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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.

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Radical Joy Revealed is a weekly message of inspiration about finding and making beauty in wounded places.

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Do It Though No One Notices

September 13th, 2023|

A young woman I know who lives in North Carolina considers herself an ardent environmental activist. She belongs to the Sierra Club and The Wilderness Society, works for an organization that runs therapeutic wilderness programs [...]

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In Memory of a Cardinal

September 6th, 2023|

Radical Joy for Hard Times has always urged our members around the world to give attention and beauty to those places and beings that have meaning for them. It’s not necessary to seek out some [...]

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Our Odd and Lovely Acts

August 30th, 2023|

Barry Lopez, the late nature writer, used to stop his car and get out to remove dead animals from roadsides. For him, this was a spiritual practice, “a ritual of apology and an acknowledgment of [...]

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LATEST NEWS

Latest news and upcoming events from the Radical Joy community 

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Deep Adaptation’s Earth Ceremony

November 26th, 2023|

Deep Adaptation Forum is a global network of people who are actively confronting the reality of climate change, coming together in person and online "to embrace biocentric worldview and undertake regenerative lifestyle and practices." Once [...]

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Valentines for the Earth

February 15th, 2023|

es, Valentine's Day was yesterday. But it's never too late to express our love for the Earth. On the day of Radical Joy for Hard Times's annual Global Earth Exchange, people usually use found materials [...]

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Fierce Consciousness Book Tour

February 5th, 2023|

Trebbe’s book tour will include the following cities. For public events, more details will be added as they’re confirmed. A few events are private, among friends only. Read more about Fierce Consciousness and other of [...]

Enemies

January 18th, 2023|

This year I am acutely aware that what I was called to do was heal my relationships with the people I am judging to have wounded the land. This became an uncomfortable practice as I [...]

IN THE MEDIA

Articles and references to Radical Joy in the media

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Guerrilla Beauty

May 12th, 2021|

When the levees breached and New Orleans waters started surging under the front door of their home, Delores Ossevaito and her husband didn’t have time to grab anything except their two dogs before dashing outside, [...]

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Stories shared by the Radical Joy community 

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Ashdown Forest

September 11th, 2023|

Ashdown Forest is an area of natural beauty in West Sussex, England. It is also one of the very few remaining areas of extensive lowland heath left in Europe. This rare and threatened landscape is [...]

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Cutting

July 24th, 2023|

I have started to feel uncomfortable with this way of highlighting rape—as I see it rape of a forest .. As with victims of abuse selling stories of pain and deep damage seems equally disrespectful [...]

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Hope and Resilience

July 24th, 2023|

About two years ago, I did my Global Earth Exchange with a Hawaiian medicinal plant called noni. Noni is considered one of about 25 Hawaiian canoe plants, meaning it was one of the plants the [...]

Renewal Waters

July 24th, 2023|

We chose this place as our wounded place because it is suffering from an extreme drought. It was the site of an Amusement Park that has run for 1 month every year since the 1960s. [...]

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The Willows at Red Oak recovery

July 17th, 2023|

A small group of women at The Willows at Red Oak recovery in  Asheville, North Carolina led by Lynn Wadsworth and Becky Barth gathered  to participate in a Global Earth Exchange. We each shared stories [...]

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The L.A. River Culvert

July 17th, 2023|

I live close enough to the LA river to walk to my chosen location. Getting to the river itself meant scaling a few chain link fences and crossing a large railway yard; however I was [...]