Author Archives: Allysyn Kiplinger

Written May 11, 2019, posted June 5, 2020 How can we possibly wrap our minds and hearts around the deep, terrible, violent, enduring, destruction and suffering that our culture has let loose on the planet? How can we take in … Continue reading →

From the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund e-newsletter https://celdf.org/2020/02/breaking-the-spell-of-misguided-obedience/ Making History One Year Ago: Celebrating the Lake Erie Bill of Rights One year ago today, the residents of Toledo secured a victory for the Rights of Nature Movement in a … Continue reading →

The Tempestry Project – Visualizing climate data that is accurate, personal, tangible, beautiful. [Editor’s Note: I especially like this project because, at it’s base, it is a folk art response to our world: it is hand made, requires one set … Continue reading →

A deep and thoughtful conversation. Listen and let it all wash over you. 1:14:57. Overton window was new to me. Did you catch it?

We announce with sadness, the passing of Margaret Berry, sister of and aid to Thomas Berry, on August 13, 2019. She was a saint and now joins the heavenly cloud of witnesses. A  Memorial Mass will be celebrated by Rev. James … Continue reading →

Crundale Press, United States, 2019. The world is facing an existential crisis. Looming climate breakdown and ecological collapse could lead to the “sixth extinction” event in Earth’s history, this time by our own hand, and the massive loss of human … Continue reading →

I’m always interested in how language opens up a new reality, a new view on an old reality. Not a sexy new word, not a new word, but it gets at it in a clear, simple way: compatibility. If we … Continue reading →

A Pachamama Alliance Conversation  Pachamama Alliance • 30 May 2019 The global Pachamama Alliance community came together on May 29, 2019 with Brian Swimme—Professor of Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness and Director of the Center for the Story of the Universe … Continue reading →

Gaia Foundation’s latest eNewsletter can be seen at this link: https://mailchi.mp/gaianet/new-and-ancient-stories-for-earth?e=436fa8dac4 The Stories from this eNewsletter: New and Ancient: Stories for the Earth – De-mystifying Earth Jurisprudence In this interactive story, we tell the story of Earth Jurisprudence in video, … Continue reading →

by Allysyn Kiplinger and The Fig Tree in the back yard There was a time when humans could trust the natural world to take care of them. They could trust the seasons to be hot, warm, cool, cold. To signal … Continue reading →