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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 Café Dialogue: Harriet Sams & Trebbe Johnson
When our scheduled guest had to cancel because of illness, Earth Exchange Café hosts Harriet Sams and Trebbe Johnson decided [...]
Earth Exchange Café Conversation with Prof. Timothy Darvill
Professor Timothy Darvill of Bournemouth University, England, is an archeologist and prehistorian who has studied and written about Stonehenge and [...]
Earth Exchange Cafe Conversation with Meredith Little
Meredith Little and her husband Steven Foster, co-founders of Rites of Passage, Inc. in 1976 and The School of Lost [...]
Earth Exchange Cafe Conversation with Evgenia Emets
Evgenia Emets is a remarkable young artist, poet, calligrapher, and performance artist whose current focus interactive dance, poetry, and reflection [...]
RADICAL JOY REVEALED
Weekly news and inspiration
What Is This Tree Saying to You?
Today's Radical Joy Revealed focuses solely on the remarkable photo above. It was taken by Jessica Hess, one of the participants in Attending the Earth, a course I taught recently at OneSpiritInterfaith Seminary in New [...]
When It’s We Who Are Wounded in a Place
When people go to a wounded place they care about for the Global Earth Exchange or simply as a practice of giving beauty where it’s needed, most of us set our sites on a natural [...]
A Tree’s Point of View
How would we regard the world around us if we looked at it from the point of view of another species? One of the characters in Elif Shafak’s novel, The Island of Missing Trees, is a [...]
LATEST NEWS
Latest news and upcoming events from the Radical Joy community
RadJoy Joins the World Stage on Global Earth Exchange Week!
RadJoy and Good Grief Network to co-host RADICAL JOY AND GOOD GRIEF stage on international World Unity Week platform!
On Lying Beauty
The Practice of RadJoy entails going to damaged places and finding and making beauty there. We take a bold, honest look at what's before us, open up to difficult feelings of outrage and grief... and [...]
“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.
RADJOY WORKSHOP AT BIONEERS
The Ground Beneath Our Hearts Workshop with Trebbe Johnson and Polly Howells BIONEERS CONFERENCE October 18, 2:45 PM San Rafael, California 4:30 Book Signing with Trebbe Johnson, Bioneers Bookstore This workshop will focus on staying [...]
IN THE MEDIA
Articles and references to Radical Joy in the media
“The power of facing unpleasant facts”
"Distinctly modern," writes Joseph Bullington in this thoughtful article about Radical Joy for Hard Times, with "many ideas [that] are ancient."
“Why can’t you just change channels?”
In this excerpt from her book, Radical Joy for Hard Times, Trebbe explores the reluctance of so many people to admit their grief when the places and species they care about are destroyed.
Why pushing a rock up a hill & other beautiful tasks fill us with joy
How can we create beauty and discover joy in a world so badly wounded by the machinations of our modern culture? This is a question that Trebbe Johnson strives to answer, both philosophically and in [...]
Trebbe Johnson Talks About Finding Joy While Facing Climate Change
Founders of the acclaimed Good Grief Network, LaUra Schmidt and Aimee Reau, talk with Trebbe about how to find—and not be tempted to reject—beauty and joy while confronting the reality of ecological grief.
RECENT STORIES
Stories shared by the Radical Joy community
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 […]
Helsinki Earth Exchange 2023
(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 […]
A Gift for our Outer Harbor
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 […]
The Tension
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 […]
Listen to the Forest: Speak Grief, Create Beauty
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 […]
Earth Listeners Collaborative Global Earth Exchange
- 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 […]