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Hard-Pressed Community Print Shop 12 VT Rt. 15, West Danville, Vermont

EcoGather's Vermont based facilitators of community learning are collaborating with Hard-Pressed Community Print shop in West Danville, Vermont to offer a series of EcoGatherings in the Northeast Kingdom. We're eager to share space, snacks, and substantial-talk – the opposite of small-talk –with folks who are craving conversation about who to live well in a time of endings. These casual, cozy events are an easy way to connect in community, practice co-learning, and get connected to EcoGather's globe-spanning cosmolocal network composed of beings and communities ready to courageously confront the collapse of both the natural systems that we depend upon and human systems that are hostile to life. We help each other make and sustain paradigm shifts.

Open Hours (Erik)

Drop in and talk with Nissa or Erik about anything on your mind. If you are new to EcoGather this is a great place to come get up to speed with everything that has been going on in the community. We'll be here for the whole hour, so drop in whenever you can.

Examining End Times Fascism

A focused, ad hoc EcoGathering to discuss the analysis put forward in Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor's recent article in The Guardian, The rise of end times fascism. Please read the featured essay in advance, it will take approximately 30-40 minutes, as per The Guardian. We'll gather to discuss.

Good Grief

Good Grief is a group exploration of our collective grief through 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.

Intentional Community Study Group

This is a mixed-experience group of people with different skills to research and assess varied models for collective and cooperative land-based living, sustenance, and enterprise. Study group members will identify together several possible paths to investigate more fully, divide up the work of familiarizing themselves with helpful models, literature, and case-studies.

Progress

For this lunar cycle, we’ll dissect the narratives told to us by modernity, and how they falsely shape our expectations for navigating the modern world. First up: progress, and its vital role in the mythmaking of empire.

Population

Human population is, somewhat confusingly, a controversial issue to discuss. Many people understand that having 8 billion humans on the planet creates lots of ecological and social problems, and maybe the population shouldn’t keep growing endlessly if we want the biosphere to remain intact. Many others seem to believe that we must keep growing the human population for the sake of civilization and the economy, and questioning human population challenges the sanctity of human life, or borders on misanthropy or eco-fascism. Certainly, dominant myths about the supremacy of human life over all others, and the separation of humans from nature, informs sensitivity around the topic, but conversations around population can also easily turn into finger-pointing at poorer, more populous nations that have contributed far, far less historical ecological harm. How does human population contribute to the polycrisis? What other factors, like the demands of global economic system or individual human consumption, play into the polycrisis?

Good Grief

Good Grief is a group exploration of our collective grief through 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.

EcoGather Team Open Hours

Drop in and talk with Nissa or Erik about anything on your mind. If you are new to EcoGather this is a great place to come get up to speed with everything that has been going on in the community. We'll be here for the whole hour, so drop in whenever you can.

Constructing a Mesh

If you are interested in learning more about autonomous communications and being a part of a larger decentralized network of community builders, or simply to get creative, or to go on mission-driven local adventures, you may be interested in receiving support from other interested and knowledgeable folks beginning an organized community Meshtastic project. If you don't consider yourself particularly interested or savvy with technology - there are plenty of other reasons to be excited - creating whimsical enclosures for the hardware, helping your community, connecting with nature, solving exciting problems and responding to an uncertain world.

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