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2016: A Year of Turmoil, Interesting Times and Why We Need the Peace of Wild Things More Than Ever 

15/12/2016

 
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There's an old Chinese curse: 'May you live in interesting times.'

2016 has certainly seen its fair share of interest. Brexit, Trump about to enter the White House, Syria, a rise in nationalism and popularism... to name just a few events that show the way we've believed the world to be, is perhaps not how it is.

It could be tempting to see these as a blip, in an arc of history that we think always tends towards peace and justice, but as Paul Kingsnorth writes in this blog on the Dark Mountain Project there are deeper issues that need addressing:

"When I look at the state of the world right now, I see an arc bending towards something that dwarfs any parochial concerns about particular presidential elections or political arrangements between human nations, and which should put those events into deep perspective.

I see a grand planetary shift that has not been seen for millions of years. I see that half the world’s wildlife has gone, and half the world’s forests, and half the world’s topsoil.



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Plastic is Killing Whales. What Are You Going to Do About It?

15/4/2016

 
I came across this article in the Guardian about sperm whales stranded on the German coast, a few weeks after a similar stranding near Skegness on the east coast of the UK.

These strandings show us the results of our plastic-oriented society. Animals inadvertently consume plastic, and they suffer because of it.

If we could see the effect of what we're doing, we'd stop doing it, wouldn't we?

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Introducing the Way of the Horse

21/3/2016

 

Why We're Running Workshops that Help You Explore the Powerful Wisdom of Your Body

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I was listening to comedian and actor, Eddie Izzard, on the radio this morning. He’s just finished 27 marathons in 27 days. (!)

​They ask him if he’s taking a rest, or if he’s already planning to start running again.

"You're asking this now?!?" he jokes.

Then
after a moment's thought, "I expect I'll be doing half marathons every couple of weeks,” he says. He pauses. 

​“I need to move... like we did when we were kids... 

"At some point as adults, we decided that wasn’t a good idea, but we’re natural animals, and we need to move. We forget that."


He’s right. We are animals. And I know I forget that.
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Why Loving Nature is the Answer to Climate Change

7/1/2016

 
I read these words by author and speaker Charles Eisenstein on Facebook. They resonate with what we're doing at School of the Wild, so I'm re-posting them here. They're also on our Facebook page.
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"I am certain we will not "save our planet" (or at least the ecological basis of civilization) by merely being more clever in our deployment of Earth's "resources". We will not escape this crisis so long as we see the planet and everything on it as instruments of our utility...

"In other words, what we need is a revolution of love. When we as a society learn to see the planet and everything on it as beings deserving of respect - in their own right and not just for their use to us - then we won't need to appeal to climate change to do all the best things that the climate change warriors would have us do...

"A Zuni man I met told me that they believe that the worst thing is to take so much water that the rivers no longer reach the sea - because how then can the ocean know what the land needs?...

"I predict that we will succeed in drastically reducing fossil fuel use, beyond the most optimistic projections - and that climate change will continue to worsen. It might be warming, it might be cooling, it might be intensifying fluctuations, a derangement of normal, life-giving rhythms. Then will we realize the importance of those things that we'd relegated to low priority: the mangrove swamps, the deep aquifers, the sacred sites, the biodiversity hotspots, the virgin forests, the elephants, the whales... all the beings that, in mysterious ways invisible to our numbers, maintain the balance of our living planet...
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"Then will we realize that as we do to any part of nature, so, inescapably, we do to ourselves. The current climate change narrative is but a first step toward that understanding."

Why Conservation is Getting Nowhere

29/12/2015

 
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"Conservation is getting nowhere because it is incompatible with our Abrahamic concept of land. We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect."
Aldo Leopold (1887 to 1948)
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Aldo Leopold was a conservationist, forester, philosopher, writer, and father of the United States’ wilderness system.

If Animals Could Speak...

28/12/2015

 
If animals had a voice, what would they say to us?

​This gorilla has been taught sign language, and she has a poignant message for us: nature sees what we're doing, and needs our help.
    Nigel Berman, School of the Wild

    Author & Curator

    Nigel Berman is the founder of School of the Wild.

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