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:20250410T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250410T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T142551 CREATED:20250203T204903Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250325T004214Z UID:103047-1744311600-1744318800@ecogather.ing SUMMARY:Intentional Community Study Group DESCRIPTION: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. \nWe will meet in 5-session cycles with breaks in between. This cadence of focused study punctuated by periods for absorption\, reflection\, and implementation is intended to enable participants to sustain engagement and to support each other in moving from theory through ideation into practical action. In this way\, we can balance group formation\, active collaboration\, and openness to newcomers. \nAt the end of the first 10-week cycle\, study group participants will make suggestions about schedule for the next cycle\, including choosing a new book. EcoGather will reopen the study group to new participants. If you are interested in joining for the next cycle\, learn more about the group and apply\, follow the button below. \n \n Learn More and Apply Here! URL:https://ecogather.ing/event/intentional-community-study-group-3/ CATEGORIES:Study Group ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ecogather.ing/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/jwuv9ngb3ue.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250409T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250409T193000 DTSTAMP:20260403T142551 CREATED:20250205T210459Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250409T174504Z UID:103098-1744221600-1744227000@ecogather.ing SUMMARY:Make Work DESCRIPTION:Register!\n \n \n \n \n \n \nIn a time of crisis\, there is so much work to do. Most of us exist in a state of alienation that amounts to having two full time jobs – the work for wages and the work for ourselves\, leaving little left for (the work of) pursuing passions and participating in community. To add insult to injury\, as many wage-labor jobs have been automated or accelerated by technology\, there has been an increase in the amount of work we are doing that is decidedly not necessary. There is so much important work that isn’t being done or isn’t properly compensated because it is not profitable to capital. Folks are too overworked to have the time and energy to do it. Rather than redistributing the work that is essential to more people and reducing our working hours\, or mobilizing around the many existential crises we face\, we have all continued to work faster and longer to meet our needs and eke out some semblance of individual security in an uncertain world. \nWhy do are we doing so much unnecessary work? In part because it generates profit for someone\, somewhere. In part\, because few places have pro-social systems of wealth distribution or even adequate social safety nets. And in part because an un- or under-employed populous lacks the money to generate more economic activity as consumers. (So even as essential work is made more efficient\, workers aren’t given their time back\, they are compelled to work increasingly less necessary jobs that grow the economy.) \nIn the words of David Fleming “[we] are conditioned by the market economy; [we] have to be competitive\, and cannot forgo an immediate advantage from which [we] would individually benefit in favor of a future (and larger) advantage from which everyone would benefit.” In this EcoGathering\, we will explore the many ways we continue to be exploited and alienated from our labor\, as well as how we might recreate a culture that would allow us to slow down\, and actually get the important work done. \n \nRecommended resources for this gathering: \nMuch To Do \nA big long blog post on relating to and reuniting with out working lives. For this session\, we recommend reading the Creation of Unnecessary Work section. \n \nOn The Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs A Work Rant by David Graeber \nI Didn’t Want a Job by Aimee McNee \n \nOn Meaningless Jobs A conversation with David Graeber URL:https://ecogather.ing/event/make-work/ CATEGORIES:EcoGathering ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ecogather.ing/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/qbpzgqemskg.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250403T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250403T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T142551 CREATED:20250213T175647Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250402T215635Z UID:103328-1743705000-1743712200@ecogather.ing SUMMARY:Good Grief DESCRIPTION:Register!\n \n \n \n \n \n \nGood 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. \nIn this Integration Session\, we will focus on working with the grief that was revealed in the last week’s Sharing Session for The Third Gate\, The Sorrows of the World. Through guided discussion and ritual\, we will allow this newly unearthed grief to move into practice as we venture into a collective Apprenticeship with Sorrow. It’s highly recommended that you attend the companion Sharing Session offered the week prior\, for the sake of group continuity and comfortability\, as well as the opportunity to fully sit with the experience of witnessing and processing the grief at this gate. \n \n \nRecommended Resources: \nThe Wild Edge of Sorrow by Francis Weller\, Chapter 3 \nFor the third session of this series\, it’s highly recommended that you read the section of this chapter subtitled “The Third Gate: The sorrows of the world” (pages 46-53) \nThe Five Gates of Grief \nA brief summary of each of the five gates of grief \nGrief Belongs in Social Movements \nA deeply moving piece by Malkia Devich-Cyril on the importance of our grief in taking action towards inspired change. URL:https://ecogather.ing/event/good-grief-3-integration/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ecogather.ing/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/photo-1574254706427-213d446e2f2b.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250403T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250403T130000 DTSTAMP:20260403T142551 CREATED:20250205T205310Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250402T192241Z UID:103094-1743679800-1743685200@ecogather.ing SUMMARY:Alienation and Exploitation of Labor DESCRIPTION:Register!\n \n \n \n \n \n   \nOur exploration of work questions the differences between jobs\, care\, creation\, production\, and more. There is no question that in order to stay alive work needs to get done. It takes energy to grow photosynthetic leaves\, forage for food\, to hunt for prey\, to sow seeds to harvest\, to shop at the grocery store\, or to make enough money to eat out at a restaurant. There are plenty of arrangements for doing the work of sustenance and subsistence. Most critters alive are responsible for procuring the energy to do work to stay alive themselves\, or in collaboration with a group. But\, in our modern human societies\, many people are able to meet their needs by using someone else’s energy without reciprocation. This is (or runs a very high risk of) exploitation. \nWe have already explored the processes of Primitive Accumulation and Enclosure that established capitalism and coerced people into meeting their material needs through wages rather than subsistence. This rift separated (or introduced a middle-step to) the work done for meeting materials needs. Indeed\, the work done for wages is sometimes referred to as alienated labor. And under Capitalism\, the alienated labor of workers is a key component to making profits\, which mean that labor must be compensated at less than its true value. Because laborers receive less than the full value of their work\, members of the working class who must work for another person or entity to earn wages so they can pay for the necessities are typically working in an inherently exploitative arrangement. (Degrees of exploitation vary tremendously\, of course.) Additionally\, capitalism relies upon – and is continually subsidized by – unpaid work in the so-called “informal economy” (or non-monetary economy). Think here of the work associated with maintaining a car for commuting\, shopping for “work appropriate clothing\,” making and packing meals\, and even the maternal labor of gestating the next generation of exploitable laborers. In this EcoGathering\, we will explore the often invisibilized micro and macro examples of exploitation that result when the work we do to meet our material needs is exploited\, and separated\, or alienated\, from the work we spend most of our lives doing. \nRecommended resources for this gathering: \nMuch To Do \nA big long blog post on relating to and reuniting with out working lives. For this session\, we recommend reading the Exploitation and Devaluation of Necessary Work sections. \n\nThe Myth of Freedom Under Capitalism by Upstream \nHome is Where the Unpaid Labor Is \nMarx\, the ‘Metabolic Rift’ and Capitalism’s Assault on Nature \nThe work of care is vital. Why don’t we pay like it is? \n\n  URL:https://ecogather.ing/event/alienation-and-exploitation-of-labor/ CATEGORIES:EcoGathering ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ecogather.ing/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/iii2oblewzc.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250402T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250402T120000 DTSTAMP:20260403T142551 CREATED:20250325T001605Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250325T002428Z UID:104231-1743591600-1743595200@ecogather.ing SUMMARY:Open Hours (Erik) DESCRIPTION:Join Here! URL:https://ecogather.ing/event/open-hours-erik/ CATEGORIES:Social Session ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ecogather.ing/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Screenshot-2025-03-24-at-20.00.06.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250327T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250327T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T142551 CREATED:20250124T191359Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250323T154109Z UID:102903-1743100200-1743107400@ecogather.ing SUMMARY:Good Grief DESCRIPTION:Register!\n \n \n \n \n \n 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.  \nJoin us in our third session as we direct our grief to The Third Gate\, The Sorrows of the World. In this Sharing Session all participants are welcome to release the grief that arises at this gate to be witnessed and held in the collective well of sorrow. It’s highly recommended that you attend the companion Integration Session offered the following week\, for the sake of group continuity and comfortability\, as well as the opportunity to fully sit with the experience of witnessing and processing the grief at this gate. \n  \nRecommended Resources \nThe Wild Edge of Sorrow by Francis Weller\, Chapter 3For the third session of this series\, it’s highly recommended that you read the section of this chapter subtitled “The Third Gate: The sorrows of the world” (pages 46-53) \nThe Five Gates of GriefA brief summary of each of the five gates of grief \n  URL:https://ecogather.ing/event/good-grief-3-sharing/ CATEGORIES:Sharing Session ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ecogather.ing/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/photo-1574254706427-213d446e2f2b.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250326T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250326T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T142551 CREATED:20250219T225144Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250325T002856Z UID:103523-1743004800-1743008400@ecogather.ing SUMMARY:Open Hours (Nissa) DESCRIPTION:Join Here! URL:https://ecogather.ing/event/open-hours-nissa-5/ CATEGORIES:Social Session ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ecogather.ing/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/m9f8vr0jepm.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250325T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250325T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T142551 CREATED:20250204T183237Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250322T135512Z UID:103077-1742927400-1742932800@ecogather.ing SUMMARY:What is Work? DESCRIPTION:Register! \n \n \n \n \n \n \nBy some estimates\, contemporary humans\, on average\, spend about 1/3 of their lifetimes “working”. (Actual proportions of time spent “working” vs. sleeping vs. engaged in leisure pursuits vary widely based on culture\, economic system\, ability\, need/wealth\, gender\, — and also based on what we actually count as “work.”) Without question\, it’s evident that work makes up a significant portion of the human experience. In a clever capitalist catch-22\, we spend so much of our time and energy working\, that we never really get the chance to explore the question of what really is work\, anyways? Where did it come from\, and who does it serve? Is there inherent value to work? And why do we spend so much of our precious time living doing it? \nIn the 20th and early 21st centuries\, we’ve tended to narrowly define work as the labor we perform in exchange for wages or other monetary earnings. This construction is broad in that it covers a wide range of roles across all aspects of society\, necessary or essential\, productive or value-adding\, non-essential and incidental to profit generation\, and questionable or degenerative. But it is also narrow in that it excludes the typically unpaid labor required to meet the demands of daily living. This oft-unpaid work (known variously as carework or social reproductive labor) has been disproportionately assigned to women in recent centuries. (Indeed\, the persistent non- or under-compensation of this work is a powerful means of upholding the patriarchy\, but we’ll get to that later in our Exploitation session). For now\, suffice it to say that what is or could be considered work varies widely. So\, we will begin this cycle by unpacking a familiar term\, exploring our perceptions of work\, and evaluating definitions provided to us by physicists\, ancient Greeks\, and modern society. \n\n  \nRecommended resources for this gathering: \nThe School of Life: History of Ideas – WorkMichael Luong: The Past\, Present\, and Future of WorkMuch To Do: Relating to and Reuniting with Our Working Lives URL:https://ecogather.ing/event/what-is-work/ CATEGORIES:EcoGathering ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ecogather.ing/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/1scwrpgnny8.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250324T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250324T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T142551 CREATED:20250203T205401Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250210T225040Z UID:103050-1742817600-1742824800@ecogather.ing SUMMARY:Intentional Community Study Group DESCRIPTION: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. \nWe will meet in 5-session cycles with breaks in between. This cadence of focused study punctuated by periods for absorption\, reflection\, and implementation is intended to enable participants to sustain engagement and to support each other in moving from theory through ideation into practical action. In this way\, we can balance group formation\, active collaboration\, and openness to newcomers. \nAt the end of the first 10-week cycle\, study group participants will make suggestions about schedule for the next cycle\, including choosing a new book. EcoGather will reopen the study group to new participants. If you are interested in joining for the next cycle\, learn more about the group and apply\, follow the button below.\n \n Learn More and Apply! URL:https://ecogather.ing/event/intentional-community-study-group-4/ CATEGORIES:Study Group ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ecogather.ing/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/jwuv9ngb3ue.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250320T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250320T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T142551 CREATED:20250203T213246Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250210T222637Z UID:103061-1742493600-1742500800@ecogather.ing SUMMARY:Solidarity DESCRIPTION:  \nOur work as people who want and deserve better is to understand the game\, stop playing in the ways that we can\, get clearer about the kind of world in which we want to live\, and be more involved politically and in our communities instead of less. – Toi Marie Smith \nThrough the lens of collapse awareness\, interdependence is apparent and solidarity becomes essential to survival. We recognize that we are all beings suffering from a devastated biosphere\, an insatiable extractive economy\, and socio-geo-political decline. When we say all\, we really mean all: all human beings\, all more-than-human beings\, all communities of all beings\, and all future beings who will inherit the effluent of empire. Ultimately\, nobody will be spared the sufferings of collapse\, especially those humans and non-humans with less wealth\, power\, or protections. We share far more in common with present and future living beings than we do money\, machinery\, the economy\, or the aspirations of empires. \nSolidarity invites us to show up for other people fighting what turns out to be the same fight as ours – even if we are not positioned on the front lines. It offers us an opportunity to contribute what we can (in whatever forms or concentrations we can share) to a struggle for survival that may not be distinctly or acutely ours\, but diffuses easily across the porous membranes between self and other. URL:https://ecogather.ing/event/solidarity/ 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:20250320T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250320T143000 DTSTAMP:20260403T142551 CREATED:20250204T184048Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250319T191819Z UID:103080-1742475600-1742481000@ecogather.ing SUMMARY:Necessity DESCRIPTION:Register!\n \n \n \n \n \n We are a planting species. For thousands upon thousands of years\, humans have tended to ecosystems\, and perhaps our most substantial partners in that co-creative relationship were\, and still are\, plants. Matters of regeneration and rewilding are immensely necessary to help the living world — and by extension\, us — survive the onslaught of civilization. But rekindling and nurturing an abundant\, emergent relationship with plants and ecosystems is also necessary for us to express that innate\, deeply human part of themselves that has worked intimately with plants for millennia. On this final call\, we’ll gather to appreciate how essential an ecomaximalist world is. Ultimately\, we can begin to ask: How can we learn to see and empower the living world differently? \n \nThere are no resources to read or listen to for this week’s call. We’re going to explore the abundance and aliveliness in our daily lives. Take a few moments throughout your days to notice and appreciate the lives around you! URL:https://ecogather.ing/event/necessity/ CATEGORIES:EcoGathering ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ecogather.ing/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/3.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250312T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250312T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T142551 CREATED:20250224T140116Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250306T034203Z UID:103544-1741802400-1741809600@ecogather.ing SUMMARY:World Ecology DESCRIPTION:Register!\n \n \n \n \n \n This gathering will explore the entangled histories of climate change\, capitalism\, and the “ends of the world.” Often taken at face value today\, “existential threat” and “climate emergency” language have a long history rooted in capitalogenic climate change since the sixteenth century. Charting the relation between climate change and political crisis during the Little Ice Age (c. 1300-1816)\, Moore shows how successive climate-class conjunctures shaped the modern world\, a capitalist world-ecology of power\, profit and life. These included a series of invasions and transformations that imposed the “end of the world” on countless peoples in the interests of turning planetary life into profit-making opportunities. By the early twentieth century\, the logic of genocide and ecocide was complemented by state-of-emergency politics. This culminated in Cold War regime change politics and the neoliberal era’s “shock doctrines” (Klein): emergency rule to establish predatory imperialist policies across the South. The two claims\, of survival and exigency\, today combine in emergency rhetoric that lends aid and comfort to an authoritarian\, technocratic politics of climate change rather than what is needed to pursue a just transition – a radical extension of popular democracy. \nRecommended Resources for this gathering: \nThe Capitalocene & Planetary Justice\, by Jason Moore \n The Fear and The Fix: Environmentalism Serves the Powerful\, by Jason Moore URL:https://ecogather.ing/event/world-ecology/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ecogather.ing/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/zx4zt3o5h6k.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250311T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250311T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T142551 CREATED:20250213T173518Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250213T190540Z UID:103321-1741719600-1741726800@ecogather.ing SUMMARY:Good Grief DESCRIPTION:Register!\n \n \n \n \n \n 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. \nIn this Integration Session\, we will focus on working with the grief that was revealed in the last week’s Sharing Session for The Second Gate of Grief\, The places that have not known love. Through guided discussion and ritual\, we will allow this unearthed grief to move into practice as we venture into a collective Apprenticeship with Sorrow. It’s highly recommended that you attend the companion Sharing Session offered the week prior\, for the sake of group continuity and comfortability\, as well as the opportunity to fully sit with the experience of witnessing and processing the grief at this gate. \n  \nRecommended Resources: \nThe Wild Edge of Sorrow by Francis Weller\, Chapter 3For the second session of this series\, it’s highly recommended that you read the section of this chapter subtitled “The Second Gate: The places that have not known love” (pages 31-46) \nThe Five Gates of GriefA brief summary of each of the five gates of grief URL:https://ecogather.ing/event/good-grief-2-integration/ CATEGORIES:Integration Session ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ecogather.ing/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/photo-1574254706427-213d446e2f2b.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250308T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250308T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T142551 CREATED:20250225T160916Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250305T200153Z UID:103555-1741435200-1741440600@ecogather.ing SUMMARY:Post Capitalist Parenting DESCRIPTION:Register!\n \n \n \n \n \n Capitalism has placed us under many spells that influence and limit what we believe to be normal and natural. Parenting is one intimate site where capitalism’s spell is particularly impactful. Often leaving parents and children to feel especially isolated\, alone\, and precarious—perfect for keeping working people separated and oppressed and for grooming children into docile workers under capitalism. \nTo kick off Upstream’s new series on Post Capitalist Parenting and intersect it with EcoGather’s interest in Parenting at the End of the World as We Know It\, we invited on Toi Smith\, mother of four and a Growth and Impact Strategist. Toi’s work centers on doing life\, business\, and motherhood differently and collaborating with people who are countercultural\, liberatory\, and revolutionary. \nIn the this episode-anchored EcoGathering\, we will consider what Capitalism has whispered to us about what parenting should look like and what it is for. Join us to deconstruct mothering\, fathering\, and caring for the next generations under capitalism and swap post capitalist child-rearing strategies. \nRecommended resources for this gathering: \nUpstream Podcast: Post Capitalist Parenting with Toi Marie SmithForget Hallmark: Why Mother’s Day is a Queer Black Feminist Left Thing\, in Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines\, Alexis Pauline GumbsOur Role As New Paradigm Parents\, excerpted from Raising Children in the Midst of Global Crisis\, by Jo delAmorNicole Civita: Parenting at the End of the World as We Know It \n  URL:https://ecogather.ing/event/post-capitalist-parenting/ CATEGORIES:EcoGathering ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ecogather.ing/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/7edwo30e32k.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250306T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250306T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T142551 CREATED:20250203T202621Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250203T202637Z UID:103042-1741287600-1741294800@ecogather.ing SUMMARY:Intentional Community Study Group DESCRIPTION: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. \nWe will meet in 5-session cycles with breaks in between. This cadence of focused study punctuated by periods for absorption\, reflection\, and implementation is intended to enable participants to sustain engagement and to support each other in moving from theory through ideation into practical action. In this way\, we can balance group formation\, active collaboration\, and openness to newcomers. \nAt the end of the first 10-week cycle\, study group participants will make suggestions about schedule for the next cycle\, including choosing a new book. EcoGather will reopen the study group to new participants. If you are interested in joining for the next cycle\, learn more about the group and apply\, follow the button below.\n \n Learn More and Apply! URL:https://ecogather.ing/event/intentional-community-study-group/ CATEGORIES:Study Group ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ecogather.ing/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/jwuv9ngb3ue.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Karachi:20250305T183000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Karachi:20250305T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T142551 CREATED:20241126T235740Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241227T064354Z UID:101867-1741199400-1741204800@ecogather.ing SUMMARY:Hospicing Modernity Together DESCRIPTION:Register\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n test URL:https://ecogather.ing/event/hospicing-modernity-together-11/ CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ecogather.ing/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/qjgz9pjg3sk.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250305T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250305T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T142551 CREATED:20250204T185231Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250228T150111Z UID:103087-1741176000-1741181400@ecogather.ing SUMMARY:Living Time DESCRIPTION:Register! \n \n \n \n \n \n The physical spaces we inhabit both shape and reflect how we spend our time and what our overculture values. We infrequently immerse ourselves in lush landscapes\, taking time to wander off path\, stopping to notice an oak gall or to observe that you can only find butterflies around the weedy goldenrod growing in the ditch. Far more often\, we drive past at 60 miles an hour\, completely encased in plastic and metal. We don’t let sprouting acorns planted by squirrels grow to maturity. Instead we mow them and all the other “weeds” down\, then budget massive amounts of time and resources into cultivating trees and ornamental bushes offsite to then transplant them. But the living world doesn’t work on the impatient timescales of the dominant contemporary economy. Beings\, ecosystems\, and all their interconnected relationships take time to form\, time to grow to maturity\, and time to recover when damaged. We humans don’t take the time to understand ecosystems\, to engage with them and to humbly ask what they need. If we want to contribute to a more resilient\, emergent abundance\, we must examine how we all relate to time — goldenrod and oak trees included. \nRecommended resources for this gathering:Deep Time Diligence: An Interview with Tyson YunkaportaFrihet\, by Peter SandburgGrowing Through Grief: Derek Jarmin\, by Maria PopovaModern Nature by Derek JarminDavid Farrier: Wild Clocks URL:https://ecogather.ing/event/livingtime/ CATEGORIES:EcoGathering ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ecogather.ing/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250304T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250304T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T142551 CREATED:20250124T185335Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250213T190242Z UID:102899-1741114800-1741122000@ecogather.ing SUMMARY:Good Grief DESCRIPTION:Register!\n \n \n \n \n \n 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. \nIn this second session\, our first meeting will be for sharing the grief that arises for each one of us at The Second Gate\, The places that have not known love. Holding tender space for the places within ourselves that have never been given the chance to know love\, this Sharing Session is an opportunity to release our grief to be witnessed and held in the collective well of sorrow. It’s highly recommended that you attend the companion Integration Session offered the following week\, for the sake of group continuity and comfortability\, as well as the opportunity to fully sit with the experience of witnessing and processing the grief at this gate. \n  \nRecommended Resources \nThe Wild Edge of Sorrow by Francis Weller\, Chapter 3\nFor the second session of this series\, it’s highly recommended that you read the section of this chapter subtitled “The Second Gate: The places that have not known love” (pages 31-46) \nThe Five Gates of Grief\nA brief summary of each of the five gates of grief URL:https://ecogather.ing/event/good-grief-2-sharing/ CATEGORIES:Sharing Session ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ecogather.ing/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/photo-1574254706427-213d446e2f2b.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250227T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250227T110000 DTSTAMP:20260403T142551 CREATED:20241127T205610Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250210T221525Z UID:101880-1740650400-1740654000@ecogather.ing SUMMARY:Open Hours (Nissa) DESCRIPTION:Join Here! URL:https://ecogather.ing/event/open-hours-nissa/ CATEGORIES:Social Session ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ecogather.ing/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/m9f8vr0jepm.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250226T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250226T193000 DTSTAMP:20260403T142551 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 BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Karachi:20250224T110000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Karachi:20250224T123000 DTSTAMP:20260403T142551 CREATED:20241126T234950Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241126T235000Z UID:101866-1740394800-1740400200@ecogather.ing SUMMARY:Hospicing Modernity Together DESCRIPTION: URL:https://ecogather.ing/event/hospicing-modernity-together-10/ CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ecogather.ing/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/qjgz9pjg3sk.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250222T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250222T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T142551 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=Asia/Karachi:20250220T193000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Karachi:20250220T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T142551 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=Asia/Karachi:20250219T183000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Karachi:20250219T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T142551 CREATED:20241126T234440Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250210T224629Z UID:101865-1739989800-1739995200@ecogather.ing SUMMARY:Hospicing Modernity Together DESCRIPTION: URL:https://ecogather.ing/event/hospicing-modernity-together-9/ CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ecogather.ing/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/qjgz9pjg3sk.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250217T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250217T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T142551 CREATED:20250128T203048Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250210T212902Z UID:102944-1739793600-1739800800@ecogather.ing SUMMARY:Intentional Community Study Group DESCRIPTION: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. \nWe will meet in 5-session cycles with breaks in between. This cadence of focused study punctuated by periods for absorption\, reflection\, and implementation is intended to enable participants to sustain engagement and to support each other in moving from theory through ideation into practical action. In this way\, we can balance group formation\, active collaboration\, and openness to newcomers. \nAt the end of the first 10-week cycle\, study group participants will make suggestions about schedule for the next cycle\, including choosing a new book. EcoGather will reopen the study group to new participants. If you are interested in joining for the next cycle\, learn more about the group and apply\, follow the button below. \n \n Learn More and Apply! URL:https://ecogather.ing/event/intentional-community-study-group-event/ CATEGORIES:Study Group ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ecogather.ing/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/jwuv9ngb3ue.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250212T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250212T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T142551 CREATED:20250123T164113Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250211T180604Z UID:102860-1739386800-1739392200@ecogather.ing SUMMARY:Autonomous Communications Club DESCRIPTION:Join Here!\n \n \n \n \n \n In this study group club we discuss all the myriad ways we might gain great control of our communications\, whether for crisis response\, grid-down scenarios\, increased security\, improved attention\, and anything in between. In this session one of our participants will be presenting on the use of Meshtastic! URL:https://ecogather.ing/event/autonomous-communications-club/ CATEGORIES:Study Group ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ecogather.ing/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/yz6ouonpxxy.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Karachi:20250212T120000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Karachi:20250212T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T142551 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=America/New_York:20250211T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250211T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T142551 CREATED:20241127T204239Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250203T201150Z UID:101879-1739293200-1739296800@ecogather.ing SUMMARY:Open Hours (Erik) DESCRIPTION:Join Here! URL:https://ecogather.ing/event/office-hours-erik/ CATEGORIES:Social Session ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ecogather.ing/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/m9f8vr0jepm.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Karachi:20250210T110000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Karachi:20250210T123000 DTSTAMP:20260403T142551 CREATED:20241126T233141Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250208T153516Z UID:101864-1739185200-1739190600@ecogather.ing SUMMARY:Hospicing Modernity Together DESCRIPTION:A guided group reading of Vanessa Machado de Oliveira (Andreotti)’s Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity’s Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism. URL:https://ecogather.ing/event/hospicing-modernity-together-8/ CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ecogather.ing/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/qjgz9pjg3sk.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250209T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250209T123000 DTSTAMP:20260403T142551 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 END:VCALENDAR