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On this blog we post thoughts and news around Deep Ecology and the Work that Reconnects written by ourselves and by others. We like to speak truth about what is happening to our world, whilst also highlighting positive projects, institutions or individuals who participate with Active Hope in the Great Turning.

Of Mushrooms and Clouds

by Joanna Tomkins, Gaia Speaking I first heard about the plastic-eating capacity of mycelium during a permaculture course I attended in 2016 when my friend and mycologist Justin White showed us a TED Talk by Paul Stamets about how mushrooms COULD save the world. (You may have seen the 2019 “Fantastic Fungi” documentary that Stamets…

Emergence and Power-With

Extracts from the book Active Hope by Chris Johnstone and Joanna Macy Hereunder are some of my favourite extracts from the book Active Hope, some which we used for our online Gaia Speaking course “Active Hope in the Great Turning” this month during the Seeing with New Eyes session. I am drawing inspiration again from…

Do mushrooms really use language to talk to each other? A fungi expert investigates

Extract from an article in theconversation.com by Katie Field, Professor in Plant-Soil Processes, University of Sheffield Nearly all of Earth’s organisms communicate with each other in one way or another, from the nods and dances and squeaks and bellows of animals, through to the invisible chemical signals emitted by plant leaves and roots. But what…

Sensitivity – The Heart of Spiritual Living

By Jiddu Krishnamurti, in “Krishnnamurti’s Notebook”, first published in 1976 Without sensitivity there can be no affection; personal reaction does not indicate sensitivity; you may be sensitive about your family, about your achievement, about your status and capacity.  This kind of sensitivity is a reaction, limited, narrow, and is deterioration.  Sensitivity is not good taste…

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