Grief for the Planet
In the Realm of EARTH WISDOM
1: Connect with nature by being IN it. Walk, hike, camp, sit, create art, and volunteer.
1: Connect with nature by being IN it. Walk, hike, camp, sit, create art, and volunteer. Website Resources to help you make a practice of getting out into nature
- Complete Guide To Using A Sit Spot In Nature: Benefits & Steps
- Search: “hiking clubs near me” online to see what local groups are hiking in organized ways.
- Search: “Nature walking groups near me” online to see what local groups are taking simple nature walks together. See where it leads you.
- Sierra Club Outings: Incredible natural adventures worldwide.
- AllTrails.com: a website and an incredible app to give you updated information, maps, reviews of hiking and walking trails.
- Meetup.com groups for hiking: find a group in your global region and meetup to get outside!
- Meetup.com groups for nature walks: find a group in your global region and meetup to walk in nature!
2: If you have limited mobility, seek support to access nature and connect with groups worldwide like Adaptive Adventures or Nature Without Barriers.
Organization Resources / Websites 🌐
- Adaptive Adventures: based in the US – brings progressive outdoor adventures to individuals with physical disabilities and families, regardless of location, needs or economic status.
- Nature Without Barriers: based in Europe – Assuring the access to nature education and nature experience for impaired people.
- DisabledHikers.com: a cross-disability-led nonprofit building disability community and justice in the outdoors. Our dream is an outdoor culture transformed by access, representation, and justice for Disabled and other marginalized people.
Podcasts 🎧
- Accessible Hunter Podcast: about all things hunting, the great outdoors, life with a disability and meeting people where they are.
- Access to Adventure – Episode of National Park After Dark: episode is dedicated to two remarkable stories of people with disabilities reaching for history in National Parks
3: Explore artists that focus on grief for the planet, environmental installations, and incorporate activism in their work. 🌈
Websites / Organizations & Places
- The Nurture Nature Center: In Pennsylvania – Building community resiliency to environmental risk by leveraging the power of informal science education, art-centered approaches to learning, and community dialogue and networking.
- TBA21 OceanSpace: A collaborative artistic platform for Ocean Imagination and Ocean Action established and led by TBA21–Academy.
- Green Art Lab Alliance: a mycelium-like network of art organisations contributing to environmental sustainability through their creative practice.
- The Ocean Agency: inspiring support forocean science and conservation through creative communication and education.
Artists 🎨
4: Read “How to Live in a Chaotic Climate” by Laura Schmidt and explore the Seven Realms book list on climate grief.
Books 📚
- How to Live in a Chaotic Climate – by LaUra Schmidt: Eco-anxiety is real. How to Live in a Chaotic Climate is here to help you rediscover meaning, joy, and connection as the tumult around us increases.
- Climate Grief – by Shawna Weaver: Penetrating our hearts and minds, climate grief is not an ailment we have to heal from but a call to change the trajectory of our shared future.
- Living in a Time of Dying – by Meghan Tauck & WD Horden: A spiritual manifesto for our times. It undertakes the sobering task of inviting us to feel the full weight of not only the inevitability of death, but the impending collapse of our human civilization, as evidenced through the social, psychospiritual, and ecological crises that we face in the 21st century on this planet Earth.
Podcasts 🎧
- Outrage + Optimism Climate Podcast: The Climate Podcast is for anyone who is not ready to give up on making the world a better place. For unrivalled conversations with decision makers, visionary thinkers and a community of like-minded climate optimists.
- Living in a Time of Dying Podcast: a podcast about living in a time of global pandemic, social upheaval and injustice, climate catastrophe, and mass extinction. Host Meghan Elizabeth Tauck and guests discuss a selection of chapters from the eponymous book, Living in a Time of Dying: Cries of Grief, Rage, Love, and Hope