Category: Our Collective
Posts about people in the Collective
Lorraine Shannon—Quotes for January-February 2020
Dancing with Disaster—Kate Rigby It is difficult to think of appropriate quotes when half the country seems to be on fire, human life and homes have been lost, vast numbers of people are being asked to leave areas of NSW and the loss of animal life is estimated to be 500 million – a figure [...]
Encountering the Wild at Dargan 2019
With generous support from Bendigo Community Bank, BMCAN’s Wild Mountain Collective, together with Gallery H and Monkey Creek Café, held their annual Encountering the Wild multi-arts event on the edge of the spectacular Monkey Creek escarpment between Bell and Lithgow, on Saturday 30 November. Peter Carroll, Chair of the Bendigo Sponsorship Committee: The Board of [...]
Peter White on Hope in the Age of Anxiety
https://natureconnect.com.au/genuine-hope-within-the-moment-point-moving-beyond-sugar-coated-hope/BEYOND BEYOND SUGAR COATED OPTIMISM Hope can be genuinely expressed from a position of rationality, that is based on a considered assessment of the situation, the risks and the evidence underpinning the desired outcome. It can be also be expressed from a position of inner knowing, what I described in my last blog as arising […]
Introducing Eco-therapist, Dr Peter White to the WMC
We welcome Peter, a Wentworth Falls eco-psychology practitioner, to the Wild Mountain Collective. With graduate science degrees in ecology and sustainability, and a PhD in ecopsychology, he draws on a 20 year professional career in environmental planning, as well as community activism focused on nature conservation and environmental protection. Over 10 years ago, as part […]
Lorraine’s Quotes for November
From Glenn Albrech, Earth Emotions: New Words for a New World (Cornell University Press), 2019 Week 1 “As a consequence of the new scientific knowledge of symbiotic coexistence, I submit that we actually live in the ‘symbioment’. It is a recognition that, at its foundation, life is all about the sumbios, or ‘the living together’ [...]
The Environmental Loss of Solastalgia—Melissa Harrison
Melissa Harrison Have you cried yet? No? Don’t worry, you will. Maybe it will be a news story about the last ice in a glacier, the last living coral on a reef, or the extinction of a bird you have never seen and never will. Perhaps a TV report, or even a tweet, will finally […]
The Healing Power of Nature
Home to us all – How connecting with nature helps us care for ourselves and the earth Authors: Cheryl Charles, Rosalie Chapple, Karen Keenleyside et al. Published by the Children & Nature Network in partnership with the IUCN Commission for Education and Communication http://natureforall.global/why Report synopsis: This review paper reports on a 2018 research synthesis [...]
Call of the Wild – Podcasts
Nathania Gilson in the Guardian Online 2 October discusses how people are using podcasts to reconnect with nature. Hilary Whitehouse from James Cook University, whose research focus includes environmental education, believes nature-related podcasts are finding an audience due to the rapid rates of animal and plant extinction across the world. As we get closer and […]
