How to cultivate appreciation for our environment?
Getting to know, respect and love the natural world we inhabit.
Environmental education activities:
- group nature walks (support social, physical, mental and environmental health!)
- birding
- plant walks
- mycological societies
- Introduce kids & adults to the variety of amazing beings on this earth.
Recognizing non-separation from the world around us
- Recognizing our inseparability from our ecosystem: we are supported by our environment and we are a part of it. We are therefore responsible for supporting our own health through our ecosystem and the health of other beings that share this ecosystem with us.
- expanding personhood, recognizing unseen beings and rights of nature
Tuning to the seasons
- Tuning into the seasons as a climate resilience practice: listening to seasonal patterns and to seasonal abnormalities.
- Recognizing how fully we are embedded in the environment and impacted by it, as much as we have attempted to insulate ourselves from weather, climate, natural phenomena.
- Living seasonally and embracing the cycles that guide our varied habitats.
- Seasonal eating: vegetables and fruits sprouting will support our bodies in that time.
- Living with these natural cycles, rather than disconnected from them.
- Rising with the sun, resting when the sun rests. Using the natural sources of light and energy that are offered to us for free.
- Taking time to rest in winter, when the earth is also resting.
- Respecting the cycles of birth and death present in the seasons: birth in spring, blossoming in summer, aging and decaying in autumn, death and stillness in winter. Providing the conditions for new birth in spring again.