Joanna Macy is an Eco-philosopher. Her thoughts are pioneering, life-affirming and powerful.
Joanna Macy
From her website;
“Joanna Macy is a Buddhist teacher, writer, activist, and scholar. For three decades, she has been developing teaching tools to help us respond to the perils and suffering of our world. Her work combines imagination, courage and good strategy to bring us teachings about “the work that reconnects.” This work is described in one of her many books, Coming Back to Life: Practices to Reconnect Our Lives, Our World (with Molly Young Brown, New Society). Joanna has been a mentor, advisor, and supporter of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship from the beginning.
……..Joanna speaks of the Great Turning, a name for “the essential adventure of our time: the shift from the Industrial Growth Society to a life-sustaining civilization.” You will find more about the Great Turning on her excellent website along with many other teaching tools, resources, encouragement, and inspiration.”
Joanna speaks about The Great Turning here;
….”The Great Turning is a name for the essential adventure of our time: the shift from the industrial growth society to a life-sustaining civilization.
The ecological and social crises we face are inflamed by an economic system dependent on accelerating growth. This self-destructing political economy sets its goals and measures its performance in terms of ever-increasing corporate profits–in other words by how fast materials can be extracted from Earth and turned into consumer products, weapons, and waste.
A revolution is underway because people are realizing that our needs can be met without destroying our world. We have the technical knowledge, the communication tools, and material resources to grow enough food, ensure clean air and water, and meet rational energy needs. Future generations, if there is a livable world for them, will look back at the epochal transition we are making to a life-sustaining society. And they may well call this the time of the Great Turning. It is happening now.”
- http://www.joannamacy.net/thegreatturning.html
Please CLICK ON THE LINK OR VIDEO/PHOTO BELOW to see A GREAT 5 MIN VIDEO and get on-line with her ideas here;
Joanna Macey speaks on The Great Turning
Joanna is creating a grassroots movement of educating people to find ways to ‘Reconnect‘ with the earth and ultimately with ourselves in a way that brings meaning, peace into our hearts and finds way to feel less powerless, to empower ourselves into action for positive change – from her website;
“…….The Work That Reconnects is a pioneering form of group work that began in the 1970s. It demonstrates our interconnectedness in the web of life and our authority to take action on its behalf. It has helped many thousands around the globe find insight, solidarity, and courage to act, despite rapidly worsening conditions. Based on systems theory, spiritual teachings, and deep ecology, its methods are described in Coming Back to Life, the book [she] wrote with Molly Young Brown.”
Inspired by Joanna Macey, author Dave Pollard describes her idea’s through this chart below on Joanna’s concepts in his Blog – a really interesting read here; http://howtosavetheworld.ca/2009/10/28/maybe-thats-what-it-takes/
What You Can Do Chart