An In-Person Walking Workshop in San Francisco’s Presidio How can we open a fresh and unshakeable solidarity between humankind and the other animals, plants, and elemental forces that compose this breathing planet? At this liminal moment, when so many ecological boundaries are being breached by a civilization largely oblivious to its embedment within the biosphere, ...
A six-day workshop with David Abram at the outrageously beautiful Hollyhock, on Cortes Island, British Columbia At a moment when so many ecological limits are being breached by a civilization largely oblivious to its own embedment within the biosphere, how can we swiftly catalyze a collective recognition of our thorough dependence upon the animate earth? ...
With Nora Bateson, Wade Davis, Rex Weyler and David Abram Humans do not stand apart from the earth and its living systems. To address ourglobal challenges, we must start from our roots as creatures of this Earth. What does it mean to take action and adopt a genuinely ecological frame for seeing our world, our ...
Facing the paradoxes and ambiguities enmeshed with the COVID-19 pandemic, David Abram finds beauty in the midst of shuddering terror. As we’re isolated in this uncertain time, he writes, we can turn to the more-than-human world to empower our empathy for each other.
At Symbiosis 2016, a panel discussion on “Stories and Strategies for an Effective Self” with David Abram, Winona LaDuke, Vandana Shive, and Wade Davis.
Authors David Abram and Charles Eisenstein discuss climate change, ecology, myth, magic and more.
In this video, authors David Abram and Richard Powers speak about Richard’s award winning novel The Overstory and what it means to decenter the human. This Podcast is the first in the Animate Earth Dialogs, a series of conversations between David Abram and various curious human creatures, each of them powerfully engaged in transforming and ...
A new film about the work of David Abram (Creative Director of the Alliance) is currently in production, directed by two visionary artists, the multiple award-winning Canadian filmmaker Peter Mettler and Scottish filmmaker Emma Davie. Here is the briefest glimpse — just a tiny teaser — from the film. The password is “animal”:
The Alliance for Wild Ethics is engaged in the ongoing and many-faceted work of rejuvenating oral culture – the culture of face-to-face and face-to-place storytelling.* We excavate stories that live in the land, stories rooted in particular places, tales that contain not just human characters but other animals who figure as protagonists, mentors, and tricksters, ...
I have a jungle. Not a tropical jungle – just a small, temperate forest jungle in Devon, South West England. It started out 25 years ago as a vegetable garden next to our cottage at Schumacher College when I first came here after almost three years of work as an ecologist in Costa Rica, ...