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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 Conversation with Liv Torc
Liv Torc is a dynamic poet, performer, artist and project weaver, who explores the terrain of the human and planetary [...]
Earth Exchange Café Conversation with Day Schildkret
Day Schildkret is an earth artist, educator, and public speaker who teaches workshops internationally for communities, festivals, and corporations, as [...]
Earth Exchange Café Conversation with Sam Lee
Sam Lee is a British folk singer, song collector, activist, and conservationist, who brings nature into his music, and his [...]
Earth Exchange Café Conversation with Dr. Panu Pihkala
Panu Pihkala is an adjunct professor of environmental theology at the University of Helsinki, Finlandi. He has written widely on [...]
RADICAL JOY REVEALED
Weekly news and inspiration
“There’s No Wounding Here”
Every now and then, around this time of year, in the weeks leading up to the Global Earth Exchange, someone emails to tell me they’d like to participate in our annual event of giving beauty [...]
Do It Though No One Notices
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 [...]
In Memory of a Cardinal
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 [...]
Our Odd and Lovely Acts
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 [...]
LATEST NEWS
Latest news and upcoming events from the Radical Joy community
Deep Adaptation’s Earth Ceremony
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 [...]
Valentines for the Earth
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 [...]
Fierce Consciousness Book Tour
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 [...]
IN THE MEDIA
Articles and references to Radical Joy in the media
Wounded Places: A Conversation with Trebbe Johnson
Rachel Fleming, a founder of Animate Earth speaks with Trebbe Johnson about the combination of love and courage it takes to redefine, and even strengthen our relationships with hurt places. For many years Trebbe Johnson [...]
Grateful Changemaker: Radical Joy for Hard Times
When I receive a gift, I am conscious of both the gift and the giver. Gratitude suffuses me. This gratitude often transforms into a wish to give something back to my generous giver. We are [...]
Guerrilla Beauty
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, [...]
Global Day of Mourning Featured in Forbes Magazine blog
It goes without saying that the majority of people around the world were ready to say goodbye to 2020 last week. In embracing 2021, many took to social media, posting images and quotes about their [...]
RECENT STORIES
Stories shared by the Radical Joy community
Remembrance Day for Lost Species in Helsinki 2023
On November 30th, there was first a session organized by the Finnish social and health sector project about eco-anxiety and eco-emotions (www.ymparistoahdistus.fi). This “morning coffee roundtable”, a hybrid event, focused this time on ecological grief [...]
Ashdown Forest
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 [...]
Hope and Resilience
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
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. [...]
The Willows at Red Oak recovery
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 [...]
The L.A. River Culvert
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 [...]