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Eaarth Feels

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Has the endlessly gloomy climate news got you hiding under your covers with a case of overwhelm?

Join Christine and Rose for soul-based conversations about climate change that explore the idea that climate change is happening for us as much as it is happening to us.

If you are ready to shift your focus and secure the future for our kids and grandkids this is the podcast for you.

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Climate of Joy

June 17, 2023 00:52

How do we reclaim joy and healing in a time of Climate Emergency? Eaarth Feels Podcast co-host Christine, self-described Climate Crone, as well as mother, author, and energy healer introduces her new podcast, Climate of Joy. Climate of Joy looks at the Climate Emergency that we are facing, and the opportunity that the current ecological and environmental, social, and economic planetary crises offer for dramatic spiritual and cultural healing. If you are ready for a new conversation about c...

Climate of Joy: Intuitive Healing and the Climate Emergency

June 17, 2023 00:52 - 17 minutes - 32.2 MB

How do we reclaim joy and healing in a time of Climate Emergency? Eaarth Feels Podcast co-host Christine, self-described Climate Crone, as well as mother, author, and energy healer introduces her new podcast, Climate of Joy. Climate of Joy looks at the Climate Emergency that we are facing, and the opportunity that the current ecological and environmental, social, and economic planetary crises offer for dramatic spiritual and cultural healing. If you are ready for a new conversation about c...

Think Cosmically, Act Locally

November 18, 2022 18:09 - 27 minutes - 50.2 MB

In this second episode of a two-part special COP27 podcast, Christine discusses how to apply a "bigger picture" perspective to the devastation of climate change with guest Sandra Boatman. Sandra is a skilled energy intuitive who embodies Divine Feminine ways of knowing and healing. Tune in for a conversation that ranges from practical energetic ways of releasing trapped emotions, and why that is important, to the planetary influences at this important time. Feeling stressed and anxious abo...

Think Quantumly, Act Locally

November 03, 2022 23:32 - 24 minutes - 45.7 MB

In this pre-COP 27 podcast, Christine discusses the world of vibrating energy and connection revealed by quantum mechanics. How can those of us who are alarmed about the climate emergency apply that information to our current situation? Christine explores this question, adding insights into other dimensions that she has glimpsed in her work as a spiritual detective and intuitive energy healer. If you want to share your feelings about climate change in a supportive circle, and have the oppo...

Episode 209. A New Year, A New Direction

January 07, 2022 15:50 - 25 minutes - 47.6 MB

It's 2022 and the Climate Emergency continues. Rose and Christine chat about what is ahead for them personally and for Eaarth Feels podcast.

Episode 208. Can Having the Courage to Tell Our Story Help Heal Our World? An interview With Gayle Nowak, The Story Stylist

December 17, 2021 09:00 - 42 minutes - 51.6 MB

Our stories are our greatest medicine. Speaking our story is the first step to healing ourselves and the world we cherish.

Episode 207.  BEST IN CLIMATE: From pollutant to product: the companies making stuff from CO2, by Zoë Corbyn

December 13, 2021 09:00 - 18 minutes - 25.2 MB

Imagine shoes, meat , vodka,  jet fuel and concrete using captured carbon as an essential key ingredient. The technology is already here. This story originally appeared in The Guardian and is part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story.

Episode 206. Can Ted Lasso Show Us How to Do the Right-est Thing?

December 10, 2021 09:00 - 30 minutes - 55.5 MB

***Spoiler Alert*** Does Apple TV's Ted Lasso, featuring a relentlessly optimistic American recruited to coach a professional English soccer (or football, if you aren't North American) team, have any insight to offer those of us who are kept awake at night because of the climate emergency? The show's second season includes an episode entitled "Do the Right-est Thing" and in today's podcast Christine and Rose discuss what, if anything, this popular show has to teach us about doing just that i...

Can Ted Lasso Show Us How to Do the Right-est Thing?

December 10, 2021 09:00 - 30 minutes - 55.5 MB

***Spoiler Alert*** Does Apple TV's Ted Lasso, featuring a relentlessly optimistic American recruited to coach a professional English soccer (or football, if you aren't North American) team, have any insight to offer those of us who are kept awake at night because of the climate emergency? The show's second season includes an episode entitled "Do the Right-est Thing" and in today's podcast Christine and Rose discuss what, if anything, this popular show has to teach us about doing just that i...

Episode 205. BEST IN CLIMATE: Youth and Hope, by Kahlil Gibran

December 06, 2021 18:50 - 10 minutes - 14.5 MB

As  we continue to watch the old paradigm  crumble and experience the birth pangs of a new world emerging this timeless essay from the Lebanese-American Poet Kahlil Gibran seems especially relevant.

Episode 204. How do we Make our Investments Reflect our Values? An Interview with James Cox

December 03, 2021 09:00 - 31 minutes - 38.7 MB

Every dollar we invest is a vote for the world we want to create. With a bit of research our investment dollars can support and hasten a more just and sustainable economic paradigm.

Episode 203. The Win-Wins of Climate and Biodiversity Solutions, by Paul C. West

November 29, 2021 21:45 - 13 minutes - 19 MB

Simply stated, what’s better for plants and wildlife is better for the climate. Author Paul C. West explains where we need to begin and why. This story originally appeared in  The Revelator and is part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story.

Episode 202. What if YOU are the light? Reflections from Elizabeth Gilbert

November 25, 2021 09:00 - 7 minutes - 9.83 MB

A quick reminder from Elizabeth Gilbert:  We all have the ability to illuminate our corner of our world.

Episode 201. BEST IN CLIMATE: Nice Isn't Going to Save the Planet, by Mary Annaïse Heglar and Amy Westervelt

November 22, 2021 09:00 - 11 minutes - 16.5 MB

In a rapidly heating world, we don't have time for etiquette, In fact, as authors Mary Annaïse Heglar and Amy Westervelt, remind us, it is precisely the noncongeniality of the the youth climate movement that is finally making fossil fuel companies uncomfortable. This column is part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration cofounded by Columbia Journalism Review and The Nation to strengthen coverage of the climate story.

Episode 201. BEST IN CLIMATE: Nice Isn't Going to Save the Planet, by Mary Annaïse Heglar and Amy Westervelt

November 22, 2021 09:00

In a rapidly heating world, we don't have time for etiquette, In fact, as authors Mary Annaïse Heglar and Amy Westervelt, remind us, it is precisely the noncongeniality of the the youth climate movement that is finally making fossil fuel companies uncomfortable. This column is part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration cofounded by Columbia Journalism Review and The Nation to strengthen coverage of the climate story.

Episode 200: Post COP26. What Has to Happen for us to Take Action on the Climate Crisis?

November 19, 2021 09:00 - 30 minutes - 38.7 MB

The not-very-ambitious agreement to come out of COP26 has left many climate-concerned people around the world discouraged and angry. Rose and Christine discuss what happened in Glasgow this month, as well as the recent extreme flooding in British Columbia that has cut off the West Coast of Canada from the rest of the country.

Episode 199.  BEST IN CLIMATE:  23 Gone, Countless More to Save, by John R Platt

November 15, 2021 19:53 - 9 minutes - 14.2 MB

Does hearing about another species going extinct make you feel angry? Author John R. Platt thinks that is a good thing. This story originally appeared in The Revelator and is part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story.

Episode 198. How to Listen to Mother Earth and Become Her Boots on the Ground

November 12, 2021 09:00 - 48 minutes - 60.6 MB

In a rebroadcast of the five women panel presented at the virtual 2021 Parliament of World's Religions, Pat Fero, Clare Dubois, Shannon Thompson, Linda Bender and Rose Tenaglia Dunn share how their journey of communication with Gaia has led them to step beyond their comfort zone to take action on her behalf.

Episode 197. BEST IN CLIMATE: Reasons to be hopeful: the climate solutions available now, by Damian Carrington

November 05, 2021 18:25 - 15 minutes - 22.4 MB

Good news on the climate front? Thankfully, there are some hopeful signs.

Episode 196. Can we be Satisfied with the Luxury of Enough?

November 05, 2021 08:00 - 11 minutes - 16.9 MB

In order to address the climate emergency, the amount we need to consume needs to drop dramatically. Then why are we consuming MORE?

Episode 195. BEST IN CLIMATE: To Build a Beautiful World, You First Have to Imagine It, by Mary Annaïse Heglar

November 01, 2021 08:00 - 10 minutes - 14.4 MB

Everything that has ever been created by humanity began as a thought, a dreaming, an imagining. Envisioning the world our hearts know is possible is the beginning. Ms Heglar explains. This essay originally appeared in The Nation and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story.

What Would I Say To the Leaders Meeting at COP26? Global Youth Respond

October 29, 2021 08:30 - 28 minutes - 51.6 MB

As pivotal UN climate talks begin at the COP26 summit in Glasgow on October 31st, this podcast episode spotlights youth whose voices are not often heard at climate negotiations, but who will be living with the impacts of a less stable climate all their lives. Six young people from around the world, including from those countries being most impacted by climate destabilization already, send a message to the leaders meeting in Glasgow.

Episode 194. What Would I Say To the Leaders Meeting at COP26? Global Youth Respond

October 29, 2021 08:30 - 28 minutes - 51.6 MB

As pivotal UN climate talks begin at the COP26 summit in Glasgow on October 31st, this podcast episode spotlights youth whose voices are not often heard at climate negotiations, but who will be living with the impacts of a less stable climate all their lives. Six young people from around the world, including from those countries being most impacted by climate destabilization already, send a message to the leaders meeting in Glasgow.

Episode 193. BEST IN CLIMATE: Pope Francis joins world leaders in urgent climate appeal ahead of COP26, by Brian Roewe

October 25, 2021 08:00 - 20 minutes - 28.7 MB

In response to the "grave threat" of climate change, heads of the world's major religions united at the Vatican to issue an unprecedented joint appeal to government leaders at next month's United Nations climate summit, calling for "urgent, radical and responsible action" to drastically curb greenhouse gas emissions and for the world's wealthiest countries to lead in healing the planet.

Episode 192. Will COP26 be our turning point?

October 22, 2021 21:54 - 25 minutes - 33 MB

The United Kingdom will host the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow, United Kingdom, on November 1 to November 13, 2021. Will world leaders commit to making the changes necessary?  

Episode 191. BEST IN CLIMATE. 'We Will Never Forget What You Have Done': Climate Activist Grills Shell CEO at TED Forum, by Brett Wilkins

October 18, 2021 19:40 - 6 minutes - 12.2 MB

"No matter what he says today, remember, Shell has spent millions covering up the warnings from climate scientists, bribing politicians, and even paying soldiers to kill Nigerian activists fighting against them, all whilst rebranding to make it look as though they care and that they have the intention of changing." This week's Best in Climate article, originally published on CommonDreams.org, discusses how brilliantly climate activist Lauren McDonald articulated the frustrations of many at...

Episode 190. What is the link between climate change and consciousness?

October 15, 2021 17:47 - 29 minutes - 53.6 MB

"It is helpful to know that to care about others, much less about the environment or the quality of life on the planet, is extremely recent in the evolution of consciousness of millennia." Dr David Hawkins This episode of Eaarth Feels is a discussion of climate change, and the other environmental challenges we are facing, in the context of psychiatrist Dr David Hawkin's Map of Consciousness.

Episode 189. BEST IN CLIMATE: Does Nature Have Rights? A Burgeoning Legal Movement Says Rivers, Forests and Wildlife Have Standing, Too by Katie Surma

October 11, 2021 08:00 - 31 minutes - 43 MB

Climate change and environmental destruction have inspired court cases around the country and the globe, aimed at protecting the natural world. Journalist Katie Surma gives us a brief history and provides us hope for Earth's future. This story originally appeared in Inside Climate News and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story.

Episode 188. How Do We Meet this Unprecedented All-Hands-on-Deck Moment?

October 09, 2021 00:25 - 10 minutes - 14.6 MB

Climate Breakdown is undeniable and no one is coming to save us. How do we step into this moment? Rose reminds us we are the ones we have been waiting for.

Episode 187. BEST IN CLIMATE. Greta Thunberg, Vanessa Nakate Excoriate World Leaders for 'Blah, Blah, Blah' Climate Failures, by Andrea Germanos

October 05, 2021 08:00 - 5 minutes - 11 MB

"Our leaders are lost," said Nakate of Uganda, "and our planet is damaged." This week's Best in Climate article highlights the recent addresses by youth climate activists Vanessa Nakate and Greta Thunberg at Youth4Climate summit. Originally published on CommonDreams.org.

Episode 186. How do we Honor and Process our Ecological Despair? An Interview with Shannon Thompson

September 30, 2021 22:57 - 42 minutes - 52.6 MB

Continuing our monthlong coverage on Climate anxiety, Shannon Thompson, the founder of Shakti Rising,  shares insights with Rose  from her 22 year history leading a trauma informed women's change organization.

Episode 185. BEST IN CLIMATE: This Kenyan village halted deforestation by selling carbon credits, by Cece Siago

September 27, 2021 22:48 - 12 minutes - 17.2 MB

In one Kenyan village, citizens are paid to plant mangroves rather than cut them, reducing deforestation and furthering economic and climate sustainability for the future.

Episode 184. What does a climate grief specialist want us to know? Catching up with Kriss Kevorkian, PhD.

September 24, 2021 23:51 - 42 minutes - 52.4 MB

In the year that has been transpired since we last spoke with thanatologist (climate grief specialist) Kriss Kevorkian, we have been hit head on with flooding, hurricanes, building collapse, droughts and wildfire. Neck deep in the knowledge of human caused climate change, Kriss offers her wisdom to help us cope .

Episode 183. BEST IN CLIMATE: An excerpt from Flight Behavior, by Barbara Kingsolver

September 20, 2021 19:46 - 17 minutes - 24.9 MB

In an excerpt from her 2012 novel "Flight Behavior" Barbara Kingsolver's characters explain the goal of 350 ppm and the frightening aspect of global temperature rise in a language every lay person can understand.  

Episode 182. How do we build our Resiliency? An Interview with Michele Smith

September 16, 2021 17:21 - 42 minutes - 53.7 MB

Michele Smith shares her journey to founding the Resiliency School and offers a three step process to help us build our resilience muscle. 

Episode 181: BEST IN CLIMATE: 'Hijacked by anxiety': how climate dread is hindering climate action, by Jillian Ambrose.

September 13, 2021 18:55 - 11 minutes - 21.5 MB

Jillian Ambrose, the energy correspondent at Guardian News and Media details ways our climate grief is holding us back from taking action. This story originally appeared in The Guardian and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story.

Let's Treat Fossil Fuels As the Weapons of Mass Destruction That They Are:  A Discussion of The Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty

September 10, 2021 08:00 - 34 minutes - 63.7 MB

Barcelona, Sidney, Los Angeles, along with Canada's largest cities, Toronto and Vancouver, have signed the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty. This week guest's on Eaarth Feels is Lyn Adamson, co-chair of Climate Fast and Canadian Voice of Women for Peace. She discusses the proposed treaty, and shares what gives her hope in this time of climate emergency.

Episode 180. Let's Treat Fossil Fuels As the Weapons of Mass Destruction That They Are:  A Discussion of The Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty

September 10, 2021 08:00 - 34 minutes - 63.7 MB

Barcelona, Sidney, Los Angeles, along with Canada's largest cities, Toronto and Vancouver, have signed the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty. This week guest's on Eaarth Feels is Lyn Adamson, co-chair of Climate Fast and Canadian Voice of Women for Peace. She discusses the proposed treaty, and shares what gives her hope in this time of climate emergency.

Episode 179. BEST IN CLIMATE. We restricted nuclear weapons. Now we must limit fossil fuels, by Lyn Adamson

September 06, 2021 13:23 - 7 minutes - 13.3 MB

"Despite decades of climate negotiations, we have not stopped adding to CO2 in the atmosphere. Rather, the process is speeding up. That is why it is so urgent that we have a global agreement to immediately stop any new fossil fuel projects, to phase out existing uses of fossil fuels, and to go full tilt into a renewable energy future with everything we’ve got." This week's Best in Climate article makes the case for a global Fossil Fuel Nonproliferation Treaty, inspired by the Treaty on ...

Episode 178. Climate Change is a Human Consciousness Issue

September 03, 2021 12:16 - 29 minutes - 53.3 MB

"Climate change and all of the problems in the world are energetically based, because we are all energy, whether we realize it or not." Energy healer Sandra Boatman talks with Christine about the possibility that the roots of the planetary environmental crisis originate in human consciousness. They explore how this understanding can revolutionize how we think about ourselves and the world around us and offer practical ways to raise our own, and the planet's, level of consciousness.

Episode 177. BEST IN CLIMATE: New Attenborough film sounds alarm on planetary boundaries, but offers hope

August 30, 2021 08:00 - 11 minutes - 16.2 MB

David Attenborough and scientist Johan Rockström detail the current state of Planet Earth while offering a hopeful path of action to avert this ongoing crisis. This story originally appeared on Mongabay.com and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story.

Episode 176. How do we Talk about our Collective Grief? An interview with Pat Fero

August 28, 2021 01:17 - 32 minutes - 40.4 MB

Wildfires, floods, and now the dire IPCC report , collectively humanity is being traumatized by our uncertain future. Rose talks with psychotherapist Patricia Fero about naming this intense emotion and  ways we can help one another through .

Episode 175. BEST IN CLIMATE: It's Not Too Late, Dear Human, by Corina Luna Dea

August 22, 2021 22:07 - 10 minutes - 18.9 MB

In this time of upheaval and division, Corina Luna Dea offers this powerfully hopeful essay reminding us that it is not too late for us to embrace our true nature as caring beings.

Episode 174. Where do we go from here?

August 20, 2021 02:00 - 9 minutes - 13.6 MB

At the crossroads between hope and despair, what direction will humanity choose ?

Episode 173. BEST IN CLIMATE This is the most sobering report card yet on climate change and Earth’s future. Here’s what you need to know

August 16, 2021 19:45 - 18 minutes - 35.7 MB

The IPCC report released on August 9, 2021 is clear:  We are at a tipping point. Escape from human-caused climate change is no longer possible. Without immediate, rapid and large-scale reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, it will be impossible to limit warming close to 1.5°C or even 2°C   Climate change is now affecting every continent, region and ocean on Earth, and every facet of the weather.  Humanity must take action. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creativ...

Episode 172. BEST IN CLIMATE: The Case for Climate Optimism, by Richard Matthews

August 09, 2021 21:21 - 17 minutes - 32.8 MB

 This is our all hands on deck moment. Can we choose to focus on the optimistic signs that humanity is ready for the challenge ahead? Richard Matthews, author of The Green Market Oracle, gives us compelling reasons for hope. 

Episode 171. BEST IN CLIMATE: Big Oil and Gas kept a dirty secret for decades. Now they may pay the price, By Chris McGreal

August 02, 2021 00:00 - 24 minutes - 46.4 MB

Through an unprecedented wave of lawsuits, America’s petroleum giants finally face a reckoning for the devastation they have knowingly caused by fossil fuels. This story originally appeared in The Guardian and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story.

Episode 170. BEST IN CLIMATE. Monks Wood Wilderness: 60 years ago, scientists let a farm field rewild – here’s what happened, by Richard K Broughton

July 26, 2021 14:02 - 9 minutes - 16.9 MB

"So began the Monks Wood Wilderness experiment, which is now 60 years old. A rewilding study before the term existed, it shows how allowing land to naturally regenerate can expand native woodland and help tackle climate change and biodiversity loss." This week's Best in Climate article discusses the benefits of doing nothing to reclaim wilderness except leaving the land alone to naturally regenerate.

Episode 169. BEST IN CLIMATE. Love In the Time of Chaos – Part 4: Dealing with Fear and Anxiety

July 19, 2021 13:55 - 9 minutes - 17 MB

"There’s really no escaping fear, you can’t pretend it doesn’t exist. So how do we live with that fear? How do we process it?" In this Best in Climate episode, Christine shares the advice of the Be Here Now Network's teachers on ways to respond to the chaos of the current situation, politically and otherwise, with love, compassion, and equanimity. This article was written by Noah Markus on behalf of Love Serve Remember Foundation, and originally posted on RamDass.org.  

Episode 169. BEST IN CLIMATE. Love In the Time of Chaos–Dealing with Fear and Anxiety

July 19, 2021 13:55 - 9 minutes - 17 MB

"There’s really no escaping fear, you can’t pretend it doesn’t exist. So how do we live with that fear? How do we process it?" In this Best in Climate episode, Christine shares the advice of the Be Here Now Network's teachers on ways to respond to the chaos of the current situation, politically and otherwise, with love, compassion, and equanimity. This article was written by Noah Markus on behalf of Love Serve Remember Foundation, and originally posted on RamDass.org.  

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