Rē’s learning journey on the road in both the Southeast and the Northeast has come to an end, at least for now. It was an amazing journey and the team so appreciated getting a chance to reconnect and learn alongside many of you!
The journey was in so many ways a journey of reconnecting with old friends, partners, and colleagues as well as meeting with new ones. It enabled a lot of reflection about how the Pandemic has changed us, as well as about the current and future state of higher education for regenerative well-being.
The final gathering was at Alnoba in New Hampshire. Some of the images from that gathering are below. There was a lot of laughter as well as moments of reflecting on what it means to understand where we are in history - in part by telling family stories about the past differently.
Rē continues to engage with its longstanding participatory research efforts for regenerative education and living… which will most likely lead to future learning journeys!
For this week, we are mixing up some resources on education alongside recent books and articles about the environment.
Resources
Charisma and Education amidst broken stories: A conversation with Dougald Hine
ReBugging the Planet: The Remarkable things that insects can do - a cool new book about insects and other invertibres.
The West Texas Power Plant that Saved the World: Energy, Capitalism and Climate Change - a positive story coming out of Texas
At Work in the Ruins: Finding our Place in the time of Science, Climate Change, Pandemics, and all other Emergencies, by Dougald Hine - an immensely thoughtful and thought-provoking book
Student Activism as a Catalyst for Institutional Reform , by Steven Mintz - the article reviews a variety of responses from across professionals and writers in higher education towards some of the recent campus protests, and suggests educators see this as an opportunity to go deeper.
South Dakota Bans Pronouns, tribal affiliations in University Email Signatures, by Kathryn Palmer - Is it a question of ‘consistant branding’ (as argues the University) or of ‘continuing to dis-respect tribal affiliations’?
Alaskan Rivers Turning Orange due to Climate Change - a new report on yet another disturbing aspect of a warming planet and its negative impact on animals and fish.
Barriers to learning for Sustainability: a teacher’s perspective - this is an academic article that looks at some of why it has been difficult to bring sustainability into highschool classrooms.