An ever-evolving list of amazing people doing things that might interest you. All ask: what can we learn about how to care for Earth and each other? ∞♥♒︎
Sustainable Herbs Program | Sustainable herbal medicine simply means herbal products that are produced and consumed in ways that sustain human and environmental health – in ways that are good for people and good for the planet.
United Plant Savers | United Plant Savers’ mission is to protect native medicinal plants, fungi, and their habitats while ensuring renewable populations for future generations.
FairWild Foundation | Building a world where biodiversity, people, and business thrive in harmony through sustainable wild harvesting.
Seed Savers | Keeping heirloom seeds where they belong in our gardens & on our tables.
Useful Plants | A permaculture-based nursery specializing in useful, phytonutritional food and medicinal plants.
Emergence Magazine | Emerging stories that explore the threads connecting ecology, culture, and spirituality—with the potential to shift ways of thinking and being in relationship to the living world.
International League of Conservation Writers | Inspiring love of nature and passion for its protection.
Noble Research Institute | Regenerative ranching is about healthy soils and a stronger bottom line.
American Forests | Data sources | Tree Equity Score | Changing tree equity scores in urban areas program and the magic number of trees needed for environmental recovery (31.4 million).
Raised/Razed | VPM | Raised/Razed | PBS | The life and destruction of Black neighborhoods in Charlottesville, VA, and Durham, NC.
Lynnhaven River NOW | Working toward restoring clean and healthy Virginia Beach waters.
Whro.org | WHRO Public Media & Batten Environmental Institute: educating Virginia’s environmental stewards of tomorrow.
Patagonia Works | Aims to invest in companies working to bring about positive change in five critical areas: clothing, food, water, energy and waste, and “save our home planet.”
Earth Equity Advisors | EEA team investors aim toward sustainable, responsible impact.
Nude Foods Market | A wonderful zero waste AND zero compromise food shopping market model in CO.
Wisdom Writers, Favorite Books and Communications:
- Braiding Sweetgrass – Robin Wall Kimmerer Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Devotions – Mary Oliver (and so many others) Mary Oliver
- Land of the Spotted Eagle – Luther Standing Bear Aktá Lakota Cultural Center (stjo.org)
- Rooted – Lyanda Fern Lynn Haupt lyandalynnhaupt.com)
- Animal, Vegetable, Mineral – Barbara Kingsolver (Small Wonder, High Tide in Tuscon, Last Stand: America’s Virgin Lands and many others) The Official Website Of Barbara Kingsolver
- The Comfort of Crows and Late Migrations – Margaret Renkl Margaret Renkl
- BlueMind – Wallace J. Nichols Exploring Our Blue Mind – YouTube Blue Marbles
- The Sea Around Us – Rachel Carson Rachel Carson Council
- Nature Is Speaking – Harrison Ford is The Ocean | Conservation International YouTube
- Bringing it to the Table – Wendell Berry (Peace of Wild Things) The Berry Center
- The Business of Botanicals – Ann Armbrecht Business of Botanicals – Ann Armbrecht
- Light at the Edge of the World – Wade Davis daviswade.com
- The Plant Hunter – Cassandra Quave (podcast Foodie Pharmacology) Cassandra Quave
- Looking Back | The Visionary Spirit of Resilience Jamie K. Reaser Kosmos Journal
- The Marginalian – Maria Popova writes tendrils of our search for truth, beauty, meaning, and creative vitality, reflections spanning art, science, poetry, and philosophy.
- Writing to Change the World – Mary Pipher
- Wild Writing – Coaching/Courses/Poetry 27powers.org
- Life in Five Senses – Life in Five Senses | Gretchen Rubin
- The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success – Deepak Chopra.com
- A Life on Our Planet – David Attenborough A Life on Our Planet – David Attenborough ∞♥♒︎
