The 2023 Global Earth Exchange

RadJoy Gex 2023

Speak Grief, Speak Beauty!

Saturday, June 17
Worldwide

On this day we come together to grieve what’s vanishing from the places we love—and exult in the beauty that remains!

About

For 14 years people around the world have been going to places they care about that are damaged or endangered, sharing what they love about those places, and making gifts of gratitude to them. 

This year on June 17, we continue this beloved tradition of the Global Earth Exchange!. To honor the amazing ability of the Earth to find ways of prevailing during hard times, we turn our attention not just to what is hurt in this place but also to what is thriving and beautiful. 

And this year, besides telling one another about what we experience, we will speak our grief and our sense of beauty to the place itself! 

How often do we actually talk to the trees, the rivers, the little neighborhood parks we live among and love? When we can actually speak our emotions out loud, we contribute our presence and our voice to the place… and feel our own hearts opening.

Register!

We’d love to have you join us for this year’s online Zoom event. Please sign up at EventBrite using the button below.

Your 2023 Global Earth Exchange Flag

If you’re ready to make a commitment to a hurt place and are one of the first 75 people to sign up for the 2023 Global Earth Exchange, you’ll receive a beautiful hand-painted Radical Joy for Hard Times flag made by a diverse group of children environmentalists in London. So when you register, be sure to include your mailing address on the registration form, so we can send your flag!

(NOTE: We can only send flags to those who have identified their chosen place.) 

Ideas and Questions

To get ideas and inspiration for your Global Earth Exchange, read the stories of others who have participated in this special event.

Looking for a wounded place near you? AreaHub gives all kinds of information about fracking sites, brownfields, cell towers, flood and tornado zones, and other areas of concern. Just type in your address or zip code.

FAQs

The 5 Suggested Steps of the Earth Exchange

  • 1. Go, alone or with friends, to a wounded place.

  • 2. Sit awhile and share your stories about what the place means to you.

  • 3. Get to know the place as it is now. (You’re going to be surprised.)

  • 4. Share with the others what you discovered.

  • 5. Make a simple gift of beauty for the place.*

  • *It’s a tradition for people to create an image of the RadJoy Bird, made with materials the place itself offers, but any gift you make is beautiful!



Radjoy 2021 GEx Logo

Ways to Prepare for a GEx

Watch our Zoom gathering and discover.

  1. how to choose your wounded place
  2. what to say when you invite friends to participate
  3. what to do when you get there

Here’s our discussion with regular Global Earth Exchange practitioners Kinde Nebeker and Eugene Hughes from 2021.

DISCOVER THE STORIES!

Explore the stories and photos from previous years of the Global Earth Exchange!