Posts Tagged ‘EcoSpirituality’
PLASTICS, PEOPLE, PLANET: We’re All Hitched Together || By Rev. Mary Coday Edwards MA
Pieces of black plastic bags plagued every landscape—including remote mountain areas—that I drove through in Pakistan. Plastic packaging bumped against me as I snorkeled in Indonesia’s seas—always scaring the heebie-jeebies out of me and threatening to pour seawater into my snorkeling tube as I frantically fought off what I perceived as a baby octopus or…
Read MoreHealing Mother Earth || By Rev. Mary Coday Edwards, MA
“The earth is wounded,” I said to my Nepalese translator, guide, and micro-hydropower teacher. I was in Nepal to research renewable electrical power options for Afghanistan. We sat in the bright sun at a small, makeshift outdoor tea shop high in the Himalayan mountains. Electrical wires follow roads, and we’d been discussing the difficulties and…
Read MoreTIME TO TURN TURTLE, Part 3 || By Rev. Mary Coday Edwards, MA
Turn turtle: Flip your way of thinking, as I’ve written in my last two blogs. When I lived in Jakarta, Indonesia, I met a woman who started a cottage industry recycling Jakarta’s vinyl/plastic packaging material. This plastic material encased many products—laundry soap, shampoo, toothpaste, and drink pouches that came with straws. The garbage heaps were…
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