Whole Earth Habitat: Ecospiritual news this week

Our third ecospiritual news livestream reflects on climate disruption and reaffirms our commitment to thriving habitats on Earth. We offer actions to resist fossil fuel expansion and to protect vital tropical rainforest. The guided meditation invites listeners to feel into their reaction to the beauty of the whole Earth. We are empowered to work together to uplift agaya and ubuntu on Earth.

Links for this session:

• Novasutras Events
• Celebrating the Cross-Quarter
• Earth Overshoot Day (and why personal carbon footprints aren’t so important)
• WEAll: the Wellbeing Economics Alliance
• Palm Oil and Climate – “Speaking to an audience of farmers and Indigenous peoples, an executive for the Indonesian government’s palm oil agency suggested that the crop is a more powerful carbon sink than the natural forests that it has replaced. Experts dismiss the claim as “goofy” and “criminally misleading”.” twitter.com/AidaGreenbury & Palm oil plantations absorb more carbon than tropical forests, claims Indonesian palm lobbyist | News | Eco-Business
  • But science has clearly shown this claim to be false (especially peatlands). Carbon costs and benefits of Indonesian rainforest conversion to plantations | Nature Communications “up to 61% of the [carbon] 284?±?12?Mg?C?ha?1 stored in the undisturbed ecosystem was lost in managed systems. “
• Climate Chaos in July –  “The data are in, and July 2023 was the first [July] in history to reach +1.5°C above pre-industrial levels.”
  twitter.com/EricHolthaus

Actions for this week:

• Biden administration: no new offshore drilling leases
• Protect Orangutan Habitat