Soil, Spirit, and Solidarity #20
A Weekly(ish) Series
“The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all...Without proper care for it we can have no community, because without proper care for it we can have no life.” -Wendell Berry
Soil, Spirit, and Solidarity (formerly just “Soil Solidarity” ) is a weekly(ish) series that delivers ecologically oriented seeds straight to your inbox. On most Sundays I will share a handful of recommended reads and other resources that I am finding helpful, interesting, or important for tending the “soil” of my heart and faith, helping me become a fully ensoiled human. This weekly haphazard list of reads and resources includes things that I have recently been reading, watching, and listening to as I seek to cultivate a spirituality, and way of life rooted din the work of re/membering the soil. My hope is that this weekly email will provide essential ingredients for the work of composting your own theology, spirituality, and politics, becoming rich fertilizer for cultivating your own healthy relationship with the soil.
Soil, Spirit, and Solidarity #20
Article: Apocalyptic Optimism Could Be the Antidote for Climate Fatalism
by Dana R. Fisher / Time Magazine
“I call myself an apocalyptic optimist. I believe we can save ourselves from the climate crisis that we have caused; I also believe it will only be possible with a mass mobilization driven by the pain and suffering of climate shocks around the world.”
You can read this article here.
Blog: ‘Humanity’s remaining timeline? It looks more like five years than 50’: meet the neo-luddites warning of an AI apocalypse
By Tom Lamont / The Guardian
“From the academic who warns of a robot uprising to the workers worried for their future – is it time we started paying attention to the tech sceptics?”
You can read this blog here.
Book: Climate, Catastrophe, and Faith: How Changes in Climate Drive Religious Upheaval)
by Philip Jenkins
From the Publisher:
“In Climate, Catastrophe, and Faith, historian Philip Jenkins draws out the complex relationship between religion and climate change. He asserts that the religious movements and ideas that emerge from climate shocks often last for many decades, and even become a familiar part of the religious landscape. By stirring conflicts and provoking persecutions that defined themselves in religious terms, changes in climate have redrawn the world's religious maps, and created the global concentrations of believers as we know them today.“
You can get this book here.
Website: Permaculture Gardens
Making Permaculture and Growing Food Accessible for Families
This website is an amazing resource for anyone wanting to get into permaculture gardening / regenerative agriculture. I have recently been participating in a bootcamp that the Schauders have been leading, and it has been amazing!
You can check out this website here!