Uranium dumps in France
An eye of golden broom flower lay right at the junction of two paths. One path leading around a flooded river valley and the other to an old uranium mine. Hot and dusty, we began [...]
An Act of Radical Survival
Rediscovering wounded places through attention and gifts of beauty is an act of radical survival. There are hurt places all over the Earth and in all our lives. Your hurt place might be a field [...]
But the trees never came back
There are woods in back of my house that are very dear to me—I walk on the trails most of the year, and cross-country ski on them during the winter. Those woods and trails are [...]
Honoring Healing Waters
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, [...]
Radical Joy
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 [...]
Global Earth Exchange for a former perlite mine
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 [...]
Lake Superior Earth Exchange
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 [...]
Saint Barbara of the Polish Miners
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 [...]