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April 2016

April 09, 2016

Countdown to Earth Day 2016: #13 Eat Green, Eat Local

Many people may not realize that a major source of carbon emissions and pollution is...

April 08, 2016

Countdown to Earth Day 2016: #14 Source What You Consume

We Pagans talk a lot about our interconnectedness with the Earth. But the fact is...

April 07, 2016

Countdown to Earth Day 2016: #15 Use Your Privilege for Good

The point of identifying privilege is not to feel bad about it ... the point...

April 06, 2016

Countdown to Earth Day 2016: #16 Save Biodiversity

We are in the middle of the Sixth Great Extinction of animals and plants, the...

April 05, 2016

Countdown to Earth Day 2016: #17 Overturn Citizens United

We need regulators and elective representatives who are financially independent of the industries they are...

April 04, 2016

Countdown to Earth Day 2016: #18 Organize Your Community

One thing you can do to honor the Earth this Earth Day is to become...

April 03, 2016

Countdown to Earth Day 2016: #19 Take Direct Action

Direct action means strikes, demonstrations, or other public forms of protest. If you're like me,...

April 02, 2016

Countdown to Earth Day 2016: #20 Vote Responsibly

One thing you can do to honor the Earth this Earth Day is to vote...

April 01, 2016

Countdown to Earth Day 2016: #21 Divest from Fossil Fuels

Individual consumers do not have the power to change the system. The system is driven...

February 2016

February 18, 2016

Want To Be A Pagan?: “Climb a Fucking Tree!”

"If you want to worship nature, you don’t need a sunwheel, pentacle, or a goddess...

October 2015

October 29, 2015

I Hold These Things To Be Sacred: A Reply to Sarenth Odinsson

I hold these things to be sacred and holy: all life, the earth, nature, our...

September 2015

September 17, 2015

4 Things Every Aspiring Environmental Activist Should Know

I'm brand new at environmental activism. One thing I have learned over the past year...

August 2015

August 25, 2015

“The Disenchantment of Hard Polytheism”

"... Human beings have consistently demonstrated a collective unwillingness to place the needs of our...

August 23, 2015

If It Doesn’t Help Me Save This World, I Don’t Want Your Polytheist Revolution

It has become more clear to me than ever why I am opposed to the...

July 2015

July 19, 2015

Words are not enough: What to do after you sign “A Pagan Community Statement on the Environment”

Signing "A Pagan Community Statement on the Environment" is a good start. But we can't...

July 16, 2015

Global Eco-Paganism: Japan

This is the fifth in a series spotlighting some of the signatories to A Pagan...

June 2015

June 27, 2015

I didn’t think this needed to be said, but apparently it does …

To any person who takes issue with me or the opinions I have expressed here,...

June 26, 2015

Global Eco-Paganism: Czech Republic

It is not about us taking care of the Planet which is somehow ours like...

June 22, 2015

Eco-Consciousness and Collective Environmental Action: An Interview by Amy Blackthorn from the Sunday Stew

[Note: It was initially represented to me by Amy Blackthorn that the Sunday Stew had...

June 19, 2015

12 Things Pagans Should Know About the Pope’s Environmental Encyclical

Yesterday, the Pope's historic environmental encyclical was published. The document is almost 200 pages long,...

May 2015

May 25, 2015

“Pagans Beating the Pope to the Punch”: 5,000 Pagans take a stand for the Earth

Five thousand people have already signed "A Pagan Community Statement on the Environment" from 67 countries so...

May 13, 2015

“Pagans and the Pope Join their Voices to Save the Planet”

When Catholics talk about "paganism", it never seems to me that they are really talking...

May 07, 2015

“10,000 Pagans Raise Their Voices For Environmental Action”: Help make this a reality

Help us get 10,000 signatures for "A Pagan Community Statement on the Environment" by Summer...

April 2015

April 01, 2015

We are the Earth … aren’t we? (The power of the preposition)

The purpose of the Pagan Community Statement on the Environment is not to create some...

October 2014

October 01, 2014

Branches of the Deep Ecology Tree: Ecofeminism: Reuniting the masculine and nature

Ecofeminism is a part of the broader feminist spirituality movement, which emerged with “second-wave feminism”...

September 2014

September 25, 2014

Branches of the Deep Ecology Tree: The Gaia Theory: Reuniting our bodies and nature

The Gaia Theory calls into question many deeply ingrained scientific and cultural assumptions and challenges...

August 2014

August 29, 2014

Call for a Pagan Community Statement on the Environment

Where is our declaration on the environment? Where is our action plan on climate change?...

July 2014

July 24, 2014

How the world’s largest living thing made proto-Pagans out of my Mormon family

We need to invite people to participate in simple rituals that will help them form...

March 2014

March 27, 2014

Love, Earth, Body, Ritual: These are the threads of my emerging spiritual tapestry.

Love, Earth, Body, Ritual: Over the next few months I'll be writing about how I...

March 02, 2014

How Vampires Led Me to Paganism

I just finished reading Margot Adler's Vampires Are Us: Understanding Our Love Affair with the...