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Jun 2020
Book Study Group
April 6 – June 29, 2020 (Every other Monday) 9:00 - 10:30 am PT / Noon - 1:30 pm ET Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these…
Learn more »Choices for Sustainable Living Workshop
March 2 - June 22, 2020 (Every other Monday) 9:00 - 11:00 am PT / Noon - 2:00 pm ET (Nine online sessions via Zoom video conferencing) Purpose of the Workshop The term “sustainability” is used so freely, it’s difficult to understand what it can mean. At its essence, sustainability embodies hope for a healthy, just and bright future for us all. Choices for Sustainable Living provides participants with a powerful opportunity to explore sustainability more deeply and learn…
Learn more »Regenerative, Sustainable Living (RSL) Monthly Meeting
June topic: Electrify Everything Speaker: Elena Engel This clarion call is seeping into the consciousness of the environmentally aware especially those in California. It is also raising the ire of the fossil fuel industry, spearheaded by the natural gas lobby who are trying to position themselves as the environmentally friendly alternate to coal. Battle lines are being drawn in communities such as Brookline, Massachusetts and Santa Cruz the 30th city or county in California who are enacting legislation to limit…
Learn more »Active Hope in the Time of the Coronavirus
Do you have a sense of gloom and doom? Are you concerned about how to go forth into the future? In this time of uncertainty, we need more than ever to explore what gives us hope, what it is that we love and how to actualize these understandings. This two-hour webinar, based on the work of deep ecologist and elder Joanna Macy, is designed to use our virtual community to create a safe container for us to share our thoughts…
Learn more »Elder Activists for Social Justice Community Conversation
Third Thursday of each month 9:00 - 10:30 am PT / 12:00 - 1:30 pm ET June topic: "The Curious Listening Initiative, Session 3" EASJ guests Belinda Eriacho and David Garcia talk about their activism as Native American elders and about the current issues that pull their attention. The Curious Listening Initiative, Session 3. Learn more here. We participate together over Zoom video conferencing in a lightly-facilitated, educational and interactive conversation. We have time to deep dive into our topics using an…
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