Eaarth Feels

How do we reclaim joy and healing in a time of Climate Emergency? Eaarth Feels Podcast co-host Christine, self-described Climate Crone, as well as mother, author, and energy healer introduces her new podcast, Climate of Joy. Climate of Joy looks at the Climate Emergency that we are facing, and the opportunity that the current ecological and environmental, social, and economic planetary crises offer for dramatic spiritual and cultural healing. If you are ready for a new conversation about climate change, check out Climate of Joy, available wherever you download your favorite podcasts. Or click here to head over to the podcast website. For everyone who listened to the end of this episode, click here to go to the free thank you gift!

In this second episode of a two-part special COP27 podcast, Christine discusses how to apply a "bigger picture" perspective to the devastation of climate change with guest Sandra Boatman. Sandra is a skilled energy intuitive who embodies Divine Feminine ways of knowing and healing. Tune in for a conversation that ranges from practical energetic ways of releasing trapped emotions, and why that is important, to the planetary influences at this important time. Feeling stressed and anxious about the state of the world? Join the free online Healing circle Christine leads on the first Saturday of every month for energetic support in these challenging times. 

In this pre-COP 27 podcast, Christine discusses the world of vibrating energy and connection revealed by quantum mechanics. How can those of us who are alarmed about the climate emergency apply that information to our current situation? Christine explores this question, adding insights into other dimensions that she has glimpsed in her work as a spiritual detective and intuitive energy healer. If you want to share your feelings about climate change in a supportive circle, and have the opportunity to shift them using energy techniques, you are invited to join the free online Healing circle that Christine leads on the first Saturday of every month on Zoom.

***Spoiler Alert*** Does Apple TV's Ted Lasso, featuring a relentlessly optimistic American recruited to coach a professional English soccer (or football, if you aren't North American) team, have any insight to offer those of us who are kept awake at night because of the climate emergency? The show's second season includes an episode entitled "Do the Right-est Thing" and in today's podcast Christine and Rose discuss what, if anything, this popular show has to teach us about doing just that in a time of global climate change.

As pivotal UN climate talks begin at the COP26 summit in Glasgow on October 31st, this podcast episode spotlights youth whose voices are not often heard at climate negotiations, but who will be living with the impacts of a less stable climate all their lives. Six young people from around the world, including from those countries being most impacted by climate destabilization already, send a message to the leaders meeting in Glasgow.

The United Kingdom will host the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow, United Kingdom, on November 1 to November 13, 2021. Will world leaders commit to making the changes necessary?  

"No matter what he says today, remember, Shell has spent millions covering up the warnings from climate scientists, bribing politicians, and even paying soldiers to kill Nigerian activists fighting against them, all whilst rebranding to make it look as though they care and that they have the intention of changing." This week's Best in Climate article, originally published on CommonDreams.org, discusses how brilliantly climate activist Lauren McDonald articulated the frustrations of many at Shell's climate inaction & obstruction. McDonald was sharing the stage with the Shell CEO Ben van Beurden at a TED climate conference in Edinburgh Scotland. COP26, the UN Climate Conference, begins in Glasgow on October 31st.

"It is helpful to know that to care about others, much less about the environment or the quality of life on the planet, is extremely recent in the evolution of consciousness of millennia." Dr David Hawkins This episode of Eaarth Feels is a discussion of climate change, and the other environmental challenges we are facing, in the context of psychiatrist Dr David Hawkin's Map of Consciousness.

Climate change and environmental destruction have inspired court cases around the country and the globe, aimed at protecting the natural world. Journalist Katie Surma gives us a brief history and provides us hope for Earth's future. This story originally appeared in Inside Climate News and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story.

Climate Breakdown is undeniable and no one is coming to save us. How do we step into this moment? Rose reminds us we are the ones we have been waiting for.

"Our leaders are lost," said Nakate of Uganda, "and our planet is damaged." This week's Best in Climate article highlights the recent addresses by youth climate activists Vanessa Nakate and Greta Thunberg at Youth4Climate summit. Originally published on CommonDreams.org.

Continuing our monthlong coverage on Climate anxiety, Shannon Thompson, the founder of Shakti Rising,  shares insights with Rose  from her 22 year history leading a trauma informed women's change organization.

In one Kenyan village, citizens are paid to plant mangroves rather than cut them, reducing deforestation and furthering economic and climate sustainability for the future.

In the year that has been transpired since we last spoke with thanatologist (climate grief specialist) Kriss Kevorkian, we have been hit head on with flooding, hurricanes, building collapse, droughts and wildfire. Neck deep in the knowledge of human caused climate change, Kriss offers her wisdom to help us cope .

Michele Smith shares her journey to founding the Resiliency School and offers a three step process to help us build our resilience muscle. 

Jillian Ambrose, the energy correspondent at Guardian News and Media details ways our climate grief is holding us back from taking action. This story originally appeared in The Guardian and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story.

Barcelona, Sidney, Los Angeles, along with Canada's largest cities, Toronto and Vancouver, have signed the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty. This week guest's on Eaarth Feels is Lyn Adamson, co-chair of Climate Fast and Canadian Voice of Women for Peace. She discusses the proposed treaty, and shares what gives her hope in this time of climate emergency.

"Despite decades of climate negotiations, we have not stopped adding to CO2 in the atmosphere. Rather, the process is speeding up. That is why it is so urgent that we have a global agreement to immediately stop any new fossil fuel projects, to phase out existing uses of fossil fuels, and to go full tilt into a renewable energy future with everything we've got." This week's Best in Climate article makes the case for a global Fossil Fuel Nonproliferation Treaty, inspired by the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT).

"Climate change and all of the problems in the world are energetically based, because we are all energy, whether we realize it or not." Energy healer Sandra Boatman talks with Christine about the possibility that the roots of the planetary environmental crisis originate in human consciousness. They explore how this understanding can revolutionize how we think about ourselves and the world around us and offer practical ways to raise our own, and the planet's, level of consciousness.

David Attenborough and scientist Johan Rockström detail the current state of Planet Earth while offering a hopeful path of action to avert this ongoing crisis. This story originally appeared on Mongabay.com and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story.

Wildfires, floods, and now the dire IPCC report , collectively humanity is being traumatized by our uncertain future. Rose talks with psychotherapist Patricia Fero about naming this intense emotion and  ways we can help one another through .

In this time of upheaval and division, Corina Luna Dea offers this powerfully hopeful essay reminding us that it is not too late for us to embrace our true nature as caring beings.

At the crossroads between hope and despair, what direction will humanity choose ?

The IPCC report released on August 9, 2021 is clear:  We are at a tipping point. Escape from human-caused climate change is no longer possible. Without immediate, rapid and large-scale reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, it will be impossible to limit warming close to 1.5°C or even 2°C   Climate change is now affecting every continent, region and ocean on Earth, and every facet of the weather.  Humanity must take action. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.

 This is our all hands on deck moment. Can we choose to focus on the optimistic signs that humanity is ready for the challenge ahead? Richard Matthews, author of The Green Market Oracle, gives us compelling reasons for hope. 

Through an unprecedented wave of lawsuits, America's petroleum giants finally face a reckoning for the devastation they have knowingly caused by fossil fuels. This story originally appeared in The Guardian and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story.

"So began the Monks Wood Wilderness experiment, which is now 60 years old. A rewilding study before the term existed, it shows how allowing land to naturally regenerate can expand native woodland and help tackle climate change and biodiversity loss." This week's Best in Climate article discusses the benefits of doing nothing to reclaim wilderness except leaving the land alone to naturally regenerate.

"There's really no escaping fear, you can't pretend it doesn't exist. So how do we live with that fear? How do we process it?" In this Best in Climate episode, Christine shares the advice of the Be Here Now Network's teachers on ways to respond to the chaos of the current situation, politically and otherwise, with love, compassion, and equanimity. This article was written by Noah Markus on behalf of Love Serve Remember Foundation, and originally posted on RamDass.org.  

"Climate change is a global problem with local impacts. This summer I and my neighbours, along with the people of Lytton, and countless others across Turtle Island are feeling the consequences of our collective reckless disregard of the climate consequences of burning fossil fuels. This summer the wheel of karma is turning to expose the devastating effects of our culture's worship of profit over anything else, including life itself." In this week's Best in Climate episode, Christine looks at this summer of reckonings. She discusses the traumatic discoveries of unmarked graves of children at Canadian Indian Residential Schools, her current situation as a potential climate refugee fleeing wildfires, and how she brings together the very different perspectives of a climate activist and a spiritual coach working with energy healing.

"I've been a 'climate change warrior' for over ten years. It's been like climbing uphill over loose gravel—for every step forward, we slid back two. The slow progress hasn't been for lack of solutions. The slow progress has been for lack of relationship." In today's Best in Climate episode, published just after the July 4th celebrations in the United States, Davia Rivka shares the experience of sitting down to talk climate change solutions with people across politic divides.

Recorded after the historic cancellation of the Keystone XL pipeline project, Rose and Christine discuss whether activism is making a difference in creating the change we need in a time of climate crisis.

"The solution is clear: fossil fuels must be kept in the ground. Leaders, not industry, hold the power and have the moral responsibility to take bold actions to address this crisis." In this Best in Climate episode, Christine reads the letter recently signed by the Dalai Lama and 100 other Nobel Laureates urging world leaders to cooperate and stop the expansion of fossil fuels globally. Read more at https://fossilfueltreaty.org. urge cooperation at Climate Summit to stop fossil fuel expansion

As we watch climate change take hold, we are already seeing widespread natural disasters, tremendous biodiversity loss and the immigration of climate refugees. It seems that humanity is failing abysmally in our responsibility as stewards of our beautiful Planet Earth.  More than a mere scientific, economic or political debate, the climate crisis may be moral dilemma of our time. 

 The Climate change and biodiversity loss crises are irrevocably intertwined.  Their solutions must be as well.

There is no going back. Now that we have recognized our interconnectedness, how do we move forward to a more balanced, equitable world?  The answer may lie in the Haudenosaunee Seventh Generation Principle.

If rich countries want a livable planet for themselves, they'll have to pay what they promised. This weekend's summit will show whether they will. This story originally appeared in The Nation and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story.

Lawns cover 50 million acres of land in the USA. A full 2% of our land mass. And they feed no one. We spend $30 Billion yearly to maintain them. Imagine if we put those resources to better use.

The Haudenosaunee Confederacy, comprised of the Mohawks, Oneida, Cayuga, Onandaga and Seneca Peoples, offer their Thanksgiving Address as a central prayer to the Natural World, thanking each life-sustaining force for the abundance it brings to all our lives.  This address speaks aloud mutual respect, conservation, love, generosity, and the responsibility to understand that what is done to one part of the Web of Life, we do to ourselves. 

Carbon Capture and Sequestration is our best hope for solving the climate crisis. Richard Matthews, author of The Green Market Oracle, gives us a fundamental lesson in this existing, viable and cost effective technology.  

" 'Inner social action' is necessary in order to make our outer actions productive." In this article published before his death in 2019, spiritual guru Ram Dass addresses the fine line those of us who care deeply about social justice and the health and sustainability of the planet find ourselves walking these days; we need to pay attention to the material world while maintaining a healthy inner balance. This article was originally posted on ramdass.org, and is written by Ram Dass & Raghu Markus.

"How, in our modern world, can we find our way to understand the earth as a gift again, to make our relations with the world sacred again? I know we cannot all become hunter-gatherers--but even in a market economy, can we behave 'as if' the living world were a gift?" Robin Wall Kimmerer is a plant ecologist, writer, and Distinguished Teaching Professor at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse, NY and a member of the Potawatomi First Nation. In this podcast episode, Rose and Christine discuss what Kimmerer's 2013 book, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, has to teach us about being in a reciprocal relationship to the Earth.

The opening chapter from Robin Wall Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass recounts the Indigenous story of Creation, Skywoman Falling, and asks if humanity can learn from its elders.

Today's youth have inherited a planet already experiencing the devastation of global warming. What would they like their elders to understand about this crisis? Ten Youth Climate Activists weigh in.

Richard Matthews, author of The Green Market Oracle, details the turn around the Biden administration has made in its first 100 days to address the impending climate crisis.

At the age of fifteen, Jens Peterson began his climate change journey, authoring What We Leave: A Caretaker's Guide to an Ill Planet.  Now nineteen, Jens offers a blueprint for each of us to become environmental advocates.

The closing chapter from Jens Peterson's What We Leave: A Caretaker's Guide to an Ill Planet envisions the catastrophe to our world If We Do Nothing.

What if your every trip to the grocery store helped counteract climate change? Hear how Turner Wyatt and Leah Graham of Upcycled Food Association are working to make that vision a reality.

Mark Reynolds, Executive Director of Citizen's Climate Lobby, makes the case that now is the time to enact a carbon tax. *read with author's permission*

Journey with ex pat Kristen Krash to the cloud forest of Ecuador where she is regenerating the land with organic cacao at Sueno de Vida.

When our lives are disrupted by crisis, can we look beyond the distress to view the moment as an opportunity for introspection,  action and change? In this compelling essay, Eilene Zimmerman details the personal growth trajectories of three individuals who have thrived in new directions because of the pandemic. Will we apply this lesson of resiliency to the impending climate crisis?    * read with author's permission *