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Can I die now, or must I wait?

I write so tales don’t end
so war ends
I must write
not for anything but
to keep my emotions awake
to retain my humanity
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My mother never taught me tatreez
the embroidery of my bleeding pain
from a cassette of memory
but she taught me
the language of the proletariat
the downtrodden
the chase after bags of flour

April 30, 2024 No Comments

Ecoversities Part One: Climate crisis responses that respect the wholeness of life

By Michelle Pressend, PhD [Spanish version below – Sigue la versión en español] “What I feel is that most of the people that make decisions… They are totally disconnected from natural processes. They have never been farming. They have never been close to working with soil. They have never been close to hydrological cycles in

April 18, 2024 No Comments

Becoming Homo Giftus: A Guide to Embracing the Gift Culture

by Priyanka Modi In a world often defined by material pursuits, a powerful and transformative force transcends boundaries, cultures, and generations – the gift culture. This beautiful tapestry of selfless giving, compassion, and genuine human connection can create profound change, not only in individual lives but in the fabric of our communities and societies. Through

April 4, 2024 No Comments

Expanding Education’s Capacities to Face the World’s Complexities

by Clément Moliner-Roy With support and feedback from Andrea González, Devin Bokaer, João Gabriel Almeida and Manish Jain. We live in a multidimensional world, yet mainstream education trains us to think for a unidimensional world: Image from the Intro-to-Complexity-May-2021, Complexity University Indeed, most of our educational systems make us seek clear answers and single forms

April 4, 2024 No Comments

Education for the head, heart, body, soul, and spirit!

by Clément Moliner-Roy With support and feedback from Andrea González, Dzifa Afonu and Manish Jain. [Spanish version below – Sigue la versión en español] We often take for granted that education equates to good. But what if education can also generate harm? For instance, education sometimes makes people so obsessed about getting the right answers

April 2, 2024 No Comments

Towards oneness: Educating for a paradigm shift

By Clément Moliner-RoyWith support and feedback from Andrea González, Ethel Pang, João Gabriel Almeida and Manish Jain. To shift or to collapse?Do I even need to convince you that we need a paradigm shift? That if we continue thinking and living the way we do, we will face the inevitable collapse of human society. That

April 2, 2024 No Comments

“You are what you eat”

“You are also what you are schooled to eat” Food is an intrinsic part of our daily life. Since the birth of a child, what, when and how food is, is dictated according to different communities’ way of life. As a child grows up, the caste, race, and the class community they grow up in

January 10, 2024 No Comments

healing intergenerational hurt with the more-than

by Doerte Weig Trauma – not that which happened, but the inner response to what happened Healing – a renewed and continuous alignment and aliveness with Life I refuse to continue living with a broken heart I cannot live peacefully with a heart raging with anger What would it mean to heal the hurt in

December 18, 2023 No Comments

The Labyrinth Within

The stories of my ancestors are to me like pieces of a map to navigate my own existence. I grew up listening to my grandmothers and the women in my family tell tales about how they survived through the rough times, as well as how they managed to find joy in everyday life. Growing up

November 8, 2023 No Comments

Tejedores: Encuentro Ecoversidades Latinoamérica 2019

English below Tejedores. Las primeras horas suenan vacías, suenan a oportunidades que se anidan latentes en una especie de lucidez unísona, donde nos preparamos para salir de casa y hacer una pausa en nuestra dieta de elementos cotidianos; todos acudimos con la escucha atenta y las manos dispuestas a trabajar otro escenario, otro

November 8, 2023 No Comments

On the Crossroads: a conversation amongst African ecoversities initiators in 3 places and times

Knowledge in People Festival: Embracing Unlearning, Restoration, and Community in Soweto

What We Can Learn from the Student Protesters?

Voices, Sounds and Colors: A Splendid Procession to Save the Arneo Forest

Reflections from the Third Asian Ecoversities Regional Gathering in Nepal, May 11 – 16, 2024

The Ecoversities Alliance

The Ecoversities Alliance is a community of learning practitioners from around the world committed to re-imagining higher education to cultivate human and ecological flourishing in response to the critical challenges of our times.