Protecting Thriving Life
Turning Season Episode 18: News on Banning New Oil and Gas Drilling, Holding Actions Against Land Grabs, and a Moveable Forest
Welcome to news episode no. 2 of Turning Season Podcast, your regular dose of Active Hope in the Great Turning, bringing 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 our multiple crises, feels their love…
Read MoreTurning Season Episode 17: Experiential Deep Ecology (with John Seed)
How do we live at a time like this? You are in for a treat in today’s episode, hearing John Seed’s answer to this question, and especially in hearing about how he’s come to his answer. If you don’t recognize his name, John Seed is a wise elder, activist and well-loved leader based in Australia,…
Read MoreTurning Season Episode 16: News on Amazonian Women’s Healing Center, International Treaty on Plastics, and Reconnection Ecology at Wildlife Sanctuary
This is the first “news” episode of Turning Season Podcast. I had the idea to do short episodes like this while listening to a 5-minute NPR podcast a few months ago. It was a very quick, back-to-back series of stories with the sense: “Here’s what you should know.” It included something like, updates on war…
Read MoreTurning Season Episode 15: The Non-GMO Project, Right Relationship, and How Powerful Each of Us Truly Is (with Megan Westgate)
Have you ever noticed that little butterfly on some packaged foods, labeled “Non-GMO Project VERIFIED?” Maybe you even look for the butterfly before you buy, and feel better about eating what’s inside because of it. That’s you exercising your power in one of the most intimate ways possible: how you take food into your own…
Read MoreThe thing about the future
https://leilaninavar.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/The-Thing-About-The-Future.mp4 The thing about the future is that it might not be that bad – or, it might be so bad that nothing we do will make much difference. But what about the present? How are we living, right now? Is it loving and life-affirming? This seems like a more helpful question for my mind…
Read MoreTurning Season Episode 10: The Choice to Re-Wild (with Claire Dunn)
Click Play at turningseason.com/episode10 (or find Turning Season Podcast on any podcast platform) to hear my entire conversation with Claire Dunn, the founder of Nature’s Apprentice. I knew that in conversation with Claire – who lived alone in the bush for a year, spent almost a decade in grassroots environmental activism, has authored two books,…
Read MoreTurning Season Episode 8: The Rainforest Defending Itself (with Liz Downes)
Have you ever donated to “save the rainforest?” I remember placing a globe-shaped piggy bank on the secretary’s desk at my elementary school in about 1991. The Kids for Saving Earth club asked people to drop their spare change in, so we could buy a $25 acre of rainforest, and protect it “forever.” It’s been…
Read MoreTurning Season Episode 7: Betting on Emergence (with Jamie Harvie)
When you click Play at turningseason.com/episode7, you’ll hear the voice of Jamie Harvie, reflecting on the mindset that’s at stake as he works on one practical project: ending the use of single-use bags. When I first connected with Jamie, he told me about this campaign in Duluth, MN, to move on from single-use bags and…
Read MoreTurning Season Episode 6: Re-Membering We’re Connected (with Skye and Miraz)
Have you ever glimpsed your interconnection with the rest of the living world? Felt it in your own body? Maybe breathed in that knowing for a moment, or a few, but then slipped back into our dominant culture’s habitual perspective of separateness? I adored this conversation with Skye and Miraz, who are devoted to re-membering…
Read MoreTurning Season Episode 3: Guided by Dreams (with Matt Cochran)
Dreamwork is back in the conversation, because Matt Cochran is back. You may have heard him on Episode 22 of The Dreamers’ Den series. He’s here this time to share how dreamwork, especially in connection with men’s work, is a part of his role in The Great Turning. You can find Turning Season Podcast on…
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