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Virtual lectures have capacity limits and may sell out. Early registration is strongly recommended.
Registration for individual lectures closes the Sunday before the event.
The Arboretum’s long-running Winter Enrichment series offers lectures for naturalists in the greater Madison area as well as for volunteers, friends, and community members.
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OSU releasing winter series of music, spoken word mini-concerts that call for action on extinction
CORVALLIS, Ore. – Oregon State University is publishing 20 four-minute concerts that weave together music and the spoken word to celebrate the creatures that fill the air with sound – frogs, wolves, songbirds, growling grizzly bears – and inspire action to save them.
Videos in the “Music to Save Earth’s Songs” series will be posted online at 6 p.m. on Mondays and Thursdays through the end of March. To watch, visit https://liberalarts.oregonstate.edu/feature-story/music-save-earth-s-songs.
The series, which is free and open to the public, is inspired by a new book from OSU Professor Emeritus Kathleen Dean Moore called “Earth’s Wild Music.”
By Eman Ali
Beginner’s Mind
is a special project from Buddhistdoor Global collecting insightful essays written by US college students who have attended experiential-learning-based courses related to Buddhism. Some of the authors identify as Buddhists, for others it is their first encounter with the Buddhadharma. All are sharing reflections and impressions on what they’ve learned, how it has impacted their lives, and how they might continue to engage with the teaching.
My curiosity about the relationship between Buddhism and economics began a year before I formally took the Buddhist Economics (BECON) course at Williams. After taking a class on Indian Buddhist philosophy in Singapore, my mind was already primed with Buddhist concepts such as
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Every day we see dozens of other living beings humans, but also dogs, birds, trees and insects. What if we regarded all these fellow creatures not just as animals or plants, but as persons? In many Native cultures, they’re considered relatives. And there’s an emerging movement of scientists who talk about our more-than-human kin.
One of the leaders in this field is Robin Wall Kimmerer, a professor of environmental and forest biology at the State University of New York and the bestselling author of Braiding Sweetgrass. She’s also an enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, and she draws on Native traditions and the grammar of the Potawatomi language, Anishinaabemowin, to formulate a new way of ecological thinking.