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008, Starhawk: Permaculture is Earth-Based Spirituality in Action
FromSoul Soil: Where Agriculture and Spirit Intersect with Brooke Kornegay
008, Starhawk: Permaculture is Earth-Based Spirituality in Action
FromSoul Soil: Where Agriculture and Spirit Intersect with Brooke Kornegay
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Length:
28 minutes
Released:
Oct 29, 2019
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Podcast episode
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In today's episode, we dive into the philosophy of permaculture, activism, and earth-based spirituality with Starhawk, an author, activist, permaculture designer and teacher, and a prominent voice in modern earth-based spirituality and ecofeminism. She is the author or co-author of thirteen books, including The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess, as well as the ecotopian novel The Fifth Sacred Thing, with its sequel City of Refuge. Her most recent non-fiction book is The Empowerment Manual: A Guide for Collaborative Groups, on group dynamics, power, conflict and communications. Starhawk founded Earth Activist Training, teaching permaculture design grounded in spirituality and with a focus on activism. She travels internationally, lecturing and teaching on earth-based spirituality, the tools of ritual, and the skills of activism. "Ask yourself what it is that you most deeply love, and figure out how to put yourself at its service." In this episode... Starhawk’s path as a storyteller Why she includes activism training in her permaculture certification courses The connection between permaculture and earth-based spirituality Starhawk's new regenerative land management program, a follow up to a Permaculture Design course Social permaculture: resources for collaborative groups Advice for next steps for the ecologically-minded "Permaculture is the art of designing beneficial relationships" --Patrick Whitefield Ask yourself what it is that you most deeply love, and figure out how to put yourself at its service...ask yourself what you need to be in a position to do it Resources starhawk.org Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer The Overstory by Richard Powers earthactivisttraining.org Free webinar on Nov 3 on Regenerative Approaches to Climate Change (starhawk.org)
Released:
Oct 29, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (51)
005, Theresa Crabtree: Listening to the Unseen World: With modern conventional agriculture, we have lost the art of connecting with the land and growing food that was handed down by our ancestors. Not only are we left with a fraction of the genetic diversity of our food crops, we have also lost our... by Soul Soil: Where Agriculture and Spirit Intersect with Brooke Kornegay