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De wata bring, de wata tek (“The water brings, the water takes" – Gullah Geechee saying): environmental perspectives on Kendra Hamilton’s groundbreaking new book: Romancing the Gullah in the Age of Porgy and Bess.
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Are Humans Nature's Dumbest Smart Animal?
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Wildlife ecologist Rae Wynn-Grant tracks, monitors and cares for animals in the wild.
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The visionary designer who’s taking on one of the world’s most intractable problems
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Seeds of vast complexity
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Roderick A. Ferguson turned his front lawn into a garden as a way to help address the environmental crisis
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Between seeking and attainment is increasing immersion into the Whole
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Upcoming review essay: although climate change evidence is alarming, marine biologist Ayana Elizabeth Johnson offers an inspiring outlook on possible climate futures in her new book, What If We Get It Right?
Earthseed
Earthseed, the Ecollective journal
The Ecollective journal
Vol. 1, 2023
The Earthseed journal is named for the collection of writings by Lauren Oya Olamina, the protagonist of Octavia Butler’s novel, The Parable of the Sower.
Lauren keeps a journal that includes reflections about her spiritual philosophy called, “Earthseed.” The basic principle of the philosophy is cooperation. Read more about this philosophy and its relation to current crises in the Earthseed “The summer of our discontent” editorial. Earthseed journal features articles, creative non-fiction and reviews.
Great Dismal Swamp, still a place of refuge
ecollective
Fleeing enslavement in southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina, black people developed communities in the Great Dismal Swamp.
Their flight in some ways continued a tradition of immersion into the wilderness in what the Bakongo people called the “mfinda.”
The mfinda context allows us to create a metaphorical as well as historical and natural history of the Dismal Swamp which was called “dismal” because the English-speaking colonizers perceived dense, southern marshes as disease-breeding miasmas.
Through this space, we will travel to places of refuge within the natural world. We begin with an invocation from the South Carolina coast.
Return pose (balancing the glide)
eyes downward, stepping forward with right foot toes pointing left
on moist clay that becomes pots
hands aloft in mid-flight, fingers turned outwards
balancing the glide of geechee gullah girl divination
between visible and invisible realms
Photo: Doris Ulmann, Lang Syne plantation, South Carolina peninsula, early 1930s
The International Day for Biological Diversity to increase understanding and awareness of ecosystem issues. (Acharya 63 / Adobe Stock)