John & River Seed sing "A Vegetarian's Lament"
Song written by: Mookx
Mar. 2, 2024
Jan. 1, 2024
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Nov. 27, 2023
Being processed for hours in the police compound was the high point chanting back and forth with our supporters thronging outside the fence, Violet Maree CoCo on the megaphone outside "Tell me what democracy looks like - THIS is what democracy looks like". So great to have my 10-year-old River at his first blockade watching 15 year olds speaking from the stage along side old mate Bob Brown. I'm feeling so inspired and empowered. Next year we'll be 10,000. WE ARE THE RISING TIDE! My 9 year-old son River, participating in his first blockade, suggested that we should fine the cops for littering" for allowing our kayaks to just drift away down the river after hauling the protestors onto their Darth Vader craft. Interesting that the police response was so polite and gentle, obviously ordered from above to be on best behaviour, this was the only criticism that I can make of their conduct. As one of the 109 arrested (and having been arrested at many direct actions over the last 43 years) I was impressed. Given NSW Police Minister Catley saying last week ahead of the protest: I applaud people for getting involved, I think that it’s important that people are having these discussions we all know where things are headed, I’m wondering if there may be elements of the government who want our movement to grow so that they have any chance to withstand the power of the Murdoch Press and the corporations? When Leonard Cohen sang: "The widowhood of every government" surely he is pointing to the death of the citizen without whom the government is powerless to withstand the brute force of corrupt media and vested interests. After the sweet young cop arresting me had said his piece I replied: "You and I are both tiny bit players in the theatre of social change. The only difference is that you’re getting paid double time for working on Sunday while I’m doing it for love and for the sake of your grand children as well as mine". Click here for the RisingTide website
Nov. 23, 2023
Things are changing fast even the NSW Police Minister applauded this event
https://youtu.be/r-nvV1AWdwg
but will it be fast enough? Its up to you and me.
Please support Rising Tide Climate Defense.
Click here to the Support link
Nov. 13, 2023
ABC CENTRAL COAST: *When the forests die, we will perish, according to John Seed, but with people like John on the planet they won't go without a fight.
John recently took on a multinational mining company to save a protected forest in South America and won the battle.
Organising his legion of followers around the globe from his home at Narara Eco Village John Seed continues the campaign to stop
the logging of our native forests in NSW and the destruction of forests worldwide,
as he explains to Scott Levi in Central Coast Conversations.
Credits
Scott Levi, Presenter*
Click here to Listen to the Presentation:
Nov. 4, 2023
So great to join a marquee full of Mid north coast activists at Nambucca Heads for the Bob Brown Foundation's "END NATIVE FOREST LOGGING" festival yesterday. Here I am with Bob, Uncle Miklo who welcomed us to country and Sue Higginson MLC.
Nov. 4, 2023
Watch the Video Click Here
Oct. 8, 2023
I get great inspiration and uplift from Maria Popova’s regular treasures and just found her
The Beginning and the End: Robinson Jeffers’s Epic Poem About the Interwoven Mystery of Mind and Universe. I hadn’t read this poem for decades and what a delight to have it light up so many parts of me that weren’t around decades ago and then to hear the long excerpt read by
Natalie Batalha. Well, how could I not get distracted from the long list of other delights clamouring for my day?
I allowed Jeffers to seduce me again and found the,
full text of The Beginning and the End
[note: when the
page loads click each page to move thru the book] and that, of course, was nestled among the rest of The Beginning and the End and Other Poems†published in 1963, a year after his death. Ahh, how to find the balance between order and spontaneity? How to allow that tension to weave my path through this gift of life?
Walker, your footsteps
are the road, and nothing more.
Walker, there is no road,
the road is made by walking.
Walking you make the road,
and turning to look behind
you see the path you never
again will step upon.
Walker, there is no road,
only foam trails on the sea. -
ANTONIO MACHADO
Sept.28, 2023
We first started supporting the work of the Mother Nature Cambodia around 2010 - see the 5 minute clip we made in defense of the largest rainforest remaining in SE Asia. Today they were awarded the "alternative Nobel Prize" - The Right Livelihood Award. Our Colleague there, Alex Davidson wrote: "Great news for many reasons, mainly because it should minimize risks of further jail time for our activists. Here's an excellent article about it. I am once more reminded of the support you and your team / supporters provided to us back in the day, over 10 years ago now my god! You guys were the very first ones to support us and believe in us, and we have come such a long way since. I can't possibly thank you enough for that support, it meant so much and made me / us realize so many things. Cambodia's nature is still immensely under threat, but at the very least certain areas of it are still hanging in there, thanks to the amazing campaign of activists such as the ones from MNC.
Sept.25, 2023
I'm suddenly called to prevent this and gathering allies for a social media campaign. To stop the logging of koala habitat in my home state of New South Wales and to persuade the NSW Government to honor their election promises and to gazette the Great Koala National Park.
Sept.23, 2023
Back in 1981, blockading Mt Nardi to stop the loggers, we'd sit around the fire at night singing and composing songs. One night a Maori guy called Frog came up with a beauty! We liked it so much we headed straight up the mountain then over to Pholi's Gap overlooking where the loggers were camped down in Grier's Scrub far below. We started the concert with a blast on a rusty saxophone. The loggers came stumbling out of their trailers and caravans waving flashlights cursing and then we regaled them with "Tonka Toys". This clip is me and my son River at the "Save Koala" rally, Narara Ecovillage Hall. Click Here to View
Sept.17, 2023
A film about our early work may be found here. For the last 20 years our efforts have been less hands-on and more supporting our friends at The Forest Way who continue to do such outstanding work. We've just sent them $11,500, over 1/3 of a year's budget. Please contact me if you'd like to make a donation - tax-deductible in Australian or US tax-payers. Compare this photo of Arunachala in 1988 with ones taken this year.
Sept.16, 2023
Honoring-our-pain-for-the-world-a-webinar-with-john-seed-and-skye-mandozay.
If you want to join us but missed the first in the series in May “Experiential Deep Ecologyâ€,
you can watch the recordings at
1
Experimental Deep Ecology
Click Link to View the Video:
2
Honoring-Our-Pain-for-the-World
Click Link to View the Video:
Sept.5, 2023
"This week Pat Fleming and I’ll be doing a webinar for the Australian Earth Laws Alliance. I’ll be speaking about The Work That Reconnects and the precedent setting court case we won before the Ecuadorean Constitutional Court where the “Rights of Nature†clause in the Ecuadorean constitution was used for the first time to eject mining companies from our Los Cedros Biological Reserve. Click Here for the Link.
Sept. 1, 2023
"My first serious bit of writing for years has been published in The Great Turning Times: "Hearing Inside ourselves, the Sounds of the Earth Crying"
Aug 10, 2023
Aug 5, 2023
Aug 5 2023
"A friend brought this book to my attention, Alternative Australia by Alan Dearling and my close friend and music master sorely missed the late Brendan Hanley aka Bebop aka Mookx. I was stunned. Published in London 23 years ago, there was a chapter about me, 6 pages long, history, Rainforest Information Centre, deep ecology, forest actions, spirituality, you name it. And I’d never seen or heard of it before! Well, there you go."
Click Link to View the PDF:
Aug 5 2023
my current experiments with Iboga have been profound. Energy and insight. .... more.
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Aug 5, 2023
High energy on our building site, last weekend up to 20 friends helping tamp in our hempcrete walls, to-day a handful finishing the job. Shingles, unfortunately, relegates me to delivering food and washing up.
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July 15 2023
Had the honour to participate in “Story Village” at the Narara Ecovillage and told stories about:
0 The Franklin River action
2’30” AusAID and the World Bank
6’25” Solomon Islands story
8’30 Solomon Islands song
12’18” Neville Wran’s office
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May 16, 2023
Great to share the stage with 3 of my heroes at the Aquarius 50 Forest Activism panel - Nan Nicholson, Dailan Pugh & Susie Russell
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May 13 2023
"I just did a zoom webinar on Experiential Deep Ecology with my Melbourne colleague Skye Mandozay for the Work That Reconnects Network -100 people showed up, exciting event."
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May 6 2023
"A Japanese TV program interviewed me on rainforests and deep ecology in 1992."
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Apr 23 2023
Stephanie Hazel interviews John Seed April 5 2023: Episode 27, Apr. 5, 2023
"Being Small Enough to Hear the Plants, Wise Enough to Act our Age".
John Seed on Deep Ecology & Sacred herbalism.
Click Link to listen on Spotify:
Apr 19 2023
Our little house, owner-built by my wife Megan, is taking shape. First photo shows a team from our community having hoisted 160kg lintel on top of the thermal mass wall running down the centre of the house made from locally made compressed mud bricks it takes a village! I’m the bald head foreground. Second photo a couple of weeks later..
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Apr 18 2023
I'm excited to be joining my friend Skye Mandozay in this WTR Conversation Cafe, May 6 and 7, 2023 exploring the EXPERIENCE of Deep Ecology and how these processes, synchronous with ceremonies and rituals practiced by all indigenous peoples, end the illusion of separation between humans and the rest of the natural world.
https://www.facebook.com/events/238762278534514
Feb 2023
John Seed’s poetry, music and philosophy reconnects us with the garden of nature.
We met at Salamanca Place’s Wild Gallery to ponder the nature of being. Here is that conversation – please feel free to share it. Bob Brown.
Online: Listen to Full Video
Feb. 23 2023
both full with 35 participants and a waiting list. Has deep ecology’s time come at last?
Deep Ecology Bruny Island Feb. 2023
Feb. 23 2023
Has deep ecology’s time come at last?
Kris Schaffer welcomes us to country, Bruny Island
Feb. 17 2023
Deep Ecology and Mental Health Special Guest Presenter: John Seed
Holding Space for Self and Others Webinar Ep 42. Deep Ecology is a philosophy of nature which explores the psychological disease that allows humans to attack the biological fabric out of which our own lives too are woven........
Online: Watch the Video
Feb. 15 2023
Julien is national coordinator for the study of Grief and Trauma at the biggest private Counselling and Psychotherapy Institute in Australia (ACAP) and is interested in deep ecological and ecological-grief perspectives and their contribution to Mental Health in Australia.
Of this conversation Julien wrote for his students:
Grief Ritual and Deep Ecology with John Seed
Click Here for the Story and Podcast
Jan 15 2023
Amazing how there’s an unprecedent surge of interest in experiential deep ecology workshops. 35 participants in Melbourne in November so I scheduled one for Feb. Filled in a week so now scheduled May and September. Same for Sydney, same for N Coast. Last weekend on the Central Coast I dared to expand to 40 in the circle for the first time in decades. Utterly gorgeous. What a blessing.
Online: See Large Photo
Date | Event |
Jan 7 2023 |
The Cicadas interrupt the Dharma Talk
Published in November 2022, Living and Working
Together tracks the 50-year-old history of the
Dharmananda Community in The Channon, near Lismore,
NSW Australia. Online: Listen to Full Talk PDF: Transcript
& Links |
Dec 1 2022 |
Great day in Melbourne
yesterday. I emailed one of my
heroes, Tyson Yunkaporta, author of the brilliant
"Sand Talk" and asked him if we might have a yarn on
his podcast "The Other Others". https://anchor.fm/tyson-yunkaporta Lo
and behold he replied at once, "how about between 1
and 2 to-day?" So ... we had a great rave together
and at 5.30 he emailed me "Yau, here's the link
bruz" https://anchor.fm/tyson.../episodes/Eco-Warrior-e1rj0rs Cool!Then
a deep ecology talk at the wonderful Black Spark
Cultural Centre https://www.facebook.com/black.spark.cultural/
and to-day begins the Entheogenesis Australis
conference. https://gardenstates.org |
Sept 22 2022 |
Interesting to look back at the podcast I
did for Derrick Jensen's Resistance Radio in 2018. PDF: Transcript of Derrick Jensen's Resistance Radio Actual Podcast: |
Sept 11 2022 |
Some great music fell into my life this
week. |
Sept 9 2022 |
HOW I CAUGHT DEEP ECOLOGY - REFLECTIONS ON
THE 4Oth ANNIVERSARY by John
Seed |
Sept 6 2022 |
"Deep Ecology" by Daniel Mirante
|
Sept 3 2022 |
Memoirs of the Rainforest Information Centre Andy
Caffrey's video also has a short but sweet deep
ecology rave (7m40s)
as introduction to Expanding Universe and The
Wallies singing Lay Down Your Whopper Baby inside
a Vancouver Burger King to
protest BK destroying rainforests in Costa Rica for
cattle pasture (30m15s). |
Sept 1 2022 |
Workshop in the forests of the Arcoora Arts
and Ecology Training Ground
https://www.facebook.com/events/1018409028786726
https://www.instagram.com/p/Ch7G_fzJ4j6/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet |
Aug 17 2022 |
Skye Cielita Flor shared a post: |
Aug 8 2022 |
DEEP ECOLOGY AND THE CONSERVATION OF ECUADOR RAINFORESTS: John Seed is
offering 2 deep ecology workshops on the N Coast
this year near
Kyogle (August 26-28) and near Nimbin (October
21-23). 25% of proceeds support the protection
of Ecuadorean rainforests. |
July 12 2022 |
Deep Ecology Online: Practices
for Awakening & Resilience in a Changing World |
July 12 2022 |
John Seed recites Poem by Drew Dellinger "Word
to the Mother" |
July 11 2022 |
John Seed Sings "Born To Be Wild" Music
by John Seed |
July 9 2022 |
John Seed Excerpts from Redwood Summer 1990 |
July 9 2022 |
A letter from Divish Petrof (1st installment) I had a visit a couple of weeks
ago from Divish Petrof, an activist who worked with
us at the Rainforest Information Centre but we
hadn't been in touch since the 90's. We sat around
the fire and I was amazed how well he remembered
stuff that I had long forgotten. He agreed to write
some of his memories down for our archives and today
I received the first instalment. |
April 29 2022 |
River and John |
Dec. 2 2021 |
Los Cedros Biological Reserve Dec. 2, 2021
Click to View Story in THE GUARDIAN:
|
Dec. 1 2021 |
Los Cedros Biological Reserve Dec.
1, 2021 |
Nov. 10 2021 |
“Interview by Steven Wyatt, ex Financial Review journalist and ex China correspondent for that paper, for his alternative history of Byron Bay" Click Here to View: |
Nov. 1 2021 |
Photos of John and his Son River. Click Here to View: |
Aug. 25 2021 |
Some photos from the last couple of years Click Here to view: |
Jan. 16 2019 |
Update: "Actually,
I have to credit Acacia courtii and
some sweet friends for assisting the immunotherapy" Click
Here for: link from "Acacia courtii and some sweet
friends" |
Jan. 16 2019 |
We're doing well, River just
turned 5 and is a delight. |
Jan 15 2019 |
John's Son River and Grand daughter Jala
|
Dec. 31 2018 |
Click Photo for Full Size |
Nov 14 2018 | |
Aug 5 2018 |
This could be the game-changer we've been waiting for. A court in the Azuay Province of Ecuador has rejected the Government's appeal and the Chinese-owned Rio Blanco gold mine has been stopped! See the excellent article about this issue written last week before this historic decision. |
Aug 3 2018 |
Megan left for a workshop yesterday leaving River (RIVER GALAXY) for a week for the first time. Next Wednesday he and I will fly to Cairns. Friday we'll pick Megan up at Cairns airport and drive to my first gig with the families at Kowrowa, a small indigenous -community out of Kuranda, (out of Monamona Mission in the 60's). Next morning we head to the Coalessence Festival, Mission Beach for a deep ecology workshop and to meet Bodhi and family (IMAGES 6008, 6012, 6014, 6016) there for the weekend before we repair to a week together at Cape Trib then deep ecology gigs in Kuranda and Cairns and home again jiggety jig. |
Aug 1 2018 |
Melbourne RAG's superb research into the Aussie miners who hold the lions share of the contested concessions threatening to lay Ecuador's rainforest biodiversity to waste |
July 16 2018 |
Important article on the economic damage caused by the mining industry, written by Alberto Acosta Ecuadorian economist former Minister of Energy and Mines. Former president of the Constituent Assembly. Former candidate for the Presidency of the Republic of Ecuador. ENGLISH..... ESPAÑOL. |
July 15 2018 |
Thanks to Davide Nicastro, the Hope St Warehouse residents and all the musicians for last night’s rave party which raised $11,000 for Los Cedros legal defense |
July 11 2018 |
About 40 activists from Students of Sustainability, Friends of the Earth and the Melbourne Rainforest Action Group descended up BHP's headquarters in downtown Melbourne today, locking down the lifts and blockading the main entrance for an hour until police intervened. We held Ecuador-related campaign signs and handed out leaflets. Several TV news networks came to cover the action, with the ABC (the national broadcaster) covering all the various student actions targeting various government agencies |
July 8 2018 |
Great deep ecology workshop, 40 participants, first time I've had to turn people away from a full workshop in 20 years, booking 2 more in Nov-Dec, $1900 raised for Los Cedros. Thanks so much Mycelium Studios for donating this incredible space. Melbourne rocks! Afterwards, one of the Mycelium gang, Ivanna, took some great portraits of me |
July 7 2018 |
Brendan Condon from The Cape Ecovillage near Melbourne recently gave a talk at our Narara Ecovillage where he described the totally passive (open source) designs that they have created and started building down there which now achieve over 9 NatHERs stars and require minimal cooling OR heating. Today Brendan showed a couple of us around his project and we went to visit some of the houses they have built . We were stunned by the comfort on a wild weather day in July and particularly by the economics they can now build one of these houses with zero energy bills at a tiny 3% premium over the cost of a well-build conventional house costing $3000 to $3,500/year in energy bills (ie 3 year pay-back period and then no energy bills for the life of the building). This is the future. |
July 1 2018 |
Students of Sustainability are a totally kick-ass group of uni students from around the country that get together at a different campus each winter, this year in Melbourne. They organise direct actions following each of their conferences and I was able to negotiate for this years actions to include one at BHP's HQ in Collins St they want to attack BHP around Aussie uranium mines among other things and happy to include Ecuador in the mix. I've gone to 6 or 8 of their gatherings during the last 20 years and will once again give a deep ecology workshop at this one next week. |
April 28 2018 |
John Plays Guitar for the Kids Click to view Full Size Photo Here or (See the FB link) >> Click Here |
Sept 24 2017 |
Los Cedros Summary Update Click Here |
Sept 3 2017 |
A weekend of deep ecology events in
Bathurst NSW to benefit Los Cedros. Friday
night a talk on deep ecology for
Green
Drinks organised by the Sisters of Mercy
Rahamim
Ecology Centre. They posted a video
of my talk onto youtube as well as
a 5-minute
clip and the two Drew Dellinger
raps I opened and closed with: The
Universe Jam and Word
to the Mother. Then a gorgeous weekend
of experiential deep ecology. The best part is
that, in spite of being the facilitator, I'm
able to fully participate as well and, just as
for the other participants, I get to soak in the
healing and empowerment returning so refreshed to my
family and work. |
May 10 2017 |
My old friend, the permaculture legend Jeff
Lawton, posted my Los
Cedros rave to his news site and
also filmed a passionate 7-minute video which went
out to some 60,000 subscribers to his Friday Five |
April 2017 |
Los Cedros, the Biological Reserve in NW
Ecuador which we launched back in the late
80's
with the help of a grant from the Australian
Government's development assistance bureau is facing
its most serious threat The Ecuadorean government
has secretly signed a mining agreement covering Los
Cedros and other protected areas with the Canadian
company
Cornerstone
Capital Resources inc. Many of the
international scientists who have worked at Los
Cedros have signed a letter attesting to the irreplaceable
scientific value of this, the best -forested
watershed in Western Ecuador. You can support this
fight by signing the petitition here: http://rainforestinfo.nationbuilder.com/save_los_cedros |
Sept 16 2014 | My son River (9 months) and granddaughter Jala (4 months) |
July 12 2014 | Megan River and I have joined the Narara Ecovillage. Click here for YouTube Video |
June 7 2014 | One month old today, my granddaughter Jala Star Seed, welcome, blessings of the Universe pour upon you endless from the eternal fountain Here's her 6-month old uncle, my son River with his mama and nagymama |
May 17 2014 | Me and River at his first blockade the day before the NSW Government caved in in the face of people power and suspended Metgasco's licence to frack and their share price plumetted to 5c. www.flickr.com/photos/csgfreenorthernrivers/sets/72157644077911055/ |
May 7 2014 | Hallelujah! My grand-daughter was born this morning. |
April 24 2014 | A glorious Easter in the rainforest and some memories sparked by the death of Neville Wran.. con't > |
Apr 9 2014 | Photos of our son River 6 weeks to 4 months Note* When the page opens-Doubleclick top left photo, click on "slideshow" top middle, move cursor to bottom of screen and hit play |
Feb 11 2014 | River is 2 months old today, endless delight, plenty to keep us both busy. Booked my first gig since his birth - offering some deep ecology at the Regrowth Festival March 1-2 - hope they dont schedule me while Bodhi Seed is playing - Saturday 11.30am DJ SeeD, 1.30pm with Lub Dub and midnight with Syren link |
Feb 3 2014 | “The naming of our son “River" |
Dec 23 2013 | Wedding lunch Megan and John |
Dec 11 2013 | 11/12/13 The birth of our son. Hallelujah! |
Nov 26 2013 | Organised a great evening with world-leading Amazon rainforest conservationist - Atossa Soltani at the University of Technology and launched Amazon Watch Allies Australia |
Nov 23 2013 | Beautiful 8-minute piece on ABC's 7.30 Report last night about the launch of the events celebrating the 60th anniversary of my 93 year old mother, Judy Cassab's first painting exhibition.Nov 14 2013 organised fund raising for sustainable agriculture in Zimbabwe and screening "The Chikukwa Project" film premiere in Sydney July 8 2013 With Dana Lyons and NEO, the great band that he somehow persuaded to come down from Darwin, at our benefit for food security in Zimbabwe at Chapel by the Sea, Bondi Beach link photo dana |
Nov 23 2013 | Beautiful 8-minute piece on ABC's 7.30 Report last night about the launch of the events celebrating the 60th anniversary of my 93 year old mother, Judy Cassab's first painting exhibition. |
July 8 2013 | With Dana Lyons and NEO, the great band that he somehow persuaded to come down from Darwin, at our benefit for food security in Zimbabwe at Chapel by the Sea |
May 31 2013 | Book Launch - Stories of the Great Turning What a great night, 120 people celebrating The Great Turning, Sydney Rocks! |
Nov 22 2012 | Raised over $6000 (see Oct 24 post) . Crowdfunding rocks! Thanks Do Gooder. |
Oct 24 2012 |
Please help
us to stop invaders from destroying the Los Cedros Biological Reserve in the Amazon headwaters of Ecuador |
Sept 12 2012 | Some reminiscences upon AID/WATCH’s 20th birthday |1980 documentary first eco-blockade in the world |
Aug 25 2012 | John Seed and Megan Wallace marry. |
July 16 2012 |
Do you think that humanity can find a way past the
current global environmental and social crises? GLOBAL CHORUS: rainforestinfo.org.au/deep-eco/seed/global-chorus.pdf |
June 28 2012 | CLIMATE CHANGE, DESPAIR & EMPOWERMENT, JOHN SEED & RUTH ROSENHEK Social Alternatives Vol. 31 No.1, 2012 |
June 8 2012 | After our great experiential deep ecology workshop at Mooncourt, Glenys and Taffy recorded Child of the Universe which I had sung to accompany the Cosmic Walk . |
June 4 2012 | completed due diligence and funded tree planting in Kenya |
April 2012 | engaging with food security in Zimbabwe |
Feb 6 2012 | keynote address to APNEC: “Deep Ecology & The Conservation of Nature†now posted to youtube. |
Nov 22 2011 | Council of All Beings to-day, my last event in Taiwan.. Yesterday keynote address to APNEC: Deep Ecology & The Conservation of Nature. Earlier, an Ecopsychology and Eco-Spirituality panel and before that Ecophilosophy and Council of All Beings at Providence University. Also delivered some money I raised for the aboriginal communities I met last time I was here, to stop the dams that threaten their lands and way of life. |
Oct 30 2011 | uploaded a bunch of my music |
July 2 2011 | UWS publishes SOCIAL ECOLOGY including my chapter The Religion of Economics |
May 8 2011 | Deep Ecology Mandarin website |
April 17 2011 | Ecology or Extinction? Raise your voice! Nothing short of a revolution in consciousness can now prevent the demise of the Cenozoic Era and all of complex life. Is it really that bad? Find out. Check out Chris Hedges, This Time We're Taking the Whole Planet With Us Derrick Jensen, Beyond Hope Clive Hamilton, Requiem for a Species John Greer The Long Descent and Reg Morrison Plague Species. What to do? I reckon its time to get annoyed, I'm organising a series of Climate Change, Despair and Empowerment workshops around Australia and see who else is feeling annoyed. And you? |
March 31 2011 | 2011 Deep Ecology tour of Taiwan, photo essay |
March 21 2011 | Sydney action against the Borneo timber Mafia photos |
Feb 28 2011 | Writing an article about my great few days with kick-ass activists at the Southern Forests Convergence in Tassie. |
Jan 25 2011 | Played music with my son Bodhi at the most excellent Rainbow Serpent festival. Also gave some deep ecology talks and workshops and sang the World Bank song. Loaded some of my music to Reverbnation. A friend made a slideshow to Word to the Mother. Getting ready for gigs in Tasmania next month and Taiwan in April. |
Aug 2010 |
Great news: following the 3000 emails which you sent
to environment minister Jairam Ramesh, news is in
to-day that Vedanta's controversial bauxite mine on
Dongria Kondh tribal land at Niyamgiri in India has
been stopped. You can see the story
in The Guardian or
theMinistry
of Environment and Forests decision
itself on the ministry website. Furthermore, Ramesh
has been quoted as saying that Vedanta had
committed very serious violations of environment
act and forest right act, and that his department
was looking at taking punitive action against the
company. The news sent Vedanta shares down 6%.
For more on this issue, see the amazing 10-minute
film:
Mine:
Story of a Sacred Mountain or
this great 5
minute clip and
a couple of recent
articles one
by Arundhati Roy
A great
new painting for
Arunachala (the sacred mountain we've been reforesting
for 20 years)
.
First music gig in 20 years with my son Bodhi.
Draft chapter âThe
Religion of Economics
for Handbook of Social Ecology.
Indian Journal of Ecocriticism interview
with Swarna
3rd exhibition of
The
Two of Us my sculptures along
with paintings by
my mother Judy
Cassab,
Canberra
July 31
Recent interview on
ABC Radio National The Spirit of Things
transcript Have you been wondering what the Maoist insurgency in India is about. Great article by Arundhati Roy and interview by Tehelka. |