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Earth Exchange for a Shopping Mall
Charlottesville, Virginia My visit to the shopping mall area was quite powerful. I made this butterfly out of construction materials and flowers.
Earth Exchange at Rocky Flats-Standley Lake
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 [...]
Gentle Waters, Wild Earth
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 [...]
From the Lake District to Dorset
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 [...]
Kilvey Earth Exchange
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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Smooth Rock Croc
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 [...]
The Occasional Beauty of Barbed Wire
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 [...]
Pilgrimage in a Burnt Forest
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 [...]