A Whole Person Response to Ecological Catastrophe

Body

• Eat less meat and more vegetables.
• Try growing some of your own food.
• Consider buying organic and/or local food.
• Stop smoking.
• Wear natural fibres.
• Treat your body with respect. You are part of nature too. Get enough sleep, drink water, play.
• Limit time spent on electronic devices.

Spirit

• Regularly spend time in natural places – daily if possible.
• Learn to connect to the plants and animals in your area.
• Celebrate the passing of seasons.
• Take time to appreciate the beauty around us.

Mind

• Become acquainted with the rules of zero waste life and use them.
• Educate yourself about the climate, ecology and pollution.
• Study the natural world in the place where you live. Really get to know nature.

Emotions

• Avoid associating with emotional vampires.
• Practice self care.
• Practice non-violence.
• Avoid blaming and shaming others.
• Give yourself space to grieve our losses and then get busy again.
• Create small measurable goals so you can appreciate success.

Social

• Decolonize your lifestyle and all of your relations.
• Vote for people who really care about nature.
• Lobby local politicians to achieve 100% renewable energy (or whatever issue affects your community).
• Pressure companies to clean up their act.
• Avoid vehicles powered by fossil fuels. Walk, use bicycles or share public transportation. Avoid air travel.
• Participate in petitions, activist groups, demonstrations.
• Volunteer with a group that protects a local habitat. Restore, repair or rehabilitate local green areas.
• Pick up and remove trash left in wild spaces.
• Reduce or eliminate your use of plastic.
• Share your knowledge.
• Promote regenerative agriculture. Avoid or eliminate the use of pesticides and herbicides.
• Protect the wild spaces that remain.
• Treat water as a non-renewable resource.
• Be a good ally to those who enjoy less power than you.
• Buy fewer clothes.
• Support your local public library.
• Learn to share instead of buy.

wolf is an animist interested in a native philosophy of life and connection with nature. She is a student of art, of wilderness awareness and an activist. She especially enjoys sitting in a forest watching birds and other animals.