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Reconciliation Ecology


This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we speak with citizen scientist and master gardener Adrian Fisher about reconciliation ecology and how her neighborhood outside Chicago, IL used wild plant gardening to not only connect two wildlife preserves on either side of her, but also a bi-continental migration route for innumerable wild species.

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About Our Guest: Adrian Fisher is a sustainability coordinator, a wild and native plants gardener, and writes and speaks about Reconciliation Ecology and Regenerative Gardening. She lives in Oak Park, Illinois, and is a featured writer on Resilience.org

Related Links:

Why Reconciliation Ecology Matters by Adrian Fisher

Reconciliation Ecology

Wild Ones Organization

Deep Ecology

Resilience.org

Blessed Unrest by Paul Hawken

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Win-Win Ecology

Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation

The Sunflower Forest by William Jordan

The Carbon Farming Solution by Eric Toensmeier

Paradise Lot (Book and Blog)

Rodale Institute

Rodale Institue White Paper on Regenerative Organic Agriculture and Climate Change

Music by:

“Love and Revolution” by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radio www.dianepatterson.org

This week’s featured musician is Melissa Crabtree. This is her song, “Bees” from her album “The Day I Fell Into the Water”. You can find this and other music by Melissa at www.melissacrabtree.com

About Your Co-hosts:

Sherri Mitchell (Penobscot) is an Indigenous rights attorney, writer and activist who melds traditional life-way teachings into spirit-based movements. Follow her at Sherri Mitchell – Wena’gamu’gwasit: https://www.facebook.com/sacredinstructions/timeline

Rivera Sun is a novelist and nonviolent mischief-maker. She is the author of The Dandelion Insurrection, Billionaire Buddha, and Steam Drills, Treadmills, and Shooting Stars. She is also the social media coordinator and nonviolence trainer for Campaign Nonviolence and Pace e Bene. Her essays on social justice movements are syndicated on by PeaceVoice, and appear in Truthout and Popular Resistance. http://www.riverasun.com/

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