Tuesday, October 1, 20247:00 PM 8:30 PM Register Here! Conversation In the cycle of life and death, death is grossly misunderstood. Dying has been marketed as the ultimate defeat to living – it’s a product of disaster, discomfort and disease. We often shroud it in euphemisms to avoid offending life. It is an unwanted crack […]

Register Here! Focus In the approach and the wake of death, we are presented with grief. A word too small to encompass the extent of what it carries in meaning, grief is a masterkey to an entire warehouse of complex emotions, memories, and depth in understanding the world. Because our modern culture largely fails to […]

Register Here! Generative Attend. Tend. Attention. Tendrils. Etymologically united by the root tendere – to stretch toward, give heed to – these words convey a process of extension. Stretching one thing towards another, be it a body towards a place, energy towards a recipient, mind towards an idea, or roots towards the unknown. Attending is […]

Register Here! Conversation In this lunar cycle of EcoGatherings, we will discuss the ways that Commons are misunderstood, and the role that a more nuanced understanding of their past, present, and future might serve us in a just transition from this world into the next. To begin the cycle, we will conversationally unpack our own […]

Register Here! Conversation Enclosure is seen by many as the beginning of capitalism as a dominant economic system. It is an ongoing process of claiming once commonly managed resources (both physical and abstract) as private property that can only be accessed through a financial transaction, while facilitating the forgetting of the skills and culture needed […]

Register Here! Upstream Conversation On this special EcoGathering, we’ll convene to discuss the Upstream podcast episode featuring Vijay Prashad, The Fight for the Congo. The extraction of materials so necessary for our way of life is inextricable from the suffering of humans and more-than-humans in the DRC (and pretty much anywhere else where mines are […]

Register Here! Focus David Bollier said “There is no commons without commoning.” The commons is more than just a collectively managed resource. It is a nuanced, adaptive, participatory culture that requires community, history, connection, communication, and reciprocity. We may have forgotten the skills and knowledge that make commoning a part of life, but it is […]