BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//EcoGather - ECPv6.15.14//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:EcoGather X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://ecogather.ing X-WR-CALDESC:Events for EcoGather REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20260308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20261101T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Asia/Karachi BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0500 TZOFFSETTO:+0500 TZNAME:PKT DTSTART:20240101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250206T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250206T210000 DTSTAMP:20260407T170232 CREATED:20250107T003040Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250201T214828Z UID:101841-1738870200-1738875600@ecogather.ing SUMMARY:EcoGathering: Stewards DESCRIPTION:Register!\n \n \n \n \n \n What is our place in the world? What should it be? What do we have to offer Earth and her living and non-living (so far as we think we know) communities?

 We regularly see appeals to the privilege or necessity of humans as stewards of the Earth. But what do these claims imply — ownership\, power over\, possession? Are we above the Earth\, separate from her\, as her managers? Where does our stewardship lead — or\, how do we choose to make decisions as stewards? Do we choose what’s best for all beings\, or do we consciously or unconsciously shape the world for our specific benefit?

The idea of being a steward does get at an important point of course: we can and should have a role in co-creating an abundant\, diverse living world. Could we do that as stewards? Or perhaps it’s better to imagine ourselves as siblings or neighbors\, a more horizontal relationship with all other non-human members of the living world. \nRecommended resources for this EcoGathering:\nMordecai Ogada: The Big Conservation Lie \nLyla June: 3\,000 Year Old Solutions to Modern Problems \nRob Lewis: No Nature Poems\, Please URL:https://ecogather.ing/event/ecogathering-stewards/ CATEGORIES:EcoGathering ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ecogather.ing/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/d-cen-60svk.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250209T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250209T123000 DTSTAMP:20260407T170232 CREATED:20250124T164226Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250208T153052Z UID:102876-1739098800-1739104200@ecogather.ing SUMMARY:Good Grief DESCRIPTION:Register!\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Good Grief is a group exploration of our collective grief guided by the frameworks of Francis Weller’s Five Gates of Grief (The Wild Edge of Sorrow). Inspired by our EcoGathering on Grieving during the autumnal Composting series in 2024 and an increasing urgency to process the compounding loss we experience as the continuation of modernity relies on genocide\, ecocide\, omnicide and fascism’s impingement on our basic rights and liberties\, we will hold space to tend to the complex and often unaddressed grief that accompanies these losses and expand our emotional capacity for collective grieving as a skill for navigating uncertain futures.  \nJoin us for the first of a series of five sessions in which we will discuss and tenderly hold the grief that awaits us at The First Gate of Grief\, which welcomes in the familiar grief accompanying the understanding that everything we love\, we will lose. \n  \n  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Recommended Resources \nThe Wild Edge of Sorrow by Francis Weller\, Chapter 3For this first session\, it’s highly recommended that you read the section of this chapter subtitled “The First Gate: Everything you love\, you will lose” \nThe Five Gates of GriefA brief summary of each of the five gates of grief URL:https://ecogather.ing/event/good-grief/ CATEGORIES:EcoGathering ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ecogather.ing/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/photo-1574254706427-213d446e2f2b.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Karachi:20250212T120000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Karachi:20250212T133000 DTSTAMP:20260407T170232 CREATED:20241126T023744Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250208T153803Z UID:101843-1739361600-1739367000@ecogather.ing SUMMARY:EcoGathering: Citizens DESCRIPTION:Register!\n \n \n \n \n \n What does it mean to exist as a “citizen”? A citizen of where\, exactly? We are only told to identify as a citizen of a nation-state (in the context of empire)\, and we are reduced into so many other flattening categories conducive to the growth of oppressive systems (“consumers”\, “voters”\, and other labels that amputate our role in the world and leave us only as captured participants in abusive systems). Can we simultaneously exist as citizens of empire\, of our smaller communities\, and the living world? \nRecommended resources for this EcoGathering:\n1. Nissa Coit: The Good Citizen \n2. Jon Alexander: Citizens not Consumers or Subjects \n3. Political Philosophy with Dr. Laurie Johnson: Who is a Citizen? URL:https://ecogather.ing/event/ecogathering-citizens/ CATEGORIES:EcoGathering ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ecogather.ing/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/pv9_u0zdk4e.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Karachi:20250220T193000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Karachi:20250220T210000 DTSTAMP:20260407T170232 CREATED:20241126T024602Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250213T204433Z UID:101845-1740079800-1740085200@ecogather.ing SUMMARY:EcoGathering: Kin DESCRIPTION:Register!\n \n \n \n \n \n There is one identity that cuts across all other labels we could apply to humans and more-than-humans\, no matter what kinds of citizens or conquerers or stewards we and others might be. Beneath it all\, we are all irrevocably kin.

This relationship to each other has been (and must be) suppressed in the name of growth\, progress\, and superiority. Join us this week as we discuss how we can welcome back kinship into the interconnected world. \n\n\nRecommended resources for this EcoGathering:\nTo read: \nKinship Beneath the Family Tree: Emily’s blog post about expanding the limits of our understanding of Kinship \nKinship is a Verb: A conversation between Robin Wall Kimmerer\, John Hausdoerffer\, and Gavin Van Horn \nTo listen: \n A Little More Than Kin: A conversation with Richard Powers \nTo view: \nAncestral Mathematics \n  URL:https://ecogather.ing/event/ecogathering-kin/ CATEGORIES:EcoGathering ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ecogather.ing/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/fq2yx56wq-y.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250222T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250222T170000 DTSTAMP:20260407T170232 CREATED:20250203T212442Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250203T212939Z UID:103057-1740236400-1740243600@ecogather.ing SUMMARY:Rage and Joy DESCRIPTION:  \nAre we allowing rage and joy\, grief and celebration\, to remain fiercely connected to each other?\nAre we tending to each so that neither trauma nor delusion define us? \nWe will start by exploring how we might express our individual and collective rage without being overwhelmed and subsumed by it. Rage may at once be a true reaction to the events around us\, or perhaps a debilitating manifestation of other emotions such as grief\, fear\, or impotence. How might we discern between these valid reactions and metabolize the helpful parts of that energy into something useful action and sustainable? \nOn the flip side of holding our rage is to find glimmers of joy to sustain us despite all that is going on around us. How can we use expressions of joy to balance our rage\, to sustain our fire and celebrate the little things as a form of radical resistance? URL:https://ecogather.ing/event/rage-and-joy/ LOCATION:Hard-Pressed Community Print Shop\, 12 VT Rt. 15\, West Danville\, Vermont CATEGORIES:EcoGathering ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ecogather.ing/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/hp-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250226T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250226T193000 DTSTAMP:20260407T170232 CREATED:20250204T181030Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250225T205910Z UID:103066-1740592800-1740598200@ecogather.ing SUMMARY:Abundance DESCRIPTION:Register!\n \n \n \n \n \n The gardens of our imaginations may be verdant and flowering places\, but a tremendous amount of what’s done in the name of horticulture\, infrastructure and agriculture creates landscapes of botanical and ecological scarcity. Whether mowing lawns\, mulching garden beds\, or paving a parking lot\, we have created\, are surrounded by\, and have become acculturated to the very voids that nature abhors. Given this ecologically impoverished state of affairs\, how might we summon the ecological abundance that exists in our midst at the scale and pace that is needed to offset what is passively termed as “habitat loss?” We could follow the cues of charismatic weeds and build flourishing landscapes that fulfill the needs of the human and non-human world alike. Could cultural and botanical reproduction co-create new lands outside of conventional capitalist paradigms? Might we call this approach “eco-maximalism”? \nRecommended resources for this gathering: \nNick Anderson: Improvised LandscapesNick Anderson: The Opposite of ExtinctionOlogies Podcast with Alie Ward: Ethnoecology with Leigh JosephThe Wildlife Homestead: I Built a Wildlife Pond \n  URL:https://ecogather.ing/event/abundance/ CATEGORIES:EcoGathering ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ecogather.ing/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Abundance.png END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR