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Experiential Deep Ecology with John Seed & Skye Mandozay

Work That Reconnects Podcast

"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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Yasuhiro Hamano interview with John Seed

"A Japanese TV program interviewed me on rainforests and deep ecology in 1992."

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"The Elder Tree Podcast", Sacred Herbalism segment.

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.

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Our Little House

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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WTR Conversation Cafe

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.

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Bob Brown and John Seed in conversation

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.

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Great couple of weekends on Bruny Island Tasmania

both full with 35 participants and a waiting list. Has deep ecologys' time come at last?

Deep Ecology Bruny Island Feb. 2023

Yorta Yorta elder Kris Schaffer welcomes us to country, Bruny Island Feb 2023

Has deep ecologys' time come at last?

Kris Schaffer welcomes us to country, Bruny Island

"DEEP ECOLOGY AND MENTAL HEALTH"

hosted by Jacki Short from the Sydney Centre for Creative Change.

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........
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A Conversation between John Seed and Julien Tempone-Wiltshire Feb 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

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John Seed’s presentation to Entheogenesis Australis conference: “Deep Ecology and the power of ethnobotanical plants

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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". 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" Eco-Warrior Cool! Then a deep ecology talk at the wonderful Black Spark Cultural Centre and to-day begins the Entheogenesis Australis Conference

Interesting to look back at the podcast I did for Derrick Jensen's Resistance Radio in 2018

In the light of our huge success in stopping mining in Los Cedros and other important areas in Ecuador this year, I find the description of our campaign as I saw it back in 2018; pretty illuminating. But the best bit, for me, was the more philosophical, deep time tangent that the conversation took at one point, musing on the implications of extinction.

Transcript: PDF
Actual PodCast: Link

Some great music fell into my life this week.

"The Great Turning" from my friends Kelly and Donna, Still on the Hill: 
 Sweet! They organized deep ecology workshops for me in Fayetteville Arkansas long ago and then we reconnected recently..

A gorgeous new song from Howard Eynon. {Requires FaceBook Acct. to view} The land on Bruny Island that he is stewarding will host my February Tasmania Deep Ecology Workshop

And to top it off my friend Subhira wants me to help organize some gigs so he can bring his quintet out from Chile next month when he's been invited to the Port Fairy Festival 

I feel the presence of the Angel of Music.
This was the verse we added we added to "Angel of Sunshine" . It came through Doug Ferguson and me and someone else I've forgotten, on the banks of the Evans River during a deep ecology workshop in the 1980's.
Angel of Music, I hear you calling
Pour your vibrations down over me
Into my spirit your sweet song is falling
In your embrace, may we live in harmony.

HOW I CAUGHT DEEP ECOLOGY
REFLECTIONS ON THE 4Oth ANNIVERSARY by John Seed

Back in 1982, somewhere between the Nightcap and Franklin actions I was searching to understand the ubiquitous psychological or spiritual sickness that allows modern humans to imagine that we can somehow profit from the destruction of our own life support systems. Paul Ehrlich: We are sawing off the branch that we're sitting on. James Lovelock: Its as if the brain had decided it was the most important organ in the body and started mining the liver...Read more >>    Click >> To Read John's Full Story

"Deep Ecology" by Daniel Mirante

Art by: Daniel Mirante >> See Full Size Photo and Link to Daniel's Website

Memoirs of the Rainforest Information Centre

I'm so grateful to Divish Petrof for the 2nd of the memoirs of the Rainforest Information Centre which I asked him to write (see July 9 this year for the first instalment). Brings so much flooding back from the heydays of activism. In particular, his mention of the 1989 rainforest benefit in Brisbane with music by The Wallies (my son Bodhi, then aged 12 and his friend the late and sorely missed Emu) caused me to find this classic video by Andy Caffrey of the North American rainforest roadshow of the same year.

Some great clips including the Wallies, You Can't ClearCut Your Way to Heaven at The Ram Dass Camp and Steve Tripp's legendary Once Upon a Planet (Full New Version) which led me to Steve's own recent version of this great and uplifting song

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).

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Workshop in the forests of the Arcoora Arts and Ecology Training Ground

Such a beautiful workshop in the forests of the Arcoora Arts and Ecology Training Ground in the foothills of the Border Ranges, one of the national parks we helped bring into being with our direct actions. I look forward to singing this song again and telling a few stories from long ago at the Nimbin Town Hall on Saturday night Oct 22 as part of the 40th anniversary celebration of those actions and the declaration of the Nightcap National Park.

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Check out this new podcast conversation between Leilani Navar of Turning Season Podcast and John Seed, Some of the topics explored are:

how John found his calling in rainforest protection (part psychedelics, part being willing to help a neighbor, and part lucky accident)why he likes to attend a group Experiential Deep Ecology workshop about 10 times a year (like all of us, he still needs to remember to remember)
one practice that you can easily do on your own

The recent Rights of Nature win in Ecuador
how heâ's able to relate to this ecologically on the brink time with passion, but without hysteria
and a glimpse through his words of what it's like to expand your identity through time, through the cosmos, and through different life forms on Earth
It's such a special opportunity to hear from John Seed, especially after his 6-year struggle with cancer, when he couldn't engage in leading workshops or activism like he had been.

"John Seed is founder and director of the Rainforest Information Centre in Australia. He's been involved in direct actions to protect Australian rainforests since 1979. He's a well-loved leader and teacher of Deep Ecology, and collaborator with Joanna Macy in the early development of the Work that Reconnects. In 1988, Joanna Macy and John Seed co-authored the book Thinking Like a Mountain: Toward a Council of All Beings with Pat Fleming and Arne Naess."

https://turningseason.com/episode17/

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.

See John's 2022 Schedule here:>>
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Deep Ecology Online: Practices for Awakening & Resilience in a Changing World

One of the facilitators was my old friend and colleague Dr Eshana Bragg.
To-day she wrote on her Facebook page:

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John Seed Excerpts from Redwood Summer 1990

with The Wallies (musical group of Emu and Bodhi Seed)
News Clips from the Redwood Summer and Music by John Seed

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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.
Remembering the Rainforest Information Centre - Pt.1

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River and John

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Los Cedros Biological Reserve Dec. 2, 2021

In December 2021, Ecuador's Constitutional Court decided in favor of protection for Los Cedros Reserve from mining.
Seven of nine judges voted to revoke the environmental license of mining companies Cornerstone Capital Resources and ENAMI, forcing them to cease operations within the reserve.
The exciting thing about this 117-page ruling is its declaration that Cornerstone and ENAMI have violated three sets of constitutional rights:
     - the rights of nature;
     - the rights of nearby communities to safe water and a clean environment;
     - the rights of communities to consultation regarding environmental impact.
The court also ruled that companies failed to follow due process with environmental and water permits for the Rio Magdalena mining concessions which cover Los Cedros.
This ruling creates a precedent in Ecuador as more than 2 million H-a of similarly threatened Bosques Protectores and a worldwide precedent for the Rights of Nature

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Los Cedros Reserve. Photo: Roo Vandegrift

Los Cedros Biological Reserve Dec. 1, 2021

Monumental victory in Ecuador as the Constitutional Court ejects mining companies from our Los Cedros Biological Reserve. Click to View Story

Interview by Steven Wyatt, 

 ex Financial Review journalist and ex China correspondent for that paper, for his
alternative history of Byron Bay and the Full Interview of John Seed Click Here to View

Photos of John and his Son River.

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Some photos from the last couple of years 

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Presentation to Rebel Herbal conference:

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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

We're doing well, River just turned 5 and is a delight.

A biopsy late 2017 found that the tumor had returned. The scans had been indicating this for 6 months but prof Miyazaki (cyberknife surgeon) categorically stated it was only scar tissue and advised against the biopsy. By the time I had the biopsy and scan December 2017 it was tracking towards the brain stem and last January I was booked in for surgery with Ben Panizza in Brisbane to remove eye, exenterate the orbit followed by a hole in the back of my skull for further surgery followed by radiation.

However, the final MRI before the op showed that the cancer was too far advanced and he called it off and this was precisely what made me eligible to participate in the trial of a new immune-therapy. This stopped the tumour advancing and then, after 8 months of fortnightly treatments at RNSH, my October MRI showed the volume of the tumour had precipitously dropped to 30% and last month it was down to 15% of its former glory.

So, Dr. Miyazaki saved my eye twice - 4 years ago with his cyberknife and again in 2017 with his mistaken diagnosis!

Save the Rainforests of Ecuador and New South Wales

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Ecuador has rejected the Government's appeal and the Chinese-owned Rio Blanco 

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.

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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 Coalesence 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 in and Cairns and home again jiggety jig.
See Flyer for Kuranda Deep Ecology 2018

Melbourne RAG's superb research

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
Click Here to View: Ecuador Endangered

Damage caused by the mining industry, written by Alberto Acosta

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. 

See Alberto Acosta Article

raised $11,000 for Los Cedros legal defense

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

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Friends of the Earth and the Melbourne Rainforest Action Group

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

See the BHP pdf

Nov-Dec, $1900 raised for Los Cedros.

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

a talk at our Narara Ecovillage

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.

Students of Sustainability

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.!

deep ecology events in Bathurst NSW to benefit Los Cedros

A weekend of deep ecology events in Bathurst NSW to benefit Los Cedros. Friday night a talk on deep ecology for Green Drinks organized 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

Update: permaculture legend Jeff Lawton, posted my Los Cedros rave

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.

Update: Los Cedros, the Biological Reserve in NW Ecuador

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 petition here: Sign Here

See John Seed’s 4-minute video update >>Here

David Nicastro’s new 27 minute film about the Los Cedros Biological Reserve  

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Judy dies age 95 … rest in peace my darling mother 

Judy dies age 95 … rest in peace my darling mother
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See the ABC News Article on her >>>Click

My son River and granddaughter Jala 

My son River (9 months) and granddaughter Jala (4 months)
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Megan River and I have joined the Narara Ecovillage. 

Megan River and I have joined the Narara Ecovillage. Click here for YouTube Video

One month old today, my granddaughter 

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 (Judy Cassab)

Monks ordaining trees and blockades by indigenous farmers 

Monks ordaining trees and blockades by indigenous farmers prevent Sinohydro from commencing work to dam the Areng River and flood the Cardamom, the largest remaining rainforest in SE Asia

View a 5-minute film by John Seed

Me and River at his first blockade 

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 license to frack and their share price plummeted to 5c.

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 Hallelujah! My grand-daughter was born this morning.  

 Hallelujah! My grand-daughter was born this morning.  

A glorious Easter in the rainforest

and some memories sparked by the death of Neville Wran.. con't >

our son River 6 weeks to 4 months

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

Wedding lunch Megan and John

Wedding lunch Megan and John

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 Dec 11, 2013 The birth of our son. Hallelujah!

 12/11/13 The birth of our son. Hallelujah!

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evening with world-leading Amazon rainforest conservationist 

Organized a great evening with world-leading Amazon rainforest conservationist - Atossa Soltani at the University of Technology and launched Amazon Watch Allies Australia

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60th anniversary of my 93 year old mother, Judy Cassab's 

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.
*Note Some Events have been Archived we are working on getting them back

Also See Gov. Bashir Eulogy:
A CELEBRATION OF JUDY'S LIFE TO BE LAUNCHED BY NSW GOVERNOR MARIE BASHIR

Also See many News Events by Aussie TV ABC.net. au About Judy Cassab 
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sustainable agriculture in Zimbabwe and screening
{The Chikukwa Project} film premiere 

Organized fund raising for sustainable agriculture in Zimbabwe and screening The Chikukwa Project film premiere in Sydney 

Full Chikukwa Permaculture Project Story Here: Click

Dana Lyons and NEO,

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

Book Launch - Stories of the Great Turning

Book Launch - Stories of the Great Turning What a great night, 120 people celebrating The Great Turning, Sydney Rocks!

See Full Photo Here

Amazon Link to the Book

Raised over $6000 (see Oct 24 post) . Crowdfunding

Raised over $6000 (see Oct 24 post) . Crowdfunding rocks!
Chip in to help the locals protect Los Cedros in Ecuador
Thanks to >> Do Gooder. 

stop invaders from destroying the Los Cedros Biological Reserve

Please help us to stop invaders
from destroying the Los Cedros Biological Reserve in the Amazon headwaters of Ecuador 

AID/WATCH's 20th birthday

 Some reminiscences upon AID/WATCH's 20th birthday 
1980 documentary first eco-blockade in the world 

See PDF Here

CLIMATE CHANGE, DESPAIR & EMPOWERMENT, JOHN SEED & RUTH ROSENHEK

CLIMATE CHANGE, DESPAIR & EMPOWERMENT,
by JOHN SEED & RUTH ROSENHEK Social Alternatives Vol. 31 No.1, 2012 See PDF: CLICK HERE

Also See: By Kelpie Wilson, originally published by truthout.org  May 25, 2007

 Deep Ecology workshop at Mooncourt

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 .

Funded tree planting in Kenya

Completed due diligence and funded tree planting in Kenya

See PDF

 engaging with food security in Zimbabwe

 engaging with food security in Zimbabwe

Council of All Beings in Taiwan

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.

Keynote address to APNEC:

Deep Ecology & The Conservation of Naturein Taiwan

 keynote address to APNEC: Deep Ecology & The Conservation of Nature now posted to youtube. 

uploaded a bunch of my music

I Uploaded a bunch of my music

The revegetation of Arunachala

Watch Here: The revegetation of Arunachala, a denuded sacred mountain in S India

UWS publishes SOCIAL ECOLOGY including my chapter The Religion of Economics

 UWS publishes SOCIAL ECOLOGY including my chapter The Religion of Economics

PAGE .244  The Religion of Economics: John Seed with David Wright
Also on Amazon Books

About John in this Book.
John Seed

John is the founder of the Rainforest Information Centre since 1979 he has worked for the protection of rainforests worldwide for which he was awarded in order of Australian metal in 1995. He has created numerous projects protecting rainforest in South America, Asia and the Pacific through providing benign and sustainable development projects for their indigenous inhabitants tied to the protection of their forests.
He has written and lectured extensively on deep ecology and co-authored, Thinking like a Mountain (towards the council of all beings), by new society publishers 1988.
For over 25 years he has lectured on ECCO philosophy and conducted experimental deep ecology workshops around the world.

Deep Ecology Mandarin website

Deep Ecology Mandarin website
Note* Some of the links in th PDF have been removed

Ecology or Extinction?

 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 organizing a series of Climate Change, Despair and Empowerment workshops around Australia and see who else is feeling annoyed. And you?

Writing an article about my great few days with kick-ass activists at the Southern Forests Convergence in Tassie.

Writing an article about my great few days with kick-ass activists at the Southern Forests Convergence in Tassie.
See the PDF

 Played music with my son Bodhi at the most excellent Rainbow Serpent festival.

 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.

A few Updates from the past

Great news: following the 3000 emails which you sent to environment minister Jairam Ramesh, news is in today 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 the Ministry 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 The 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 -Aug 2010

Brenda Niall's Speech about Judy Cassab

Recent interview on ABC Radio National The Spirit of Things

Have you been wondering what the Maoist insurgency in India is about. Great article by Arundhati Roy and interview by Tehelka.
Article in the Guardian

 film to protect the largest remaining wild population of Asian Elephants

 John Seed produced this film to protect the largest remaining wild population of Asian Elephants whose survival in the wild was threatened by two separate developments in the Indian states of Kerala and Tamil Nadu.Watch the Video Here

 EARTH-SPIRIT-ACTION: Deep Ecology

 EARTH-SPIRIT-ACTION: Vandana Shiva, Starhawk, Matthew Fox, Ruth Rosenhek and John Seed speak about Deep Ecology, Living Democracy and Revolution in Consciousness Watch the Film Here

 John Seed produces “On The Brink”

 A 35 Minute File  Watch it Here

 John Seed talks with Ram Dass

Clips of Ram Dass, Terence McKenna, and John Seed

From where John Seed talks with Ram Dass

From where Terence McKenna talks with Ram Dass