The RēMind, No. 016: Looking Ahead
The RēMind, No. 016: Looking Ahead
2022 Rē Retreat and Course Offerings / Environmentalism in China / Regenerative Farming Cuts Emissions and Boosts Profits / U.S.'s First ‘Right to Food’ Amendment / Nutritional Inequality in America
Hello 2022! We hope this new year finds you and yours happy, healthy, and centered.
In this week’s newsletter we offer up Rē’s March revitalizing “Blossom Into Spring” retreat, announce dates for our upcoming “Nature and Belonging” course, and share an incredible article written by our virtual research intern, Eddy E., exploring environmentalism in China. We also highlight a new study that shows how regenerative farming techniques can cut emissions and boosts profits overtime. Lastly, we showcase the importance of Maine’s ‘Right to Food’ amendment and announce a new book by Priya Fielding-Singh, PhD, which expertly weaves together storytelling and research on nutritional inequality in America.
We hope to see you this year at one of our course offerings and retreats! Keep reading for more!
Updates from Rē:
Blossom Into Spring: A Restorative Retreat
March 25-27, 2022
Join us for a weekend of self-care in Fayetteville, Tennessee!
The focus of our March 2022 retreat will be to clear the accumulated energy that no longer serves us and to create space for new revitalized energies.
Thana Nu of Nourish Me Wellness, Caitlin Smith of Within Wellness,and Ashlei Laingof Rē : The Regenerative school will be facilitating the weekend, holding space, and helping us bloom. Consider our invitation and lean into a beautiful, practice for you.
Full weekend, day pass, and scholarship registration available! For more information and registration details, click here.
Nature and Belonging: Finding Connection Through Nature and the Senses
February 27, March 6 & March 13. Weekly live-streamed 90 minute classes.
Do you seek to connect more to the place in which you live? Wish to understand your surroundings better? Search for meaning in the physical place you find yourself?
Consider joining us for our upcoming “Nature and Belonging” course!
Many of us feel rootless in our day to day. We feel detached from place, disillusioned by the current state of our world, and spiritually unconnected.
This three-part, live-streamed course explores eco-psychology and phenomenological techniques that engage our five senses and help connect us to ourselves, each other, and our sense of place. Facilitated by Maya Galimidi, along with a special interview with Juliet Egesa, “Nature and Belonging” will help course participants find connection and build re-connection with where they are.
Registration is now open! Click here for more information and to sign up!
Only $50 for all three live sessions!
From Ancient Philosophy to Modern Policy: Understanding Environmentalism in China
Rē’s virtual research intern, Eddy E., has been researching the ecological perspectives of traditional smallholder farmers in China. To begin the new year, Eddy wrote an article for Rē exploring how Chinese history, industry, politics, and philosophy, namely Confucianism and Daoism, have shaped Environmentalism in China over the years. To read the thought-provoking opinion piece, click here.
New Study Finds Regenerative Farming Reduces Emissions and Boosts Profits Long-Term
A recent study by Bain & Company and Nature United, the Canadian affiliate organization of the Nature Conservancy, shows that transitioning to regenerative farming techniques can help farmers reduce their emissions and increase profits. The study concluded that using regenerative farming techniques (such as crop rotation, cover crops, reduced tillage, and nutrient management) could cut emissions in half per hectare farmed (one hectare is equivalent to 2.47 acres). To read more about the study and its implications, click here.
Maine Passes Nation’s First ‘Right to Food’ Amendment
In November 2021, Maine approved a referendum to add a “right to food” amendment to the state’s constitution. The amendment provides Mainers with a constitutional right to grow, harvest and consume their own food, and it includes protections for rights to seed saving and seed sharing. The amendment is a big step toward a more local food economy and a more secure food system. Click here to read more.
New Book ‘How the Other Half Eats’ Unpacks Nutritional Inequality in America
Sociologist and ethnographer Priya Fielding-Singh, PhD, shared an excerpt of her new book on Food52. How the Other Half Eats offers a critical examination of nutritional inequality in America through the lens of social class, race, and health, intimately following four families across the income spectrum in an exploration of the meaning of food itself. Fielding-Singh weaves fascinating research and empathetic storytelling to explore how children’s hunger and pickiness work to shape the food that makes its way onto families’ dinner plates. We are so excited to read the book. Click here to read the excerpt.
As always, we at Rē are grateful for your attention and support. If you liked this newsletter, consider donating at https://regenerativeschool.org/redonate/
THANK YOU!