Collected Resources for Further Exploration on the Climate Crisis

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Collected by Martha O’Hehir

In October and November, 2021, The Work That Reconnects Network partnered with Pulp Films and Video Project to support the international release of Once You Know, an award-winning film by Emmanuel Cappellin in collaboration with Anne-Marie Sangla. Inspired by the Work That Reconnects, Extinction Rebellion and Collapsology, this film is a deeply personal exploration of coming to terms with crisis, collapse and active hope in these troubling times. The  series of Once You Know film screenings and post-screening events was announced to the WTR Network mailing list, and more than 22 events in 9 different countries were scheduled very quickly. Martha O’Hehir, a facilitator and member of the Deep Times Journal Editorial Board, hosted two of these events on November 4th and 10th, and she identified many of the resources listed here for those who participated.  

Books/Articles

Active Hope by Joanna Macy and Chris Johnstone

Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever proposed to Reverse Global Warming, and Regeneration: Ending the Climate Crisis in One Generation, both By Paul Hawken

Becoming Gaia, by Sean Kelly

Power, by Richard Heinberg

Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet, by Thich Nhat Hanh

All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis, edited by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katherine K. Wilkinson

Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest by Suzanne Simard

Sisters in Spirit: Haudenosaunee Influence on Early American Feminists, by Sally Roesch Wagner

Imbalanced Spheres of Activism and “The Great Turning” that Needs to Get Turning

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Pp. 105-117, “Allegiance to Gratitude,” is the chapter with The Haudenosaunee. Thanksgiving Address in full, with annotations.

Think Indigenous: Native American Spirituality for a Modern World by  Doug Good Feather, transcribed by Doug Red Hail Pineda. pg. 53-66 contains the Water Ceremony for Healing Trauma

A People’s History of the United States  by Howard Zinn

Citation from Columbus’s log, page 1; citation from Las Casas’s History of the Indies on page 7

 

Videos/Movies

The Shambala Prophecy by Joanna Macy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2Y10cdOE3M&t=59s

Befriending Your Despair (4:30) by Joanna Macy

https://workthatreconnects.org/resource/joanna-macy-befriending-your-despair/

https://vimeo.com/294069610

*Climate Crisis as a Spiritual Path  by Joanna Macy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQAYVKqTkKo&t=405s

Post Doom with Joanna Macy and Michael Dowd

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4h1wdh3yEc4

A hopeful movie on regeneration is 2040

https://whatsyour2040.com/

Trailer for the Movie 2040:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-rTQ443akE

Bill McKibben’s Teach -In on Climate Change

#1-  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvHCjsDBwxM   (12:33) How We Got here

#2-  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPV_coPAkCE     (8:15) What We Can Do

 Three Solutions That Can Slow or Stop Climate Change (4:29)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoZF16PZYoU

Climate Change: We are the Problem and the Solution (8:42)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-D_Np-3dVBQ

His Epic message Will Want to make You Save the World (4:23)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-nEYsyRlYo

Some Call Me Nature- Julia Roberts speaks as the voice of Mother Nature (1:58)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmVLcj-XKnM

Climate Change is about Power (2:18)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m95K7LClIC4&t=12s

Friendly Guide to Climate Change and What You Can Do (16:52)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CM_KkDuzGQ

Great Thunberg: Democracy is the Only Solution to the Climate Crisis (1:29)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-xAHv4kRz4

 

Web Resources

The Work That Reconnects

www.workthatreconnects.org

Post Carbon Institute   (Richard Heinberg)

https://www.postcarbon.org

Resilience (Richard Heinberg)

https://www.resilience.org/

Localization Action Guide (out of Australia, applicable anywhere)

https://actionguide.localfutures.org

TH!RD ACT – Bill McKibben’s movement/website for our retired generation to begin protesting again for climate change Third Act!

https://thirdact.org/news-updates/2021/10/15/welcome-to-your-third-act/

 

Resources for Healing Our Pain

Grace and Lightness

https://graceandlightness.com/hooponopono-hawaiian-prayer-for-forgiveness/

To Set Right: Ho’oponopono: A Native American Way of Peacemaking

by Manu Meyer in The Compleat Lawyer, Fall 1995

https://www.narf.org/nill/documents/peacemaking/1995-meyer-to-set-right.pdf

Climate Psychology Alliance

Providing psychotherapy for people concerned about climate urgency and issues;

The organization supports therapists who wish to open their practice to climate concerns

https://www.climatepsychologyalliance.org/about

And there is a tab for individuals to GET SUPPORT

 

Music

Music from the Work That Reconnects Resources Pages

https://songsforthegreatturning.net

May this Be an Opening

https://songsforthegreatturning.net/honoring-our-pain-for-the-world/may-this-be-an-opening/

 Compassionate Eyes

https://songsforthegreatturning.net/going-forth/compassionate-eyes/

Climate Choir Melbourne has words to lots of well-known tunes https://climatechoirmelbourne.wordpress.com/word-sheets/

And here https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jbwwo38QiEJ1msE4rEuJFXUZJn-kjWci/view

Justice Choir

https://www.justicechoir.org/

Appalachia Rising: Resilient

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tx17RvPMaQ8

MaMuse:  We Shall Be Known

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dX11MEtbkXI&t=23s

Thrive East Bay Choir: We Shall Be Known

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKhjaN72dRQ

Holly Near: The Souls Are Coming Back

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AISD0cupGBY

ThisisLea: Honor the Dark

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEztYa9uqKY

 

Courses

Free Online course on Active Hope  by Chris Johnstone


 

 

Martha O’Hehir is an educator and writer and has served as an editor or contributing editor for several publications, including the The Music Practitioner,The Orff Echo, and Reverberations. She wrote curriculums, elementary music and math, religious studies, and music improvisation for healing musicians. She is a facilitator of the Work That Reconnects and gives retreats and workshops connecting the Great Turning with the spirituality of Teilhard de Chardin. Ordained to interfaith ministry as an Eco-Chaplain in 2017, Martha aspires to bring greater consciousness to Earth stewardship as an act of spirituality, through her writing, music, and spiritual direction.

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