Learning: The Work of a Lifetime

Learning: The Work of a Lifetime

As long as we are living, we are learning. Learning how to learn is the work of a lifetime. Never stop learning.Conventional wisdom encourages us to keep learning, but we are also conditioned to end our education (if we are privileged to pursue post-secondary...
Surviving the Future: The Deeper Dive 2024

Surviving the Future: The Deeper Dive 2024

Autumn has always been my favourite season, and over recent years it brings additional succour, signalling time to start preparing in earnest for the winter’s Deeper Dive. This now-annual tradition has become a real highlight of my year, as a new small group capped at...
Partner Spotlight: FrontLine Farming

Partner Spotlight: FrontLine Farming

FrontLine Farming (FLF) enhances equity and resilience in Colorado’s urban Front Range by elevating the leadership of womxn and people of color. FLF does so by growing food, educating, honoring land and ancestors, engaging in research and data activism, policy...
Partner Spotlight: Plenitud PR

Partner Spotlight: Plenitud PR

Image from plenitudpr.org We are thrilled that one of our EcoGather partners, Plenitud PR, a community-based non-profit that has been operating in Puerto Rico since 2008, is visiting Sterling this week.  In tandem with co-founder Owen Ingley’s visit, we’re taking an...
Falling Apart Together

Falling Apart Together

Humans, to our grave detriment, have learned to go about their lives in one place as war is waged in another. We do it all the time. And, indeed, we’ve done so throughout time. The difference now: We can see, in real time, violence of unimaginable scope. We can hear,...