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: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:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250320T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250320T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T155238 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:20260403T155238 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:20260403T155238 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:20260403T155238 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:20260403T155238 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:20260403T155238 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:20260403T155238 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:20260403T155238 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:20260403T155238 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:20260403T155238 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:20260403T155238 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:20260403T155238 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:20260403T155238 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:20260403T155238 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:20260403T155238 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:20260403T155238 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:20260403T155238 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:20260403T155239 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:20260403T155239 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:20260403T155239 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:20260403T155239 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=America/New_York:20250206T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250206T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T155239 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=Asia/Karachi:20250205T183000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Karachi:20250205T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T155239 CREATED:20241126T232622Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241203T231546Z UID:101863-1738780200-1738785600@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-7/ 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:20250129T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250129T150000 DTSTAMP:20260403T155239 CREATED:20250108T180059Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250123T182313Z UID:101839-1738157400-1738162800@ecogather.ing SUMMARY:EcoGathering: Conquerers DESCRIPTION:Register!\n \n \n \n \n \n Humans are offered – forced into\, really – relatively few roles and identities in modernity. On this first call\, we’ll unpack how we’ve been made to live as conquerers\, occupiers\, Homo colossus\, separated from and domineering over the living world. Our population\, our consumption\, and the myths we’ve been offered all inform this role we can choose to resist. \nRecommended resources for this EcoGathering:\n \nGenghis Khan (Part 2) – How to Take Over the World podcast \nConquerors and Culture – National Geographic \n \n  URL:https://ecogather.ing/event/ecogathering-conquerers/ CATEGORIES:EcoGathering ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ecogather.ing/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/jfowjsakux0.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Karachi:20250127T110000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Karachi:20250127T123000 DTSTAMP:20260403T155239 CREATED:20241126T231741Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241203T231245Z UID:101859-1737975600-1737981000@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-6/ CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ecogather.ing/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/qjgz9pjg3sk.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Karachi:20250122T183000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Karachi:20250122T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T155239 CREATED:20241126T231022Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241203T230710Z UID:101857-1737570600-1737576000@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-5/ CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ecogather.ing/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/qjgz9pjg3sk.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Karachi:20250121T180000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Karachi:20250121T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T155239 CREATED:20241126T013708Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250116T173022Z UID:101837-1737482400-1737482400@ecogather.ing SUMMARY:EcoGathering: Patience DESCRIPTION:Register!\n \n \n \n \n \n “Good things come to those who wait.” “Patience is a virtue.” Perhaps\, but at the very least we all have experienced the necessary practice of patience in our own lives. On our final call of this shortened cycle\, we’ll convene around the practice and lessons of patience\, which can feel especially challenging when we feel so much urgency. \nRecommended resources for this EcoGathering:\nThe Times are Urgent: Let’s Slow Down – Bayo Akomolafe \nTaking Just a Little Bit of Time – Guy Davis \nPatience – The Lumineers URL:https://ecogather.ing/event/ecogathering-patience/ CATEGORIES:EcoGathering ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ecogather.ing/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/91ss5scorny.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Karachi:20250115T113000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Karachi:20250115T130000 DTSTAMP:20260403T155239 CREATED:20241126T005657Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250109T170020Z UID:101834-1736940600-1736946000@ecogather.ing SUMMARY:EcoGathering: Darkness DESCRIPTION:Register!\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\nDarkness — non-metaphorical\, the lack of light in the physical world — is an increasingly rare phenomenon\, although it certainly feels like we have an abundnace of darnkess in these northern hemisphere winters. Darkness — metaphorical\, all the difficult things in the world – is\, unfortunately\, not an increasingly rare phenomenon. For this call\, we’ll focus mostly on the former\, but just as it’s crucial to acknowledge the necessity of darkness for the critters and habitats on Earth\, it’s neccessary to acknoledge the darkness we feel (gently\, of course — we don’t need to dive too deep into the darkness of the world).

What lessons can we and\, whether we want to or not\, must we learn from darkness\, physical and metaphorical? On this call\, we’ll figure a bit of that out together. \nRecommended resources for this EcoGathering:\nBeing With the Dark – A practice for observing darkness \nlight\, dark\, light – A song by Angie McMahon and Fred again…  \nI Pray for the Dark – A poem by Tom Hirons URL:https://ecogather.ing/event/ecogathering-darkness/ CATEGORIES:EcoGathering ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ecogather.ing/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/sg128ujzdmu.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Karachi:20250113T110000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Karachi:20250113T123000 DTSTAMP:20260403T155239 CREATED:20241126T221706Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241203T230423Z UID:101856-1736766000-1736771400@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-duplicate/ CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ecogather.ing/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/qjgz9pjg3sk.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Karachi:20250109T193000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Karachi:20250109T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T155239 CREATED:20241126T003833Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250109T212743Z UID:101819-1736451000-1736456400@ecogather.ing SUMMARY:EcoGathering: Presence DESCRIPTION:Register!\n \n \n \n \n \n This shorter cycle’s will focus on slower\, quieter themes as we begin the new calendar year that will surely be full of more disruptions and uncertainty. As winter begins to settle in deeper for us in the northern hemisphere\, we’ll sit with the elements that accompany this time of year (but are relevant\, of course\, anywhere on Earth at any given time\, no matter your hemisphere of habitation): presence\, darkness\, and patience.

Modernity pushes us into ever more rapid performance\, consumption\, and reaction. In the accelerating chaos unfolding around us\, we can all benefit from some stillness in our lives. Whether through meditation\, prayer\, habit\, rest\, even sleep\, stillness has quite a lot to offer. \nRecommended resources for this EcoGathering:\nTodd Hannigan – Bison \nTara Brach – Guided Meditation: Opening to the Sea of Presence (19 min) \nKimberly Blaeser – About Standing (in Kinship) \nClaude Monet – Water Lilies \n  URL:https://ecogather.ing/event/ecogathering-presence/ CATEGORIES:EcoGathering ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ecogather.ing/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/05buidzovkg.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR