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Larchfall: Beauty in and for a Damaged Larch Forest
Date: January 22, 2022Author: 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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Honoring Healing Waters
Date: July 19, 2019Author: 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, 2019Author: 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, 2019Author: 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, 2019Author: 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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The Politics of Ecology
Date: June 26, 2019Author: 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, 2019Author: 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, 2019Author: 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, 2019Author: 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, 2019Author: 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, 2019Author: 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, 2019Author: 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, 2019Author: 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, 2019Author:
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, 2019Author: 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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Land Healing After Fire
Date: June 22, 2019Author: 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, 2019Author: 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, 2019Author: 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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Renewing Our Covenant with the Earth
Date: June 22, 2019Author: 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, 2019Author: 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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Anointing Land
Date: June 22, 2019Author: 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, 2019Author: 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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Radical Joy
Date: June 22, 2019Author: 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, 2019Author: 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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Annual Global Earth Exchange at Wyman Park
Date: June 22, 2019Author: 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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Grandmother Oak at Habari House
Date: June 22, 2019Author: 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, 2019Author: 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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For the waters of Denmark
Date: June 22, 2019Author: 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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Global Earth Exchange for a former perlite mine
Date: June 22, 2019Author: 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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Chesapeake Bay Earth Exchange
Date: June 22, 2019Author: 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, 2019Author: 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, 2019Author: 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, 2019Author: 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, 2019Author: 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, 2019Author: 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, 2019Author: 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, 2019Author: 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, 2019Author: 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, 2019Author: 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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The River Is Us
Date: June 22, 2019Author: 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, 2019Author: 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, 2019Author: 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, 2019Author: 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, 2019Author: 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, 2019Author: Michael Beck
Location: Navarre Beach, Florida USA
Wounded Place: Natural disasters
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Afghan Peace Volunteers 2019
Date: June 22, 2019Author: 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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Saint Barbara of the Polish Miners
Date: June 22, 2019Author: 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, 2019Author: 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 »
The River Is Us
Date: June 22, 2019Author: 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, 2019Author: 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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Dolly Sods Wilderness Area
Date: June 22, 2019Author: 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, 2019Author: 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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For the Waters of Denmark
Date: June 22, 2019Author: 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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Puri Lumbung Global Earth Exchange
Date: June 22, 2019Author: 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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The Politics of Ecology
Date: June 22, 2019Author: 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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Solastalgia
Date: June 22, 2019Author: 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, 2019Author: 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, 2019Author: 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, 2019Author: 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, 2019Author: 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, 2019Author: 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, 2019Author: 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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Renewing Our Covenant with the Earth
Date: June 22, 2019Author: 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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Land Healing After Fire
Date: June 22, 2019Author: 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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Honoring Healing Waters
Date: June 22, 2019Author: 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, 2019Author: 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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Resilient Place… Heals Hearts
Date: June 22, 2019Author: 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 …
Read more »
Kilvey Earth Exchange
Date: June 22, 2019Author: 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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Local grocery store
Date: June 22, 2019Author: 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, 2019Author: 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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Clearcut forest
Date: June 22, 2019Author: 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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Annual Global Earth Exchange at Wyman Park
Date: June 22, 2019Author: 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, 2019Author: 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 …
Read more »
Grandmother Oak at Habari House
Date: June 22, 2019Author: 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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Treephilia
Date: June 22, 2019Author: 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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Daring to bear witness to Baseline Creep
Date: June 22, 2019Author: 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, 2019Author: 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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Global Earth Exchange for an old candy factory
Date: June 22, 2019Author: 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 …
Read more »
Honoring the Ocean
Date: June 22, 2019Author: 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 …
Read more »
All Are Our Relations
Date: June 22, 2019Author: 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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Honoring the River
Date: June 22, 2019Author: 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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Saint Barbara of the Polish Miners
Date: June 22, 2019Author: 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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Chesapeake Bay Earth Exchange
Date: June 22, 2019Author: 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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The Land of Sorrow
Date: June 22, 2019Author: 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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A Bird for the Rafters
Date: June 22, 2019Author: 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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I Vow to Develop Compassion
Date: June 22, 2019Author: 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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Radical Joy for Whales
Date: June 22, 2019Author: 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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Healing the Waters of the World
Date: June 22, 2019Author: 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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Caring for the Sea/Beach Clean Ardnahinch,Cork
Date: June 22, 2019Author: 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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Smooth Rock Croc
Date: June 22, 2019Author: 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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Baseline Creep for the Black River
Date: June 22, 2019Author: 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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The Occasional Beauty of Barbed Wire | Earth Teach Forest Park
Date: June 22, 2019Author: 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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Journey to the Spring
Date: June 21, 2019Author: 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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Puri Lumbung Global Earth Exchange
Date: June 19, 2019Author: 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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Pilgrimage in a Burnt Forest
Date: June 15, 2019Author: 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, 2019Author: 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 Global Earth Exchange
Date: June 7, 2019Author: 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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Climate Change Communication Class Global Earth Exchange
Date: May 3, 2019Author: 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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