Katharine Burke
@katharineburke.bsky.social
Author: EARTHWARDS: Transformative Ecological Education. (TREED) MEd. Nature Ecology and Sustainability, Regenerative Practitioner (Regenesis), Permaculture farmer and facilitator of The Work that Reconnects.
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Earthwards by Katharine Burke
Earthwards: Transformative Ecological Education (9781912480913) published by Hawthorn Press. A handbook for ecological literacy and personal resilience.
www.hawthornpress.com
'Earthwards is a game changer... confronts the deep ecological sadness of our time, and points us toward a broader, deeper environmental education...where our future will truly be shaped.' Richard Louv, author of Our Wild Calling and Last Child in the Woods www.hawthornpress.com/books/change...
wow, last week's conversation was so interesting and rewarding; emerging naturally from the experiences of participants. This coming week will explore shifting paradigms Earthwards- working with Donella Meadows' leverage points and others. As always, dm for meeting link.
November 23, 2025 at 12:12 PM
wow, last week's conversation was so interesting and rewarding; emerging naturally from the experiences of participants. This coming week will explore shifting paradigms Earthwards- working with Donella Meadows' leverage points and others. As always, dm for meeting link.
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Trump wants to hang this group
November 20, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Trump wants to hang this group
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The Dems were only restating the law and the Constitution.
Trump thinks they should be executed for this.
Trump needs to have charges filed against him. Not even the President is permitted to threaten members of Congress or citizens with death, for following the law.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/20/p...
Trump thinks they should be executed for this.
Trump needs to have charges filed against him. Not even the President is permitted to threaten members of Congress or citizens with death, for following the law.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/20/p...
Trump accuses Democratic lawmakers who urged military to disobey illegal orders of ‘seditious behavior, punishable by death’ | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump on Thursday suggested that Democratic lawmakers who urged service members and intelligence officials to disobey illegal orders should be put to death, sparking an outcry among D...
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November 21, 2025 at 2:30 PM
The Dems were only restating the law and the Constitution.
Trump thinks they should be executed for this.
Trump needs to have charges filed against him. Not even the President is permitted to threaten members of Congress or citizens with death, for following the law.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/20/p...
Trump thinks they should be executed for this.
Trump needs to have charges filed against him. Not even the President is permitted to threaten members of Congress or citizens with death, for following the law.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/20/p...
This week's Earthwards Conversation is on land, garden, food and deeper entanglement with outdoors and living places. Wednesday Nov. 19th at 16.00 CET DM for calendar link.
November 17, 2025 at 7:58 AM
This week's Earthwards Conversation is on land, garden, food and deeper entanglement with outdoors and living places. Wednesday Nov. 19th at 16.00 CET DM for calendar link.
A short talk on the magic of seeds and our entanglement with the 'lighteaters', the kingdom of plants. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Szqa...
Secrets and Promises A story of Seeds
YouTube video by Earthwards: Transformative Ecological Education
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November 15, 2025 at 9:25 AM
A short talk on the magic of seeds and our entanglement with the 'lighteaters', the kingdom of plants. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Szqa...
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Justin Webb interviews the minister in charge of climate change and doesn't mention this? www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/13/world-still-on-track-for-catastrophic-26c-temperature-rise-report-finds?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-gb #r4today
World still on track for catastrophic 2.6C temperature rise, report finds
Fossil fuel emissions have hit a record high while many nations have done too little to avert deadly global heating
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Justin Webb interviews the minister in charge of climate change and doesn't mention this? www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/13/world-still-on-track-for-catastrophic-26c-temperature-rise-report-finds?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-gb #r4today
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Governments failing to shift to a low-carbon economy will be blamed for famine & conflict abroad, and will face stagnation and rising inflation at home, the UN’s climate chief warned on Monday at the start of the Cop30 climate talks.
#climatecrisis #cop30 #auspol www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#climatecrisis #cop30 #auspol www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘It will never be forgiven’: UN climate chief warns world to act or face disaster
Faltering governments will be blamed for famine and conflict abroad, and face stagnation and inflation at home, says climate chief at start of Cop30
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Governments failing to shift to a low-carbon economy will be blamed for famine & conflict abroad, and will face stagnation and rising inflation at home, the UN’s climate chief warned on Monday at the start of the Cop30 climate talks.
#climatecrisis #cop30 #auspol www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#climatecrisis #cop30 #auspol www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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These are the times for warmth and community. I am offering this four week book talk for Earthwards: Transformative Ecological Education. The past book circles have been so inspiring and formed communities of care and cohorts of action all over the world. DM me to register and receive the links.
October 29, 2025 at 8:06 AM
These are the times for warmth and community. I am offering this four week book talk for Earthwards: Transformative Ecological Education. The past book circles have been so inspiring and formed communities of care and cohorts of action all over the world. DM me to register and receive the links.
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How a radical experiment to bring a forest into a preschool transformed children’s health
How a radical experiment to bring a forest into a preschool transformed children’s health
In Finland, kindergartens are exposing children to more mud, wild plants and moss - and finding changes to their health that show how crucial biodiversity is to wellbeing
www.theguardian.com
October 29, 2025 at 6:16 AM
How a radical experiment to bring a forest into a preschool transformed children’s health
What if these are the fleeting temples we make together, so far from tribe and fire?
October 25, 2025 at 9:00 AM
What if these are the fleeting temples we make together, so far from tribe and fire?
If you haven't bought 'Earthwards: Transformative Ecological Education' yet, it's available now through several different e-book stores, and with a forward by Stephen Sterling.
October 24, 2025 at 10:55 AM
If you haven't bought 'Earthwards: Transformative Ecological Education' yet, it's available now through several different e-book stores, and with a forward by Stephen Sterling.
It's hard to believe it has been an entire year since my book Earthwards was published. I still find this book launch conversation with Ann Finlayson from SEEd - Sustainability and Environmental Education to be one of my favourites. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMpo...
Earthwards: In Conversation with Katherine Burke
YouTube video by SEEd Charity
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October 18, 2025 at 10:25 AM
It's hard to believe it has been an entire year since my book Earthwards was published. I still find this book launch conversation with Ann Finlayson from SEEd - Sustainability and Environmental Education to be one of my favourites. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMpo...
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At the link below, enjoy Robin Wall Kimmerer's essay from our five-volume book series Elementals, shared here as part of a partnership between the Center for Humans & Nature and @emergencemagazine.bsky.social. Robin's essay appears in Earth, vol. 1 of Elementals: humansandnature.org/elementals
Becoming Earth, an essay by Robin Wall Kimmerer for @emergencemagazine.bsky.social & @humansandnature.bsky.social
emergencemagazine.org/essay/becomi... #naturewriting
emergencemagazine.org/essay/becomi... #naturewriting
Becoming Earth – Robin Wall Kimmerer
Wandering among the ancient decomposing cedar trees of the Andrews Experimental Forest in Oregon, Potawatomi botanist and author Robin Wall Kimmerer wonders what they might teach us about the nature o...
emergencemagazine.org
July 15, 2025 at 5:15 PM
At the link below, enjoy Robin Wall Kimmerer's essay from our five-volume book series Elementals, shared here as part of a partnership between the Center for Humans & Nature and @emergencemagazine.bsky.social. Robin's essay appears in Earth, vol. 1 of Elementals: humansandnature.org/elementals
I wrote this article for The Deep Times Journal two years ago, but every Autumn reminds me of the wisdom and generosity of seeds. journal.workthatreconnects.org/2023/09/02/w...
What Beans Tell Us | Deep Times Journal
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October 14, 2025 at 8:06 AM
I wrote this article for The Deep Times Journal two years ago, but every Autumn reminds me of the wisdom and generosity of seeds. journal.workthatreconnects.org/2023/09/02/w...
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The Guardian view on Trump’s Gaza plan: the bloodshed must end, but this proposal betrays Palestinians | Editorial
#palestine #theguardian
#palestine #theguardian
The Guardian view on Trump’s Gaza plan: the bloodshed must end, but this proposal betrays Palestinians | Editorial
Editorial: An end to the annihilation, and the release of Israeli hostages, is urgently needed. But lasting peace cannot be built on the denial of basic rights
www.theguardian.com
October 6, 2025 at 6:02 PM
The Guardian view on Trump’s Gaza plan: the bloodshed must end, but this proposal betrays Palestinians | Editorial
#palestine #theguardian
#palestine #theguardian
Children under 12 with ecoanxiety. Schools must act to develop transformative ecological awareness that can build a culture of care, resilience and resolve. dm me for free book circles, workshops, presentations on Earthwards: Transformative Ecological Education. www.hawthornpress.com/books/change...
September 14, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Children under 12 with ecoanxiety. Schools must act to develop transformative ecological awareness that can build a culture of care, resilience and resolve. dm me for free book circles, workshops, presentations on Earthwards: Transformative Ecological Education. www.hawthornpress.com/books/change...
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Their report is titled The Netanyahu Government Is Implementing a Plan to Ethnically Cleanse Gaza of Palestinians. America is Complicit. The World Must Stop It. You don't get a Peace Prize, and You don't get a Peace Prize.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Senators say US is complicit in Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Gaza
Democrats Chris Van Hollen and Jeff Merkley reach ‘inescapable conclusion’ after fact-finding trip to region
www.theguardian.com
September 13, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Their report is titled The Netanyahu Government Is Implementing a Plan to Ethnically Cleanse Gaza of Palestinians. America is Complicit. The World Must Stop It. You don't get a Peace Prize, and You don't get a Peace Prize.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I was reminded of this again this morning. Ron Finley is known as the 'guerilla gardener' for his work with community gardening in South Central Los Angelos. Here is his iconic Ted Talk: www.ted.com/talks/ron_fi...
September 5, 2025 at 6:27 AM
I was reminded of this again this morning. Ron Finley is known as the 'guerilla gardener' for his work with community gardening in South Central Los Angelos. Here is his iconic Ted Talk: www.ted.com/talks/ron_fi...
We are not disconnected- we are in fact inseparable from the rest of the natural world, and must come to re-member this.
August 30, 2025 at 5:36 PM
We are not disconnected- we are in fact inseparable from the rest of the natural world, and must come to re-member this.
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Soul crushing déjà vu...
Legal DC residents are avoiding school, work - even being in public - in DC areas where ICE & troops are posted out of abduction fears.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Legal DC residents are avoiding school, work - even being in public - in DC areas where ICE & troops are posted out of abduction fears.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
August 25, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Soul crushing déjà vu...
Legal DC residents are avoiding school, work - even being in public - in DC areas where ICE & troops are posted out of abduction fears.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Legal DC residents are avoiding school, work - even being in public - in DC areas where ICE & troops are posted out of abduction fears.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The UN general assembly can avoid a security council gridlock chng.it/WjNkXW9tGp
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August 15, 2025 at 5:50 PM
The UN general assembly can avoid a security council gridlock chng.it/WjNkXW9tGp
Referring to blocked humanitarian aid, Higgins added: "There are 6,000 trucks with enough food for three months, and it has been blocked, and it is outrageous."
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Irish president urges UN to intervene in Gaza, citing 'destruction of an entire people'
Higgins calls on UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to use Chapter Seven powers to bypass Security Council gridlock and deliver humanitarian aid - Anadolu Ajansı
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August 15, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Referring to blocked humanitarian aid, Higgins added: "There are 6,000 trucks with enough food for three months, and it has been blocked, and it is outrageous."
www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/ir... @worldnewscan.bsky.social
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