10 Post-Election Strategies for Environmentalists
it’s 3:23 in the morning
and I’m awake
because my great great grandchildren
won’t let me sleep
my great great grandchildren
ask me in dreams
what did you do while the planet was plundered?
what did you do when the earth was unraveling?
Excerpt from The Hieroglyphic Stairway by Drew Dillinger
These lines came to me as I tossed in turned in the middle of the night, a week after Donald Trump won the electoral vote.
Looking at the plan that Trump said he will act upon the first 100 days, there are some which I can support, such as withdrawing from the TPP, cleaning up corruption in Washington, and the Affordable Childcare and Eldercare Act. However there are other issues to be concerned about, such as mass deportation, what the new healthcare plan and Supreme Court could look like and recent appointments which have exacerbated fears that there is an anti-environment and alt-right agenda.
Trump’s 100 day plan details an assault on the environment: Read More
The Shambhala Prophecy
For the first time in 20 years, tears poured out of me on the yoga mat this morning. It was a mixture of emotions post-election night. I cried for the children who went to school in fear today; fear of being bullied, sexually-harassed, or deported, and for their parents who have fear in their hearts too. I cried for the Earth, the water protectors at Standing Rock, and all of those who have dedicated their lives to caring for this planet. I cried for the millions of people who will lose health care. I cried for women and for girls as we face a conservative Supreme Court, the glass ceiling still intact. I cried for people of color who are feeling even more threatened by police and the “whitelash.” I cried for the LGBTQ community. The list goes on and spirals in on itself and back out and around again.
Yet, during all of this, a few other thoughts emerged. Read More
Holding Actions
I know that to some the world feels like nothing is really changing, it’s dirty politics and business as usual, and to others it feels like it is coming apart at the seams. There is a third story too, it’s called The Great Turning.
This phrase was originally a title of a book published in 1989, by Schindler and Lapid, and has since been used in Joanna Macy’s The Work that Reconnects, and by other writers. The Great Turning acknowledges that yes, in some instances we are carrying on as if it is business as usual, and there is also a “Great Unraveling” taking place, but within those two extremes, people are generating a myriad of creative responses so that we can shift from an Industrial Growth Society to a Life-Sustaining Society.
There are three components of The Great Turning – all very different, but all very necessary to make this shift. They are: Read More
Earth Spirit Action 