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Breaking Together – digital art for social impact
One practice that is recommended for people engaging in art as a therapeutic aid is to paint everyday on the same canvas. Yes, that’s right, it means painting over your previous day’s creation! Including anything amazing you might have painted. To engage in this art practice properly requires painting each day with a passion for… Read more
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Act Now BECAUSE It’s Too Late – XR founder member invites us men to join
This weekend, the environmental action group Extinction Rebellion launches its latest wave of protests seeking to make responding to climate chaos the organising principle of all political parties and governments. In response to the latest IPCC report, which began to catch up with the perspectives of XR and the Deep Adaptation movement, XR reasserts its… Read more
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For all the granddaughters
A poem written today, day 7 of my Covid-19 experience. For All the Granddaughters If you believe that our situation is terrible So do I If you experience emotions that seem unbearable So do I If you want some ways to escape the grief and anxiety So do I If you want to save your… Read more
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For Environmentalists, COVID is the Elephant in the Zoom
On June 10th Professor Jem Bendell gave a talk to the EU commission, organised by Globe EU, with participants from DG Grow, DG Environment, DG Move, DG Climate, and the EU Defence Agency. Here is a rough transcript of the talk, which will appear as a video soon. “Thank you to Roland-Jan Meijer and Sirpa… Read more
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Making time to tell our stories publicly
As I have a book out on Deep Adaptation next month, some people have asked me to tell my personal story of becoming an accidental spokesperson for people responding positively to an anticipation of societal collapse. I have not prioritised that. Instead, I spent most of my last 3 years connecting people who share this… Read more
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The urgent need to slow down: ‘maplessness’ for responding to collapse
This is a guest post from Katie Carr, Senior Facilitator in the DA Forum. You can join her on a course she will co-facilitate with Jem Bendell on deep adaptation leadership, online in July, in which these ideas are further explored. Over the last two years working to establish and nurture the Deep Adaptation Forum, I have… Read more
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