Here you will find a sample of the best resources to get you started on this journey of Being Change. Let me know if there’s a resource you like to include.
ON-LINE JOURNALS
Emergence Magazine It has always been a radical act to share stories during dark times. They are a regenerative space of creation and renewal. As we experience the desecration of our lands and waters, the extinguishing of species, and a loss of sacred connection to the earth, we look to emerging stories. In them we find the timeless connections between ecology, culture, and spirituality. Each issue features a theme explored through innovative digital media as well as the written word.
Dark Matter – Women Witnessing Dark Matter publishes writing and visual art created in response to an age of massive species loss and ecological collapse. It’s a home for dreams, visions, and communications with the nonhuman world – especially those with messages for how we might begin to heal our broken relationship to the Earth. As most of the world goes on with business as usual, others are asking: “How shall we live in these times?” Dark Matter is a home for the voices of these others.
FILMS
The Promise of Women & Girls
Brought to you by the Bioneers Everywoman’s Leadership Program
Humanity Rising Day 707: Urgent Call to Mothers and Grandmothers: War Stops Now!
Women are one half of humanity, yet our voice is not heard in relation to war. We see, every day, how war is destroying human life and the precious life of the planet. This must stop. Presented by a powerful panel of women.
Uncertainty and Possibility—Meeting the Climate Future
In the first of a series of conversations with Roshi Joan Halifax and Rebecca Solnit, Christiana Figueres shares how grief and loss ground her ecological engagement and spiritual practice.
The Wisdom of the Grandmothers
Inspired by an indigenous teaching that states, “There won’t be peace on earth until the voices of the grandmothers are heard,” this documentary film about grandmother’s wisdom and the book set out to find out why. In interviews with grandmothers and elders from Siberia to Patagonia, “The Wisdom of the Grandmothers” provides a powerful testimony to the importance of the voices of elder women in today’s world.
Today I Rise
This beautiful short film is like a love poem for your heart and soul.
Femme – Women Healing the World
The Death Throes of Patriarchy
This series addresses relevant topics including racial parity and justice, the direct impact of patriarchy on women and girls, men and boys, and all living things.
Becoming Midwives
Interview with Culture Designer Joe Brewer on understanding the context of the complex times we are living in. This articulates perfectly the essence of what Being Change means by “hospicing and midwife-ing” in the Great Turning.
Oil Sands Fly Over: My Memory Forever with Jennifer Berezan, Joanna Macy and Anne Symens-Bucher
Jennifer, Joanna and Anne bear witness to Alberta’s Oil Sands. In response to the experience, Jennifer, singer songwriter native to Alberta, wrote “My Memory Forever”, expressing her deep concern regarding oil sands expansion across Canada’s Boreal Forest.
Pale Blue Dot – Carl Sagan
Watch this if you ever forget how precious is our Earth. Profoundly moving.
ESSAYS
Encountering the Wild Woman– beautiful article by Kathy Stanley
All Things Are Born of Women – An essay about the awakening of women and their “rising as voices of the Earth.”
ACTIVISM
Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network
Women’s Earth Alliance
Planet Women
Daughters For Earth
Treesisters