Joah Lev

reciprocal ecologist

[Joah Lev @joah]

@ConservationOrg @McDonalds Cozying up to corporations which do a great deal of harm, both environmentally and to human health, makes me think a lot less of your organization.

[Joah Lev @joah]

I have come to think of these 3 qualities - paying intimate attention; a storied relationship to a place rather than a solely sensory awareness of it; & living in some sort of ethical unity w a place - as a fundamental human defense against loneliness. BL

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[Emergence Magazine @emergence_zine]

What if instead of embracing a free market system that touts individualism and monetary growth, we embrace a gift economy that functions through an ethic of reciprocity and interconnection? Robin Wall Kimmerer on reimagining our currencies of exchange. https://t.co/JPFV3wHkPG

[Brandon Keim @9brandon]

"We should replace our nouns for naming things with verbs...."

From Tim Ingold's marvelous new book, Correspondences: https://t.co/pbOUgSmPrB

(Love to see him critique 'entanglement' and 'more-than-human' thinking that still puts humans at the center)

#Understory

[Caspar Henderson @casparhenderson]

“mycorrhizal networks also perfuse prairies, grasslands, chaparral & tundra — essentially everywhere there is life on land. Together, these symbiotic partners knit Earth’s soils into nearly contiguous living networks of unfathomable scale & complexity” https://t.co/QCMtccsGqB

[Rewilding Magazine @rewildingmag]

“Maybe the only way to save the world is to re-enchant it,” Helen Macdonald, author of H is for Hawk, recently said . “To love things, and to feel that they have some kind of greater presence or power.” https://t.co/i8EB59JzmK

[Ben Goldsmith @BenGoldsmith]

The times really are changing. Communities, politicians and landowners are starting to realise that restoring nature on a grand scale offers the surest pathway to ecological, economic and social renewal https://t.co/Yg7REmVepP

[Joah Lev @joah]

An excellent and inspiring conference on the ecology and practice of rewilding. Wish we had an organization similar to @RewildingEurope in the States.

[Joah Lev @joah]

@FancyScientist Words on Wild Things

[Joah Lev @joah]

@FancyScientist ‘Fancy Scientist’s Words on Wildlife’
‘Fancies Words on Wildlife’
or simply:
‘Words on Wildlife’ (WoW)

[Joah Lev @joah]

But when we think of all these creatures as part of a bigger process, a vast natural system that incorporates our tiny, tidy self-identified lives but is far more expansive—indeed, that is wildly inclusive in the very broadest sense... https://t.co/3q58W2SX57

[Joah Lev @joah]

Check out this new, beautifully produced digital magazine focusing on spiritual ecology and related topics.

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[Joah Lev @joah]

Reciprocal Ecology is an emerging multidisciplinary field of study that explores people's social, reciprocal... https://t.co/LtveQOstCH

[Joah Lev @joah]

"Some people talk to animals [or trees]. Not many listen though. That's the problem.”

― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh https://t.co/epMUx64Ccj

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A new book exploring the intelligence of plants. “Intelligence is the ability to solve problems and plants are... http://t.co/Ty2ygKqXsR