How to cultivate appreciation for our environment?
Getting to know, respect and love the natural world we inhabit.
Environmental education activities that support social health, physical health, mental health and environmental health:
- nature walks
- 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.