Dear Friends, Earlier this spring the chaplain at Harvard joined students sitting-in outside the Harvard president’s office to demand climate action. He took the bullhorn for a minute, and thanked the organizers for “giving me the chance to be the
Discerning Between Failure and Opportunity (by EcoFaith Intern Tess Waechter of Leaven Community)
I’m in recovery. I’m recovering from a shamed-based, product-oriented, industrial-growth model society. I’m also recovering from a year of discovery. About a year and a half ago, I started my journey with EcoFaith Recovery. As I write this blog,
The Rape on Pioneer Road: Three Giant 100 Year Old Sequoia are no more (by Lloyd Meyer, Simply in Season Group Member)
The Pity of It All. Three Giant Sequoia , a 100 years old, all cut down in a day. One intrepid planner asleep at the wheel. “It would have cut down on the developer’s profit maximization” paraphrasing a current
Sunset on Commonwealth Lake (by EcoFaith Pastor/Organizer, Robyn Hartwig)
Perhaps that sunset had been more glorious only minutes earlier while my head was buried down in my computer. As I turn now to locate some piece of paper on my desk, I catch what is left of it out
It comes full circle in completion, and begins again (by EcoFaith Intern Nathan Holst)
It comes full circle in completion, and begins again. There have been a lot of full circles in this internships process. It’s almost a full year since I started this project. We finished our last day of the youth
Planting seeds one day at a time: a recap of the Eco-faith Youth Project (by EcoFaith Intern Nathan Holst)
Planting seeds one day at a time: a recap of the Eco-faith Youth Project As I look back at the experience of the Eco-faith Youth Project, I’ve been thinking about planting seeds. In my first vision of the project, I
Eloheh Farm (by Redbird Woodley, EcoFaith Mini-Grant Recipient)
I have been working on a summer internship because of a grant provided by Eco-Faith Recovery. I have been working for two weeks on a farm called Eloheh Farm owned by my parents. Eloheh is a natural, permaculture type farm.
The Table (by Tess Waechter, EcoFaith Recovery Intern)
“If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time; but if you are here because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.” Lilla Watson, Indigenous Australian Activist Hi Folks, It’s been
What? Is there something in my teeth? (by Turtle Farahat, EcoFaith Recovery Intern)
Hello, friends! Happy spring to you! The flowers have been busting out of the ground, and it’s impossible not to catch that energy from them. I love it. So, I realized that I’ve been writing these posts, and have never
Reflecting upon my Lenten Discipline (by Pastor Solveig Nilsen-Goodin, a teacher/leader in our Biocommons course)
[Along with the Wilderness Way Community and its friends, Pastor Solveig Nilsen-Goodin’s Lenten discipline is to spend 10-20 minutes OUTSIDE, every day for 40 days in prayer/meditation/just being (rain or shine)! What follows is her reflection on her practice of