How do we navigate a time of ecological crisis? It’s not too late to add joy, kindness and beauty to our lives. Carolyn Baker recommends rekindling our love affair with nature and living contemplatively. She believes learning to grieve is a critical resilience skill.
Pikes Peak Permaculture leaders Brian Fritz and Becky Elder sit down with Carolyn Baker for an intimate conversation about finding ways to live well as we observe and experience climate disruption, species extinction, and the many other effects of humankind living outside planetary boundaries.
Baker is a former Jungian-oriented psychotherapist and a current professor of psychology and history. She authored Dark Gold: The Human Shadow and the Global Crisis and Love in the Age of Ecological Apocalypse: The Relationships We Need to Thrive. With Andrew Harvey she co-authored Return to Joy and Savage Grace: Living Resiliently in the Dark Night of the Globe.
She invites us to confront our predicament honestly, and to reframe questions of purpose and meaning in a time of extinction. “People are carrying enormous amounts of grief,” she says. “We need support in learning grief as a major resilience skill… so that we can not feel so overwhelmed.”
This conversation was recorded with Carolyn while she was visiting Colorado Springs to deliver two workshops hosted by Pikes Peak Permaculture, Placing Climate and Other Catastrophic Events Within a Larger Story – An Evening with Carolyn Baker and Living Resiliently in the Dark Night of the Globe – A Workshop with Carolyn Baker.
This episode of Peak Environment comes to us courtesy of Pikes Peak Permaculture, celebrating 15 years of Permaculture education, inspiration, and support throughout Colorado’s Pikes Peak Region. We provide several Design Certification Courses, and have graduated upwards of 60 new Permaculture designers.
Producers: Ellen Johnson-Fay and Dave Gardner Editor: Katie Lawrie
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UPCOMING ENVIRONMENTAL EVENTS:
August 2-4, 2019
People’s Tiny House Festival
5:30 to 7:30 pm
The event celebrates all facets of simple living including tiny houses, converted vans, container homes, and converted school buses. The event is family-friendly and dog-friendly.
Thursday, August 22, 2019
5:30 to 7:30 pm
Green Drinks
Podcasting to Save the Planet
Studio 809 / Citizen-Powered Media
2930 Orion Drive
In addition to our usual networking opportunity, we’ll get a tour of the studio where Peak Environment and other Studio 809 podcasts are recorded, and host Dave Gardner will share details about his communication efforts as an “ad agency for the planet.” We’ll also be treated to a musical performance by local singer/songwriter and activist Lindsay Facknitz. Refreshments provided.
The following environment/sustainability organizations in the Pikes Peak region collaborate to produce the Peak Environment podcast about environmental stewardship, sustainable living and enlightened public policy in the Pikes Peak Region.
Peak Alliance for a Sustainable Future
Pikes Peak Environmental Forum
Pikes Peak Library District Green Team
Pikes Peak Group of Sierra Club
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