Eaarth Feels

This week's episode shares excerpts from a lively climate conversation Christine and Rose had this week with Joanne and Matthew, landscapers and gardening experts from Down The Garden Path podcast.

To hear the full conversation, head over to the Down the Garden Path webpage, or find them on your favourite podcast app.

"Data from farming and grazing studies show the power of exemplary regenerative systems that, if achieved globally, would drawdown more than 100% of current annual CO2 emissions," the new research says.

This week's Best in Climate episode highlights the good news about the climate crisis that lies right beneath our feet. Common Dreams staff writer Andrea Germanos shares highlights from a new research paper by the Rodale Institute, entitled Regenerative Agriculture and the Soil Carbon Solution.

Inspired by a recent quote from Pope Francis, Rose suggests that by each individually visualizing what provides us our divine connection to Mother Earth we each find the heart felt connection necessary to take care of her.

With the advent of Covid-19 and George Floyd's brutal murder,  difficult conversations have been brought to the forefront of everyday dialogue in 2020. Perhaps for the first time, we are examining our behaviors with an eye toward cause and effect. Jaquelyn Chorush believes we can extrapolate those tools to talk about the ultimate elephant in the room, climate change.

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"Music speaks the language of the heart, the language of the soul, and helps to unify people in a place of heart and soul."

"Voice-whisperer" Heather Houston is a singer, songwriter, and choir leader whose music aims to open the heart and lift the spirit. Her earth based music, ripe with feminine energy, inspires connection to earth with the aim of opening the heart of the world. In this week's podcast, Heather chats with Rose and Christine about her her creative process, her connection to the Divine, and her goal of uniting women worldwide in song.

"What I have found over the 15 years of leading this program is that the clear majority of what brings us fulfillment is being purely present in what we are experiencing—and most of these activities cost not a single dime."

In last week's episode, Rose and Christine discussed the importance of resilience as we move into increasingly chaotic times ahead, as a result of political and economic upheaval and increasingly destabilized climate. In this post, Priti Robyn Ross offers an effective and inexpensive way to stay emotionally healthy even in stressful circumstances.

If there is a gift to Covid-19, it is the opportunity to practice resiliency. What works? What doesn't work?  Christine and Rose share their own personal experiences and explore what we need to be better prepared for climate emergency.

Feeling listless, uncertain, unable to concentrate, fearful, anxious?   There's actually a name for that!!  Dr. Jonathan Zecher reacquaints us with the long lost terminology describing our current state of emotion and makes the case that giving name to our feeling may help .

This article was originally published on The Conversation.com

Everywhere we look, there are stories of catastrophic weather events. Why then are relatively few of us willing to talk about the unfolding climate crisis? Christine and Rose explore the reasons we may be unwilling to face impending disaster head on. 

"We all know the fractious forces of political allegiances are successfully sowing doubt and driving schisms at a time when we must care for each other and the planet more deeply than ever before."

Leia Barnett shares a deeply personal view from the front row of a climate crisis-induced megadrought in the American southwest. This article was published on counterpunch.org.