all this construction in the town and choose that as a place to honor. We honored what came before the new building …

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Hughes Landscape

The Politics of Ecology

Date: June 26, 2019
Author: Eugene Hughes
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Wounded Place: Industry & Development | Waste

I made a small bird from blue plastic. My creative act is captured in this picture which is the edge between a toxic field and a superfund site—both edged up together. The image I took …

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From the Lake District to Dorset

Date: June 23, 2019
Author: Benet Waterman and Alizon
Location: West Dorset, England
Wounded Place: Historic & Cultural Sites

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 …

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Resilient Place…Heals Hearts

Date: June 23, 2019
Author: Colter Schroeder
Location: Japhet Creek
Wounded Place: Animals + Birds + Insects | Historic & Cultural Sites | Industry & Development | Oceans + Lakes + Rivers | Trees | Waste

Although we were a small group, we had a very meaningful impact with our radical joy event.  We selected an area of the park that worked for all our members and cleaned up the garbage …

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Larchfall: Beauty in and for a Damaged Larch Forest

Date: June 22, 2019
Author: Trebbe Johnson
Location: Florence Shelly Wetlands Preserve, Thompson, PA
Wounded Place: Trees

A sudden and violent windstorm tore down many old larch trees in our nature preserve. What was once a trail among tall trees is now a labyrinth of upturned trunks. And yet there is a …

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Kilvey Earth Exchange

Date: June 22, 2019
Author: Emma Quick
Location: Swansea, Wales, UK
Wounded Place: Historic & Cultural Sites

My mother had an operation the day before the Global Earth Exchange, so due to the uncertainty as to how that would unfold, we didn’t make it official, as didn’t want to let people down. …

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The Occasional Beauty of Barbed Wire

Date: June 22, 2019
Author: The Occasional Beauty of Barbed Wire
Location: Earth Teach Forest Park, Ashland, Oregon
Wounded Place: Other

The land we were on for our wilderness rites of passage program is private land with a logging history. There is a big tumble of rusted, old barbed wire right near basecamp. So on June …

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Church of the Woods Earth Exchange

Date: June 22, 2019
Author: Stephen Blackmer and Church of the Woods
Location: Church of the Woods, Canterbury, New Hampshire
Wounded Place: Trees

The people of Church of the Woods in Canterbury, NH, USA, gathered on a little knoll amidst a forest that is vibrantly regrowing after destructive logging. Humans have cut forests around the globe for centuries, …

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Share Love, Not Trash

Date: June 22, 2019
Author: Liz Hanna
Location: East Rock Park
Wounded Place: Plants | Trees | Waste

The walk through the park to the site I had in mind was a mixed experience for me: I walked with my partner, who is not familiar with the paths, and felt somewhat self-conscious of …

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The Willows at Red Oak (women’s recovery program)

Date: June 22, 2019
Author:
Location: Asheville, North Carolina
Wounded Place: Other

The group first individually shared “sacred” places in nature to which they feel personally connected. Then we participated in a sit-spot experiential, focusing on connecting with the space and asking if there was any “wisdom” …

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Heartflow: Honoring the Housatonic River

Date: June 22, 2019
Author: Sarah Natan
Location: Great Barrington, MA
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

We had an amazing event to honor the Housatonic River and lift up the Rights of Nature movement for the Berkshires.  Over 60 people participated in song, inquiry, contemplation, music making, and offering for the …

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Sundance

Land Healing After Fire

Date: June 22, 2019
Author: Bonnie Sundance
Location: Nederland, Colorado
Wounded Place: Natural disasters

Sunday the 23 of June, I am hitchhiking to the site of my cabin, when I see a hawk circling above. I know it is a sign to me of reassurance from the Spirit world …

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Waimanalo

Date: June 22, 2019
Author: Lizabeth Kashinsky
Location: Bellows AFS, Waimanalo
Wounded Place: Animals + Birds + Insects | Climate change | Historic & Cultural Sites | Oceans + Lakes + Rivers | Plants | Trees | War & Violence

Nine of us came together for our Global Earth Exchange. There were a couple who had participated previously but most were new to the practice. We started by sharing our names and why we chose …

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An Environmental Mistake

Date: June 22, 2019
Author: Vandy Wilkinson
Location: Hamamatsu, Japan
Wounded Place: Industry & Development

I wore the 2011 T shirt to my zazen session on June 22 and asked permission to talk about the meaning of the event, the picture, the purpose of the artwork. We had a pretty …

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Thomas

Renewing Our Covenant with the Earth

Date: June 22, 2019
Author: Stephanie Thomas
Location: Houston, TX
Wounded Place: Other

Our event was small this year. My neighbors and I gathered to sit with the trees and plants in my front yard, create intentions (which we burned—see photos), and take vows:   Renewing Our Vows …

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Daring to Bear Witness: Valley Brook, Cheshire, England

Date: June 22, 2019
Author: Jane Smith
Location: Valley Brook, running through Alsager, Cheshire (UK)
Wounded Place: Animals + Birds + Insects | Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

A small group of us from the local branch of Animal Welfare Party (seven people – five adults and two children – plus three dogs) met at Fanny’s Croft and slowly followed the course of …

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Casciola

Anointing Land

Date: June 22, 2019
Author: Julia Casciola
Location: Cape Town, South Africa
Wounded Place: Industry & Development | Other

Mid-winter and raining finely. I chose this piece of land because I pass it every day. It is both wounded and beautiful, like me and most of us. Wounded as it includes a polluted stream, …

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The Land of Sorrow

Date: June 22, 2019
Author: Claire Hayes
Location: Dunshaughlin, Ireland
Wounded Place: War & Violence

Ireland is traditionally known as ‘the land of saints and scholars’. As I planned how I could bring joy to wounded places, I wondered if in more recent times it is becoming ‘the land of …

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Keating 2019

Radical Joy

Date: June 22, 2019
Author: Janet Keating
Location: Dolly Sods Wilderness, Davis, West Virginia
Wounded Place: Mineral extraction | Trees

This year’s Global Earth Exchange found me in a beautiful place in West Virginia—Dolly Sods Wilderness Area—a place once deeply wounded, but now transformed by loving intentions and nature’s resilience. I’ve been returning there whenever …

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Radical Joy for WHALES

Date: June 22, 2019
Author: Janet Frangs and Sonia Pithey
Location: Durban, South Africa
Wounded Place: Animals + Birds + Insects

Radical Joy…. the whales did not show up but I have no doubt they heard us!!!! Thank you to the musicians, poets, story tellers, sharers and creatives who shared their wonderful talents. Thank you to …

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McCall 2019

Annual Global Earth Exchange at Wyman Park

Date: June 22, 2019
Author: Lisa McCall and Autumn VanOrd
Location: Wyman Park, Baltimore, Maryland
Wounded Place: Other | Waste

Autumn and I were joined by my friend Chrisa this year as we returned to Wyman Park in Baltimore, MD. This area is in the city and has a stream that has been plagued by …

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Skrei

Grandmother Oak at Habari House

Date: June 22, 2019
Author: Sandy Skrei and Krystyna Jurzykowski
Location: High Hope Ranch, Glen Rose, TX
Wounded Place: Trees

Oak wilt has been devasting the oak trees that so many of us in the Texas Hill Country identify with and love. Our trees at High Hope are no exception, and now our most beloved …

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Lone Loon on the Water

Date: June 22, 2019
Author: Megan Toben
Location: The Eco-Institute at Pickards Mountain
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

Mid-morning, one Community Member created a Loon out of branches and flowers.  She made her offering and left it floating on the pond. A few hours later, more people visited the waters, recognizing that the …

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Joergensen

For the waters of Denmark

Date: June 22, 2019
Author: Susanne Joergensen
Location: Traenekaer, Denmark
Wounded Place: Other

As in the past, the water well in my yard was the focus of a private event. I have become very saddened by the many findings of pesticides in the drinking water throughout Denmark, forcing …

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Dannemiller 2019

Global Earth Exchange for a former perlite mine

Date: June 22, 2019
Author: Kaysie Dannemiller
Location: Former perlite mine, Tinemaha Pit, Fish Springs District, Owens Valley, California
Wounded Place: Mineral extraction

Experience: this dispatch is being made via cell phone so will be short and sweet. I walked up to the mine in the heat of the afternoon from my campground. It would have been easier …

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Hess 2019 Bird

Chesapeake Bay Earth Exchange

Date: June 22, 2019
Author: Annie Hess and Elvin Hess
Location: Savage Neck Road, Cape Charles, VA, USA
Wounded Place: Animals + Birds + Insects | Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

I went to the site of our very first adventure with Trebbe on the Chesapeake Bay in the fall of 2009! (And the site of several Global Earth Exchanges since!) I hadn’t been to Savage …

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I Vow to Develop Compassion

Date: June 22, 2019
Author: shemmaho goodenough
Location: Hugh Keenleyside Dam, Castlegar, BC Canada
Wounded Place: Industry & Development | Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

On the morning of June 22 thirteen people gathered at Portuguese Point, a fishing place near the Hugh Keenleyside Dam, on the Columbia River upstream from Castlegar, B.C.   Our first activity was for each …

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Daring to bear witness to Baseline Creep

Date: June 22, 2019
Author: Harriet Sams
Location: Barnard Castle
Wounded Place: Animals + Birds + Insects | Children's Events | Climate change | Industry & Development | Waste

The day of June 22nd dawned bright and fair after weeks of cold and dismal rain. A lovely day for sitting in the woods. A small group of people met in the woods around Barnard …

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Honoring the River

Date: June 22, 2019
Author: Polly Howells
Location: Falling Waters Preserve, Glasco, New York
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers | Plants | Trees

There were twelve of us who gathered in a small cove on the Hudson River, after following the Father C. Jorn Trail from the parking lot of the Falling Water Preserve in Saugerties, New York.  …

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For a local grocery

Date: June 22, 2019
Author: Beatrice Pook
Location: Stanford, Western Cape, South Africa
Wounded Place: Other

When wondering which wounded place is calling today,the recently burned down main grocery store/supermarket in the center of our little village came to mind. There had been much unhappiness about the services of the shop.The …

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A Bird for the Rafters

Date: June 22, 2019
Author: Frank Goryl and Lissa Jeannot
Location: Moscow Clayworks, Moscow, PA
Wounded Place: Climate change | Natural disasters | War & Violence

Lissa has been able to join us in Moscow and get some distance from the social upheaval in Haiti.* The clay bird she made today has found its way into the rafters of our back …

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Lake Superior Earth Exchange

Date: June 22, 2019
Author: Sheila Coughlin
Location: Wisconsin Point Lot # 1, Superior, WI
Wounded Place: Industry & Development | Mineral extraction | Oceans + Lakes + Rivers | Other | Waste

It was a beautiful, sunny day with powerful winds on Wisconsin Point Beach in Superior, WI. The waves crashed to shore with great strength speaking of the power inherent in Gichi-gami. The 2019 Lake Superior …

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Honoring the Ocean

Date: June 22, 2019
Author: Nancy Margulies
Location: Montara State Beach, Montara, CA
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

Ten of us gathered on the beach on a warm sunny day and began by searching for litter we could pick up. Great news: there was NONE! We then gathered to share stories of hope …

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Treephilia

Date: June 22, 2019
Author: Jennifer Wilhoit
Location: Edge of the Grand Forest
Wounded Place: Industry & Development | Other | Plants | Trees

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Das abgeholzte Tannholz

Date: June 22, 2019
Author: Yvonne Meyer
Location: Tannholz, CH-3214 Ulmiz
Wounded Place: Trees

Wir treffen uns und laufen durch Feld und Wiese los, ein Reh springt vor uns auf. Beim Einfang zum Wald tanzen wir einen Dankestanz für die Elemente. Danach singen wir das Lied: “Meine Füsse fest …

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Kreves

The River Is Us

Date: June 22, 2019
Author: Joy Kreves
Location: The Delaware Riverbank at Washington Crossing Park, NJ, just south of Titusville, NJ
Wounded Place: Historic & Cultural Sites | Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

The weather was perfect today, after many, many days of  torrential rains in the area.  Everyone who had expressed interest in joining me today bowed out, so only my husband and I went to our …

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Global Earth Exchange for an old candy factory

Date: June 22, 2019
Author: Reggie Marra
Location: Peter Paul Mounds Factory, Naugatuck, CT
Wounded Place: Historic & Cultural Sites

I did a solo Global Earth Exchange today, June 22, at the former site of the Peter Paul Mounds factory in Naugatuck, CT. Opened in 1922, closed in 2007, razed in 2011 and still a …

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Baseline Creep for the Black River

Date: June 22, 2019
Author: Sasha Daucus
Location: Sportsman Park in Poplar Bluff, MO
Wounded Place: Animals + Birds + Insects | Climate change | Natural disasters | Oceans + Lakes + Rivers | Plants | Trees | Waste

Annette Joseph, an Episcopal Priest working in rural Missouri, and I met at Sportsman Park in Poplar Bluff, Missouri, to do a Global Earth Exchange. Our focus was on “Baseline Creep”, a term that describes …

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Healing the Waters of the World

Date: June 22, 2019
Author: Marla Ferguson
Location:
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

This year my friend, Laura and I did a ceremony honoring all of the waters of the Earth for our Global Earth Exchange. I labeled 4 jars with labels of Rivers, Lakes, Oceans and Drinking. …

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Larchfall: Beauty in and for a Damaged Larch Forest

Date: June 22, 2019
Author: Trebbe Johnson
Location: Florence Shelly Wetlands, Thompson, PA 18465
Wounded Place: Trees

Although I have walked in this preserve, just a mile from my home, many hundreds of times over the past 30 years, there are always surprises. Today was no exception. First, I woke up in …

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Ten Years in a Row

Date: June 22, 2019
Author: Michael Beck
Location: Navarre Beach, Florida USA
Wounded Place: Natural disasters

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Afghan Peace Volunteers 2019

Date: June 22, 2019
Author: Afghan Peace Volunteers
Location: Kabul, Afghanistan`
Wounded Place: War & Violence

This is a photo of some of the Afghan Peace Volunteers working in the garden at the Borderfree Nonviolence Community Centre in Kabul. They are using permaculture design methods. From left to right were: Mina, …

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Albrecht 2019

Solastalgia

Date: June 22, 2019
Author: Glenn Albrecht
Location: Duns Creek, NSW, Australia
Wounded Place: Animals + Birds + Insects | Climate change

Wounded Place: Climate change This year we photographed a dead female Wallaby at the top of Wallaby Close. She must have hopped into the path of a car last night. Road kill is a huge …

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Ten Years in a Row

Date: June 22, 2019
Author: Mike Beck
Location: Navarre Beach, Florida
Wounded Place: Natural disasters

My best friend, Rusty K, second generation Irish, who has attended all of the annual Earth Exchanges I have hosted when they were in the environs of where we live in the northwest corner of …

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Church of the Woods Earth Exchange

Date: June 22, 2019
Author: Stephen Blackmer and Church of the Woods
Location: Canterbury, New Hampshire
Wounded Place: Trees

The people of Church of the Woods in Canterbury, NH, USA, gathered on a little knoll amidst a forest that is vibrantly regrowing after destructive logging. Humans have cut forests around the globe for centuries, …

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Casciola

Anointing Land

Date: June 22, 2019
Author: Julia Casciola
Location: Cape Town, South Africa
Wounded Place: Industry & Development

Mid-winter and raining finely. I chose this piece of land because I pass it every day. It is both wounded and beautiful, like me and most of us. Wounded as it includes a polluted stream, …

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Pilgrimage in a Burnt Forest

Date: June 22, 2019
Author: Anna Coffman
Location: Donnell Reservoir, California
Wounded Place: Natural disasters | Trees

I head into the Sierras to explore the area burnt by the Donnell Fire in 2018. Wikipedia says that 36,450 acres (147.5 km2) were burnt, but I don’t have any concept of what that means. …

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Saint Barbara of the Polish Miners

Date: June 22, 2019
Author: Federico Hewson
Location: Bogatynia, Poland
Wounded Place: Historic & Cultural Sites | Industry & Development | Mineral extraction

Mining for brown (lignite) coal is a main industry of Poland despite EU fines. Local activists including those in the Czech Republic and Germany are working on strategies to change this and bring in a …

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Tlholego Village

Date: June 22, 2019
Author: Dumisani Madhlophe
Location: Rustenburg, South Africa 
Wounded Place: Historic & Cultural Sites

Good morning all, I personally had and felt a rush of rejuvenating experiences, moments and thoughts. I came to Tlholego as a neo-nomad, looking to experience exactly what a former scout would expect… Normal camping, …

Read more »
Kreves

The River Is Us

Date: June 22, 2019
Author: Joy Kreves
Location: The Delaware River Bank at Washington Crossing Park, New Jersey, USA 
Wounded Place: Historic & Cultural Sites | Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

The weather was perfect today, after many, many days of  torrential rains in the area. Everyone who had expressed interest in joining me today bowed out, so only my husband and I went to our …

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Journey to the Spring

Date: June 22, 2019
Author: Jess Kovach and Laurie Martinez
Location: Wekiwa Springs, Apopka, Florida, USA 
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers | Trees

Our Global Earth Exchange was held at Wekiwa Springs in Apopka, Florida.  We chose this site because Florida’s freshwater ecosystem is suffering increased wounding by the unnatural amount of nitrates and pollutants that enter the …

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Keating 2019

Dolly Sods Wilderness Area

Date: June 22, 2019
Author: Janet Keating
Location: Dolly Sods Wilderness, Davis, West Virginia, USA
Wounded Place: Industry & Development

This year’s Global Earth Exchange found me in a beautiful place in West Virginia—Dolly Sods Wilderness Area—a place once deeply wounded, but now transformed by loving intentions and nature’s resilience. I’ve been returning there whenever …

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Bellows Air Force Base

Date: June 22, 2019
Author: Lizabeth Kashinsky
Location: Waimanalo, Hawaii, USA
Wounded Place: Industry & Development | Waste

Nine of us came together for our Global Earth Exchange. There were a couple who had participated previously but most were new to the practice. We started by sharing our names and why we chose …

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Joergensen

For the Waters of Denmark

Date: June 22, 2019
Author: Susanne Joergensen
Location: Traenekaer, Denmark
Wounded Place: Other

As in the past, the water well in my yard was the focus of a private event. I have become very saddened by the many findings of pesticides in the drinking water throughout Denmark, forcing …

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Ishwari 2019

Puri Lumbung Global Earth Exchange

Date: June 22, 2019
Author: Yudhi Ishwari
Location: Munduk, Bali, Indonesia
Wounded Place: Climate change | Trees

This year of June 2019 the clove harvest has decreased due to uncertain weather. The conditions are different from a few years ago where the wet and dry seasons were surely come on time. When …

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Hughes 2019 Bird

The Politics of Ecology

Date: June 22, 2019
Author: Eugene Hughes
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Wounded Place: Toxicity | Waste

Eugene Hughes  Wounded Place: Industry & Development | Waste I made a small bird from blue plastic. My creative act is captured in this picture which is the edge between a toxic field and a …

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Albrecht 2019

Solastalgia

Date: June 22, 2019
Author: Glenn Albrecht
Location: Duns Creek, NSW, Australia
Wounded Place: Climate change

This year we photographed a dead female Wallaby at the top of Wallaby Close. She must have hopped into the path of a car last night. Road kill is a huge issue in our part …

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Beach Clean Ardnahinch Beach,Ballycotton Bay Cork Ireland

Date: June 22, 2019
Author: Paul Fearon
Location: Caring for the Sea/Beach Clean Ardnahinch,Cork
Wounded Place: Animals + Birds + Insects | Climate change | Oceans + Lakes + Rivers | Waste

At 11 am on 22 June Elmo our 15 yr old dog and Deborah my wife of 19 years spent time on Ardnahinch beach. This is close to our home and a favorite place to …

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Deserted hamlet of Stanton St. Gabriel

Date: June 22, 2019
Author: Benet Waterman and Alizon
Location: West Dorset, England
Wounded Place: Historic & Cultural Sites

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 …

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Reweaving the World: Healing and Renewal in Troubled Times

Date: June 22, 2019
Author: Lara Lwin Treadaway
Location: Lockwood, California, USA
Wounded Place: Other

The Reweaving the World retreat took place at Loving Earth Sanctuary, a beautiful 40-acre property in the foothills of the Santa Lucia mountains. Structured around deep ecologist Joanna Macy’s framework of The Work That Reconnects, …

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Standing for Staying Awake and Connected

Date: June 22, 2019
Author: Judy Todd
Location: Sandy River, Gresham, Oregon, USA
Wounded Place: Other

In the presence of ‘strangers’ also in the park along the river’s edge, we shared our stories of places we have known, loved, wept over, and re-visit still. Our connection to one another was new; …

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Lone Loon on the Water | The Eco-Institute at Pickards Mountain 

Date: June 22, 2019
Author: Megan Toben
Location: Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

Mid-morning, one Community Member created a Loon out of branches and flowers. She made her offering and left it floating on the pond. A few hours later, more people visited the waters, recognizing that the …

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Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls

Date: June 22, 2019
Author: Thyme Eternity
Location: Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada
Wounded Place: War & Violence

 2019 Thyme Eternity Wounded Place: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls My name is Time I represent an awakening, an arising, an arousal. I encourage a state of health, wealth and vitality. I become …

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Thomas

Renewing Our Covenant with the Earth

Date: June 22, 2019
Author: Stephanie Thomas
Location: Houston, Texas, USA
Wounded Place: Other

Our event was small this year. My neighbors and I gathered to sit with the trees and plants in my front yard, create intentions (which we burned—see photos), and take vows:   Renewing Our Vows …

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Sundance

Land Healing After Fire

Date: June 22, 2019
Author: Bonnie Sundance
Location: Nederland, Colorado, USA
Wounded Place: Natural disasters

Sunday the 23 of June, I am hitchhiking to the site of my cabin, when I see a hawk circling above. I know it is a sign to me of reassurance from the Spirit world …

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Shea 2019

Honoring Healing Waters

Date: June 22, 2019
Author: Sandy Shea
Location: Slate River, near Crested Butte, Colorado, USA
Wounded Place: Historic & Cultural Sites | Mineral extraction | Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

We met in the early morning on the summer solstice at the river.  Our group included elders, parents and children.  Together we created a ceremony where all participants added to our communal offering to acknowledge, …

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Daring to Bear Witness: Valley Brook

Date: June 22, 2019
Author: Jane Smith
Location: Valley Brook, running through Alsager, Cheshire (UK) 
Wounded Place: Animals + Birds + Insects | Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

A small group of us from the local branch of Animal Welfare Party (seven people—five adults and two children—plus three dogs) met at Fanny’s Croft and slowly followed the course of the stream as it …

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Schroeder

Resilient Place… Heals Hearts

Date: June 22, 2019
Author: Colton Schroeder
Location: Japhet Creek, Houston, Texas, USA
Wounded Place: Other | Waste

Although we were a small group, we had a very meaningful impact with our Radical Joy event. We selected an area of the park that worked for all our members and cleaned up the garbage …

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Quick 2019

Kilvey Earth Exchange

Date: June 22, 2019
Author: Emma Quick
Location: Swansea, Wales, UK
Wounded Place: Other | Personal

My mother had an operation the day before the Global Earth Exchange, so due to the uncertainty as to how that would unfold, we didn’t make it official, as didn’t want to let people down. …

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Pook

Local grocery store

Date: June 22, 2019
Author: Beatrice Pook
Location: Stanford, Western Cape, South Africa
Wounded Place: Other

When wondering which wounded place is calling today, the recently burned down main grocery store/supermarket in the center of our little village came to mind. There had been much unhappiness about the services of the …

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remembering, honoring, celebrating our sacred connection to earth

Date: June 22, 2019
Author: Christine Morro
Location: Sagaponack, New York 
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

I recently heard a talk on Parabola’s podcast on Renewal…these words brought me back to the morning of my rad joy creation in Sagaponack “small things with great love reach farther than we can see”  …

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Meyer

Clearcut forest

Date: June 22, 2019
Author: Yvonne Meyer
Location: Ulmiz, Switzerland
Wounded Place: Trees

Translation below Wir treffen uns und laufen durch Feld und Wiese los, ein Reh springt vor uns auf. Beim Einfang zum Wald tanzen wir einen Dankestanz für die Elemente. Danach singen wir das Lied: “Meine …

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McCall 2019

Annual Global Earth Exchange at Wyman Park

Date: June 22, 2019
Author: Lisa McCall and Autumn VanOrd
Location: Wyman Park, Baltimore, MD
Wounded Place: Other | Waste

Autumn and I were joined by my friend Chrisa this year as we returned to Wyman Park in Baltimore, MD. This area is in the city and has a stream that has been plagued by …

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Honoring the Housatonic River

Date: June 22, 2019
Author: Sarah Natan
Location: Great Barrington, Massachusetts
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

We had an amazing event to honor the Housatonic River and lift up the Rights of Nature movement for the Berkshires.  Over 60 people participated in song, inquiry, contemplation, music making, and offering for the …

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Skrei

Grandmother Oak at Habari House

Date: June 22, 2019
Author: Sandy Skrei and Krystyna Jurzykowski
Location: High Hope Ranch, Glen Rose, Texas, USA
Wounded Place: Trees

Oak wilt has been devastating the oak trees that so many of us in the Texas Hill Country identify with and love. Our trees at High Hope are no exception, and now our most beloved …

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Wilhoit

Treephilia

Date: June 22, 2019
Author: Jennifer Wilhoit
Location: Bainbridge Island, Washington, USA 
Wounded Place: Industry & Development | Plants | Trees

A transformer caught on fire last year and threatened a protected forestland a few minutes’ walk from my home. When the crew came to cut back the brush and trim the trees, they ended up …

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Sams

Daring to bear witness to Baseline Creep

Date: June 22, 2019
Author: Harriet Sams
Location: Barnard Castle, Teesdale, Co. Durham, UK
Wounded Place: Animals + Birds + Insects | Children's Events | Climate change | Industry & Development | Waste

The day of June 22nd dawned bright and fair after weeks of cold and dismal rain. A lovely day for sitting in the woods. A small group of people met in the woods around Barnard …

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An Environmental Mistake

Date: June 22, 2019
Author: Vandy Wilkinson
Location: Hamamatsu, Japan 
Wounded Place: Industry & Development

I wore the 2011 T-shirt to my zazen session on June 22 and asked permission to talk about the meaning of the event, the picture, the purpose of the artwork. We had a pretty good …

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Marra

Global Earth Exchange for an old candy factory

Date: June 22, 2019
Author: Reggie Marra
Location: Peter Paul Mounds Factory, Naugatuck, Connecticut, USA 
Wounded Place: Industry & Development

I did a solo Global Earth Exchange today, June 22, at the former site of the Peter Paul Mounds factory in Naugatuck, CT. Opened in 1922, closed in 2007, razed in 2011 and still a …

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Margulies 2019 Group

Honoring the Ocean

Date: June 22, 2019
Author: Nancy Margulies
Location: Montara, California, USA
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

Ten of us gathered on the beach on a warm sunny day and began by searching for litter we could pick up. Great news: there was NONE! We then gathered to share stories of hope …

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Stevenson 2019 Group

All Are Our Relations

Date: June 22, 2019
Author: Corinna Stevenson
Location: Ravenwood, Sayward, Vancouver Island, BC, Canada 
Wounded Place: Animals + Birds + Insects | Climate change | Oceans + Lakes + Rivers | Trees

Ravenwood is a healing forest nestled in the Sayward valley, on the traditional territory of the Komox and Laich-kwil-tach people. Generously cared for and protected by Corinna and Greg Stevenson, the property borders the crystal-clear …

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Howells Group

Honoring the River

Date: June 22, 2019
Author: Polly Howells
Location: Falling Waters Preserve, Glasco, New York, USA
Wounded Place: Animals + Birds + Insects | Industry & Development | Trees

There were twelve of us who gathered in a small cove on the Hudson River, after following Father C. Jorn Trail from the parking lot of the Falling Water Preserve in Saugerties, New York. Until …

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Hewson

Saint Barbara of the Polish Miners

Date: June 22, 2019
Author: Federico Hewson
Location: Bogatynia, Poland 
Wounded Place: Historic & Cultural Sites | Industry & Development | Mineral extraction

Mining for brown (lignite) coal is a main industry of Poland despite EU fines. Local activists including those in the Czech Republic and Germany are working on strategies to change this and bring in a …

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Hess 2019 Bird

Chesapeake Bay Earth Exchange

Date: June 22, 2019
Author: Annie and Elvin Hess
Location: Savage Neck Road, Cape Charles, Virginia, USA 
Wounded Place: Animals + Birds + Insects | Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

I went to the site of our very first adventure with Trebbe on the Chesapeake Bay in the fall of 2009! (And the site of several Global Earth Exchanges since!) I hadn’t been to Savage …

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Hayes 2019 Bird

The Land of Sorrow

Date: June 22, 2019
Author: Claire Hayes
Location: Dartry Forest, Co. Cavan, Ireland
Wounded Place: War & Violence

Ireland is traditionally known as “the land of saints and scholars.” As I planned how I could bring joy to wounded places, I wondered if in more recent times it is becoming “the land of …

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Goryl Jeannot

A Bird for the Rafters

Date: June 22, 2019
Author: Frank Goryl and Lissa Jeannot
Location: Moscow Clayworks, Moscow, Pennsylvania, USA 
Wounded Place: Climate change | Natural disasters | War & Violence

Lissa has been able to join us in Moscow and get some distance from the social upheaval in Haiti.* The clay bird she made today has found its way into the rafters of our back …

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Goodenough

I Vow to Develop Compassion

Date: June 22, 2019
Author: Shemmaho Goodenough
Location: Hugh Keenleyside Dam, Castlegar, BC, Canada
Wounded Place: Industry & Development | Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

Wounded place: Columbia River On the morning of June 22 thirteen people gathered at Portuguese Point, a fishing place near the Hugh Keenleyside Dam, on the Columbia River upstream from Castlegar, B.C. We chose this …

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Frangs

Radical Joy for Whales

Date: June 22, 2019
Author: Janet Frangs and Sonia Pithey
Location: Durban, South Africa 
Wounded Place: Animals + Birds + Insects

Radical Joy…. the whales did not show up but I have no doubt they heard us!!!! Thank you to the musicians, poets, story tellers, sharers and creatives who shared their wonderful talents. Thank you to …

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Fearon

Healing the Waters of the World

Date: June 22, 2019
Author: Marla Ferguson
Location: Palisade, Colorado, USA
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

This year my friend, Laura and I did a ceremony honoring all of the waters of the Earth for our Global Earth Exchange. I labeled 4 jars with labels of Rivers, Lakes, Oceans and Drinking. …

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Fearson

Caring for the Sea/Beach Clean Ardnahinch,Cork 

Date: June 22, 2019
Author: Paul Fearon
Location: Ardnahinch Beach, Ballycotton Bay, Cork, Ireland
Wounded Place: Animals + Birds + Insects | Climate change | Oceans + Lakes + Rivers | Waste

At 11 am on 22 June Elmo our 15 yr old dog and Deborah my wife of 19 years spent time on Ardnahinch Beach. This is close to our home and a favorite place to …

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Elliston 2019

Smooth Rock Croc

Date: June 22, 2019
Author: Zoe Elliston
Location: Essex, Vermont
Wounded Place: Industry & Development

It was really fantastic to share this event with a friend. We saw all this construction in the town and chose that as a place to honor. We honored what came before the new building …

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Daucus

Baseline Creep for the Black River

Date: June 22, 2019
Author: Sasha Daucus
Location: Sportsman Park, Poplar Bluff, Missouri, USA
Wounded Place: Animals + Birds + Insects | Climate change | Natural disasters | Oceans + Lakes + Rivers | Plants | Trees | Waste

Annette Joseph, an Episcopal Priest working in rural Missouri, and I met at Sportsman Park in Poplar Bluff, Missouri, to do a Global Earth Exchange. Our focus was on “Baseline Creep”, a term that describes …

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Harris

The Occasional Beauty of Barbed Wire | Earth Teach Forest Park

Date: June 22, 2019
Author: Sara Harris
Location: Ashland, Oregon
Wounded Place: Trees | Waste

The land we were on for our wilderness rites of passage program is private land with a logging history. There is a big tumble of rusted, old barbed wire right near basecamp. So on June …

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Dannemiller 2019

Tinemaha Pit, Fish Springs District | Former perlite mine

Date: June 22, 2019
Author: Kaysie Dannemiller
Location: Tinemaha Pit, Fish Springs District
Wounded Place: Mineral extraction | Waste

Wounded Place: Mineral extraction This dispatch is being made via cell phone so will be short and sweet. I walked up to the mine in the heat of the afternoon from my campground. It would …

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Coughlin

Lake Superior Earth Exchange

Date: June 22, 2019
Author: Sheila Coughlin
Location: Wisconsin Point Lot # 1, Superior, Wisconsin, USA
Wounded Place: Industry & Development | Mineral extraction | Oceans + Lakes + Rivers | Waste

Wounded Place: Industry & Development | Mineral extraction | Oceans + Lakes + Rivers | Other | Waste It was a beautiful, sunny day with powerful winds on Wisconsin Point Beach in Superior, WI. The …

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Journey to the Spring

Date: June 21, 2019
Author: Laurie Martinez and Jess Kovach
Location: Wekiwa Springs, Apopka, Florida
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

Our Global Earth Exchange was held at Wekiwa Springs in Apopka, Florida.  We chose this site because Florida’s freshwater ecosystem is suffering increased wounding by the unnatural amount of nitrates and pollutants that enter the …

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Ishwari - Global Earth Exchange - 2019

Puri Lumbung Global Earth Exchange

Date: June 19, 2019
Author: Yudhi Ishwari
Location: Munduk, Bali, Indonesia
Wounded Place: Climate change

This year of June 2019 the clove harvest has decreased due to uncertain weather. The conditions are different from a few years ago where the wet and dry seasons were surely come on time. When …

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Coffman

Pilgrimage in a Burnt Forest

Date: June 15, 2019
Author: Anna Coffman
Location: Donnell Fire, Donnell Reservoir, California
Wounded Place: Climate change | Natural disasters | Trees

I head into the Sierras to explore the area burnt by the Donnell Fire in 2018. Wikipedia says that 36,450 acres (147.5 km2) were burnt, but I don’t have any concept of what that means. I …

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remembering, honoring, celebrating our sacred connection to earth

Date: June 14, 2019
Author: christine morro
Location: Atlantic Ocean, Sagaponack NY
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

I recently heard a talk on Parabola’s podcast on Renewal…these words brought me back to the morning of my rad joy creation in Sagaponack “small things with great love reach farther than we can see” …

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Afghan Peace Volunteers

Afghan Peace Volunteers Global Earth Exchange

Date: June 7, 2019
Author: Afghan Peace Volunteers
Location: Kabul, Afghanistan
Wounded Place: War & Violence

As usual, young members of the Afghan Peace Volunteers worked together in their permaculture garden in Kabul. The mission of the Afghan Peace Volunteers is as follows: We believe that revolution for a better world is …

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Nebeker Drumming

Indigenous Soul Awakens at Black Rock

Date: May 7, 2019
Author: Kinde Nebeker
Location: Indigenous Soul Awakens at Black Rock
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

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 …

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Huxster

Climate Change Communication Class Global Earth Exchange

Date: May 3, 2019
Author: Joanna Huxster
Location: St. Petersburg, Florida
Wounded Place: Climate change

I teach a course at Eckerd College every Spring semester entitled “Climate Change Communication.” At the end of the semester we talk about our own feelings of hopelessness and loss and how we can move …

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Gutierrez

A town affected by violence

Date: April 17, 2019
Author: Diana Teresa Gutierrez
Location: A town affected by violence
Wounded Place: War & Violence

From the 2016 Global Earth Exchange Un pueblo afectado por la violencia (A town affected by violence ) (translation below) Este pueblo está afectado por la violencia donde precisamente vamos a hacer el Museo de …

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Levkovitz

For a Slashed Forest and Slain Wolves

Date: April 3, 2019
Author: Thea Levkovitz
Location: For a slashed forest and slain wolves—Teanaway, Cascade Mountains, Washington
Wounded Place: Animals + Birds + Insects

From the 2017 Global Earth Exchange: Last week, I spent 3 days camping and hiking with two of my closest women friends. We all needed some girl time and some time in the wild. We …

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Rocky Flats Earth Exchange

Earth Exchange at Rocky Flats-Standley Lake

Date: August 6, 2018
Author: Sasha Daucus and Tom deBree
Location: Rocky Flats, Colorado
Wounded Place: Industry & Development | Waste

from Sasha: We did the Earth Exchange last Monday, and here is a brief description of what happened. In short, it was a very positive experience for all who gathered. Below are descriptions of the …

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Johnson & UUCB

Mourning the Darkness & Singing the Light of the Earth

Date: June 17, 2018
Author: Trebbe Johnson, Green Sanctuary Committee, and CUUPS, UU Congregation of Binghamton
Location: Binghamton, NY
Wounded Place: Other

This service was co-created by Radical Joy for Hard Times (me), the Green Sanctuary Committee (Wes Ernsberger), and the Covenant of Unitarian-Universalist Pagans (CUUPS—Jim Dwyer and Janice Lewis). We had invited members of the congregation …

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Kovach

Split Oak Forest | Endangered Sand Hills

Date: June 16, 2018
Author: Jess Kovach
Location: Central Florida
Wounded Place: Trees

A dear friend of mine and I went to the Split Oak Forest to share our Earth Exchange. The land at Split Oak has been set aside as a preserve for animals who are relocated …

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Fairless

Beauty for the Creatures

Date: June 16, 2018
Author: Caroline Fairless
Location: Wilmot, New Hampshire, USA
Wounded Place: Animals + Birds + Insects

This is what we did on Saturday (in the rain). It was really lovely. There were six of us: Jim, Rose, Iris, Elisabeth (the mom), and David (the dad). We didn’t take the dogs! Because …

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Hess (A)

Summer Solstice on Occohannock Creek

Date: June 16, 2018
Author: Annie Hess
Location: Belle Haven, Virginia, USA
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

Every year in June, our monthly women’s group participates in the Global Earth Exchange by honoring and supporting the waters of the Chesapeake Bay. We gathered at a home on Occohannock Creek within view of …

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Martin

Shell Chemical Plant

Date: June 16, 2018
Author: Joanne Martin
Location: Beaver, Pennsylvania, USA
Wounded Place: Industry & Development | Mineral extraction

Joanne Martin Metal clanking as the giant cranes erect metal scaffolding Chirrup chirrup from the baby robins Screeeecchhh as the trains carrying supplies pull into the construction zone Swoosh swoosh goes the butterfly Rumble rattle …

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Skrei

Now We Know (Powerline) | High Hope Ranch and Fossil Rim

Date: June 16, 2018
Author: Sandy Skrei & Kystyna Jurzykowski + Tess Chenoa Owenby, and Donna Jackson
Location: Glen Rose, Texas, USA
Wounded Place: Industry & Development

Progress came crashing through the property line between High Hope Ranch and Fossil Rim Wildlife Center in the form of two clear cut swaths in preparation for an upgraded power line. Progress that is, for …

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Wadsworth

The Willows at Red Oak

Date: June 16, 2018
Author: Lynn Wadsworth & Monroe Spivey
Location: Leicester, North Carolina, USA
Wounded Place: Personal

“The great illusion of leadership is to think that man can be led out of the desert by someone who has never been there.” – Henri Nouwen On Global Earth Exchange Day, the women of …

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Roze

Fresh Air Learning School

Date: June 16, 2018
Author: Daniella Roze
Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Wounded Place: Children's Events

Some students from Fresh Air Learning, a nature-based elementary school, gathered to honor and give thanks to one of the places we care about. We made our creation at the Seymour River in North Vancouver, …

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Armstrong

Resilient Wings

Date: June 16, 2018
Author: Shea Armstrong
Location: Gainesville, FL
Wounded Place: Animals + Birds + Insects

On the morning of June 16, I held a small but mighty GEX with my then four-month-old son, Fisher. I told him stories about the seabirds and shorebirds that live along our coast and how …

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Simeon

Peace River

Date: June 16, 2018
Author: Ana Simeon
Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Wounded Place: Industry & Development | Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

I just got back from the Peace River a couple of days ago. It was a 2-day exhausting drive there, and 2 days back. We did have an amazing Paddle for the Peace with a …

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Ishwari

Medaupan

Date: June 16, 2018
Author: Yudhi Ishwari
Location: Munduk, Bali, Indonesia
Wounded Place: Other

Yudhi Ishwari reports that their community made a RadJoy Bird in the rice fields, but there has been so much rain this year that it was flooded before they could take a photo. Bali’s rainy …

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Meltzer Henderson Mine

Radical Joy Weekend

Date: June 16, 2018
Author: Rob Meltzer
Location: Clear Creek County, Colorado, USA
Wounded Place: Mineral extraction | Waste

Gretchen and I had a Radical Joy weekend and I thought you should know. We camped in an area that was truly devastated. In the photo below you can see the Henderson Mine, the tailings …

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Strickland

Spending Time with the Dry Earth and a Neglected Lot

Date: June 16, 2018
Author: Christi Strickland
Location: Ridgway, Colorado, USA
Wounded Place: Industry & Development | Natural disasters | Waste

SW Colorado is facing a fierce drought. The fire known as the 416 fire rages on, now at 54,000 acres burned. For our Radical Joy for Hard Times day I decided to spend time with …

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Owenby

War Cry at The L’il Farm | Radical Joy Unbound

Date: June 16, 2018
Author: Tessa Chenoa Owenby
Location: Meridien, Texas, USA
Wounded Place: Plants

This year, on June 16’s Global Earth Exchange, I began working to rid the land of Johnson Grass, which came in on a load of topsoil I had delivered for my garden 3 years ago—a …

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Albrecht

Solastalgia Caused by Chemical Contamination 

Date: June 16, 2018
Author: Glenn Albrecht
Location: Williamtown, New South Wales, Australia
Wounded Place: Industry & Development | Waste

This year I went to a “chemical” contaminated site about 40 minutes from my home. The contamination problem is caused by what are called PFAS or Per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances. These chemicals have been used …

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Howells

Lake Mooselookmeguntic

Date: June 16, 2018
Author: Polly Howells
Location: Rangeley, Maine
Wounded Place: Climate change | Natural disasters | Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

The shore of our property on Lake Mooselookmeguntic in Rangeley, Maine, was ravaged this spring as the unusually cold winter left thick blocks of ice floating. As this ice melted and re-froze and melted and …

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Mind The Heart

Unsung Heroes

Date: June 16, 2018
Author: Mind the Heart (Maya Gelfman & Roie Avidan)
Location: Fargo, ND
Wounded Place: Industry & Development | Waste

We have been carrying this magical thread with us, everywhere, since we returned from DC to Seattle. It went with us to the Olympic Peninsula, to North Cascades, through countless tiny towns across Washington, Idaho, …

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Bingol

Cappadocia, Turkey

Date: June 16, 2018
Author: Ebru Bingol
Location: Cappadocia, Turkey
Wounded Place: Climate change | RadJoy Philosophy

I was planning to be in Antioch (Antakya) on the Global Earth Exchange Day and registered for a trekking and nature-art event in the city. However, as life makes its own ways, I was in …

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Keating

The Ohio River

Date: June 16, 2018
Author: Janet Keating
Location: Huntington, WV
Wounded Place: Industry & Development | Mineral extraction | Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

It was truly inspiring to be in solidarity with the Ohio River. The Ohio River is the most polluted river in the United States. For decades, our river has suffered due air deposition, pollution run-off …

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Mind The Heart

Unsung Heroes

Date: June 16, 2018
Author: Mind the Heart—Maia Gelfman & Roie Avidan
Location: Fargo, ND
Wounded Place: Other

We have been carrying this magical thread with us, everywhere, since we returned from DC to Seattle. It went with us to the Olympic Peninsula, to North Cascades, through countless tiny towns across Washington, Idaho, …

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Morro

Giving Back a Gift of Beauty

Date: June 16, 2018
Author: Christine Morro
Location: Sagaponack, New York
Wounded Place: Other

This morning when I walked the beach, I followed the path of dark seaweed at the edge of the high-tide line. It was a cool morning for june, the sky blue…fuschia rosa rugosa blooming on …

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Todd

Tillamook State Forest | Disappearing Forests of the Oregon Coast 

Date: June 16, 2018
Author: Judyt Todd
Location: Elsie, Oregon, USA
Wounded Place: Trees

Three of us traveled to follow the trail at an old steam donkey logging site in the Tillamook Forest in Oregon’s Coast Range. Today clear cutting on public and private lands has reduced these forests …

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Daucus (Pioneer Springs)

Pioneer Spring

Date: June 16, 2018
Author: Sasha Daucus
Location: Doniphan, MO
Wounded Place: Natural disasters

We chose this place because it is one of the areas of town most damaged by the flood last year. We had a very gentle GEX. The two of us shared about what the area …

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Huxster Group

Climate Communication Class

Date: June 16, 2018
Author: Jo Huxster
Location: Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, FL
Wounded Place: Climate change

The class is called Climate Change Communication and the students spent the semester learning about public understanding of climate change, social scientific studies of climate change denial, and effective communication techniques for climate change. Throughout …

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Heavens

Loving What Is

Date: June 16, 2018
Author: Jules (Julie) Heavens
Location: Pembrokeshire, Wales
Wounded Place: Other | RadJoy Philosophy

Our group gathered in Pembrokeshire to love the land, the sky, the waters and the Trees. Here is our RadJoy bird. Please note the feathers were from a bird that someone is a guardian of …

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Goryl

MCW Flags | Moscow Clayworks 

Date: June 16, 2018
Author: Frank Goryl
Location: Moscow, PA
Wounded Place: Industry & Development

Spent the day working on our flag project for RadJoy day. We completed hanging the flags on Sunday (6/17) to add some color to the view at the back of the property at Moscow Clayworks. …

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McCall Van Ord

Wyman Park

Date: June 16, 2018
Author: Liosa McCall & Autumn Van Ord
Location: Wyman Park, Baltimore, MD
Wounded Place: RadJoy Philosophy | Waste

We went to our usual spot at Wyman Park. Much to our pleasant surprise, we saw how much work has taken place by the city to clean up the tons of garbage and piled up …

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Fraser 2018

RadJoy Bird for Talgarth 

Date: June 16, 2018
Author: Annie Fraser
Location: Talgarth, Wales
Wounded Place: Waste

Here’s a photo of a RadJoy bird in my garden made of stuff found while digging new flowers and veggie beds. The intention was set for the whole of Talgarth which has an old and …

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Smith

Sending Love to Lost & Lonely Trees

Date: June 16, 2018
Author: Jane Smith
Location: Alsager, Cheshire, England 
Wounded Place: Trees

This morning as part of People Binding the Earth we held our ‘Love to Lost and Lonely Trees’ event here in Alsager, Cheshire (England). We spent some time with two trees—one an old yew tree …

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Afghan Peace Volunteers Copy

Afghan Peace Volunteers

Date: June 16, 2018
Author: Hakim Young and Afghan Peace Volunteers
Location: Kabul, Afghanistan
Wounded Place: Plants | War & Violence

This is a photo of some of the Afghan Peace Volunteers working in the garden at the Borderfree Nonviolence Community Centre in Kabul. They are using permaculture design methods. From left to right were: Mina, …

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Kotula, Br. Joe

Mount Irenaeus | Franciscan Retreat Center

Date: June 16, 2018
Author: Brother Joe Kotula
Location: Mount Irenaeus | Franciscan Retreat Center, West Clarksville, NY
Wounded Place: Waste

The Franciscan friars at Mount Irenaeus, a Franciscan Retreat Community participated by praying and making a gift for the land using household items, plastic bags, bottles and packing that we can avoid if we choose.

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Regennas

Irmageddon

Date: June 16, 2018
Author: Charlotte Regennas
Location: Little Torch Key, FL
Wounded Place: Natural disasters | Personal

At 4:30 on June 16th, 2018, I revisited my property on Little Torch Key, which was devastated by Hurricane Irma. I sat on my dock, the sole remaining structure and gathered my thoughts. My focus …

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Scott

Owens Valley

Date: June 16, 2018
Author: Will Scott
Location: Big. Pine, CA
Wounded Place: Industry & Development | Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

(A strand of golden yarn on one of the signs that marks the once fertile Owens Valley in eastern California, dry and toxic for more than a hundred years since the City of Los Angeles …

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Givental

For a Bird 

Date: June 16, 2018
Author: Rabbi Moshe Givental
Location: Framingham, MA
Wounded Place: Animals + Birds + Insects

This morning I started wearing-in some new boots as well as trying out new walking sticks to prepare for my journey. Both took some getting used to, but I felt strong and light on my …

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Stine

Nature Constellation

Date: June 16, 2018
Author: Anne Stine
Location: Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument, Oregon
Wounded Place: Trees

This is the 9th year that we have offered Radical Joy in some wounded part of our local and national treasure, the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument. This year we decided to extend our event into an …

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Thompson

Guy Ford & Grilled Cheese

Date: June 16, 2018
Author: Carol Anne Thompson
Location: Watauga, North Carolina
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers | Waste

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Bingol

Cappadocia

Date: June 16, 2018
Author: Ebru Bingol
Location: Cappadocia, Turkey
Wounded Place: Other

I was planning to be in Antioch (Antakya) on the Global Earth Exchange Day and registered for a trekking and nature-art event in the city. However, as life makes its own ways, I was in …

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Margulies

For the Ocean

Date: June 16, 2018
Author: Nancy Margulies
Location: San Francisco, CA
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

Our group, honoring the ocean, had a lovely and meaningful time talking and creating art. Here’s our photo essay. And our next step is to encourage many more people to gather trash and any bits …

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Berkeley Pit | America’s Biggest Superfund Site

Date: June 16, 2018
Author: John Wolfstone
Location: Butte, MT
Wounded Place: Mineral extraction | Waste

It’s about 2pm, Memorial Day, 2018, and my brother James and I pull into the parking lot to view the nation’s largest Superfund site. Thunder cracks and light rain begins to patter our car windshield …

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Christy

Animals in Beijing

Date: June 16, 2018
Author: Christy
Location: Beijing, China

The attached picture is taken in a rural area in Beijing, a dog sanctuary which has more than 100 DMT dogs rescued mostly from Yulin, Guangxi Province. The man in the picture is Jeffery Beri, …

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Duruoz

Art Circle

Date: June 16, 2018
Author: Deniz Kurt Duruoz
Location: Antalya, Turkey
Wounded Place: Children's Events | Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

Konyaaltı Beach (Konyaaltı Plajı) is one of the two main beaches of Antalya, the other being Lara Beach. The beach is located on the western side of the city and stretches for 7 km from …

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Gold (2)

Beauty for Green Cove Springs

Date: June 16, 2018
Author: Liz Gold
Location: Green Cove Springs, Florida, USA
Wounded Place: Industry & Development | Oceans + Lakes + Rivers | Toxicity

My Earth Exchange was in Green Cove Springs, Florida, for the land, groundwater, and waterways poisoned for decades by the Solite Corp. and now targeted for a housing development. It is now an amazingly beautiful …

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Wilhoit

Treephilia

Date: June 16, 2018
Author: Jennifer Wilhoit
Location: Puget Sound, Washington, USA
Wounded Place: Trees

Each year we honor trees during our Global Earth Exchange ritual. We honor all trees living, all trees no longer living, the natural environments that support vital tree growth. And this year we will also …

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Beck

For Oso

Date: June 16, 2018
Author: Mike Beck
Location: Oso, Washington, USA
Wounded Place: Natural disasters

Signs on the steel gate leading to the memorial kind of say it all: “Grief is the price you pay for love,” “Earth has no sorrow that heaven can’t heal,” “Always in our hearts.” When …

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Friedman

Chicago Bird

Date: June 16, 2018
Author: Andrea Friedman & Amanda
Location: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Wounded Place: Industry & Development | Waste

This is the bird Amanda and I made on a slab of concrete in what used to be the “Indian” side of Chicago!

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Elliston

Waking Up to the Land Beneath our Feet

Date: June 16, 2018
Author: Zoe Elliston
Location: Essex, Vermont, USA
Wounded Place: Industry & Development

Once again I was immensely grateful for the experience of paying attention to the land and space I inhabit. In the suburbs, I feel cold because I remember what was here only two years ago …

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Milton

Pritchard Park

Date: June 16, 2018
Author: Deborah Milton
Location:
Wounded Place: Historic & Cultural Sites

We met at the Japanese American Exclusion Memorial on Bainbridge Island in Washington State. This particular place represents the wounding of fear caused by human separation from the “other.” Nidoto Nai Yoni—let it not happen …

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Ferguson

Healing our Mother

Date: June 16, 2018
Author: Marla Ferguson
Location: Palisade, Colorado, USA
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers | Other | Plants

There were 8 participants in the Global Earth Exchange in Palisade, CO this year. We started our ceremony by honoring the 6 directions – south, west, north, east, earth and sky. Each person told a …

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Abella

Seeds of the Wind

Date: June 16, 2018
Author: Sage Abella
Location: Tahuya River, Washington, USA
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

I drummed and prayed for the waters of Jigs Creek and Tahuya River to save the creek area from a scheduled clearcut. To protect these waters that the salmon still run in. Here’s the Rad …

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Rous

Trees coming down, buildings going up

Date: June 16, 2018
Author: Janice Rous
Location: Maitland, Florida, USA
Wounded Place: Industry & Development

All over my area of central Florida the trees are coming down and buildings are going up. It’s called progress by some. For me personally it makes me deeply sad and full of deep grief. …

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Meltzer Clear Creek

The Other Side of the River

Date: June 16, 2018
Author: Rob Meltzer
Location: Salida, Colorado, USA
Wounded Place: Industry & Development | Mineral extraction | Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

On Saturday afternoon, June 16, 2018, the FIBARK Whitewater Festival was going full force. 5,000 people gathered along the Arkansas Riverfront in downtown Salida, CO. The riverfront is a hand-crafted whitewater park. The riverbed has …

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Esther

Vulnerability, Joy and Richness

Date: June 16, 2018
Author: Jean Esther
Location: Goshen, Massachusetts, USA
Wounded Place: Personal | RadJoy Philosophy

Today I sat with a friend who was just diagnosed with lung cancer. Turning towards what is scary and wounded in my dear friend is a practice of Radical Joy. In loving her: her fierceness, …

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Nebeker

Creating Beauty along the Wasatch Front

Date: June 16, 2018
Author: Kinde Nebeker
Location: Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Wounded Place: Historic & Cultural Sites | Industry & Development

Six of us gathered in Warm Springs Park at the north end of Salt Lake City on Sunday, June 17th to participate in the Global Earth Exchange. Warm Springs is a natural hot springs whose …

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Howells

Protecting an Endangered Spot

Date: June 16, 2018
Author: Polly Howells
Location: Ulster, New York, USA
Wounded Place: Historic & Cultural Sites | Industry & Development | Mineral extraction

Fourteen citizens from the mid-Hudson Valley in New York gathered on June 17 at the site of a proposed gas-and-diesel powered battery back-up facility intended to augment the electric grid that feeds New York City. …

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Toben

The Eco-Institute at Pickards Mountain

Date: June 16, 2018
Author: Megan Toben
Location: Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

We gathered together with members of The Eco-Institute Staff & young adults from the Odyssey Fellowship Program, who collectively decided to hold our ceremony with the waters of the 4-acre pond that exists here with …

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Izard

Lynnwood Ridge Refinery Park

Date: June 16, 2018
Author: Diana Izard
Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Wounded Place: Historic & Cultural Sites | RadJoy Philosophy | Trees

Our Solstice Earth Exchange was a beautiful evening to sit and be with the earth. Themes of caring, transformation and reclamation were strong. Co-facilitator, Noreen Demeria opened with a land acknowledgement which sparked my own …

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Lai

For the Earth | PŘÍRODNÍ PARK ŠÁRKA-LYSOLAJE

Date: June 9, 2018
Author: Ling Lai
Location: PŘÍRODNÍ PARK ŠÁRKA-LYSOLAJE, Prague, Czech Republic
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

Here’s a photo of me on the stand up paddle board on the main river running through Czechia and Prague—Vltava, near Charles bridge, the busiest, most popular and touristy part of Prague. Here’s what I …

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Daucus (Doniphan Recovering)

Recovering Together

Date: June 9, 2018
Author: Sasha Daucus
Location: Doniphan, MO
Wounded Place: Natural disasters

We had our public community GEX yesterday “Recovering Together: where we are 1 year after the historic flood of 2017.” It went well. The event was in keeping with community traditions of gathering together, with …

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Haynes (a)

Friends of Millers Point

Date: June 9, 2018
Author: Kelli Haynes
Location: Millers Point, Sydney, Australia
Wounded Place: Industry & Development

For the first time this year Friends of Millers Point participated in Global Earth Exchange. Millers Point, Dawes Point and The Rocks (Tallowallodah) in the centre of Sydney, Australia was until recently a socially diverse, …

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Johnson, E

Blue River Blessing

Date: June 9, 2018
Author: Elaine Johnson
Location: Overland, KS
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

We honored and blessed a wounded place this morning, participating in our first Global Earth Exchange. We went to bless the waters and found an unexpected sense of peace mingled with the noise of nearby …

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Fearon

Rewalking the Famine Road

Date: June 9, 2018
Author: Paul Fearon
Location: Louisburgh, County Mayo, Ireland
Wounded Place: Historic & Cultural Sites

In this beautiful and at times harsh environment in 1845 hundreds of people died as they walked in search of food. The road from Leenane to Louisburgh is known as the famine road. Recently my …

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Johnson, Trebbe

RadJoy for the Brownfield

Date: June 9, 2018
Author: Trebbe Johnson & Andy Gardner
Location: Susquehanna, PA
Wounded Place: Waste

A 12-acre plot beside the Susquehanna River was contaminated for decades by the Erie Railyards. The area is now being cleaned up by the Department of Environmental Protection, and there are plans for a park, …

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Margulies

Honoring the Ocean 

Date: June 9, 2018
Author: Nancy Margulies & Judy Shintani
Location:
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

Nancy Margulies, Judy Shintani + Carlota Lincoln, Shirley McClure, and Vicki Cormack Our group, honoring the ocean, had a lovely and meaningful time talking and then creating art. Our next step is to encourage many …

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Timms

Misquamicut Beach 

Date: June 9, 2018
Author: Henry and Josiah Timms
Location: Westerly, Rhode Island, USA
Wounded Place: Children's Events

Even a parking lot at a popular beach offers opportunities for creativity. This RadJoy Bird is by Josiah Timms, age 6, of New York City.

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Kreves

Wonderful Windings

Date: June 9, 2018
Author: Joy Kreves
Location: Washington Crossing, NJ
Wounded Place: Industry & Development | Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

For “Wonderful Windings” two of us went to the banks of the Delaware River near Washington Crossing, which is threatened by Penn East’s applications for a massive pipeline in the vicinity. We chose a site …

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Climate Change Communication Class

Date: June 1, 2018
Author: Jo Huxster and Students
Location: Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, Florida
Wounded Place: Climate change | Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

The class is called Climate Change Communication and the students spent the semester learning about public understanding of climate change, social scientific studies of climate change denial, and effective communication techniques for climate change.

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Healing Ceremony

Date: June 1, 2018
Author: Lynn Wadsworth and Monroe Spivey
Location: The Willows At Red Oak—Leicester, North Carolina
Wounded Place: Other

On Global Earth Exchange Day, the women of The Willows at Red Oak Recovery sat in circle, contemplating, witnessing, and giving voice to our inherent connection to the Earth and each organism upon it.

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Albrecht

Duns Creek Rubbish Dump

Date: June 17, 2017
Author: Glenn Albrecht
Location: Duns Creek, NSW, Australia
Wounded Place: Waste

I found this year’s Earth Exchange very difficult. My wounded place was an area of my local bushland that has been used (abused) as a rubbish dump. The objects within the dump were dirty, wet …

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Wilhoit

Treephilia

Date: June 17, 2017
Author: Jennifer Wilhoit
Location: Bainbridge Island, Washington, USA
Wounded Place: Trees

Each year we do the Global Earth Exchange to honor trees—all trees, around the world, that have been cut down, harmed, or maimed by human activity; we do so by focusing on one small, local …

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Morro

showing up in the midst of uncertainty

Date: June 17, 2017
Author: Christine Morro
Location: Sagaponack, New York, USA
Wounded Place: Other | RadJoy Philosophy

bird 2017 sagaponack, ny is in a state of flux, change … there is an edge to uncertainty that can put one in the way of fear or great love – I’m choosing LOVE showing …

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Goryl

Development

Date: June 17, 2017
Author: Frank Goryl
Location: Moscow, Pennsylvania, USA
Wounded Place: Industry & Development

The woodlot behind our home is being developed. I have been to too many planning commission meetings and Borough council meetings to explain at this point. For the Earth exchange day I simply hung the …

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Monroe

Ceremony for the Wounded Waters of Our World

Date: June 17, 2017
Author: Dianne Monroe
Location: Sebastopol, California, USA
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

About 15 of us gathered at the Laguna de Santa Rosa, (a wetland once damaged, degraded and now partially restored). This is the 6th year there has been a Ceremony for the Wounded Waters of …

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Sacred Shoreham

Date: June 17, 2017
Author: Pete Maniscalco
Location: Shoreham, New York, USA
Wounded Place: Mineral extraction | Other

On this sacred day—June 20, 2017—the NY State Legislature (Assembly & Senate) approved a bill that makes the 1,000 acres of woodland surrounding the defunct Shoreham Nuclear plant a part of the LI Pine Barrens …

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Hemenway

Linden TRee

Date: June 17, 2017
Author: Anne Hemenway
Location: Woodstock, New York, USA
Wounded Place: Trees

I sat near what remains of a huge 3 pronged linden tree, now a large stump decorated with rocks and shells, and prayed for the protection of our land and water. On both occasions, when …

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Howells

Honoring a Clear-cut on the Ashokan Reservoir

Date: June 17, 2017
Author: Polly Howells
Location: Ashokan, New York, USA
Wounded Place: Historic & Cultural Sites | Oceans + Lakes + Rivers | Trees

On the afternoon of June 24, 2017, twelve of us set off from the westernmost parking lot of the Ashokan Reservoir to walk a mile to the Monument commemorating J. Waldo Smith, the chief engineer …

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Ferguson

Honoring Our Beautiful Earth

Date: June 17, 2017
Author: Marla Ferguson
Location: Palisade, Colorado, USA
Wounded Place: Personal | RadJoy Philosophy | Trees

This was a personal event in Palisade to honor the earth. I didn’t have the energy to invite a lot of friends to participate this year so did my own personal honoring of the earth. …

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Lake Michigan

Date: June 17, 2017
Author: Andrea Friedmann, with Tián and Amanda
Location: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

On Lake Michigan, where there was a chemical spill in April. Another opportunity to offer beauty and healing. And receive so much!

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Kreves

A Ceremony for Traumas Close to Home

Date: June 17, 2017
Author: Joy Kreves
Location: Ewing, New Jersey, USA
Wounded Place: Personal

I decided to do my 2017 GEE at home on the soothing moss that covers much of the yard. I have been sharing physical, emotional, and environmental traumas of people close to me in such …

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Robinson

Healing for River Wye

Date: June 17, 2017
Author: Pippa Robinson
Location: Derbyshire, England
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

Walking the Monsal trail by the Wye river in the Derbyshire Peak country. This river has had many uses including feeding the cotton mills in the nineteenth century. Many many people and their dogs now …

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Dubois In Trees

Dying aspen trees

Date: June 17, 2017
Author: Clare DuBois
Location: Jamestown, Colorado, USA
Wounded Place: Trees

Standing by these Aspen trees in staggering beauty—I am saying goodbye to this place ever looking like it has before, because even in the three months since I was last here, it’s almost unrecognisable the …

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Kirby Misperton Protection Camp | Fracking Heaven

Date: June 17, 2017
Author: Harriet Sams
Location: Yorkshire, England
Wounded Place: Mineral extraction

Hard times indeed, when the Earth is threatened with drills and big machinery, spewing her blood from veins deep within her body. Blood that will fuel industries and homes in a last-gasp attempt to eek …

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VanOrd McCall

Wyman Park

Date: June 17, 2017
Author: Autumn Van Ord and Lisa McCall
Location: Wyman Park, Baltimore, MD
Wounded Place: Waste

Autumn and I did our exchange at Wyman Park on Saturday. We saw the shape of the woven material on the ground and it seemed to suggest a bird with wings, so we decorated from …

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Skrei Leaf Bird

High Hope Ranch Sisterhood

Date: June 17, 2017
Author: Sandy Skrei and Krystyna Jurzykowski
Location: Glen Rose, Texas, USA
Wounded Place: Industry & Development | Mineral extraction | Natural disasters

The High Hope Ranch Sisterhood embarked on a three-year global Earth Exchange Project. We know that a power line running through the ranch and onto our beloved neighbor Fossil Rim is going to be replaced. …

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Waterman

Carlisle Cemetery

Date: June 17, 2017
Author: Benet Waterman
Location: Carlisle, England
Wounded Place: Historic & Cultural Sites

My personal journey through life has gifted me a long and deeply rewarding career in education, the pull to become a spiritual healer and soul midwife and then latterly, for the past four or five …

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Keating

Native American Ceremony for the Ohio River

Date: June 17, 2017
Author: Janet Keating
Location: Huntington, WV
Wounded Place: Historic & Cultural Sites | Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

Geri Lashley, Kashara Spaulding, Natasha Thomas, Autumn Genenahgehneh Lee, Alison Smith, Robin Blakeman, Matt Smith, and Janet Keating –  On June 9, 2017, members of the Marshall University Native American Organization (MU-NASO) and the Ohio …

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Daucus

Mural of Hope

Date: June 17, 2017
Author: Sasha Daucus
Location: Doniphan, MO
Wounded Place: Natural disasters

We gathered at the Concession Stand of the Doniphan Ball Park which had been submerged during the flood. Due to the consequences of the flood, for a while it wasn’t sure if the concession stand …

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Powless (standing)

Ceremony for a Friend, Message from Spider

Date: June 17, 2017
Author: David Powless
Location: Corrales, NM
Wounded Place: Personal

I was very depressed this morning. My best friend of 50 years died May 17, 2017. I got to see him for the last time 2 hours before he passed on to the spirit world. …

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Beckers

Weltenwandler Ausbildung

Date: June 17, 2017
Author: Helen Cat Beckers
Location: Wiesbaden, Germany
Wounded Place: Plants

Together with the students of our year long program we gathered between a field of monoculture and a raised blind. The two days before we had spent a lot of time on the land, in …

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SCAN Global Earth Exchange

Date: June 17, 2017
Author: Trebbe Johnson
Location: Hallstead, PA
Wounded Place: Industry & Development | Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

Wayne Chumleigh, Paul Kelly, Shirley Kelly, Sara Chumleigh, Trebbe Johnson, Jake Rosen, Sue Pipetone, Victoria Roberge, Barbara Clifford, and Frank Finan (taking photo) – In the summer of 2016, a group of about 16-20 people …

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Wounded Homeland

Date: June 17, 2017
Author: Joanne Martin
Location: Darlington, Pennsylvania, USA
Wounded Place: Industry & Development | Mineral extraction

Never in my life have I rejected nature, particularly the little ecosystems that I’ve lived within. When I moved to my now home 6 years ago the gas fracking boom was taking off. Now there …

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Gold

Honor the Earth: Ceremony for the El Guique Gravel Mine

Date: June 17, 2017
Author: Liz Gold
Location: Espanola, New Mexico
Wounded Place: Industry & Development | Mineral extraction

For decades, gravel mines have decimated traditional Hispanic villages and sites sacred to native peoples in northern New Mexico, causing habitat destruction, air and water pollution, and unsightly scarring in the foothills of the Jemez …

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Pearl

For the Elm Trees

Date: June 17, 2017
Author: Persephone Pearl
Location: Brighton, England
Wounded Place: Trees

Close to where I live in Brighton there is a park called the Level. It’s surrounded by trees, some of which are elms. Elms are very rare because of Dutch elm disease, but Brighton has …

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For the wounded Earth

Date: June 17, 2017
Author: Susan Margaret & Pippa Robinson
Location: Alderley (Brisbane) Queensland, Australia
Wounded Place: Industry & Development

My friend Pippa Robinson invited me to join her in making a small symbol of healing and love for our Earth, which is constantly being wounded by human beings wanting to take something—sometimes for the …

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Hayes 2017

Goodbye to the Family Business

Date: June 17, 2017
Author: Claire Hayes
Location: Dublin, Ireland
Wounded Place: Personal

The 16th (the day of the Global Earth Exchange) coincided with the final day of my mother’s business closing. She and my Dad established a tv and electrical business 57 years ago and about 30 …

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Powless (standing)

Ceremony for a Friend, Message from Spider

Date: June 17, 2017
Author: David Powless
Location: Corrales, NM
Wounded Place: Other | Personal

I was very depressed this morning. My best friend of 50 years died May 17, 2017. I got to see him for the last time 2 hours before he passed on to the spirit world. …

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Todd & Milton Et Al

Castigliano Sisters of the Waters

Date: June 17, 2017
Author: Judy Todd, Deborah Milton, Tricia McGarrity, Christine 
Location: Camp Disappointment, Washington, USA
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers | Trees

Beautiful day celebrating the confluence of river and ocean! Making a water wheel mandala and Radical Joy Bird, symbol of playfully lifting spirits in hard times. with joy (noticing and appreciating what we love most, …

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Walker

Crested Butte and Cans

Date: June 17, 2017
Author: Ivy Walker
Location: Crested Butte, CO
Wounded Place: Mineral extraction | Waste

We found our way to a site of 100s of disposed of metal cans from the mining era in an Aspen forest above Crested Butte, CO. We created a threshold and interacted with the site …

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Willows Global Earth Exchange

Date: June 17, 2017
Author: Lynn Wadsworth, colleagues, and clients
Location: Leicester, North Carolina, USA
Wounded Place: Personal

 On June 15, 2017 the young adult women at The Willows Recovery Program came together to share and honor their connections to the earth for the Global Earth Exchange. We began the activity by exploring …

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Levkovitz

For a slashed forest and slain wolves

Date: June 17, 2017
Author: Thea Levkovitz (for the Radical Joy Gypsies: Intrepid, Trail and White Alpha)
Location: Teanaway, Cascade Mountains, Washington
Wounded Place: Animals + Birds + Insects | Trees

Last week, I spent 3 days camping and hiking with two of my closest women friends. We all needed some girl time and some time in the wild. We expected clear weather and got misty, …

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L & M Tribute

Date: June 17, 2017
Author: Cathy Cushing
Location: Hopkinton, NH
Wounded Place: Historic & Cultural Sites | Industry & Development

Went to Blaze Hill in Hopkinton, NH to the site where a young Abenaki woman named Lalula met a Mohawk warrior, Mognomis, and they both fell in love knowing that they had discovered their soulmate. …

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DeBree

Moving Waters Through Urban Hearts

Date: June 17, 2017
Author: Tom deBree
Location: Confluence Park, Denver, CO
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

Confluence Park will soon be completed in urban Denver, Colorado. The project redirects converging waters of the South Platte River and Cherry Creek at a site which offered, as recently as 1858, a place for …

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RadJoy Bird W:Earth

For the Birds on the Edge of Existence and the Dauntless Stewards Who Protect Them

Date: June 17, 2017
Author: Shea Armstrong
Location: Gainesville, FL
Wounded Place: Animals + Birds + Insects

Florida is home to some of North America’s most incredible birds. Each year thousands of shorebirds and seabirds make their way to our coasts in order to rest and refuel, feed and breed, and raise …

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Lewis

For the town of Osceola and the river that was

Date: June 17, 2017
Author: Larry Lewis
Location: Osceola, MO
Wounded Place: Natural disasters

On Global Earth Exchange Day June 17, 2017, a group of eleven gathered at a table in the Osceola, Missouri, park shelter house nearest the water of Truman Reservoir, Osage Arm. A few weeks earlier, …

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Radical Joy For Hard Times Stories Beckers

Weltenwandler Ausbildung

Date: June 1, 2017
Author: Helen Cat Beckers
Location: Wiesbaden, Germany
Wounded Place: Other

Together with the students of our yearlong program we gathered between a field of monoculture and a raised blind. The two days before we had spent a lot of time on the land, in group …

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Clearcut forest

Date: June 18, 2016
Author: Anne Stine
Location: Ashland, Oregon
Wounded Place: Industry & Development | Trees

Three of us were up in the Cascade Siskiyou National Monument yesterday, mostly in the Siskiyous, and we made a Rad Joy bird along the Pacific Crest Trail, made from down wood etc. Left a …

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Goryl

Ceramic birds

Date: June 18, 2016
Author: Lissa Jeannot & Frank Goryl 
Location: Moscow, Pennsylvania, USA
Wounded Place: Historic & Cultural Sites

At the ceramics studio artists make clay birds filled with seeds to reseed a once grassy area Lissa, who makes beauty throughout the year in her native Haiti, says, “The whole planet needs treatment. Wherever …

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Heavens

For the seas of the world

Date: June 18, 2016
Author: Jules Heavens
Location: Kidwelly, West Wales, UK
Wounded Place: Historic & Cultural Sites | Natural disasters | Oceans + Lakes + Rivers | Waste

On 18th June six intrepid adventurers stepped out onto a beach near Kidwelly in West Wales (UK) to take part in the Global Earth Exchange. There were supposed to be many more, however come the …

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Johnson, Trebbe

Hemlock trees under assault by wooly adelgid

Date: June 18, 2016
Author: Trebbe Johnson and Andy Gardner
Location: Thompson, Pennsylvania, USA
Wounded Place: Trees

We had our Global Earth Exchange at Florence Shelly Wetlands Preserve, where the native hemlock trees are being attacked from the top down by an insect, the wooly adelgid, which has killed these beautiful trees …

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Howells 2016

Site of an old gas station

Date: June 18, 2016
Author: Polly Howells
Location: West Hurley, New York, USA
Wounded Place: Mineral extraction | Toxicity

There were eleven of us who gathered at the site of an abandoned Exxon station at the intersection of two well-travelled roads in West Hurley, New York, for the Global Earth Exchange, June 18, 2016. …

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Martin

Proposed site of ethane cracking plant

Date: June 18, 2016
Author: Joanne Martin
Location: Beaver, Pennsylvania, USA
Wounded Place: Industry & Development | Mineral extraction

We chose the planned site for an ethane petrochemical plant—to be the largest in the country, second largest in the world—which will be sited along a formerly tree lined river across from a quiet quaint …

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Ferguson 2016

Ceremony for all the wounded places on Earth

Date: June 18, 2016
Author: Marla Ferguson
Location: Palisade, Colorado, USA
Wounded Place: Personal | RadJoy Philosophy

Eight Kindred Spirits gathered at the edge of the Colorado River to honor all of the wounded places on the Earth. We each put a pin into a globe-shaped pin cushion when we talked about …

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Skrei

Land slated for gravel mining

Date: June 18, 2016
Author: Sandy Skrei
Location: Brazos River, Texas, USA
Wounded Place: Industry & Development | Mineral extraction

Gravel mines are becoming more numerous along the banks of the Texas’ Brazos River. Some landowners have circumvented environmental protections, electing to start the operation and bear the costs of the fines later, with no …

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Kreves

Ash trees damaged by ash borer

Date: June 18, 2016
Author: Joy Kreves
Location: Titusville, New Jersey, USA
Wounded Place: Trees

The Ash Borer is devastating trees in the Eastern USA. Washington Crossing Historic Park has lost many ash trees due to this insect. I miss those trees, so this year I went to the park …

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Bell’s Cove

Date: June 18, 2016
Author: Daniel Foor
Location: Barnardsville, North Carolina, USA
Wounded Place: Historic & Cultural Sites | RadJoy Philosophy

On Saturday, June 18th a dozen of us spent two hours in ritual space in deep listening with the spirits of the land at Bells’ Cove in Barnardsville, NC. We crafted an offering with prayers …

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Daucus

An old dump site on my land

Date: June 18, 2016
Author: Sasha Daucus
Location: Doniphan, MO
Wounded Place: Personal | Waste

This Earth Exchange was very emotional for me, in one of those unexpected moments of grief welling up. The place was really not very wounded. I chose it because it was on my land and …

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Smith

Fanny’s Croft historic site

Date: June 18, 2016
Author: Jane Smith
Location: Alsager, Cheshire, UK
Wounded Place: Animals + Birds + Insects | Trees

Our Global Earth Exchange here in Cheshire was a lovely experience. A handful of us met and walked out into the fields (threatened “green belt” space outside our village), where we lay painted stones and …

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Milton

Superfund site and forced departure of Japanese Americans during WWII

Date: June 18, 2016
Author: Deborah Milton
Location: Pritchard Park, Bainbridge Island, Washington, USA
Wounded Place: Historic & Cultural Sites | Toxicity | Waste

Making beauty in our wounded place—Pritchard Park on Bainbridge Island WA, which is both a Superfund toxic site and the place where Japanese Americans were deported to detainment camps during WWII—flowed deeply, extravagantly and surprisingly. …

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Coffman

Mary’s Peak clear-cut

Date: June 18, 2016
Author: Anna and Jay Coffman
Location: Corvallis, Oregon, USA
Wounded Place: Trees

Mary’s Peak is the highest point in Oregon’s Coast Range, and the native Kalapuya called the Peak Tcha Timanwi, or “place of spiritual power.” It is a local favorite for hiking and communing with the …

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Kirk

Red Lily Pond

Date: June 18, 2016
Author: Steve Brown, Tom Kirk, and Avis Parke-Strong
Location: Craigsville, Massachusetts, USA
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

Every year a group of activists who are working to protect Red Lily Pond get together to offer a Global Earth Exchange. One outcome of this annual event is that a group of artists, led …

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White

Valmont Coal Plant

Date: June 18, 2016
Author: Dennis White and Naropa University Students
Location: Boulder, Colorado, USA
Wounded Place: Mineral extraction

This was done as part of the Ecopsychology class at Naropa where students made a relation to wounded landscapes—in this case the Valmont plant in Boulder, which is one of the biggest polluters in Colorado …

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Gold:Sickafoose

For the Santa Fe Watershed

Date: June 18, 2016
Author: Liz Gold & Munro Sickafoose
Location: Santa Fe, NM
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

We did our GEx in the Santa Fe River canyon where the river once ran free, before it was dammed and diverted for drinking water for the City of Santa Fe, making it one of …

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Hess

For the “pest” plant phragmites

Date: June 18, 2016
Author: Annie, Elvin, & Elan Hess
Location: Eastern shore, Virginia
Wounded Place: Plants

We had an Earth Exchange at the site of our very first honoring of phragmites, at the first-ever Radical Joy for Hard Times Earth Exchange in 2010! Made a bird of phrag, trash and choked-out …

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Muravskaya

Soul Bird

Date: June 18, 2016
Author: Oksana Muravskaya
Location: Kiev, Urkaine
Wounded Place: War & Violence

A soul bird for Ukraine  

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Albrecht

Oceans affected by global warming

Date: June 18, 2016
Author: Glenn and Jill Albrecht
Location: Newcastle, NSSW, Australia
Wounded Place: Climate change | Mineral extraction | Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

We collected objects and detritus from Newcastle Beach in New South Wales in Australia and put together the bird symbol that is used for this event the world over. The bird was made of shells, …

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Fairless

Clear-cut

Date: June 18, 2016
Author: Caroline Fairless
Location: Wilmot, NH
Wounded Place: Trees

The site is not totally bleak, and the grief is around an old oak that was sick and needed to be cut down. It broke my heart, really, as I have sat in its branches …

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Frangs 2016

For the oceans

Date: June 18, 2016
Author: Janet Frangs & Sonia Pithey
Location: Durban, South Africa
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers | War & Violence

Durban is a City built along beautiful beaches—it is a place shared by so many—a place that provides unending radical joy. The beaches and the deep blue sea share in our joy but also experience …

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Mitchell

Revitalized Jack Madigan Reserve

Date: June 18, 2016
Author: Jenny Mitchell
Location: Newport, Victoria, Australia
Wounded Place: Historic & Cultural Sites | Industry & Development | Waste

We gathered at the Jack Madigan Reserve to celebrate its beauty after it was successfully remediated. The Reserve was previously a contaminated hole in the ground, after its use as a dumping ground for chemicals …

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Ishwari

Ceremony of gratitude for the Earth

Date: June 18, 2016
Author: Yudhi Ishwari and Puri Lumbung Cottages
Location: Munduk, North Bali, Indonesia
Wounded Place: Other

Ceremony of gratitude for the Earth

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Kirby

Developed wetland

Date: June 18, 2016
Author: Sabrina Kirby
Location: East Buffalo Township, Pennsylvania, USA
Wounded Place: Animals + Birds + Insects

This RadJoy Bird is constructed around scattered vertebrae and a leg bone from a deer that apparently slipped on frozen mud in the winter of 2014-15, broke both femurs, and died just beyond the edge …

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Gutierrez

Un pueblo afectado por la violencia (A town affected by violence )

Date: June 18, 2016
Author: Diana Teresa Gurierrez
Location: Galeras, Sucre, Colombia
Wounded Place: War & Violence

Este pueblo está afectado por la violencia donde precisamente vamos a hacer el Museo de la Reconciliación. Podemos aprovechar el trabajo comunitario con niños, jóvenes y adultos para participar haciendo un lindo acto de belleza …

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Monroe

Laguna de Santa Rosa and endangered waters of the world

Date: June 18, 2016
Author: Dianne Monroe
Location: Sebastopol, CA
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

At first we thought there would only be two of us, my friend Michael and myself, Dianne, in the same place where so many people had gathered in previous years. We walked to that place …

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Sundance

Clear-cut Forest

Date: June 18, 2016
Author: Bonnie Sundance
Location: Nederland, CO
Wounded Place: Trees

I visited the same area on Ridge Road outside of Nederland as last year’s healing ceremony for a wounded place—and experienced a deep grief and pain for the chaotic understory energy still present in this …

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DeBree

Cherry Creek and South Platte River

Date: June 18, 2016
Author: Tom deBree and Granddaugters
Location: Denver, CO
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

I shared a 2016 Global Earth Exchange with three of my Denver granddaughters at the confluence of Cherry Creek and the South Platte River in the heart of downtown Denver. Today the city continues urban …

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Coffman

Mary’s Peak clear-cut

Date: June 18, 2016
Author: Anna and Jay Coffman
Location: Mary's Peak, Corvallis, OR
Wounded Place: Trees

Mary’s Peak is the highest point in Oregon’s Coast Range, and the native Kalapuya called the Peak Tcha Timanwi, or “place of spiritual power.” It is a local favorite for hiking and communing with the …

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Afghan Peace Volunteers

For the land and soil of Afghanistan

Date: June 18, 2016
Author: Ghulam Hussein, Hakim Young, and Afghan Peace Volunteers 
Location: Kabul, Afghanistan
Wounded Place: War & Violence

When Australian permaculturalist Rosemary Morrow was sharing with the Afghan Peace Volunteers her permaculture knowledge and skills this past winter, a simple soil analysis in the Borderfree Nonviolence Centre’s garden revealed that the soil was …

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Roze A

Forest Ninja Summer Camp

Date: June 18, 2016
Author: Daniella Roze + campers
Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada
Wounded Place: Children's Events

Thriving Roots Wilderness School offers the Forest Ninja Summer Camp with our amazing lead instructor, Alaina Hallett, and 15 awesome children in Victoria British Columbia. The children gathered materials for and created an owl together …

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Timms

Date: June 18, 2016
Author: Henry & Josiah Timms
Location: New York, NY
Wounded Place: Industry & Development

From the space next to the cathedral St. John the Divine that the church sold off to build apartments  

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Wilhoit

Tree death and beach pollution

Date: June 18, 2016
Author: Jennifer WIlhoit
Location: Kitsap County, WA
Wounded Place: Trees

Falling trees due to erosion as well as myriad, direct human impacts are all over this beautiful treesy PNW. Several months ago this giant fell, finding its resting place near several others that had fallen …

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Madhlophe Copy

The Blue Crane and Other Birds

Date: June 18, 2016
Author: Scotch Madhlophe
Location: Johannesburg, South Africa
Wounded Place: Animals + Birds + Insects

This year it was simple—I went to a nearby stream which runs down to the Natalspruit River, which is mostly contaminated by chemicals from the nearby industrial area. The Stream and the river are frequented …

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Long Gromalski Faces

Wounded place on our land

Date: June 18, 2016
Author: Sandy Long and Krista Gromalski
Location: Greeley, PA
Wounded Place: Industry & Development

Our previous Global Earth Exchanges have been held at wounded places away from our house—Centralia, the Tennessee Gas Pipeline crossing of the Lackawaxen River, and Shohola Falls Recreation Area, all in Pennsylvania. This time, we …

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Maniscalco

Former nuclear power plant

Date: June 18, 2016
Author: Pete Maniscalco
Location: Shoreham, NY
Wounded Place: Industry & Development

[This group was originally responsible for getting the Shoreham Nuclear Plant decommissioned more than twenty years ago. As Pete Maniscalco, a leader of the group, explains below, that was only the first part of their …

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Nebeker

Mountain destroyed by mining

Date: June 18, 2016
Author: Kinde Nebeker and Allison Harbertson 
Location: Salt Lake City, UT
Wounded Place: Mineral extraction

Allison and I met at 7:00 am on Gun Club Road, just north of the huge gravel pit that used to be a mountain at the foot of Big Cottonwood Canyon in Salt Lake City …

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Kashinsky

Bellows Air Force Base

Date: June 18, 2016
Author: Lizabeth Kashinsky
Location: Waimanalo, HI
Wounded Place: Historic & Cultural Sites | Industry & Development | War & Violence

I chose this sight because it has a little bit of everything. It’s a place of real beauty but there is also a lot of loss and change. It’s the site of the earliest known …

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Morro

Wings—For the sea, sky, Earth

Date: June 18, 2016
Author: Christine Morro
Location: Sagaponack, NHY
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers | Other

Wings A celebration ~ honoring earth…honoring sea, sky, the earth that supports us… may we remember, may we serve may we acknowledge, may we love

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Zable

For the Waters

Date: June 18, 2016
Author: Benny Zable and Iris Nunn Ray
Location: Bryon Bay, NSW, Australia
Wounded Place: Animals + Birds + Insects | Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

Iris: When I was a child in the 70s and 80s, Belongil River Mouth was abundant with shore-birds and the Great Barrier Reef was vibrant with colour. Although both of these magical places have been …

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Armstrong

Alachua Sink, Florida Aquifer

Date: June 18, 2016
Author: Shea Armstrong and Katie Malachowski 
Location: Gainesville, Florida, USA
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

    For this year’s Earth Exchange we met at the Alachua Sink—a large sinkhole that is a window into the Florida Aquifer. For years stormwater, agricultural runoff, and other waste water was directly channeled …

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Swan 2016

Merri Creek

Date: June 18, 2016
Author: Emma Swann
Location: Melbourne Australia
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers | Waste

We held our Global Earth Exchange day at the Merri Creek in the suburb of Coburg in Melbourne, Australia. The creek widens out into a lake, then there is an overflow site where it reverts …

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Roze A

Forest Ninja Summer Camp

Date: April 23, 2016
Author: Daniella Roze
Location: Forest Ninja Summer Camp Global Earth Exchange

Thriving Roots Wilderness School offers the Forest Ninja Summer Camp with our amazing lead instructor, Alaina Hallett, and 15 awesome children in Victoria British Columbia. The children gathered materials for and created an owl together …

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Pook Highway Bird

For a littered highway and a bashed coral tree

Date: June 20, 2015
Author: Beatrice Pook
Location: Stanford, Western Cape, South Africa
Wounded Place: Trees | Waste

I was inspired by a friend to join this initiative yesterday and had not much time to prepare, but then it just inspired me anyway… and I decided to simply open up to the experience …

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Wilhoit

Treephilia (site of healthy redwood that was cut)

Date: June 20, 2015
Author: Jennifer Wilhoit
Location: Sebastopol, California, USA
Wounded Place: Trees

We did this year’s Global Earth Exchange to honor one robust redwood tree that was recently felled on the property on which we reside, as well as all redwoods that are cut while still healthy. …

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Kelley

Glacier Bay

Date: June 20, 2015
Author: Lisa Kelley
Location: LeConte Glacier Bay, SE Alaska, USA
Wounded Place: Animals + Birds + Insects | Historic & Cultural Sites

Every year for the Global Earth Exchange, this polar scientist and one of her colleagues send a photograph from the extreme northern and southern regions of the world—where they see the effects of global warming …

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Lock

Upper Teesdale Juniper Dieback (Dying juniper trees)

Date: June 20, 2015
Author: Harriet Lock Sams
Location: Teesdale, Durham, England, UK
Wounded Place: Trees

We awoke to soft but persistent rain. We were to be accompanied by someone with their children but I made the decision that it was best to leave the children at home, as children do …

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Shapira

Forest fire

Date: June 20, 2015
Author: Yonat Shapira
Location: Jerusalem, Israel
Wounded Place: Natural disasters | Trees

I went today to the forest next to my house, which suffered a major fire last summer and is renewing itself. I stopped at the burned fig next to the spring that didn’t grow a …

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Albrecht

Coal mining

Date: June 20, 2015
Author: Glenn Albrecht
Location: Bulga, New South Wales, Australia
Wounded Place: Mineral extraction

Jill and I went to Bulga to support the community in their music and culture festival. On the way we went down Wallaby Scrub Road which an expanded Rio Tinto Warkworth coal mine will eliminate. …

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Phillips Portrait

Honouring the Animals Worldwide

Date: June 20, 2015
Author: Charlotte Phillips
Location: Gandesa, Catalonia, Spain
Wounded Place: Animals + Birds + Insects

I chose sunset to make a small altar dedicated to animals worldwide. I then stood on a rock overlooking my land and spoke a heartfelt thank-you to all the animals for their existence and the …

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McCall VanOrd

Wyman Park

Date: June 20, 2015
Author: Autumn Van Ord and Lisa McCall
Location: Wyman Park, Baltimore, MD
Wounded Place: Waste

We again went to Wyman Park in Baltimore, where we picked up two bagfuls of garbage from the stream that goes through it. You can see behind the picture of us the huge pile up …

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Harris

A Rip in the Earth Reclaimed (Landslide)

Date: June 20, 2015
Author: Sara Harris
Location: Talent, OR
Wounded Place: Natural disasters

For 12 years we have stewarded some forest land back to health, after years of neglect. Then in February, the road above collapsed in a storm, tearing a hillside out and ripping out a whole …

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Armstrong

For endangered ocean and seabirds

Date: June 20, 2015
Author: Shea Armstrong
Location: Kaui, HI
Wounded Place: Animals + Birds + Insects

We offered our Global Earth Exchange on behalf of the ocean and seabirds that are increasingly at risk. As endangered species biologists we often witness, first hand, the impacts humans have on wildlife and ecosystems. …

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Milton

Superfund site & deportation site for Japanese Americans during WWII

Date: June 20, 2015
Author: Deborah Milton
Location: Bainbridge Island, Washington, USA
Wounded Place: Historic & Cultural Sites

Deborah Milton Nidoto Nai Yoni. These Japanese words meaning Let It Not Happen Again became our ongoing chant during our recent honoring of the Global Earth Exchange in conjunction with Making Artful Prayers at Pritchard …

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Kashinsky

Bellows Air Force Base

Date: June 20, 2015
Author: Lizabeth Kashinsky
Location: Bellows Air Force Base, Oahu, HI
Wounded Place: Animals + Birds + Insects | Plants | War & Violence

There were 3 of us this year, and we returned to Bellows Air Force Station where we met last year. The area is the site of one of the earliest known settlements of pre-Western contact …

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Staman

Lake suffering from drought and global warming

Date: June 20, 2015
Author: Laura Staman
Location: South Lake Tahoe, California, USA
Wounded Place: Climate change | Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

South Lake Tahoe’s Earth Exchange centered around the changes in our environment due to the drought in California, and we were in solidarity with two other Global Earth Exchanges in California, San Leandro and Laguna …

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Hathor

Embracing Beauty: From the Children

Date: June 20, 2015
Author: Mariette Hathor
Location: Gordon's Bay, South Africa
Wounded Place: Animals + Birds + Insects | Children's Events | Oceans + Lakes + Rivers | Waste

Gordon’s Bay beach, South Africa was an obvious choice after getting into an argument with picnic goers some time ago about a piece of aluminium foil left to blow into the sea, saying that people …

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Fearon

Healing the Gallows: Hill once used for hangings

Date: June 20, 2015
Author: Paul Fearon and Katherine Peacock
Location: Waterford, Ireland
Wounded Place: Children's Events | Historic & Cultural Sites

I arrived at 1.45 and drummed for ten minutes. At exactly 2 pm a young boy showed up on his scooter and drummed, shook the rattle and gave me a huge hug of welcome. As …

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Shea

Save Red Lady

Date: June 20, 2015
Author: Sandy Shea
Location: Crested Butte, CO
Wounded Place: Mineral extraction

Save Red Lady (mountain damaged by old mines, threatened with new mines) We did our ceremony with a portion of our High Country Conservation Advocated (HCCA) board and staff today. One picture just shows the …

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Ishwari

Connecting Cultures

Date: June 20, 2015
Author: Yudhi Ishwari
Location: Munduk, Bali, Indonesia
Wounded Place: Historic & Cultural Sites | Other

Mengenai foto acara kita di Puri Lumbung. Tahun ini banyak kedatangan students dan anak-anak dari Negara lain. Salah satu foto yang saya lampirkan ada foto students dari Malaysia dan Munduk sedang berlatih menari bersama. This …

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Hess Bird

Moon Circle for Chesapeake Bay

Date: June 20, 2015
Author: Annie Hess
Location: Machipongo, Virginia, USA
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

We had a wonderful Earth Exchange for the Chesapeake Bay on Thursday night! We felt all your love and support for our event! I shared with everyone the information about our two “greetings partners” and …

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Ferguson

From Coal to Solar

Date: June 20, 2015
Author: Marla Ferguson
Location: Grand Junction, CO
Wounded Place: Mineral extraction

I made my Earth Exchange on land that was originally owned by a coal miner. He lived on the land and walked to the mine each day to make a living. My RadJoy bird was …

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Daucus

Jordan Valley Creek | Old Railway Platform

Date: June 20, 2015
Author: Sasha Daucus
Location: Springfield, MO
Wounded Place: Industry & Development | Mineral extraction | Waste

Jordan Valley Creek runs underground through a mostly abandoned industrial area in Springfield, Missouri. The area has been heavily contaminated with petroleum products. The city of Springfield is gradually creating a large park from the …

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Stine

Wilderness Rites Earth Exchange (Logging)

Date: June 20, 2015
Author: Anne Stine
Location: Ashland, OR
Wounded Place: Industry & Development | Trees

Nine very enthusiastic women came together in the small town of Lincoln, Oregon early Saturday morning , June 20, and met with Dave Willis, the head of Soda Mountain Wilderness and the Cascade Siskiyou National …

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Steele

Making Beauty on the Border

Date: June 20, 2015
Author: Wendy Steele
Location: Monaghan, Northern Ireland
Wounded Place: War & Violence

Our group gathered together just outside Clones. Once a thriving ecclesiastical centre and busy market town but now right on the Border, Clones has undergone severe depression from Partition and the more recent Troubles. With …

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Gillotti

Writer’s Brook

Date: June 20, 2015
Author: Susan Gillotti
Location: Norwich, VT
Wounded Place: Personal | Waste

There’s a small stream in Vermont that I love. As I approach it through the woods, I hear the sound of its water coursing over smooth rocks. For many years I came here in the …

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Frank

Elder Women’s Solstice Circle (land affected by drought)

Date: June 20, 2015
Author: Margo Frank
Location: Redwood Valley, California, USA
Wounded Place: Climate change | Waste

Margo Frank Every solstice and equinox a small group of elder women gather to sit in a circle and walk on the land at the Redwood Valley Outdoor Education Project. This site was a dumping …

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Muravskaya

For the country of Ukraine

Date: June 20, 2015
Author: Oksana Muravskaya
Location: Kiev, Ukraine
Wounded Place: War & Violence

We are happy to be back with you in the Global Earth Exchange! Ukraine is going through a difficult period. Birds of Ukraine do not want to live in cages. Birds Ukraine—free birds! Clear and …

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Nebeker

Land and Family: 50 acres of agricultural land under threat of development

Date: June 20, 2015
Author: Kinde Nebeker
Location: Bear Lake, UT
Wounded Place: Climate change | Industry & Development | Personal

On June 21, my sister, her two children and I hopped on a four-wheeler and a dirt bike and motored half a mile from the South Eden ranch homestead (where my sister’s family now lives) …

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Skrei

Drought-impacted water tanks

Date: June 20, 2015
Author: Sandy Skrei
Location: Glen Rose, TX
Wounded Place: Climate change | Natural disasters

We went to one of our favorite, sacred spots on the ranch (our pond, the site of last year’s ceremony and miracle rain having filled again with the May rains which also created the deadly …

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Strickland

Standley Lake & Woman Creek (nuclear runoff into waters)

Date: June 20, 2015
Author: Christi Strickland
Location: Westminster, CO
Wounded Place: Industry & Development | Oceans + Lakes + Rivers | Waste

Radioactive Runoff: Our 2015 Global Earth Exchange for Standley Lake and Woman Creek Reservoir was an experience of community, collaboration, support, and full of the love and appreciation for water. In our finding and making …

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Brown

Red Lily Pond Herring Run

Date: June 20, 2015
Author: Steve Brown
Location: Craigville, MA
Wounded Place: Industry & Development | Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

It really was a magical day for our community. Craigville goes back to the 1870s as a Chautauqua community and it is very complex. Thirty very different people responded to our invitation to gather for …

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Bronstein 2015

Sante Fe Mountain Kids Earth Exchange

Date: June 20, 2015
Author: David Bronstein
Location: Santa Fe, NM
Wounded Place: Historic & Cultural Sites | Waste

The Santa Fe Mountain Kids, who usually enjoy beautiful mountain vistas and shimmering streams went to the current dog park for our Global Earth Exchange. We shared the story of a land that was once …

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Collie

Ceremony for “Mother Tree”

Date: June 20, 2015
Author: Nan Collie
Location: Boise, ID
Wounded Place: Trees

I was invited to teach at a women’s music camp outside of Boise, Idaho on 180 incredible acres of Ponderosa Pine, meadows, firs, and a community of women who love the land. It was breathing-takingly …

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Paulick

Tamera Solstice Ceremony

Date: June 20, 2015
Author: Silke Paulick and Tamera Community
Location: Tamera, Colos, Portugal
Wounded Place: Climate change | Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

I send you a photo from our beautiful solstice celebration! I am happy to be in an intense time of earth healing, in which we are working on creating healed landscapes. We are working on …

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Steele

Making Beauty on the Border

Date: June 20, 2015
Author: Wendy Steele
Location: Clones, Co. Monaghan, Northern Ireland
Wounded Place: War & Violence

Our group gathered together just outside Clones. Once a thriving ecclesiastical centre and busy market town but now right on the Border, Clones has undergone severe depression from Partition and the more recent Troubles. With …

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Bronstein 2015

Sante Fe Mountain Kids Earth Exchange

Date: June 20, 2015
Author: David Bronstein
Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
Wounded Place: Historic & Cultural Sites

(former trash heap and depository for Japanese-Americans during WWII) The Santa Fe Mountain Kids, who usually enjoy beautiful mountain vistas and shimmering streams went to the current dog park for our Global Earth Exchange. We …

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Bergmann

Honoring the Rewilding (endangered wilderness)

Date: June 20, 2015
Author: Joe Bergmann
Location: Surrey, BC, Canada
Wounded Place: Industry & Development

Now mostly scraped bare, the blackberries still fight tenaciously to keep the ground covered and green. Even though these few acres of bush could not be called beautiful, it is not necessary for this re-wilding …

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Sparling

Fire Island Bird

Date: June 20, 2015
Author: Sansea Sparling
Location: Fire Island, NY
Wounded Place: Natural disasters | Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

Hurricane Sandy tore through Fire Island, breaching the thin strip of land in two places. The bay rose, trashing all the marinas and town waterfronts; the ocean pounded some houses to smithereens, tore decks, roofs …

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Beck

Seeing the Unbeautiful, Reclaiming the Beautiful

Date: June 20, 2015
Author: Mike Beck
Location: Navarre, FL
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

Five years ago I came to sit on the northern rim of the great bowl that holds the Gulf of Mexico because the Deepwater Horizon oil well blew up 50 mile south of New Orleans …

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Todd

Iowa River and other rivers threatened by the Bakken Pipeline

Date: June 20, 2015
Author: Judy Todd
Location: Iowa City, Iowa
Wounded Place: Climate change | Natural disasters

The women gathered along the Iowa River in Iowa City Park, where in 2013 the 500 year flood had crested and covered 9+ miles of the city—its homes, businesses, trees and roads. Most of the …

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Huxster

Joby Wedding and Global Earth Exchange | Family farm endangered by development

Date: June 20, 2015
Author: Jo Huxster & Toby McCabe 
Location: Unionville, Pennsylvania, USA
Wounded Place: Other | Personal

We are so honored to be the first Global Earth Exchange wedding! Toby and I are both environmentalists and work in environmental fields, so it only seemed fitting to celebrate the earth and our place …

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Pook Beaver

Fernkloof Reserve

Date: June 20, 2015
Author: Katie Beaver & Beatrice Pook 
Location: Hermanus, South Africa
Wounded Place: Animals + Birds + Insects | Natural disasters

Using this sand from this very special Mandala from a very special day, a bird was created upon the ashes of Sandbaai Wood, to remember those feathered or furry creatures who lost their homes, and …

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Johnson, Trebbe

A Twilight for Bats

Date: June 20, 2015
Author: Trebbe Johnson
Location: Thompson, PA
Wounded Place: Animals + Birds + Insects

We offered our Global Earth Exchange on behalf of the Eastern Brown Bat, which has been dying in large numbers of the white-nose fungus. We began at twilight, sitting in the small meadow behind our …

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Timms

New York City Earth Exchange

Date: June 20, 2015
Author: The Timms Famiy
Location: New York, NY
Wounded Place: Waste

We cleaned up a little NYC sidewalk and made this along the way.

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Rous

Wounded by Development

Date: June 20, 2015
Author: Janice Rous
Location: Orlando, FL
Wounded Place: Industry & Development

Joy: Here’s our ROLROE [Reclaiming Our Lives/Reclaiming Our Earth] and friends group today on a blighted patch next to Interstate 4 in the Orlando area, where what used to be trees and oranges have been …

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Gold New

Mountain/forest/water affected by molybdenum mine

Date: June 20, 2015
Author: Liz Gold
Location: Taos/Questa, New Mexico, USA
Wounded Place: Mineral extraction

It was a beautiful ceremony–such joyful energy! Many people brought songs that lifted our spirits. Each person brought distinct energy, including the two children. One person pointed out the sound of the river singing behind …

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Martin

Protect Ambridge Reservoir

Date: June 20, 2015
Author: Joanne Martin and Marcia Lehman
Location: Independence, Pennsylvania, USA
Wounded Place: Industry & Development | Mineral extraction | Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

There is a beautiful reservoir of crystal-clear water—the Ambridge Reservoir. The surrounding land has recently been leased for natural gas drilling. A few miles to the north a land site is being cleared potentially for …

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Monroe

Lands Hurt by Drought

Date: June 20, 2015
Author: Dianne Monroe
Location: Laguna de Santa Rosa, Sebastopol, CA
Wounded Place: Climate change | Natural disasters | Oceans + Lakes + Rivers | Waste

About 25 people, from children to elders, gathered at the Laguna de Santa Rosa, between Sebastopol and Santa Rosa, California for a Ceremony for Lands Wounded by Drought, as response to California’s epic drought. People …

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Lenzo

Still Loving Albany Bulb (landfill)

Date: June 20, 2015
Author: Amy Lenzo
Location: Albany Bulb, Oakland, CA
Wounded Place: Other | Waste

The Albany Bulb has a long and colorful history: it’s a landfill that began its life in the 1930’s with debris from the Transcontinental Railroad being pushed into the bay to create a parking lot. …

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Stevenson

Ravenwood Global Earth Exchange

Date: June 20, 2015
Author: Corinna Stevenson
Location: Sayward Valley, BC, Canada
Wounded Place: Industry & Development | Trees

For over a decade, Ravenwood Forest has inspired, transformed, and nurtured all who visit. Ravenwood Forest is located in the Sayward Valley, which has been increasingly impacted by logging. The system as a whole: The …

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2014 Logo (original)

Paradise on a dying Earth

Date: June 25, 2014
Author: Sara Firman
Location: Dehadrun, India
Wounded Place: Animals + Birds + Insects | Other | RadJoy Philosophy | Waste

On Saturday June 21, here in northern India, Radical Joy did get a mention and although we did not manage to create a bird or provide a photo record (it was a work day with …

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Gold

Where the St. Johns River meets the Atlantic

Date: June 21, 2014
Author: Liz Gold
Location: Jacksonville, Florida, USA
Wounded Place: Industry & Development | Oceans + Lakes + Rivers | Waste

Here is my photo for 2014, taken at Huguenot Park near Jacksonville, Florida, at the exact place where the highly polluted St. Johns River meets the Atlantic Ocean, with large ships and a coal-burning energy …

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Brown

Red Lily Pond

Date: June 21, 2014
Author: Steve Brown
Location: Craigville, Massachusetts, USA
Wounded Place: Industry & Development | Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

18 members of the Craigville neighborhood gathered yesterday on an asphalt driveway adjacent to Red Lily Pond to share stories (some of us have lived on the banks of the pond for more than 70 …

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Nebeker

Timpanogos, Wasatch Range

Date: June 21, 2014
Author: Kinde Nebeker
Location: Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Wounded Place: Industry & Development

Global Earth Exchange, Salt Lake City Report: Kinde Nebeker and Stacy Peterson gathered at a corridor just south of Salt Lake City that is under development. It had been a long stretch of beautiful open …

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Steele

Country of Northern Ireland

Date: June 21, 2014
Author: Wendy Steele
Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland
Wounded Place: Historic & Cultural Sites | War & Violence

This is Simone holding our Radical Joy Bird. She helped us construct it. A small group gathered at the Waterworks in North Belfast. This chair is one of two which face opposite directions and represent …

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Jaxen

Delaware River

Date: June 21, 2014
Author: Kazzrie Jaxen
Location: Callicoon, New York, USA
Wounded Place: RadJoy Philosophy

For my Solstice Earth Exchange, I walked to the beautiful Delaware River, one of the last clean rivers in the world, now under threat of fracking. There, as if waiting for me, was a shiny …

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Wilson D

The Dying Conifers of eastern North American Forests

Date: June 21, 2014
Author: Dale Temple Wilson
Location: Rangeley Lake, Maine, USA
Wounded Place: Trees

As if standing in a heat storm, conifer tree trunks of the northern forests blister and ooze. Years of acid rain and indiscriminate aerial praying cast the spruce and fir trees into silent weeping and …

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Elliston

Ideal Cement Co.

Date: June 21, 2014
Author: Zoe Elliston
Location: Longmont, Colorado, USA
Wounded Place: Waste

I did my Earth Exchange at Ideal Cement Company. It was such an amazing experience to sing with the land and I felt reconnected to myself through the process. Here are some of my photos.

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Daucus A

Future Jordan Valley West Meadows Project

Date: June 21, 2014
Author: Sasha Daucus
Location: Diesel Springs, Missouri, USA
Wounded Place: RadJoy Philosophy | Waste

Sasha Daucus   Environmental clean-up site   We had a great time and introduced some new people to the idea of EE. They were a bit doubtful going into it… ‘doing it for Sasha’ but …

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Milton

Nature Conservancy Land

Date: June 21, 2014
Author: Deborah Milton
Location: Hansville, Washington, USA
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

I couldn’t download your template for what you actually want in terms of text to accompany image(s) so I just had to tell you a little of our story because we had such a luscious …

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Livingstone

Columbia River 

Date: June 21, 2014
Author: Amy Livingstone
Location: Sauvie’s Island, Oregon, USA
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers | Waste

I created a little bird out of grass as a prayer for the healing of the river that travels by Hanford Nuclear Waste Depot, the biggest, most toxic nuclear waste site in the Western hemisphere. …

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Hurter

Rio Achumani | Our Bird Story

Date: June 21, 2014
Author: Mariette Hurter
Location: La Paz, Bolivia
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

It was really hard for me initially. As an environmental “teacher” (currently developing the nature education program for children at La www.sendaverde.com, Bolivia) I always focus on getting kids to fall in love with Pachamama …

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Todd—Climate March 2014

Red Willow Park (formerly Kit Carson Park)

Date: June 21, 2014
Author: Judy Todd
Location: Taos, New Mexico, USA
Wounded Place: Climate change | Other

A few pictures from Taos and the drumming circle I was a part of are coming by separate em. Two of us in RJ tees and all of us honoring the earth with prayers and …

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Weaver

Carpenter Woods

Date: June 21, 2014
Author: Ellen Weaver
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Wounded Place: Waste

It was an uncared for part of Carpenter Woods in Philadelphia—just off the road and full of broken glass, old plastic, and stuff…—we lovingly cleaned it up, made our bird, and then had a picnic …

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Ishwari

Sacred Lake Tamblingan

Date: June 21, 2014
Author: Yudhi Ishwari
Location: Munduk, Bali, Indonesia
Wounded Place: Trees

Dear Ibu Trebbe, Here are some images for you from when our staff do reforesting near lake tamblingan and a photo about the fall of Bunut giant Tree…. With best regards, Yudhi Ishwari

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Strickland Valmont

Valmont Coal Plant

Date: June 21, 2014
Author: Christi Strickland
Location: Boulder, Colorado, USA
Wounded Place: Climate change | Mineral extraction

We did [our Global Earth Exchange] on Monday the 9th! I asked the student for pics because his camera did so much better than mine. Looks like he sent it right to you! A coal …

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Lock 2

Nook Head | Landscape threatened by new railway

Date: June 21, 2014
Author: Harriet Lock Sams
Location: Cumbria, England, UK
Wounded Place: Mineral extraction | Oceans + Lakes + Rivers | Trees

Here are a few photos of our morning. We wandered down the River Cairn, noting an abandoned agricultural vehicle hire depot, which is now a graveyard for decaying tractors and combine harvesters. There we saw …

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Tamera

Tamera | South Lake

Date: June 21, 2014
Author: Leila Dreggar & Sabine Lichtenfels
Location: Colos, Portugal
Wounded Place: Climate change | Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

And Sabine asked me to mention that right in the beginning of a ritual this morning an eagle flew above us. Another blessing from the animal world. All the best. Leila To honour the earth …

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Friedmann Children 2

Overgrazed woodland

Date: June 21, 2014
Author: Andrea Friedmann, with Tián and Amanda
Location: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Wounded Place: Waste

We went to the over-grazed forest and found piles of rubble. The kids decided to make the bird there. This was their favorite bird of all these years. They enjoyed noticing the way nature is …

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Livingstone

Site of fire

Date: June 21, 2014
Author: Aninha Esperanza Livingstone
Location: West Marin, California, USA
Wounded Place: Natural disasters

Thank you for offering us an opportunity to come together and offer beauty to the earth. My husband, son and I created a bird close to a recent fire in West Marin, Ca. We offered …

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VanOrd 2014

Wyman Park

Date: June 21, 2014
Author: Autumn Van Ord and Lisa McCall
Location: Baltimore, MD
Wounded Place: Waste

Wanted to let you know that we chose an area in Wyman Park that is particularly polluted. The stream that runs through the park (Stoney Run) is forced underground at this point before it re-emerges …

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Albrecht

Mount Sugarloaf /Keeba-Keeba

Date: June 21, 2014
Author: Glenn Albrecht
Location: Newcastle, NSW, Australia
Wounded Place: Mineral extraction

Today we went to Mount Sugarloaf (Keeba-Keeba to the Awabakal people), about 30 minutes West of Newcastle and conducted our Earth Exchange. The mountain, Keeba-Keeba, has been badly affected by mining for coal and the …

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Pearce

Water for vision questers

Date: June 21, 2014
Author: Farion and Kent Pearce
Location: Pine Mountain, Ojai, California, USA
Wounded Place: Other

Name: Carrying water in for the fasters: Honoring ALL Wounded Places Number of participants: 11 Act of Beauty: Making the bird as we called in all the wounded places we could think of; then sending …

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Kashinsky

Bellows Air Force Base Earth Exchange

Date: June 21, 2014
Author: Lizabeth Kashinsky
Location: Bellows Air Force Base, Waimanalo, HI
Wounded Place: Historic & Cultural Sites | War & Violence

I chose Bellows Air Force Base because it’s generally believed to be one of the oldest settlement sites on O`ahu (by ancient Hawaiian peoples) and today is used as a place to practice war games. …

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Planzer

For the wolves

Date: June 21, 2014
Author: Carla Planzer-Campbell
Location: Speicher, Switzerland
Wounded Place: Animals + Birds + Insects

On the Global Earth Exchange day this year we celebrated for the wolves, their return and their survival in Switzerland at the wolves rocket. We played wolves and howled like them, we renewed the memorial …

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Hayes

Clearcut

Date: June 21, 2014
Author: Claire Hayes
Location: Cootehill, Dublin, Ireland
Wounded Place: Industry & Development | Waste

On June 22nd 2014 I woke up at five thirty am after a restless sleep. The previous day I had had an experience which resulted in my feeling as if I had been kicked very …

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Kelley

Arctic endangered by global warming

Date: June 21, 2014
Author: Lisa & Jason Kelley
Location: Svalbard, Norway
Wounded Place: Climate change

Svalbard, Norway Sorry this is late, but the sat system in the ship is horrendous, so Jason just got this out from Svalbard. Hope it can still be added. All the Best, Lisa Credit: Jason …

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Howells

Site of gunpowder mill that exploded 160 years ago

Date: June 21, 2014
Author: Polly Howells
Location: Saugerties, NY
Wounded Place: Historic & Cultural Sites | War & Violence

Nine of us, most of us members of Woodstock or Saugerties Transition Towns, gathered beside the aging broken wall of the gunpowder mill that exploded and burned in 1854, killing many workers and others in …

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Koval Grippo

World Trade Center

Date: June 21, 2014
Author: Koval Grippo
Location: World Trade Center, New York, NY
Wounded Place: War & Violence

Here is my special prayer day at the World Trade Center. I found a rectangular take out box that was not dirty inside and two feathers in the park nearby to make my wonderful RadJoy …

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Weaver

Mother Ocean

Date: June 21, 2014
Author: Iris Weaver
Location: Stage Fort Park, Gloucester, Massachusetts, USA
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

I did a ritual for the ocean last Saturday. Unfortunately, true to Mercury retrograde, we all forgot cameras and phones, and the one phone that was there had a full picture memory. There were 7 …

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Rous

Iron dome that shoots missiles from hostile countries

Date: June 21, 2014
Author: Janice Rous
Location: Tel Aviv, Israel
Wounded Place: War & Violence

This is on a beach near tel aviv. It is next to the iron dome which shoots down missiles from neighboring countries that are hostile. The beach itself was a site of conflict during the …

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Hobbs

South Sawyer

Date: June 21, 2014
Author: Larry Hobbs
Location: Tracy Arm, Alaska, USA
Wounded Place: Climate change

This year I was again working in AK doing the ecotour gig on a small ship (60 guests) on the day of the Earth Exchange. It was impossible to undertake the suggested ceremony, so I …

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Jorgensen

Ceremony in solidarity with friends in drought-stricken Texas

Date: June 21, 2014
Author: Susanne Jorgensen
Location: Tranekaer, Denmark
Wounded Place: Climate change | Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

Tranekær is both a small town ( with a castle:) and a region, named after the castle.  3 blue glass pieces found on the beach over the years, all the other pieces being green or …

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Beck

Mudslide

Date: June 21, 2014
Author: Mike Beck
Location: Oso, Washington
Wounded Place: Natural disasters

You’d think after over 10 years of doing this together and apart, that words would come easy. You know, standard stuff, from the heart, about the inextricably of the earth and the love/life force. Stuff …

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Hewson

Coney Island, USA

Date: June 21, 2014
Author: Federico Hewson & Maggie Jones
Location: Coney Island, NY
Wounded Place: Industry & Development | Waste

We went to Coney Island on the date of the annual Mermaid parade which according to their website: “is the largest art parade in the nation. A celebration of ancient mythology and honky-tonk rituals of …

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Aftergut

Glacier Bay

Date: June 21, 2014
Author: Judith Aftergut
Location: Gustavus, Alaska
Wounded Place: Other | Personal | RadJoy Philosophy

We did our Glacier Bay Radical Joy event early! The weather was beautiful yesterday (in the low 60’s and no rain!) We walked out the Nagoonberry Trail in Gustavus, Alaska (just outside the boundary of …

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Hess

Chesapeake Bay

Date: June 21, 2014
Author: Annie Hess
Location: Machipongo, VA
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

We had a marvelous time overlooking the Chesapeake Bay on Savage Neck Rd—perennial Rad Joy location! It was a wild stormy evening so we did most of our “Earth Exchange” inside. We had a wonderful …

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Bergmann

Remembering Panorama Ridge

Date: June 21, 2014
Author: Joe Bergman
Location: Surrey, British Columbia, Canada
Wounded Place: Industry & Development

I come to the place with some anger and some grief. Then I smell the unmistakable smell of dog shit. I turn and see that the log I’m sitting on, to write, has been smeared …

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Frangs Rhinos

Endangered Rhinos and Elephants

Date: June 21, 2014
Author: Janet Frangs
Location: Cape Town, South Africa
Wounded Place: Animals + Birds + Insects

Rhino RadJoy—I am a wilderness guide and I watch in horror as the animals I love are being destroyed before my very eyes. I had decided to do RadJoy this year for our rhinos and …

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Pranschke 2014

Healing Family Wounds

Date: June 21, 2014
Author: Paulita Pranschke
Location: St. Louis, MO
Wounded Place: Personal

To share a little about what we did . . .we worked with the intention and structure in a bit of a creative way. Our particular theme was “healing family wounds”—which arose for me out …

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2014 Logo (original)

Mother Ocean

Date: June 21, 2014
Author: Noemi Hopf
Location: Iraklion, Crete
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

We ended up spending the 21st June mostly on a boat. Wanting to do the Global Earth Exchange as well and because we anyway planned to do the Ritual of Beauty again for the Mediterranean …

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Muravskaya Copy

The Country of Ukraine

Date: June 21, 2014
Author: Oksana Muravskaya
Location: Kiev, Ukraine
Wounded Place: War & Violence

Ukraine joined June 21 for the worldwide movement Global Earth Exchange. This bird is placed on burnt ground. We were creating this bird with thoughts about the injuries that people and the land of Ukraine …

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Fleming

Laguna Earth Exchange

Date: June 21, 2014
Author: Maggie Fleming
Location: Laguna, Sebastopol, CA
Wounded Place: Historic & Cultural Sites | Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

At the Laguna in Sebastopol we explored the wounds and beauty of the Laguna; discussed the history of the site and global and local water issues, including our current drought; told stories of our own …

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Sorin

Lombard Central Community Garden

Date: June 21, 2014
Author: Fran Sorin
Location: Lombard Community Garden, Philadelphia, PA
Wounded Place: Historic & Cultural Sites | Plants

We had a magnificent time at our Global Earth Exchange at Lombard Central Community Garden in West Philadelphia. Thank you Trebbe Johnson for inspiring this group of new ‘tenders and healers’ of a parcel of …

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DeBree

St. Vrains River and the world’s waters

Date: June 21, 2014
Author: Tom deBree and Christi Strickland
Location: St.Vrain State Park, Longmont, CO
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

Tom: It was a good experience, Christi, along the waters. As deeply disappointed as I was with the actual buy-in response I got from my conversations, emails, phone calls with many individuals leading up to …

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Hurlburt

Baynes Sound Shore | Septic culvert draining onto a beach

Date: June 21, 2014
Author: Cheryl and Sara Hurlburt
Location: Union Bay, BC, Canada
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers | Waste

Cheryl and Sara Hurlburt What a blessing and a privilege to create beauty and bring love to a wounded beach. A collective septic culvert drains onto the land and into the water in this area. …

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GEx Logo 2022

Beach

Date: June 21, 2014
Author: Di Koch
Location: Cape Town, South Africa
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

This year my global earth exchange event happened today, quietly…on my own, at the beach…a RadJoy bird made of shells and seaweed, surrounded by sand spirals and sand birds heading out into 8 directions to …

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DeWitt

North Sea

Date: June 21, 2014
Author: Reinhard deWitt
Location: Bensersiel, Germany
Wounded Place: Industry & Development | Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

The power of the Northern Sea, chained by dykes and concrete, tar and rocks. That’s how our coasts look nowadays. I know, dykes are necessary, but like this it’s to ruin a landscape, taming the …

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Shea

Old Coal Mine

Date: June 21, 2014
Author: Sandy Shea
Location: Crested Butte, CO
Wounded Place: Mineral extraction

Attached is my radical joy bird near the old mining site in Crested Butte, Colorado. The bird is made of old coal and found litter from the site of the Big Mine site that operated …

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Toporek

Folly Beach

Date: June 14, 2014
Author: Janice Toporek
Location: Charleston, South Carolina, USA
Wounded Place: Industry & Development | Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

I went to Folly Beach—James Island County Park—they have been “refurbishing” the beach by laying down miles of ugly pipe 3 miles into the ocean and pulling up sand and replenishing/transporting sand miles down the …

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Radical Joy For Hard Times Stories Frangs Rhinos

Rhino RadJoy

Date: June 1, 2014
Author: Janet Frangs
Location: Weenen Nature Reserve, South Africa
Wounded Place: Animals + Birds + Insects

I am a wilderness guide and I watch in horror as the animals I love are being destroyed before my very eyes.

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Custer

Overfished, contaminated bay

Date: January 18, 2014
Author: Felipe Custer
Location: Paracas, Peru
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

Our Global Earth Exchange took place in Paracas, Peru, a beautiful bay that is being overfished and contaminated. We kayaked our way to the other side of the bay, which is a natural sanctuary, picked …

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Weinbaum

350.org Climate Change Cabaret

Date: June 22, 2013
Author: Fran Weinbaum
Location: Montpelier, VT
Wounded Place: Climate change

350.org in Vermont held a Climate Change Cabaret in Montpelier on June 15. It brought together artists to portray the impact of climate change through performance, music, poetry, dance and art. Fran Weinbaum, Radical Joy …

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Weaver, I

Dane Beach

Date: June 22, 2013
Author: Iris Weaver
Location: Beverly, Massachusetts, USA
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

I did my event on June 17, because that’s when I could schedule it. It was an overcast day. It was just me, my nephew, and a friend of his. We went to Dane Beach …

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Medina With Bread

Homebread-baking

Date: June 22, 2013
Author: Ana Maria Medina
Location: Bogotá, Colombia
Wounded Place: Other

Inner place – El espacio interior, el lugar interior Number of Participants: 14 We prepared bread, with the awareness that nothing could go wrong, and that our creative act would be applauded by others We …

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Custer

Global Earth Exchange Rapa Nui

Date: June 22, 2013
Author: Felipe Custer
Location: Rapa Nui, Easter Island, Chile
Wounded Place: Historic & Cultural Sites | Waste

Despite the inclement weather and busy schedule, we did manage to do our Global Earth Exchange event in Rapa Nui. We opted to not do it at the dump site, given that we were with …

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Wilson

Overused fly fishing spot on the river

Date: June 22, 2013
Author: Dale Temple Wilson
Location: Steep Bank Pool, Kennebago, Maine, USA
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

Overwhelmed by use, this gorgeous locale and fly fishing spot, finds a degraded access bank spilling into the river, challenging any user’s safety, and filling pristine trout waters with sand. In November 2006 several conservation-committed, …

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Wilhoit

“Tree Sorrow”: healthy trees cut down by car rental establishment

Date: June 22, 2013
Author: Jennifer Wilhoit
Location: Davis, California, USA
Wounded Place: Trees

Event Summary—Healthy, mature trees (including a native live oak) were cut down on city property by neighboring car rental agencies. Wounded Place: Edge between interstate and housing development; city property on which three healthy, mature …

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Todd

Klootchy Creek and the death of an ancient tree

Date: June 22, 2013
Author: Judy Todd
Location: Portland, OR
Wounded Place: Trees

Judy Todd Portland, Oregon, USA Klootchy Creek and the death of an ancient tree

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Timms

Josiah’s Earth Exchange

Date: June 22, 2013
Author: Henry Timms and Josiah Timms
Location: New York, New York, USA
Wounded Place: Other

(Josiah was 19 months old at the time of the Global Earth Exchange) Wonderful! Did he have a particular wounded place in mind, do you think? From: Henry Timms (Josiah’s father): It can be hard …

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DeBree

Industrial pollution

Date: June 22, 2013
Author: Christi Strickland and Tom deBree
Location: Sand Creek, Colorado, USA
Wounded Place: Industry & Development

Industrial pollution Trebbe…and Christi, I feel that our Sand Creek Earth Exchange went very well. We sat along the river in two different sites and reflected together on experiences and learnings in active gestation. We …

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Strickland West Magnolia

West Magnolia Tree Wake

Date: June 22, 2013
Author: Christi Strickland
Location: Nederland, Colorado, USA
Wounded Place: Trees

by Bonnie Sundance, Nederland, CO area resident Caring for the Earth isn’t new to me. However, my strength has been in working with a local non profit, Our Sacred Earth, assisting people to deepen their …

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Stine Group

Soda Mountain Wilderness clear-cuts

Date: June 22, 2013
Author: Anne Stine
Location: Ashland, Oregon, USA
Wounded Place: Industry & Development | Trees

Anne Stine   Soda Mountain Wilderness clear-cuts

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Sparling 2 Birds

Dune repair post Hurricane Sandy

Date: June 22, 2013
Author: Sansea Sparling
Location: Fire Island, New York, USA
Wounded Place: Climate change | Natural disasters

Dune repair after Hurricane Sandy

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Slomer

Gas fracking

Date: June 22, 2013
Author: Paula Slomer & Joe McMurry
Location: Butler County, Pennsylvania, USA
Wounded Place: Mineral extraction

My husband and I went out this morning to perform our RadJoy. This is what he wrote about our experience. Here in Butler County, PA we are currently occupied by the armies of the shale-gas …

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Sickafoose

Rio Grande River

Date: June 22, 2013
Author: Munro Sickafoose
Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

Rio Grande River—polluted, overused, drying out

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Roberts

Twin Lakes Housing Development

Date: June 22, 2013
Author: Ann Roberts
Location: Bedford, NY
Wounded Place: Industry & Development | Trees

A housing development on former protected land. The participants had worked hard to save the entire forested area from development, but were only able to save about 20 acres.

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Nebeker Bird

Abandoned quarry across from oil refinery

Date: June 22, 2013
Author: Kinde Nebeker
Location: Salt Lake City, UT
Wounded Place: Mineral extraction

It was a solo deal this year. I was kind of glad—in some ways, it made it quieter and freer for me. This place is some small abandoned quarry, right across the street from an …

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Morro

Sagg Pond

Date: June 22, 2013
Author: Christine Morro
Location: Sagaponack, New York, USA
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

This is what I created in honor of summer at a place that I have come to know and love. This is Sagg Pond…where the stone serpentine starts is a point on shore where phragmites …

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Mitchell

Ceremony Offering Acts of Beauty to the Wounded Waters of Our World

Date: June 22, 2013
Author: Dianne Monroe and Deb Greene-Jacobi
Location: Sebastopol, CA
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers | Waste

Number of Participants: 20 Act of Beauty: We gathered at the Laguna de Santa Rosa. The Laguna, was once a lush forest and wetland, today reduced to 8% of its former size, once used as …

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Milton

Making Prayers for the Salmon

Date: June 22, 2013
Author: Deborah Milton
Location: Bainbridge island, WA
Wounded Place: Animals + Birds + Insects | Waste

Act of Beauty: RadJoy bird in the mud, delittering the stream bank. Notes about the Experience (What participants said, what they experienced, any difference you noticed about the place at the end of your Earth …

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Meltzer

Lake Lonely—sprayed with chemicals

Date: June 22, 2013
Author: Rob Meltzer
Location: Brant, New York, USA
Wounded Place: Industry & Development | Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

Lake Lonely—sprayed with chemicals

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Wharton McMillan Couple

Lake Huron

Date: June 22, 2013
Author: Pedro McMillan and Roo Wharton
Location: Lake Huron
Wounded Place: Mineral extraction | Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

Here is a shot of Ruth and me about to launch our bird in lake Huron. In the background is a dolomite loading dock where freighters come to load the rock for transport down to …

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McCall

Wyman Park

Date: June 22, 2013
Author: Lisa McCall and Autumn Van Ord
Location: Wyman Park, Baltimore, MD
Wounded Place: Waste

These are pictures of our Global Earth Exchange in Wyman Park, Baltimore, MD. Pictured are Autumn, Sasha, and me. A fourth person, Mary was with us and took the picture. It was a lovely exchange.

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Martin

Fracked Hearts and Pennsylvania

Date: June 22, 2013
Author: Joanne Martin and Simona Perry
Location: McKeever Environmental Center, Sandy Lake, Pennsylvania, USA
Wounded Place: Industry & Development | Mineral extraction

Wow! What an awesome event!! Simona and I hosted the Earth Exchange as the closing ceremony for an evocative and successful 2 day event!!! Wooo Hoooo!!! I have attached two photos—one has the bird, and …

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Long

Coal mines burning below the Earth

Date: June 22, 2013
Author: Sandy Long
Location: Centralia, PA
Wounded Place: Mineral extraction | Other

Here’s a photo taken yesterday June 23) during the Global Earth Exchange that Heron’s Eye Communications (Krista Gromalski and I) organized in Centralia, PA. It depicts my father, Ormond Long, walking behind the bird we …

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Katz

For the Garden

Date: June 22, 2013
Author: Amy Katz
Location: Santa Rosa, CA
Wounded Place: Personal | Plants

I was going to organize an event and participate this year, but life got the better of me and I spaced on it. So when I saw the email earlier today, I said to myself, …

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Kashinsky Bird

Degraded hiking trail

Date: June 22, 2013
Author: Lizabeth Kashinsky
Location: Honolulu, HI
Wounded Place: Industry & Development | Plants

The photo did not come out very well, but this is the place I chose to do the Earth Exchange. It’s a very degraded hiking trail that has been taken over by invasive species, one …

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Johnson, Trebbe

Picnic on the Pipeline

Date: June 22, 2013
Author: Trebbe Johnson and Andrew Gardner
Location: Thompson, PA
Wounded Place: Mineral extraction

In the past five years, northeastern Pennsylvania has been under assault by the natural gas industry, which is flattening hills, overusing and polluting rivers and streams, destroying roads, and dividing communities. It is sad and …

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Hollingsworth

Clearing the Rail Yard

Date: June 22, 2013
Author: Megan Hollingsworth
Location: Livingston, Montana, USA
Wounded Place: Personal | RadJoy Philosophy

Hawk inspired this image, as he appeared in the cemetery during my run earlier in the day. The dried rose petals are from my birthday. There were three, one for the faithful, gentle cat Buddy …

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Hobbs

Bare ground in clear-cut forest | a bulldozed patch of ground in an arid pine forest

Date: June 22, 2013
Author: Larry Hobbs
Location: Colockum Ridge, Ellensburg, Washington, USA
Wounded Place: Animals + Birds + Insects | Industry & Development | Plants

Name: Wilderness Rites of Passage Guide Training through 4H We made a basalt and pine bark bird on the torn up ground. Notes about the Experience (What participants said, what they experienced, any difference you …

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Goryl

Land plowed for construction

Date: June 22, 2013
Author: Frank Goryl
Location: Moscow, Pennsylvania, USA
Wounded Place: Industry & Development

FYI that the site we created our bird/artwork is the backyard at MCW where we are currently in mid-construction of a pole barn and recently had the site excavated. We used dried re-cycled red clay …

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Gold

Chimayo sacred spring and drought-stricken Santa Cruz River

Date: June 22, 2013
Author: Liz Gold
Location: Chimayó, New Mexico, USA
Wounded Place: Historic & Cultural Sites | Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

Act of Beauty: We brought gifts to our neglected Grandmother Spring, and sang her a song. Then we poured a bucket of water from the Rio Grande into the spring so she could purify it. …

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Friedman

Dam

Date: June 22, 2013
Author: Andrea Friedmann and children
Location: Highway in Iowa
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

We just arrived last night, and it was the first opportunity I had to download our Global Earth Exchange photo this morning. Here it is. Again, unfortunately, we wound up doing it with people who …

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Fox

Honoring the Waters of the World

Date: June 22, 2013
Author: Susan Fox
Location: Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island, USA
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

Honoring the Waters of the World through Narragansett Bay from Compass Rose Beach located in an Industrial Military Complex – It was a gentle and powerful day on Saturday at Compass Rose Beach. Thank you …

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Ferguson

Fires in the Colorado State Wildlife Refuge

Date: June 22, 2013
Author: Marla Ferguson
Location: Grand Junction, Colorado, USA
Wounded Place: Climate change | Natural disasters

I did a solo Earth Exchange at a Colorado State Wildlife Refuge about 1/2 mile from where I am currently living in Grand Junction. I did my ceremony shortly after sunrise blessing the 4 directions …

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Daucus

Noblett Lake

Date: June 22, 2013
Author: Sasha Daucus
Location: Doniphan, Missouri
Wounded Place: Other

Watching the slide show is a very emotionally beautiful experience. I noticed there was another one from Southern Missouri. It was wonderful to see other groups that kinda looked like ours, with drums even, and …

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Beck

Borrow Pits

Date: June 22, 2013
Author: Mike Beck
Location: Navarre, Florida
Wounded Place: Historic & Cultural Sites | Mineral extraction

Twenty years ago, when I came to the Gulf Coast to retire from the Air Force and build the house of my dreams on the shore of East Bay the natural world was just a …

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Young

Bomb crater

Date: June 22, 2013
Author: Hakim Young and Afghan Peace Volunteers
Location: Kabul, Afghanistan
Wounded Place: War & Violence

We cleaned the streets around a bomb crater site. Our Global Earth Exchange solidarity action can be found in the second video clip, but watching both videos will provide a clearer context : Glass Shattering …

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Steele

Northern Ireland | Creating Beauty on the Cavehill

Date: June 22, 2013
Author: Wendy Steele
Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland
Wounded Place: War & Violence

A showery, blustery day, we made the steep hike up to this High Place we chose for the outlook over Belfast and much of Northern Ireland. We took shelter on the ascent from a heavy …

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Planzer

Goldachtel Valley

Date: June 22, 2013
Author: Carla Planzer
Location: Saint Gallen, Switzerland
Wounded Place: RadJoy Philosophy

Carla Planzer This year my husband, my two granddaughters, our dog and me celebrated the Earth Exchange Day in the little valley called Golddachtobel near Speicher (St.Gallen / East of Switzerland). We started our way …

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Murphy

Ticknock Wood

Date: June 22, 2013
Author: Fiona Murphy & Ann Dillon
Location:
Wounded Place: Natural disasters

Ann and I attach a picture of the Radical Joy bird that we built in Ticknock Woods in the Dublin Mountains in Dublin Ireland. Recently a combination of dry weather and winds have resulted in …

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Meyer

Ulmiz

Date: June 22, 2013
Author: Yvonne Meyer
Location: Ulmiz, Switzerland
Wounded Place: Trees

Etwas spät schicke ich dir nun noch die 3 besten Fotos von meinem Global Earth Exchange Day in Ulmiz. Ich besuchte ein Waldstück im nahen Wald, wo die Bäume radikal abgeholzt wurden. Es tut mir …

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Lock Picos

Mountains

Date: June 22, 2013
Author: Harriet Lock
Location: Picos Mountains, Spain
Wounded Place: Mineral extraction | Toxicity

I was on a scientific field trip, collecting data from plant species living in a beautiful, remote upland valley that had once been mined for manganese. There was a lot of manganese contamination still in …

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Lichtenfels

Painting the deforested and restored landscape

Date: June 22, 2013
Author: Sabine Lichtenfels & Leila Dregger
Location: Tamera, Colos, Portugal
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

During our ‘Love School Seminar’ we spent the whole Saturday on the art mountain in the name of radical joy. You see the landscape in the area around, destroyed by monocultures and deforestation and desertification. …

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Hopf

Littered beaches

Date: June 22, 2013
Author: Noemi Hopf
Location: Iraklion, Crete
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers | Waste

We had to change our plans a little bit… But we created just before living a nice ritual on the beach we stayed at (Livadi Beach, Iraklia, Greece), representative for all the littered beaches we …

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Hayes

Tears shed by therapy clients

Date: June 22, 2013
Author: Claire Hayes
Location: Dublin, Ireland
Wounded Place: Personal

Once upon a time there were tissues that were used to soak up tears of sadness and snots of rage. Then they were thrown into a plastic bag. Then hope appeared—hope which offered to transform …

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Barnum

Canal St. Martin

Date: June 22, 2013
Author: Sue Barnum & Jane Messinger
Location: Paris, France
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers | Waste

Act of Beauty: Jane and I had visited the Musée d’Orsay earlier in the week and had seen a painting of the Canal St Martin. I commented that I wondered what it looked like today. …

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Mitchell

Jack Madigan Reserve—subsidence & contamination

Date: June 22, 2013
Author: Jenny Mitchell
Location: Victoria, NSW, Australia
Wounded Place: Historic & Cultural Sites | Industry & Development | Toxicity

Transition Hobsons Bay had a very successful Global Earth Exchange gathering at the Jack Madigan Reserve in Newport, Victoria, Australia on 22 June. We advertised the event through local newspapers, distributing 700 leaflets and questionnaires, …

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Albrecht

Dead Canning River

Date: June 22, 2013
Author: Glenn Albrecht
Location: Perth, Western Australia
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers | Toxicity

We went to the Canning River at Wilson, a place near Perth, Western Australia and I crafted a bird from the detritus washed up at the river high water mark. It was mostly just twigs …

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Reeler

The wounded feminine in Zimbabwe

Date: June 22, 2013
Author: Bev Reeler
Location: Harare, Zimbabwe
Wounded Place: Other

6 Wed Witches us gathered out in the garden. We had decided that our Zimbabwe could be seen as a wounded place. Our intention was to join you all but to bring the feminine back …

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Madhlophe 2013

5,000-year-old village

Date: June 22, 2013
Author: Dumisami “Scotch” Madhlophe
Location: Tlholego, South Africa
Wounded Place: Historic & Cultural Sites

I recently have been doing some history gathering on one of the old first mine spaces for our local youth awareness…& local tourism research. All that is left is the fake gold sand mountains. The …

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Bowden

Inhaling the rock-mining gash…

Date: June 22, 2013
Author: Joyce Bowden
Location: Hillsborough, NC
Wounded Place: Mineral extraction

“Inhaling the rock-mining gash into Ocanochee Mountain, I am lifted up in earth song in Hillsborough, NC”  

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Blackburn

Housing development, gas fracking

Date: June 22, 2013
Author: Judith Blackburn
Location: Erie, CO
Wounded Place: Industry & Development | Mineral extraction

My friend Shelley and I went to a fracking site just west of a housing development in Erie, CO, and offered prayers for healing the earth and the people nearby and then created our bird. …

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Albury

Possible first tar sands site in the U.S.

Date: June 22, 2013
Author: Kathy Albury
Location: Tavaput Plateau, Book Cliffs, Utah
Wounded Place: Mineral extraction

Here are some pictures of our (Peaceful Uprising, Utah Tar Sands Resistance, 1st Unitarian Church of Salt Lake City) Family Camp Out at PR Springs, site of what will (hopefully NOT) be the first tar …

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Lipscomb

Sea Turtles

Date: June 22, 2013
Author: Simone Lipscomb
Location: Alabama
Wounded Place: Animals + Birds + Insects

We had a small gathering and we met at our section of beach in Alabama…where we monitor and support nesting loggerhead sea turtles. We made a sea turtle and after finishing the clouds looked like …

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Kusiak

Glen Canyon Dam & coal power plant

Date: June 22, 2013
Author: John Kusiak
Location: Page, Arizona
Wounded Place: Industry & Development

Your event appears to have been a big success; I looked at some of the great pictures on your site. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to organize the music event we had discussed doing on the …

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Harmony

Birds & Trees

Date: June 22, 2013
Author: Barbara Harmony & Frances Russell
Location: Eureka Springs, Arkansas
Wounded Place: Animals + Birds + Insects

Birds & Trees Recognized by Trees Beautiful White Oak Cut down Six seat-size sections Shells & crystals at base Bronze peacock standing tall Six lit candles on six tables Brighter as night grows darker Slight …

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Harris

A Spiritual Narrative for the 21st Century Conference

Date: June 22, 2013
Author: Grove Harris & Sister Joan Kirby
Location: New York, NY
Wounded Place: Other | RadJoy Philosophy

As part of the conference, A Spiritual Narrative for the 21st Century: Becoming a Sacred Earth Community organized by the Contemplative Alliance, a Program of the Global Peace Initiative of Women, the Temple of Understanding …

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Wigram

Long Crag

Date: June 22, 2013
Author: Bill & Clare Wigram
Location: Scotland
Wounded Place: Other

Clare works on a Saturday, but we did a long walk last Sunday through places where few people go, other than forestry workers and their machines. We found three separate areas of devastation on our …

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Rangki A

Public garden & nature sanctuary at old site of dump

Date: June 22, 2013
Author: Anak Agung Detra Rangki
Location: Abianbase, Bali
Wounded Place: RadJoy Philosophy | Waste

A traditional Balinese ceremony for land that Anak Agung Detra Rankgi transformed from a dump to a sanctuary and a garden of native plants.

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Pranschke Group

Tree Cut Down

Date: June 22, 2013
Author: Paulita Pranschke
Location: St, Louis, MO
Wounded Place: Trees

Rebecca and Lee joined me. Our event took place in St. Louis at my home where I’d had to have a beloved tree cut down and now the stump has to be removed too. We …

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Lepori

Dolphins

Date: June 22, 2013
Author: Cyndie Lepori
Location: Fairhope, Alabama
Wounded Place: Animals + Birds + Insects

Attached are the photos from the Radical Joy Beach Activation for Mobile Bay, held at Fairhope, AL at the dock. About 6 of us were there ( Plus pretty Kisses the purple) with over 100 …

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Gillotti

Writers Brook

Date: June 22, 2013
Author: Susan Gillotti
Location: Norwich, VT
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers | Personal

Susan Gillotti For the first global earth exchange, I went to my favorite spot along a quiet brook. I had a favorite stone on which to sit, at the water’s edge, and I often put …

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Goldberg

Hearth and Home at Casa Goldberg

Date: June 22, 2013
Author: Martin Goldberg
Location: Gainesville, FL
Wounded Place: Personal

A family event after a hard year

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Firman

An Ozark Creek in Southern Missouri

Date: June 22, 2013
Author: Sara Firman
Location: Shannon County, MO
Wounded Place: Other

My exchange on the day was solitary and at a still-necessary distance in the end but it felt important, simple and beautiful all the same. Others knew of it. And I feel certain the place …

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Robinson

Compassion for the Ducks

Date: June 22, 2013
Author: Jacqueline Robinson
Location: France
Wounded Place: Animals + Birds + Insects

We live in the heart of a foie gras region. We are celebrating the summer solstice in our medicine wheel, by building a duck out of wood and feathers to celebrate the lives of the …

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Lilvingstonecopy

Honoring all Oceans of the Earth

Date: June 22, 2013
Author: Lisa Chipkin & Aninha Livingston
Location: Salt Point State Park, Jenner, California
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

Children Embody RadJoy Bird at Ocean’s Edge Our focus for the Global Earth Exchange over the past two years has been on the vanishing bees. While we had set out with an intention to honor …

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Aftergut

Disappearing glaciers

Date: June 22, 2013
Author: Judith Aftergut
Location: Gustavus, Alaska
Wounded Place: Climate change

We didn’t manage to get the people and our bird (a crane) and the setting all in one picture, but this series covers it. We’re on a beach overlooking Icy Strait in Gustavus AK just …

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Waterman

The city of Carlisle

Date: June 22, 2013
Author: Benet Waterman
Location: Carlisle, Cumbria, England, UK
Wounded Place: Historic & Cultural Sites

Benet Waterman Carlisle, Cumbria, England, UK   Alizon, Carol, Eleanor and I met at eleven o’clock on the morning of Saturday June 22nd by the Curse Stone here in Carlisle. This magnificently artistic highly-polished granite …

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Koch Child

Muizenberg Beach

Date: June 22, 2013
Author: Di Koch
Location: Muizenberg Beach, Cape Town, South Africa
Wounded Place: Historic & Cultural Sites | War & Violence | Waste

On Saturday at 12:00 in Cape Town, South Africa… a group of us gathered at the Alive cafe: creative experience Hub in Muizenberg. We shared stories of the area, some from decades, even hundreds of …

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5,000-year-old village

Date: June 22, 2013
Author: Scotch Madhlophe
Location: Thlolego Village, South Africa

I recently have been doing some history gathering on one of the old first mine spaces for our local youth awareness…& local tourism research. All that is left is the fake gold sand mountains. The …

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Kamlott

Rehburg-Loccum

Date: June 15, 2013
Author: Susanne and Laura Kamlott
Location: Rehburg-Loccum, Germany
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers | Waste

Our place was once again the lake at Rehburg-Loccum. First we collected the garbage and them sent a bird into the sky. This year there was a lot less garbage around the lake than before. …

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Sorin

For the Hayarkon River and the Young Woman Who Almost Drowned in It

Date: June 1, 2013
Author: Fran Sorin
Location: Hayarkon River in Tel Aviv, Israel
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

We chose the Hayarkon River as a wounded place for 2 reasons. First, it has gone through periods where it has been extremely polluted and toxic. The second reason is because of its relationship to …

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Sorin

For the Hayarkon River and the Young Woman Who Almost Drowned in It

Date: June 1, 2013
Author: Fran Sorin
Location: HaYarkon River - Tel Aviv, Israel
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

We chose the Hayarkon River as a wounded place for 2 reasons. First, it has gone through periods where it has been extremely polluted and toxic. The second reason is because of its relationship to …

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Sea Turtles

Date: June 1, 2013
Author: Simone Lipscomb
Location: West Beach, Gulf Shores, Alabama
Wounded Place: Animals + Birds + Insects | Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

We had a small gathering and we met at our section of beach in Alabama… where we monitor and support nesting loggerhead sea turtles.

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Roberts

Twin Lakes housing development

Date: June 23, 2012
Author: Ann Roberts
Location: Bedford, NY
Wounded Place: Industry & Development

Because of heavy rains, the first part of the scheduled Earth Exchange was held indoors, at Ann’s house. First, Ann made a map on the rug of the land that she and other members of …

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Steele

Survivors of the Bosnian War in Sarajevo

Date: June 23, 2012
Author: Wendy Steele
Location: Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina
Wounded Place: Personal | War & Violence

I have been working in a team with survivors of concentration camps, torture, beatings, multiple rapes. The people are so brave and so appreciative of our treatments, and when I think about it, what are …

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Meyer

Bern train station

Date: June 23, 2012
Author: Yvonne Meyer & Noemi Hopf
Location: Bahnhof, Bern, Switzerland
Wounded Place: Other

Noemi and I did our Global Earth Exchange at the main train station in Bern, in an abandoned, neglected area where there were three warning signs to scare people away. We observed that the place …

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Sandison

Dusa River

Date: June 23, 2012
Author: Kerry Sandison
Location: Dusa River, Cape Town, South Africa
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

For us here at the southern tip of Africa it was a cold day with grey skies, and a chilly wind, but the rain that had fallen in the night and morning held off. About …

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Medina

Prayers for water sources

Date: June 23, 2012
Author: Ana Maria Medina
Location: Anolaima, Colombia
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers | Waste

El 23 de junio, nos reunimos la familia, los amigos y conocidos y realizamos una oración colectiva por la Quebrada Chiniata, en Anolaima-Cundinamarca. Muchos de nuestros rios están contaminados con quimicos y residuos sólidos. Chiniata …

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Ghera

Desalination

Date: June 23, 2012
Author: Yael Hartong Ghera
Location: Ga'ash, Israel
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers | Other

Yesterday at the beach of Ga’ash-Israel (20 kilometers north of Tel Aviv); friends and kids build on the beach the Radical Joy bird (together with a sculpture of mother earth) discussing afterwards the positive and …

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Albrecht GEX2012

Shoalwater Beach

Date: June 23, 2012
Author: Glenn Albrecht
Location: Rockingham, Western Australia
Wounded Place: Climate change | Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

I am a bit late with my contribution but it is of beach erosion in an area known as Shoalwater Beach near Rockingham in Western Australia. As sea level rises and storm surges become more …

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2012 RadJoyBird Logo

Ancient woodland destroyed for road construction

Date: June 23, 2012
Author: Ian Siddons Heginworth
Location: Devon, England
Wounded Place: Industry & Development | Trees

I told a story at a festival in Devon UK that led into an Earth Exchange in honour of the A30 nearby, a road made infamous by the road protests that preceded it which tried …

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Planzer

Forest

Date: June 23, 2012
Author: Carla Planzer
Location: Holderschwendi, Speicher, Switzerland
Wounded Place: Animals + Birds + Insects | Children's Events | Trees

Host(s): my 2 grandsons of 3 and 4 years, our dog, my husband (photograph) and me (Carla Planzer-Campell) We walked dressed with the special T-shirts to the described place with talking and a big curiosity, …

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Wilson, Dale

Divining Water: Wetlands damaged by a boating shop

Date: June 23, 2012
Author: Dale Temple Wilson
Location: Oquossoc, Maine, USA
Wounded Place: Animals + Birds + Insects | Industry & Development | Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

I was honored to participate, and by taking the time to do so, stood transfixed upon the cusp of inconvenience and the sacred. How easy it is to go about one’s busy-ness, routine or obligations, …

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Perry

North Branch Susquehanna Sunrise Celebration

Date: June 23, 2012
Author: Simona Perry
Location: Susquehanna River, PA
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

Participants: Simona Perry, Ernesto Brown, David Buck, Jim Wellington, Neil Patterson, Jr., Mary Butler, Barb Romanansky, Mae Miller, Joan Cashin, Dave Estep, Paula Mack It is necessary, then, to cultivate the habit of being grateful …

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Firman Copy

Creek choked with storm debris

Date: June 16, 2012
Author: Sara Firman
Location: Flat Rock Creek, Missouri, USA
Wounded Place: Trees

We had a wonderful time just as the sun came up “Honoring the Bones of our Trees” here at Flat Rock Creek in Missouri. We made the bird from feathers gathered in the days before …

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Daucus

Old homestead

Date: June 16, 2012
Author: Sasha Daucus
Location: Moody, Missouri, USA
Wounded Place: Personal

Here are a few photos of the ritual we did on Saturday in the Missouri Ozarks. We did a ritual on Saturday at an old house site in the Missouri Ozarks. Family conflicts and extreme …

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Friedmann

Lake Michigan

Date: June 16, 2012
Author: Andrea Friedmann
Location: Chicago, IL
Wounded Place: Children's Events | Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

From Andrea’s blog: The kids and I go to the lake in the morning. It stretches, vast and shining, beyond the horizon. I am overcome with its stillness and quiet. And yet, it’s waters are …

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Horton

Pritchard’s Park

Date: June 16, 2012
Author: Hope Horton
Location: Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
Wounded Place: Trees

To be is to be related, for relationship is the essence of existence …Nothing is itself without everything else. –The Universe Story, Brian Swimme & Thomas Berry, p. 77 Nothing says “summer” like a goldfinch. …

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Wadsworth

Development site—nature destroyed, now place neglected

Date: June 16, 2012
Author: Lynn Wadsworth
Location: Ashville, North Carolina, USA
Wounded Place: Personal | RadJoy Philosophy

2 dear friends, Dona Menz and Sally Jenkins, joined me today in honoring global earth exchange day. We went to a spot just outside of Asheville, NC. It is a 3,000-acre piece of land that …

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Antietam Battlefield

Date: June 16, 2012
Author: Jay Stearns
Location: Sharpsburg, Maryland, USA
Wounded Place: Historic & Cultural Sites

Grave markers on the Antietam Battlefield and at Gettysburg tell of the brevity of life…soldiers often dead at 18, 19 20 years of age. Lives snuffed out…ended, and left with the unspoken request to Earth, …

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Lipscomb

Sea turtles

Date: June 16, 2012
Author: Simone Lipscomb
Location: Gulf Shores, Alabama, USA
Wounded Place: Animals + Birds + Insects

I did a walk at the Gulf….I’ve been picking up lots and lots of trash each time I have sea turtle patrol duty and that day I didn’t have patrol duty so simply took the …

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Kleinschmidt

BP oil spill and sea turtles

Date: June 16, 2012
Author: Valerie Kleinschmidt
Location: Dauphin Island, Alabama, USA
Wounded Place: Animals + Birds + Insects | Waste

I participated in an Earth Exchange on Dauphin Island, Alabama, which is located on Mobile Bay and in the Gulf of Mexico. A major research facility is there, the Dauphin Island Sea Lab, and they …

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Todd

Clearcut woodland

Date: June 16, 2012
Author: Judy Todd with Julie Zenterra, Jan Shannon, Judith Aftergut and friends
Location: Beavercreek, OR
Wounded Place: Trees

Julie Zenerrra: Our group met at a clear cut forest in the Pacific Northwest in Beavercreek, OR to bear witness to the damage done to the land there. Ten of us met on a tract …

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Quiseng

Damaged geodesic dome nursery

Date: June 16, 2012
Author: Christopher Quiseng
Location: Fern Forest, Hawaii, USA
Wounded Place: Natural disasters | Plants

If a barn burns down, people used to show up on their own accord to work together to repair it. I thought about that in relation to one of my situations. About two weeks ago …

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Elliston

Landfill

Date: June 16, 2012
Author: Zoe Ellison
Location: Trinidad, CO
Wounded Place: Waste

I did my earth exchange at the landfill a few miles from my house. Here the landfill has many things that are recyclable and it is a place no one cares to visit. I was …

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Meltzer

Forests harmed by drought, fire, and pine beetle

Date: June 16, 2012
Author: Rob Meltzer
Location: Steamboat, Colorado, USA
Wounded Place: Natural disasters | Personal | Trees

As you probably know, there are currently over a dozen forest fires burning here in the state of Colorado. Many thousands of people are evacuated and several hundreds of homes have burned. My close friends …

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Lands devastated by wildfire

Date: June 16, 2012
Author: Marla Ferguson
Location: Palisade, CO
Wounded Place: Natural disasters

I was in Ridgeway this weekend for a spiritual workshop. As I was journaling on Sunday morning, watching the heavy smoke from the fires further south drift in and cover the mountains, I thought of …

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Blackburn

Land endangered by hydrofracking 

Date: June 16, 2012
Author: Julia Blackburn
Location: Longmont, CO
Wounded Place: Mineral extraction

My friend Shelley and I invited one of the families most impacted by proposed hydraulic fracturing wells to join us at Union Reservoir, which is a recreational area east of our city. Chris, Sheila, and …

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Hess

Water level rising, endangered tiger beetles

Date: June 16, 2012
Author: Annie & Elvin Hess + Wendy, Thia, Matt
Location: Savage Neck, Virginia, USA
Wounded Place: Animals + Birds + Insects | Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

We had a beautiful day to be at Savage Neck. We made the RadJoy bird out of the shell of a large washed up horseshoe crab, seaweed, shells, a stray watermelon rind and a “Happy …

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Staman

Blackwater Creek

Date: June 16, 2012
Author: Laura Staman & Margie Vaughn
Location: Lynchburg, VA
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers | Waste

We did our exchange at Blackwater Creek in Lynchburg, Virginia. The beautiful creek has pollution in it from run-off from the city. When it rains hard our sewers overflow into it, though the city is …

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Shahar

House with toxic mold

Date: June 16, 2012
Author: Yona Shahar
Location: Montpelier, VT
Wounded Place: Other | Waste

I went to a workshop with Fran Weinbaum on “Radical Joy for Hard Times” at the Village Building Convergence outside of Brookfield, VT recently. She encouraged us to make an object from the natural materials …

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Weinbaum

Workshop

Date: June 16, 2012
Author: Fran Weinbaum
Location: Brookfield, Vermont, USA
Wounded Place: RadJoy Philosophy

I offered a Radical Joy for Hard Times workshop at the Village Building Convergence in Brookfield Vermont. We did a guided meditation to meet with a wounded place that we each knew and could visit …

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Strickland Erie, CO Umbrella & Gas

Natural gas holding tanks

Date: June 16, 2012
Author: Christi Strickland
Location: Erie, CO
Wounded Place: Mineral extraction

It was a 100 degree day. The four of us went into the blazing sun to sit with the tanks on parched land. I love the picture of the rainbow umbrella on the parched land. …

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Monroe

Laguna de Santa Rosa and the Pacific Ocean

Date: June 16, 2012
Author: Dianne Monroe
Location:
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

About 15 people gathered at the Laguna de Santa Rosa to co-create a Ceremony Offering Acts of Beauty to the Wounded Waters of our World. The Laguna, was once a lush forest area, reduced to …

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Chipkin

Neglected garden

Date: June 16, 2012
Author: Lisa Chipkin
Location: San Rafael, California, USA
Wounded Place: Animals + Birds + Insects

No bird art, here, but I’ve attached a photo of me sitting in the garden I planted over the last year to enliven what was a dead, weedy patch of lawn for the last ten …

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Pearce

Halaco Plant and Ormond Beach Wetlands

Date: June 16, 2012
Author: Farion & Kent Pearce with David Lutz
Location: Oxnard, California. USA
Wounded Place: Waste

Here are some pics from our RadJoy event at Ormond Beach/Halaco site in Oxnard, CA. We saw nature “re-taking” the waste site, so we incorporated the weed as a symbol of that…. We sang the …

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Keyworth

Catalina Mountains

Date: June 16, 2012
Author: Reeves Keyworth
Location: Tucson, Arizona
Wounded Place: Waste

Cleaned up litter at a campfire/picnicking area in the Catalina Mountains. My site was a clearing in a pine forest on top of the Catalina Mountains which are part of the Coronado National Forest. The …

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2012 RadJoyBird Copy 2

Bullwacker Hill/development

Date: June 16, 2012
Author: Tracy Puett
Location: Prescott, Arizona, USA
Wounded Place: Historic & Cultural Sites | Industry & Development

Prior to commercial development, Bullwhacker Hill was mainly an undeveloped large land mass with an old abandoned mine. Partly on the Yavapai Reservation, the hill (really a series of hills) afforded expansive views as you …

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Mahoney

Chiricahua Mountains | Drought-stricken land

Date: June 16, 2012
Author: James Mahoney & Elizabeth Fabry
Location: Cochise, Arizona, USA
Wounded Place: Climate change | Natural disasters

Herewith attached are a few photos for you to pick from, from Eliz and my observance of our wounded planet, and celebration of life. The photos are all from the Rucker Canyon divide in southeastern …

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Kotula

Mount Irenaeus Franciscan Retreat Center | Invasive plant species

Date: June 16, 2012
Author: Br. Joe Kotula
Location: West Clarksville, New York, USA
Wounded Place: Plants

We had a blessed time and our reflection helped us to see again our relationship with Mother Earth. Peace Br, Joe

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Slomer

Site of first well fracked in the county

Date: June 16, 2012
Author: Paula Slomer
Location: Butler County, Pennsylvania, USA
Wounded Place: Mineral extraction

On the way to the first well fracked we had a tour of the many places where they are drilling or plan on drilling.  We sang and my husband played his flute to honor this …

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Maniscalco

Former Nuclear Plant—Decommissioned

Date: June 16, 2012
Author: Pete Maniscalco and Sacred Shoreham
Location: Shoreham, NY
Wounded Place: Industry & Development | Mineral extraction

We had about 35 people in attendance. It was a very powerful ceremony on an extraordinarily beautiful evening.

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Douty

Garden

Date: June 16, 2012
Author: Marjie Douty and Michelle Czolba
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
Wounded Place: Industry & Development | Plants

We had five participants. Three adults, Marjie, Michelle, and Anne, Michelle’s 22 month old son Lorenzo and my two year old lab mix, Sunshine. We had a small ritual where we planted lettuce and spinach …

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Edgerly

Parking lot

Date: June 16, 2012
Author: Cathy Edgerly
Location: Beverly, MA
Wounded Place: Industry & Development | Trees

Your words of finding the place that “makes you sad” was resonating with me, and the poem on the Writer’s Almanac first thing Saturday morning was: When I Am Among the Tree by Mary Oliver …

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Hughes

Garden

Date: June 16, 2012
Author: Eugene Hughes
Location: Islington, London, England
Wounded Place: Plants

Beauty for the garden out back

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Constable

Crossbones

Date: June 16, 2012
Author: John Constable
Location: Crossbones, London, England
Wounded Place: Historic & Cultural Sites

Crossbones is a remarkable restoration and tribute to the “Winchester Geese”, the sex workers of Medieval London. John Constable had a vision and “received” poems from one of the women and led a project to …

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Johnson, Trebbe

Sugar Creek—drained and poisoned by gas fracking

Date: June 16, 2012
Author: Trebbe Johnson and Andrew Gardner
Location: Towanda, PA
Wounded Place: Mineral extraction | Oceans + Lakes + Rivers | Waste

Participants in the ceremony: Trebbe Johnson, Andrew Gardner, Virginia Kellogg, Steven Filante Steven writes: I was really glad that we made the bird at the end of our time. We created an interesting and beautiful …

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Bartels

River Waal

Date: June 16, 2012
Author: Gonny Bartels Uit Nijmegen
Location: Nijmegen, Belgium
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

Gonny’s niece writes : After devoting her life to her family & the company Gonny and her husband set up, she already for a few years volunteers doing night-shifts with terminally ill patients/she is a …

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Babenko Kushnir

Trees and hills destroyed to build helicopter pads

Date: June 16, 2012
Author: Kateryna Babenko & Georgiy Kushnir 
Location: Kiev, Ukraine
Wounded Place: Industry & Development | Trees

We are not good bird makers, but we send the picture to you. We were in the park in the center of Kiev where there were destroyed a huge territory of the park. Cut all …

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Figel

healing

Date: June 16, 2012
Author: Silva Figel
Location: Hohenfels, Bodensee, Germany
Wounded Place: Animals + Birds + Insects | Industry & Development

In the morning, I was cutting high grass in the old way. The first cut this year. I like the stillness, the swing: active meditation. I felt peace. I tuned in with Global Earth Exchange …

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Murphy

Dublin Mountains

Date: June 16, 2012
Author: Fiona Murphy & Ann Dillon 
Location: Dublin, Ireland
Wounded Place: Industry & Development | Plants | Waste

This is an area in the Dublin Mountains where wild orchids flourished within the compound of a telecommunications aerial. Each year around this time we go there to marvel at their beauty. They are protected …

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Hayes

Neglected Home

Date: June 16, 2012
Author: Claire Hayes
Location: Dunshaughlin, Ireland
Wounded Place: Personal

The magic is working and has spread all the way to my most wounded place—the place where I live and which I am transforming into my home. I had two Australian girls saying with me …

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Trotter Copy

Melting glacier

Date: June 16, 2012
Author: Lisa Trotter & Claire von Handord
Location: Palmer Station, Antarctica
Wounded Place: Climate change

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Wszalek

Abandoned lot

Date: June 16, 2012
Author: Nancy Wszalek
Location: Ripon, WI
Wounded Place: Industry & Development | Waste

My wounded place is in Ripon, WI. It is a vacant lot where a gas station once stood.

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Johnson, Trebbe

Gas Fracking Woes

Date: June 16, 2012
Author: Trebbe Johnson
Location: Uniondale, PA
Wounded Place: Industry & Development | Mineral extraction

Since 2008 the gas fracking industry has been overtaking the quiet hills and lake communities of northeastern Pennsylvania, where I live. Wells and pipelines gouge deep into the Earth and slash woodlands. They burrow under …

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Ishwari

Planting to protect the Earth

Date: June 16, 2012
Author: Yudhi Ishwari and Nyoman Bagiarta
Location: Munduk, Bali, Indonesia
Wounded Place: Other | Plants

 Warmest greetings from Munduk Village – Kindly please find attached some images to join again in Global Earth Exchange. These pictures show a project with our coffee farmers again. We work with farmers in Munduk …

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Jasmin

My Radjoy bird

Date: June 16, 2012
Author: Beatrice Jasmin
Location: Petionville Haiti
Wounded Place: Children's Events | War & Violence

I am from Petionville Haiti My name is Beatrice Jasmin I really love the idea !

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Hurlburt

Old coal wharf, wounded beach

Date: June 16, 2012
Author: Cheryl Hurlburt
Location: Coal Hills Wharf, Union Bay, BC, Canada
Wounded Place: Mineral extraction | Waste

We had an amazing time, so meaningful and a great council circle about our time on the land. There were six of us. I have lots more pictures of barnacles growing on coal, a bush …

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Albrecht GEX2012

Beach erosion

Date: June 16, 2012
Author: Glenn Albrecht
Location: Shoalwater Beach, Rockingham, Western Australia
Wounded Place: Climate change | Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

My photo shows beach erosion in an area known as Shoalwater Beach near Rockingham in Western Australia. As sea level rises and storm surges become more powerful, the coast line is retreating inland and as …

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2012 RadJoyBird Copy

Bees

Date: June 16, 2012
Author: Paul Fearon
Location: County Cork, Ireland
Wounded Place: Animals + Birds + Insects

Today had been on my radar then I forgot. But while gardening I hit steel and some time later I pulled an old back boiler from the earth a large piece of steel that was …

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Stewart

Wounded rabbit hit by car, found on way to intended place

Date: June 16, 2012
Author: Jackie Stewart
Location: Belmont, Lancashire, England
Wounded Place: Animals + Birds + Insects

About 5 minutes away from the place we’d chosen, Jason stopped the car. A wounded rabbit was trying to drag itself off the road; the victim of a car travelling too fast on country roads. …

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Jeannot

Making Birds with Children

Date: June 16, 2012
Author: Lissa Jeannot
Location: Jacmel, Haiti
Wounded Place: Children's Events | Other | War & Violence | Waste

“All of Haiti is a wounded place, but we have hope.”

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Enomoto Group

Tohoku victims of earthquake, tsunami & nuclear disaster

Date: June 16, 2012
Author: Hide Enomoto
Location: Tohoku, Japan
Wounded Place: Mineral extraction | Natural disasters

I want to make beauty for the people in the Tohoku region who were hurt in the tsunami-earthquake-nuclear disaster last year, to pray for their peace of mind and for their unwillingness to give up …

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Sorin

Polluted Hayarkon River & young woman who almost drowned in it

Date: June 16, 2012
Author: Fran Sorin
Location: Tel Aviv, Israel
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers | Personal

We chose the Hayarkon River as a wounded place for 2 reasons. First, it has gone through periods where it has been extremely polluted and toxic. The second reason is because of its relationship to …

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Radical Joy For Hard Times Stories FriedmannBIRD

Lake Michigan Earth Exchange by Children

Date: June 1, 2012
Author: Andrea Friedman
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

The kids and I go to the lake in the morning. It stretches, vast and shining, beyond the horizon. I am overcome with its stillness and quiet. And yet, it’s waters are in constant, rhythmic …

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Radical Joy For Hard Times Stories Meltzer

For Forests Harmed by Drought, Fire, and Pine Beetle

Date: June 1, 2012
Author: Rob Meltzer
Location: Steamboat, Colorado
Wounded Place: Animals + Birds + Insects | Natural disasters | Plants | Trees

As you probably know, there are currently over a dozen forest fires burning here in the state of Colorado. Many thousands of people are evacuated and several hundreds of homes have burned. My close friends …

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Radical Joy For Hard Times Stories Osaka

Remembering Victims of the Tsunami

Date: June 1, 2012
Author: Hide Enomoto
Location: Tohoku region near Kyoto, Japan
Wounded Place: Industry & Development | Natural disasters

I want to make beauty for the people in the Tohoku region who were hurt in the tsunami-earthquake-nuclear disaster last year, to pray for their peace of mind and for their unwillingness to give up …

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Sickafoose

Albany Bulb

Date: June 18, 2011
Author: Munro Sickafoose
Location: Richmond, CA
Wounded Place: Waste

That bird painting was already there! Cool, huh! It’s at the Albany Bulb… and old landfill in the Bay. Home to guerilla art, wildlife, and many homeless. A wild zone

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Lepori Lighter

Dolphins

Date: June 18, 2011
Author: Cyndie Lepori
Location: Navarre Beach, Florida, USA
Wounded Place: Animals + Birds + Insects

Although we did not do our ceremony on the 18th, Here are the Photos we took at Navarre. Have more photos on Facebook. Ours was done on the 6th and the energy was done for …

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Stearns2

Family Reunion

Date: June 18, 2011
Author: Jay Stearns
Location: Deep Creek Lake, MD
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers | Personal

Well, here’s my story with some pictures. Probably seems strange indeed to behold all of what follows as being in the name of Global Earth Exchange. The date fell on a long-established weekend for my …

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Regennas

Little Torch Key

Date: June 18, 2011
Author: Charlotte Regennas
Location: Little Torch Key, FL
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers | Plants | Waste

Just three women, together, in the Florida Keys, sitting out on the dock on Little Torch Key. A fourth flower would flutter in and make her exit but we passed the stick and told our …

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Planzer

Endangered elm trees | Our last elm in Speicher 

Date: June 18, 2011
Author: Carla & Sepp Planzer-Campbell
Location: Speicher, Switzerland
Wounded Place: Trees

Act of Beauty: We surrounded the elm (inner circles and outer circles), hummed a song and hugged her. Our dog accompanied us with his barking. We sat in her roots and enjoyed the view to …

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Monroe 2011

Blue Hole, San Antonio River, Gulf of Mexico

Date: June 18, 2011
Author: Dianne Monroe
Location: San Antonio, TX
Wounded Place: Mineral extraction | Waste

Wounded Place: Blue Hole, for wounded waters of the Aquifer and Gulf of Mexico Act of Beauty:  20 people gathered at the Blue Hole, a spring considered sacred by native and other people, where water …

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Nebeker Heart

Land Around Salt Lake City

Date: June 18, 2011
Author: Kinde Nebeker
Location: Salt Lake City, UT
Wounded Place: Industry & Development | Waste

This was a block in the Sugarhouse area of Salt Lake City where a fight between the community and developers had raged for quite some time. They tore down the old one-story storefront buildings and …

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Murphy

Prayer for the Earth

Date: June 18, 2011
Author: Fiona Murphy and Ann Dillon
Location: Sorrento, Italy
Wounded Place: Other | RadJoy Philosophy

We took this picture of the Dawn of this important day. Mount Vesuvius is in the background. We prayed for this earth and this day and thought of you and radical joy events around the …

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Lock

Roadway over historic and wild land

Date: June 18, 2011
Author: Harriet Lock
Location: Carlisle, Cumbria, England, UK
Wounded Place: Historic & Cultural Sites | Industry & Development

Here’s the link to the facebook album of pics, please use which ones you want. http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150207242862032.312892.685332031&l=75437e31a3 Here’s the description of the day… The new road crosses the River Eden near to its mouth, as it …

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TimmsRJ2

The Pollution of Air Travel

Date: June 18, 2011
Author: Henry Timms
Location: International Airport, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Wounded Place: Other | Waste

RadJoy Birds made in Rio International Airport and Heathrow out of rubbish found in the airports

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2012 RadJoyBird Copy

Johnson Creek

Date: June 18, 2011
Author: Judy Todd & Jan Shannon
Location: Johnson Creek, Portland, OR
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers | Plants | Trees

In the Pacific northwest bioregion, a watershed area of the Willamette River, which flows into the Columbia River and on to the Pacific Ocean. Walk along the riverway, observing wildlife, birds, collecting trash. We stopped …

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Wilkinson

Nuclear Power Plant

Date: June 18, 2011
Author: Vandy Wilkinson
Location: Shiuzoku Prefecture, Japan
Wounded Place: Industry & Development | Waste

Where do you propose holding your Earth Exchange? The nuclear plant by the Pacific Ocean, the Hamaoka Power Plant, in Shiuzoka Prefecture and quite near us, has been in the news. Which nuclear power plant …

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Krauss

Littered beach

Date: June 18, 2011
Author: Bette Lu Krauss
Location: Ocean Beach, Washington, USA
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

My time at home was wild and way too busy with the gallery—I’m back in Alaska now and here’s what I did to experience some radical joy. The Saturday night was rainy and blowing hard …

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Kotzé

Endangered Queñua trees

Date: June 18, 2011
Author: Hilda Kotzee
Location: Altiplano, La Paz, Bolivia
Wounded Place: Trees

For a place of healing we chose trees on the Altiplano in the Andes. Sadly, here trees have been chopped down in the last year. After making many paper birds, we stood beside the biggest …

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Kotula

Trash dumped on Franciscan retreat land

Date: June 18, 2011
Author: Br. Joe Kotula
Location: West Clarksville, NY
Wounded Place: Waste

Franciscan Retreat Center—removal of trash (Photo, no report)

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Kamlott

Trash at lake

Date: June 18, 2011
Author: Susanne and Laura Kamlott
Location: Rehburg-Luccum, Germany
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers | Waste

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Hewson

River Quaggy

Date: June 18, 2011
Author: Federico Hewson
Location: Lewisham, London, England, UK
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

Here is the photo album—https://picasaweb.google.com/geminirise/GlobalEarthExchangeLewishamLondon?locked=true#  A small group of us went to the Ravensbourne river—part of the Quaggy clean-up action in South London—the Ravensbourne meets the Quaggy where the picture of the bird is in …

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Hess

Phragmites

Date: June 18, 2011
Author: Annie Hess
Location: Cobb Island, VA
Wounded Place: Plants

We had a spontaneous Earth Exchange with Elan and two young cousins who were visiting. I told the kids what an Earth Exchange was and how we have always tried using phragmites in a creative …

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Gillotti

Writer’s Brook

Date: June 18, 2011
Author: Susan Gillotti
Location: Windsor, VT
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers | Personal

In our village there’s a path that leads to a running brook. There’s not a house in sight. I go there after a day of writing. I take off my sandals, slip my feet into …

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Gardner

Nameless, littered beach

Date: June 18, 2011
Author: Cara Gardner
Location:
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers | Waste

Here are my images from the event.  The first bird was made mostly of plastic bottle tops I found on the beach. You can see that it is laying on a lot of shells because …

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Edgerly

West Beach littered with sewage discs

Date: June 18, 2011
Author: Cathy Edgerly
Location: Beverly Farms, Massachusetts, USA
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers | Waste

I went to make a bird to celebrate the renewed “clean” of my beach after the sewage spill. What was most beautiful of all were the gull footprint and that of the toddler. PURE JOY!

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Burgess 2011

Shearon-Harris Nuclear Planet

Date: June 18, 2011
Author: Joanna Burgess
Location: New Hill, NC
Wounded Place: Waste

The second picture is my act of beauty at the Shearon Harris Nuclear plant – it is a little dark.  The first picture was a surprise – as the sun was setting Ross took this and we discovered …

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Beck

Indian Mound (places we miss and can no longer visit)

Date: June 18, 2011
Author: Mike. Beck & Rusty Gasparian
Location: Walton, FL
Wounded Place: Historic & Cultural Sites

The Emerald Coast 2011 Global Earth Exchange was conducted by special access to the top of the Ft Walton Indian Temple Mound, a National Historic Landmark located in center of the small coastal village in …

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Ishwari

Tamblang Sacred Mountain Spring

Date: June 18, 2011
Author: Nyoman Bagiarti
Location: Munduk, Bali, Indonesia
Wounded Place: Climate change | Industry & Development | Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

Development and climate change are drying up hundreds of Bali’s rivers and streams. This was a traditional ceremony in honor of the waters.

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Van Ord

Wyman Park

Date: June 18, 2011
Author: Autumn Van Ord and Lisa McCall
Location: Wyman Park, Baltimore, MD
Wounded Place: Waste

Just to let you know that four of us met at 9 AM at Wyman Park in Baltimore for the Global Earth Exchange. All of us are somewhat technologically challenged—not a watch or a cell …

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2012 RadJoyBird Copy

Johnson Creek

Date: June 18, 2011
Author: Judy Todd & Jan Shannon
Location: Johnson Creek, Portland, OR
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

In the Pacific northwest bioregion, a watershed area of the Willamette River, which flows into the Columbia River and on to the Pacific Ocean. Walk along the riverway, observing wildlife, birds, collecting trash. We stopped …

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Wilhoit Horiz

Old Indian Cedar Bog | Clear-cut forest

Date: June 18, 2011
Author: Jennifer Wilhoit & Larry Hobbs
Location: Roslyn, WA
Wounded Place: Industry & Development | Trees

Act of Beauty: We created a bird image from bog grasses and a wild strawberry flower (for the eye), atop an old cedar stump. Experience Larry: Saw the tenacity of life; the place was cut, …

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Meyer

Autobahn-Bridge over the valley from 3205 Gümmenen

Date: June 18, 2011
Author: Yvonne Meyer & Jan Schnurrbusch 
Location: Ulmiz, Switzerland
Wounded Place: Industry & Development

Act of Beauty: We created a sacred “Altar” with stones from the place, a rose from the heart-talkingstaff-circle we lead and a incense from India. Then the sky showed us the Beauty immediately: a rainbow! …

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Friedmann

Chicago River

Date: June 18, 2011
Author: Andrea Friedman
Location: Chicago, IL
Wounded Place: Children's Events | Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

I hope your Exchange went as well as ours did! We had the loveliest weather we’ve had so far this season, with lots of kids, as you saw. The kids had a long conversation, using …

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CzolbaM

Monongahela River

Date: June 18, 2011
Author: Michelle Czolba
Location: South Side Park, Pittsburgh, PA
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

Act of Beauty: Song ‘The Earth is Our Mother’ and a naked baby in the river! Notes about the Experience (What participants said, what they experienced, any difference you noticed about the place at the …

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Dancer2

Columbia Gorge | Permanent installation of Wheel for Toxic Man

Date: June 18, 2011
Author: Daniel Dancer
Location: Mosier, OR
Wounded Place: Industry & Development | Oceans + Lakes + Rivers | Waste

To honor and celebrate the persistent beauty of the Columbia River Gorge in spite of dams, deforestation, development, decimation of native species, upstream nuclear waste at Hanford, etc . . . I recreated with my …

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2014 Logo (original)

Medicinal plants

Date: June 18, 2011
Author: Barbara Bitondo
Location: Milwaukee, WI
Wounded Place: Plants

As it turns out the GEx in Wisconsin was nothing like I imagined or hoped it would be but rich for me nonetheless. I feel sad that I did not have my camera that day …

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2012 RadJoyBird Copy

Home where meth lab had operated

Date: June 18, 2011
Author: Anne-Marie Corie
Location: Boulder, CO
Wounded Place: Other

It was a small private affair because we ended up having a last minute house guest. I spent time in my yard giving thanks to all the beings who make this place home, the plants, …

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Curott(A)

West Creek

Date: June 18, 2011
Author: Phyllis Curott
Location: New Suffolk, NY
Wounded Place: Animals + Birds + Insects | Industry & Development | Oceans + Lakes + Rivers | Waste

It was a very beautiful ceremony—I kayaked out onto the estuary, and beneath the osprey’s nest (their recovery after near extinction is a story of hope fulfilled by care and action) poured clean waters from …

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Sarno

Gentle Waters, Wild Earth

Date: June 18, 2011
Author: Wendy Sarno
Location: Steelville, Missouri
Wounded Place: Natural disasters

What an amazing and beautiful time we had along Crooked Creek in rural Missouri. We gathered at Pat Tohulske’s Elemental Earthcamp on Friday, setting up our tent sites between storms. Earthcamp is a magical place …

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Dancer

Permanent installation of Wheel for Toxic Man

Date: June 18, 2011
Author: Daniel Dancer
Location: Columbia Gorge, Hood River, Oregon, USA
Wounded Place: Animals + Birds + Insects | Industry & Development | Oceans + Lakes + Rivers | Waste

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Sarno

Mississippi River

Date: June 18, 2011
Author: Wendy Sarno
Location: Crooked Creek, Steelville, MO
Wounded Place: Natural disasters

What an amazing and beautiful time we had along Crooked Creek in rural Missouri. We gathered at Pat Tohulske’s Elemental Earthcamp (http://www.elementalearthcamp.com/Elemental_Earthcamp/ ) on Friday, setting up our tent sites between storms. Earthcamp is a …

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Royers

Bridge construction

Date: June 18, 2011
Author: Chris Royers
Location: Trotwood, Ohio
Wounded Place: Industry & Development

The green is all leaves from non-native invasives that are already starting to encroach!  

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OConnor

Oil leak on neighbor’s property, sign supporting gas drilling

Date: June 18, 2011
Author: Kai O'Connor
Location: Orson, PA
Wounded Place: Mineral extraction | Waste

This photo was taken in front of our next door neighbor’s house. The white paper towels were placed there by the oil company to soak up some of the 150 gallons of oil that had …

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Brown Altar 2011

Red Lily Pond

Date: June 18, 2011
Author: Steve and Alice Brown
Location: Craigville, Massachusetts, USA
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

It was a beautiful day in Craigville Massachusetts and about twenty-five people gathered on the edge of Red Lily Pond to talk about healing of the pond we all love, and to create a Radical …

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Keyworth

Urban Sprawl, Silverbell Road, and What I Want

Date: June 18, 2011
Author: Cynthia Keyworth
Location: Tucson, AZ
Wounded Place: Industry & Development

I was fortunate to grow up in Tucson in the 1950s, a world where there were many opportunities to be in nature—vast tracts of empty desert, uninhabited foothills and mountain ranges. My family had favorite …

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Hughes

Site of 2012 Olympics

Date: June 18, 2011
Author: Eugene Hughes
Location: London, England, UK
Wounded Place: Historic & Cultural Sites | Industry & Development

Just finished earth exchange at the site of the Olympics—where the woodlands were taken away. It was scary being there today / trying to cross highways. So went to the remaining piece of woodland beside …

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Ghera B

Tel Hashomer Hospital—Isolation Ward for Bone Marrow Transplants

Date: June 18, 2011
Author: Yael Hartong Ghera and Fran Sorin
Location: Tel Aviv, Israel
Wounded Place: Other | Personal

Act of Beauty: The patients in isolation rooms have absolutely no connection with nature, not even visually from their hospital room windows. Our goal is to paint murals on the outside terrace walls of nature …

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Gold

Sacred spring, Superfund site

Date: June 11, 2011
Author: Liz Gold
Location: Chimayó, New Mexico, USA
Wounded Place: Historic & Cultural Sites | Industry & Development | Natural disasters | Waste

As you know, one of several reasons we were doing the ceremony at the sacred spring in Chimayo was that the hillside around the spring burned last year. Well, on our way to do the …

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2010 Voodoo Experience Day 2

The Wild, Sad Beauty of Gulf Coast Rising

Date: October 30, 2010
Author: Radical Joy for Hard Times
Location: Gulf Coast Rising Event
Wounded Place: Animals + Birds + Insects | Industry & Development | Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

On Saturday, October 30, 2010, three months after the disastrous BP oil spill that had spewed 130 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico was finally stopped, Radical Joy for Hard Times presented …

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Weaver RadJoyAangel

Dane Beach (former Superfund site)

Date: June 19, 2010
Author: Iris Weaver
Location:
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers | Waste

I don’t why this beach was listed as having been on the Superfund site at some point. I went towards dusk, when there would be fewer people. I traced out the radical joy bird in …

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Wyss Hawaii Dolphins

Dolphins

Date: June 19, 2010
Author: Sabina Wyss
Location:
Wounded Place: Animals + Birds + Insects

Sabina Wyss Hawaii, USA Dolphins (Story told to Trebbe over the phone: they went out into the water on the Global Earth Exchange day, but so no dolphins. The following day wasn’t nearly so nice …

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Swanepoele

Matlapeng—place of stone

Date: June 19, 2010
Author: Leana Mmamarapelo Swanepoele
Location: Matlapeng, South Africa
Wounded Place: Personal | War & Violence

May GreatSpirit/GreatMystery Bless YOU ALL w/Love, Awe & Laughter, Leana Mmamarapelo

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Strickland Valmont

Valmont Coal Plant

Date: June 19, 2010
Author: Christi Strickland
Location: Valmont Coal Plant, Boulder, CO
Wounded Place: Mineral extraction

Wonderful gathering today and spent another hour answering questions for eager ecopsychology students interested in taking into their own communities! Excellent talk with a person involved in activism in her hometown of Detroit, MI that …

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Planzer

Kastenloch / Goldachtobel

Date: June 19, 2010
Author: Carla Planzer
Location: Kastenloch / Goldachtobel
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers | Waste

A wonderful little valley which provides the Lake of Constance with sweet water and which is polluted by „cleansed“ sewage water of different communities in the environment and electro smog.  Act of Beauty  I looked …

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Maniscalco—Shoreham & Pete

Shoreham (former) nuclear plant

Date: June 19, 2010
Author: Pete Maniscalco
Location: Shoreham, NY
Wounded Place: Industry & Development | Waste

We had 30 people participating. I hold our radical joy effort in my heart.

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Stine

Soda Mountain Wilderness

Date: June 19, 2010
Author: Anne Stine and Susan Schlosser
Location: Soda Mountain Wilderness, Ashland, OR
Wounded Place: Industry & Development | Trees

Here are some photos from our time together yesterday near the Soda Mountain Wilderness. We had a wonderful time sharing our prayers and intentions and sending lots of love to help heal our Beloved Mother …

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Sickafoose

Superfund site

Date: June 19, 2010
Author: Munro Sickafoose
Location: Portland, OR
Wounded Place: Industry & Development | Waste

Superfund site, Willamette River Bird made of cornmeal

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Santa Monica Beach

Date: June 19, 2010
Author: Baylen Slote
Location: Santa Monica Beach, Santa Monica, CA
Wounded Place: Other

After releasing my expectations of grandeur about the earth exchange I showed up and held it. On my way to the site I walked past a music festival going on north of santa monica pier …

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Schuykill River, polluted water from sewage system

Date: June 19, 2010
Author: Jim Samanen
Location: Phoenixville, PA
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers | Waste

Type of wounded place (e.g. landfill, coral reef, clear cut forest, oil refinery, etc.) A spot on the Schuykill River where the outflow from the Lower Perkiomen Valley Regional Sewer Authority enters the river, just …

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Regennas

Polluted water on the keys

Date: June 19, 2010
Author: Charlotte Regennas
Location: Little Torch Key, FL
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers | RadJoy Philosophy | Waste

Location: my dock—the shoreline on either side & the water in the canal – The waters & shoreline have been increasingly harmed by “civilization” & now the [BP spill] oil invasion looms in our very …

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Pearce

Halaco Plant and Ormond Wetlands

Date: June 19, 2010
Author: Farion and Kent Pearce
Location: Halaco, Oxnard, CA
Wounded Place: Animals + Birds + Insects | Industry & Development | Plants | Waste

The juxtaposition of a toxic waste dump site and a precious, beautiful wetlands Leave sage and a peacock feather (that asked to be here) and walking stick with a rescued doll from the sludge at …

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Monroe

Blue Hole Gulf Coast

Date: June 19, 2010
Author: Dianne Monroe
Location: San Antonio, TX
Wounded Place: Industry & Development | Mineral extraction | Natural disasters | Waste

Wounded Place: Gulf waters, from the Blue Hole, a spring that is the headwaters of the San Antonio River, which flows into the Gulf Notes about the Experience (What participants said, what they experienced, any …

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Mahoney

San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area

Date: June 19, 2010
Author: James Mahoney
Location: San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

The San Pedro River in southeastern Arizona is the last undammed river in the state. Within the riparian corridor, largely limited to a 50 miles reach contained within the San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area, …

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Light—Fire

Burned farmhouse

Date: June 19, 2010
Author: Rachel Light
Location: Peterboro, New Hampshire
Wounded Place: Natural disasters | Personal

A ceremony for my sister’s farmhouse, which was destroyed by fire.

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2012 RadJoyBird Copy

Owens Dry Lake, Owens Valley 

Date: June 19, 2010
Author: Meredith Little Foster
Location: Owens Lake, Big Pine, CA
Wounded Place: Industry & Development

In 1913 the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (DWP) began draining this large alkali lake, formally a sea bed, diverting the water into their aqueduct for the growing city of Los Angeles. When …

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Kotzé La Paz

La Paz River

Date: June 19, 2010
Author: Hilda Kotzé
Location:
Wounded Place: Industry & Development | Oceans + Lakes + Rivers | Waste

We spent the afternoon being at the waterside of the La Paz River (water from the Andes). The stench was almost overpowering, but as we sang songs and sculpted the bird, the energy changed. A …

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Hopf Nainital India

Satoli

Date: June 19, 2010
Author: Noemi Hopf
Location: Satoli, District Nainital, Uttarakhand, India
Wounded Place: Trees

I just stayed here in a volunteer project and I don’t know the area so well. This place, the forest over here, is still quite untouched and pure although every day I walk through it …

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Johnson, Trebbe

Land destroyed by gas fracking

Date: June 19, 2010
Author: Trebbe Johnson
Location: Montrose, PA
Wounded Place: Industry & Development | Mineral extraction | Trees

Gas fracking began to overrun—and overturn—our community two years ago. Two friends of my husband Andy Gardner and me, Rodrica Tilley and Michael Poster, live just outside the town of Montrose, PA. They were shocked …

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Shopping mall land

Date: June 19, 2010
Author: Mary Janet Fowler
Location: Charlottesville, VA
Wounded Place: Industry & Development

Congratulations for receiving this work and ushering it into reality! My visit to the shopping mall area was quite powerful. I’m sending along some photos. I just recently got my camera and I’m not completely …

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Edgerly Bird

USM Factory

Date: June 19, 2010
Author: Cathy Edgerly
Location: Beverly MA
Wounded Place: Industry & Development | Waste

My daughter Evan and I went to the USM factory site, now the Cummings Center and we were happy to see the results of 10 years of remediation. We were first greeted by a pair …

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Czolba

Homie Woods

Date: June 19, 2010
Author: Michelle Czolba
Location: Homie Woods, Pittsburgh, PA
Wounded Place: Plants | Trees

Attached are a few photos of the paleo bird we made. It was a nice exchange; pretty low key and it was cut short by the plethora of mosquitoes that showed up. We made the …

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Hinton

Radical Sitting in Clissold Park

Date: June 19, 2010
Author: Lucy Hinton
Location: Clissold Park, London, England
Wounded Place: Other

Here is a photo from our Radical Sitting on the 19th. It was really great! The night before the event the flat filled up—with no space left and Jeremy camping in the kitchen, transforming it …

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Chambliss

Marcellus Shale

Date: June 19, 2010
Author: Lauren Chambliss
Location: Spencer, NY
Wounded Place: Mineral extraction

In honor of lands threatened by gas fracking

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Crossbones

Date: June 19, 2010
Author: John Constable
Location: London, England
Wounded Place: Historic & Cultural Sites

It was a desolate patch of ground not far from London Bridge, its original purpose long forgotten, when the London transport authority slated it for development. But when John Constable heard about the plan for …

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Heiten Group Germany 2010

Hoher Meissner—Holy Mountain of central Germany

Date: June 19, 2010
Author: Holger Heiten and Gesa FLick
Location: Hoher Meissner, Eschwege, Germany
Wounded Place: Historic & Cultural Sites | Other

Reason you choose this place: The mountain “Hoher Meissner” has always been a holy mountain to the people of central Germany. Since long before Celtic or Germanic times, long before patriarchism, it was believed to …

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Morbe

Motorway 

Date: June 19, 2010
Author: Stefan Morbe
Location: Bad Neuenahr, Germany
Wounded Place: Industry & Development

I was the only one to participate but I did my very best. As announced my field of healing Mother Earth was the Motorway Bridge crossing the Bad Neuenahr Valley. I climbed up a hill, …

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Turner

Southwest Indian Museum

Date: June 19, 2010
Author: Shauna Turner
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Wounded Place: Historic & Cultural Sites

 …. and then…filled with hatred of this City and its only destructive policies and methods, 15 years of examples of flagrant injustice and indifference from the new Spaniards exerting “doctrine of discovery” on us “less …

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Weinbaum PUPPET

For the Winooski River

Date: June 19, 2010
Author: Fran Weinbaum
Location: Montpelier, VT
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

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Hess Phragmites

Phragmites

Date: June 19, 2010
Author: Annie and Elvin Hess
Location: Cobb Island Station, Virginia, USA
Wounded Place: Plants

Phragmites Attached are pictures from our Earth Exchange event “The Flip Side of Phragmites.” It was a wonderful experience being part of the Global action day! Congratulations! Below is the info and responses to our …

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Swanepoele

Place of Stone

Date: June 19, 2010
Author: Leana Mmamarapelo
Location: Matlapeng, South Africa
Wounded Place: Personal | War & Violence

Leana Swanepoel,  Matlapeng, South Africa Place of Stone Dumelang Sisi Trebbe & THANK YOU & ALL others f/enriching this Earthwalk xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx the planned ex-combatants did not happen at Matlapeng, …….. rather unfolded at various places …

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Nakatajima Sand Dunes

Date: June 19, 2010
Author: Vandy Wilkinson
Location: Hamamatsu, Japan
Wounded Place: Animals + Birds + Insects

As I finished my time with the sea and the shore, the wind and the waves, I saw this lonely little figure lying there. This sea turtle was about 8 inches long. It obviously perished …

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Murphy

Ticknock Mountains

Date: June 19, 2010
Author: Fiona Murphy and Anne Dillon
Location: Ticknock Mountains, Dublin, Ireland
Wounded Place: Animals + Birds + Insects | Industry & Development | Trees

Wounded Place: Area that has suffered deforestation and is constantly being encroached on by man. A recent “mountain initiative” has resulted mountain bike and scrambler motorbike tracks being developed through the remaining forest further displacing …

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Trotter

Melting glacier

Date: June 19, 2010
Author: Lisa Trotter
Location: Palmer Station, Antarctica 
Wounded Place: Climate change

This is the Marr Ice Piedmont which covers the majority of Anvers Island. The part of the glacier that sits just behind Palmer Station has receded an incredible amount over the years, and much of …

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Gillotti

Writers Brook

Date: June 19, 2010
Author: Susan Gillotti
Location: Norwich, VT
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

Congratulations! And brilliant to announce next year’s date now. My report is brief, but from the heart. In the end, no one—not one of my eleven writers—was able to be present. And so I sent …

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Foote

Eel River (South Fork)

Date: June 19, 2010
Author: Marilyn Foote
Location: Redway, CA
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

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Etters—Darby Creek

Darby Creek

Date: June 19, 2010
Author: Catherine Etters
Location: Bryn Mawr, PA
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

Catherine Etters Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, USA   I started my ceremony at 6:00am on the trail of Darby Creek at Skunk Hollow Preserve in PA. I was alone that morning as I made an altar …

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Burgess

Lake

Date: June 19, 2010
Author: Joanna Burgess & Ross Stocks
Location: Apex, NC
Wounded Place: Oceans + Lakes + Rivers | Personal

What a day yesterday—I have already seen some of the posted pictures and they are wonderful Ross and I set out for our earth exchange yesterday evening and it was quite magical. We went there …

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Cory

Wounded House

Date: June 19, 2010
Author: Anne-Marie Cory
Location: Longmont, CO
Wounded Place: Other | Personal

Here is a little update on my site, the former meth lab in Longmont. I did an equinox ritual. I prayed in the rain, which we needed, and gave thanks to the earth, the plants, …

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Lynchburg Community Market | Bats

Date: June 19, 2010
Author: Laura Staman
Location: Lynchburg, Virginia, USA
Wounded Place: Animals + Birds + Insects

Our batmobile turned out to be a fantastic act of beauty to honor the bats. So many people made bats! We had about 450 decorated bats and about half of them went into the mobile …

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The Cessation of Breath

Date: March 9, 2010
Author: Steven Finke
Location: The forest where I live and work
Wounded Place: Animals + Birds + Insects | Climate change | Natural disasters | Personal | Plants | Trees

In 1997 I began a project titled, “The Cessation of Breath, A Mechanical Meditation on the Moment Before Death”. It is a site-specific artwork located in the watershed of the Ohio River valley that integrates …

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Dancer

Celilo Falls

Date: February 20, 2010
Author: Daniel Dancer
Location: Columbia River, Oregon, USA
Wounded Place: Animals + Birds + Insects | Historic & Cultural Sites | Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

Just getting ready to head out and see the flag waving that I put up yesterday. I like this way of hanging a flag . . . a rope from a branch above . . …

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For the Gulf of Mexico

Date: June 1, 2000
Author: Mike Beck
Location: Navarre Beach, FL
Wounded Place: Industry & Development | Oceans + Lakes + Rivers

Our beaches are being swarmed almost daily since the end of the first week of the sinking of the Deep Water Horizon with gatherings of people of all stripes: protests, prayer groups, volunteers, rallies for …

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Chipkin

Disappearing Bees

Date:
Author: Lisa Chipkin & Aninha Livingstone
Location: Fairfax, CA
Wounded Place: Animals + Birds + Insects

We held a sacred circle around an altar to the disappearing and dying bees. In the safe space of the circle, participants shared their feelings, concerns and impressions in response to the diminishing population of …

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