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Praying the best way I know
May all living beings be free. May all living beings be loved. May all living beings be safe. May all living beings have sufficient food water shelter and warmth. May all beings know love care empathy and compassion. May all beings be free from suffering cruelty imprisonment fear pain experimentation and exploitation. May all beings…
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Why does biodiversity matter?
Because no other planet that we know of has such an abundance of delights as ours. Such different beings living in every corner of this mass of rock, water, air. Big, small, hairy, naked, spiky, smooth, beaked, mouth-y, hard, soft, colorful, grey, slow, fast, lonesome, social, timid, feisty. Breathing carbon dioxide, oxygen, appearing not to…
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The price of being alive
I suffered a lot of chronic pain over the past year and a half, and this has led me to pick up some practices that have had great mental health benefits beyond pain reduction. One is expressive writing. I’ve always journaled, but I’m approaching it differently now by trying to go deeper to address primary…
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Savoring the good
As many know we had a change of administration in the United States recently. To anyone who loves the Earth and its creatures (including ourselves!) and believes we need to make big changes for life to survive on this planet, this was welcome news. Despite how long I’d anxiously waited for this moment, when it…
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Finding a path for growth
Imagining control is an addiction for me the way alcohol or drugs are for other people. It enables me to enter an alternate reality where things work the way I want. I spend a lot of time thinking about how people should change their behavior when it comes to the environment, especially. This person should…
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You’re probably good on facts
I started this project with the intent to focus not on the objective facts of environmental destruction or climate change, but on the subjective impact these facts have on humans. There are plenty of resources available to learn about greenhouse gases, deforestation, and mass extinctions. I assume my audience has found me because they are…
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Letting fear burn through
I, like many on the West Coast right now, am looking out my window at a world I do not recognize. I’ll repeat the facts briefly, as they can be found more accurately elsewhere. Nearly 1,000,000 million acres have burned in Oregon as of today. Many towns have been incinerated. People have lost their homes…
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What’s on the other side of hope?
What do you do when you feel that you have no more hope for your central mission? You don’t understand the point of going to another climate march or signing your 15th Greenpeace petition. While you don’t say anything because you’re afraid of being labelled a “downer” or pessimist, you’ve lost the connection between your…
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Turns out hate isn’t fun
There was a time when I was happy and light. When I didn’t think about the climate impact of every action or item, how much plastic was involved, how much water was consumed. I didn’t always see the world through one lens: is this or is this not hurting the environment? I could go to…
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My usual approach wasn’t working
I have been a passionate environmentalist since the day I could form thoughts. I have been so passionate that I’ve become angry, tired, sad, hopeless, and truly wondering how I would continue for several decades of life filled with hate and judgment towards humanity. This project started not because I had answers, but because I…
Ecological Morning 