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EARTH EXCHANGE CAFE INTERVIEWS
Every month Trebbe Johnson and Harriet Sams host Earth Exchange Café and interview a pioneering artist, thinker, or activist whose work inspires that of RadJoy.
Earth Exchange Conversation with Pat McCabe/Woman Stands Shining
As part of our Spirit Spring series, we welcome Pat McCabe (Weyakpa Najin Win, Woman Stands Shining). She is a [...]
Earth Exchange Café Conversation with Rabbi Ellen Bernstein
As part of our Spirit Spring series, we welcome Rabbi Ellen Bernstein. Ellen writes, teaches, speaks and consults about the [...]
Earth Exchange Café Conversation with Rev. Stephen Blackmer
Stephen Blackmer is founding executive director of Kairos Earth and chaplain of Church of the Woods in Canterbury, New Hampshire. [...]
Earth Exchange Café Conversation with Eimear Burke
Eimear Burke is the Chosen Chief of the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids (OBOD). She lives in Kilkenny, Ireland [...]
RADICAL JOY REVEALED
Weekly news and inspiration
Beauty and the Broken in Mauritius
This year’s Global Earth Exchange on June 17 inspired people to give attention and beauty to hurt and endangered places in at least 11 countries and 19 U.S. states! (And the stories are still trickling [...]
You Made the Earth More Beautiful! Global Earth Exchange 2023
Last Saturday, June 17, was RadJoy's 14th annual Global Earth Exchange, the day when people all over the world go to wounded places they care about and give them attention and beauty. This was the [...]
For the Strawberries: First Global Earth Exchange of 2023
The first 2023 Global Earth Exchange story has arrived from Germany. Ramey Rieger, a translator in English and German, has formed a group inventively called Die Erde Zu(ge)hören. In German, zuhörenmeans "to listen to", while [...]
10 Ways You Can’t Do It Wrong
Ten days from today, June 17, is RadJoy’s Global Earth Exchange. Dozens of people around the world have signed up to participate in this beloved annual ceremony of going to hurt places and giving them [...]
LATEST NEWS
Latest news and upcoming events from the Radical Joy community
The 2021 Global Earth Exchange is more “exchange” than ever!
Our annual Global Earth Exchange has always been about the"exchange" of gifts between you and a place you love that's been hurt or is under threat. The place has given so much to others—plants, waters, [...]
RadJoy’s Newsletter Takes to the Cloud
Newsletter #25, January 2021 Uplook: The RadJoy Newsletter Taking to the Cloud It's been a while since we've sent out a RadJoy Newsletter. And those of you who have received it in the past may [...]
RadJoy Cited for Environmental Hospice Practices
Environmental Hospice And Memorial As Redemption Public Rituals For Renewal
Global Day of Mourning
On January 11, 2020 a 61-year-old man from Wuhan, China became the first reported casualty of coronavirus. Since then this lethal disease has infected more than 50 million people worldwide and killed more than 1 [...]
IN THE MEDIA
Articles and references to Radical Joy in the media
Sacred Arts: Creative Expressions of Faith to Heal a Threatened Earth
At the Parliament of the World's Religions in Toronto, Trebbe Johnson led a panel with four women from the Dineh (Navajo)-Cheyenne, Jewish, Hindu, and Wikka traditions. They discussed how their spiritual traditions have helped them [...]
“Heartwrenching and beautiful, impossibly sad and strangely visionary”
Author and activist Thea Levkovitz writes a rave review of Trebbe's book in the current issue of the esteemed quarterly, Parabola.
Orion Magazine Showcases Trebbe’s Book
The award-winning nature magazine, Orion, features an excerpt from Trebbe Johnson's book, Radical Joy for Hard Times: Finding Meaning and Making Beauty in Earth's Broken Places, along with links to Trebbe's Orion articles and webinar.
“You will be awakened, you will become aware”
"Anyone reading this book will need to know that you cannot come out of the experience as you went in—you will be awakened, you will become aware—or as the newest generation says—you’ll be woke." Peter [...]
RECENT STORIES
Stories shared by the Radical Joy community
Infrared Meditation on Manitowoc River Flowing into Great Lake Michigan
(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 [...]
Chattooga River
(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 [...]
Revisiting the John B. Robert Dam
(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 [...]
Visiting Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest for the Global Earth Exchange 2023
(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 [...]
From Desolate Land to Magical Garden
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 [...]
Wounded and Beautiful in my Neighborhood Parks
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 [...]
Crossroads UCC Healing Garden
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 [...]