Kill the Funding, Kill the Pipeline, Divest the Globe by Matt Remle

Public Lands: A Human and Dog’s Outdoor Playground

Karluk is getting older and doesn’t hike the long miles like when he was young, but get him out on the trail and he acts and moves like he is 2 years old again. I can see the change in his smile as we set off into the woods. via Public Lands: A Human and Dog’s … Continue reading Public Lands: A Human and Dog’s Outdoor Playground

RE-Volv: Giving people opportunities to create solar-powered communities

Great info, thanks for sharing.

Ecoregional Druidry: A Druid’s Wheel of the Year

Dana's avatarThe Druid's Garden

In the 1990’s, now Grand Archdruid of the Ancient Order of Druids in America, Gordon Cooper, developed the idea of “wildcrafting your own druidry”; this practice is defined as rooted one’s druid practice in one’s local ecology, history, legends and magic.  In today’s age of adapting and drawing upon many different traditions in the quest for spiritual wholeness, we sometimes forget that all knowledge, regardless of how ancient it is (like the Celtic Tree Alphabet and divination system, the Ogham) was originally developed in a local culture and ecosystem.  Thus, too, I believe our spiritual practice reflect our own local ecologies and ways of understanding.  I’m going to expand on some of Gordon’s ideas here and talk about my own work with “local druidry” or “ecoregional druidry” and how to put some of this into practice to create a “druid’s wheel of the year” that is specific to…

View original post 2,121 more words

TAWAI: Documentary film examines what humanity can learn from indigenous cultures