Earth Calling: A Climate Change Handbook for the 21st Century
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Overview
Chapter 1 examines the threats to the planet's health through the lens of the human energy system known as the chakras, describing how the broken first chakra relates to our disconnection from our biosphere.
Chapter 2 shows how our current environmental crises—global warming, climate change, dwindling water resources, natural disasters such as wildfires and hurricanes—represent severe manifestations of our disconnection from the earth.
Chapter 3 describes how the preponderance of oil in our culture—especially agribusiness—compounds this disconnection, from our dependence on other countries for our energy, to current issues of oil depletion, peak oil, and fracking, to the dumbing down of our agricultural polyculture.
Chapter 4 explains how the most basic building blocks of our nourishment—seeds—are being compromised with a loss of biodiversity and rise of GMOs, and how that adversely affects the farmers whose sacred connection to the land has in many cases been severed.
Chapter 5 describes the ways in which we as individuals can begin to wake up to climate activism as a spiritual practice. This chapter includes specific activities that you can use to implement change and heal your own connection to the earth. By learning and practicing ritual and understanding the earth's rhythms and seasonal rites of passage, each of us can find unique ways to heal our own connections and help others heal theirs.
Chapter 6 brings to life Goethe’s wisdom: “Knowing isn’t enough; neither is being willing. We must do,” by providing strategies and resources for exploring how each of us can find our own Earth Calling, then anchoring that calling with the only force that ignites change: Action.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781583947678 |
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| Publisher: | North Atlantic Books |
| Publication date: | 04/22/2014 |
| Series: | Sacred Activism , #4 |
| Pages: | 408 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.20(d) |
About the Author
Table of Contents
Foreword Caroline Myss xi
Introduction xv
Part 1 We Snooze. We Lose.
Chapter 1 Understanding What We're Made Of 3
A Stroke of Good Fortune 5
Our Spiritual Skeleton 8
Why the First Chakra is Important 14
The Earth Is an Energy Being Too 15
Our Common Immune System 17
Nature as the Cure to Our Disconnection 19
A Marriage Made in Heaven 21
How We Start Healing 23
Chapter 2 The Bed We Have Made 25
The Microcosm of Us 25
New Orleans PK 29
The Widening Impact of Global Warming 34
Drying Up-Our Dwindling Water Resources 36
The Heat Is On 45
Saving the Oceans: Earth's Blue Heart 50
The Age of Wildfires 54
Stormy Weather 56
A Hurricane Cassandra 59
The Coming of the Whirlwind 63
Prophets without Honor 67
The Way We Were 71
Part 2 Waking Up
Chapter 3 Oil Is One 79
The Opposite of Nature 82
Spindletop: The Mother of All Salt Domes 85
Oil and the Open Road 87
The Merchants of Light 91
The Birth of the Energy Age 95
Changing the Face of War 98
Fueling the Postwar Boom 101
Emerging Uncomfortable Trends 102
The End of Easy Oil 109
Mining the Deep 111
Keystone XL: The Real Price of Remote Oil 122
Boom Times in the Bakken 127
Gas Fracking: Cracking the World Open 129
Squeezing Oil from Rocks 138
Coal: The Eighteenth-Century Ideal 139
Rainforests, Oil, and the Air We Breathe 144
Externalities: The Real Cost of Things 148
Different Kinds of Efficiencies 151
Seeing Ourselves Anew 153
Where We Go from Here 155
Chapter 4 Seeds of Discontent 161
The Seed Savers 162
The Seed Safes 164
The Dangers of Lost Seed Diversity 172
A Slow Process That I lit the Fast Track 175
The Seed Changers 176
The Case of the Unknown Illness 183
Fail: GMOs Enter the Marketplace 185
Fanners: GMO Crop Contamination and Parmer Liability 188
Environment: Frankenfish and Gene Jumping 190
Us: GM Products We Live with Today 192
Biotech and Industrial Agriculture Myths 201
How Did GMOs Get Past the FDA in the First Place? 209
The Distinction Is the Difference 211
Public Distrust Is Driving More Openness 212
The Seed Healers 213
The Modern Origin of Our Break, with Nature 215
The Cost in Despair 218
The New Earth Stewards 220
Part 3 Your Earth Calling
Chapter 5 Reconnecting to the Earth 227
Stepping into Your Soul's Journey 228
Witnessing Yourself: Keeping a Journal 229
Waking Up: Learning to Look 230
Your Place on Earth: Seeing Where You Live 231
Learning Your Bioregion 233
Waking Up: Learning to Listen 238
Biodynamics: The Earth's Healing Power 241
Findhorn: Mother Nature as Miracle and Mystery 244
Beginning an Earth -Based Spirmtal Practice 251
Getting Started: Reconnecting to the Earth 252
Forgiveness Prayer 261
Chapter 6 The Alchemy of Action 265
What Moves You? 266
Start with Dirt 267
Plant (or Help Tend) a Vegetable or Flower Garden 268
Plant a Meditation and Healing Garden 272
Be a Conscious Consumer 279
Grow Hemp (If It's Legal) 284
Getting Started on Your Activism 285
Earth-Advocacy or Green Organizations 286
How to Fight Fracking 291
GMOs and Global Food Security 292
Healthy Living, Eating, and Gardening Organizations 295
Ocean Conservation and Action 299
Offset Your CO2 300
Repurposing and Design 301
Seed Saving and Activism 301
Tree Advocacy Groups 302
The Act Part of Action 303
Civil Disobedience: Putting Skin in the Game 303
Climate Activism 304
Everything Breathes Together 307
Bibliography 309
Notes 329
Index 353
Acknowledgments 365
About the Authors 371