Episode 41: Accounting Alchemy for the Great Turning (with Ingrid Edstrom)
My guest Ingrid Edstrom founded the “Accounting Alchemy Network,” and in this episode, we talk accounting, and we talk alchemy. “Alchemy” as in transformation. Practical transformation, which of course is necessary in this great turning toward a life-sustaining society, along with transformation in the ways we think, and the ways we ask our questions. These…
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Episode 39: The Earth Caretaker Way (with Tim Corcoran)
How to become an Earth Caretaker? If you can, one way to start is to “get off your butt and get out in the woods,” as Tim Corcoran has been known to say, and his young students love to quote. Hear about many other good starting places and ways to walk the path in this…
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Episode 38: Holistic Climate Action and the Stories in Our Bones (with Osprey Orielle Lake)
“I bow to Osprey in deepest respect and gratitude for her years of inspired activism and this brilliant book.” – Joanna Macy Once again, I agree wholeheartedly with Joanna Macy, this time about Osprey Orielle Lake and her new book, The Story is in Our Bones: How Worldviews and Climate Justice Can Remake a World…
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Episode 34: Afro-lachian Herbal Remedies, Past Stories & Current Conversations (with Ruby Daniels)
Register here for the (free!) Great Turning Summit: https://programs.schoolforthegreatturning.com/gtsummit In this planet-wide, diverse movement we can call The Great Turning, one of the threads I’m personally following is medicine. I’m all in for the shift to a life-honoring, life-sustaining approach to understanding illness, treating disease, and promoting health and healing. Ruby Daniels is part of…
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Episode 32: Protecting Sacred Groves in India (with Radhika Bhagat)
“Somehow, we were only touching the symptoms, whether it’s poaching, whether it’s the destruction of forests, or unsustainable development.” So said Radhika Bhagat about her 12+ years of conservation work with leading organizations in India, as she explained to me why she founded the Sacred Earth Trust. Radhika now focuses on reviving spiritual connection to…
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Episode 30: News On Indigenous Leadership in the Arctic, The Mother Tree Project, and Tribes and Nature Defenders in the Philippines
Another news roundup of evidence of The Great Turning, for this month’s New Moon: Click Play above to listen in to this episode of Turning Season Podcast, your regular dose of active hope, here with news and deep conversations with people following the thread of their own storyline in this adventure we’re all weaving toward…
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Episode 29: Bright Green Lies and How to Act on What’s True (with Max Wilbert)
I guess I was believing some “bright green fairytales” myself – because the truths in Bright Green Lies burst a few bubbles in my mind. In a tiny nutshell: Solar, wind, hydro, and recycling do worse than not solve our problems. They continue the harms of industrial society, and divert the attention of people who…
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Episode 28: A Return to Beekeeping and Reweaving (with Ariella Daly)
Here at the new beginning marked by the Lunar New Year, come back with me to the beginning of Turning Season Podcast, for what remains one of my favorite conversations yet, with dreamworker, beekeeper, and new mother, Ariella Daly. A warm hello to all of you who’ve starting listening since this show was born. I…
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Episode 24: News on Words from Iran, Indigenous Fire Stewardship in Minnesota, and Robin Wall Kimmerer Fostering Reciprocity
Click Play below for today’s dose of Active Hope, in the latest news episode of Turning Season Podcast, covering: Turning Season Podcast is here to bring you news and deep conversations about our adventure toward a life-honoring, life-sustaining way of being human on Earth. This show is for every one of you who’s awake to…
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Episode 22: News on the Right to Repair Electronics, the Indigenous Environmental Network + Climate Justice, and Sponge Cities
More good news! Click Play below to enjoy a dose of Active Hope in the Great Turning with these 3 quick news stories: the movement to grant the “right to repair” our electronic devices, plus why we throw away and replace them so quickly introducing the Indigenous Environmental Network, the Western Mining Action Network, and…
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