Category: Deep Ecology & Spirituality

  • Earth Day Every Day: Re-thinking our Relationship with the Earth

    Earth Day Every Day: Re-thinking our Relationship with the Earth

    This Earth Day let’s look deeper at the problems behind the problems in our world. What would it mean for us to begin a discussion about changing the way we perceive the world and how we act in it? This Earth Day, ask yourself what’s the story you have about the Earth? What is your…

  • Edges, Boundaries, InBetweens: Continuing Explorations in Liminal Space

    Edges, Boundaries, InBetweens: Continuing Explorations in Liminal Space

    ‘The explorer who will not come back or send back his ships to tell his tale is not an explorer, only an adventurer; and his sons are born in exile.’” Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed 1974 In anthropology, liminality (from the Latin word līmen, meaning “a threshold”) is the quality of ambiguity or disorientation that occurs in the…

  • #30DaysWild Welcome To Ontario

    #30DaysWild Welcome To Ontario

    In wildness is the preservation of the world- Henry David Thoreau, in  ‘Walking’ (1862) Its Sunday June 3rd and back in the UK my colleagues at Surrey Wildlife Trust have already been busy filling social media with their #30dayswild posts to encourage their friends, family and the public to take time each day through June…

  • HedgeCanada Revisited: healing the landscape and connecting communities with a new hedgerow story

    HedgeCanada Revisited:  healing the landscape and connecting communities  with a new hedgerow story

    – Way back in the mists of time I completed a short school project on the Monarch butterfly Danaus plexippus.  Young Jim had read an article in a magazine with a picture of a tree dressed from root to branch in thousands of Monarchs. He learned about the incredible migration of this beautiful butterfly up and down Central…

  • Winter Solstice on Gibbet Hill

    It wasn’t the most picturesque winter solstice up on Gibbet Hill, Hindhead, Surrey…..     but in my mind it was all….   Happy Winter Solstice!