Blogs about: Our Earth And Ourselves
Legal Rights for Nature
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Madronna Holden wrote 4 months ago: “We talk about the state sovereignty and the tribal sovereignty, but those ant communities und … more →
Thomas Berry 1914-2009
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Madronna Holden wrote 5 months ago: On the occasion of the death of Catholic priest and theologian (or “geologian”, as he pr … more →
A Dangerous Reverence: Destroying What We Love
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Madronna Holden wrote 5 months ago: In Crossing the Next Meridian, Land, Water and the Future of the West, Charles Wilkinson notes two i … more →
Tracking the Trackless
Madronna Holden wrote 6 months ago: Here is a version of my Parabola article (under copyright) that tells and analyzes the Russian tale … more →
Libuse
Madronna Holden wrote 6 months ago: Here is the traditional Czech story about an early woman leader and the way she lost her power: Libu … more →
Godfather Death
Madronna Holden wrote 6 months ago: Here is my retelling of this traditional story for my Parabola article by the same name: A poor man … more →
The Dandelion Wars: The Costs of Lawn Cosmetics
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Madronna Holden wrote 6 months ago: “The earth wants peace. The birds who eat the corn do not want poison…The wind does not want to car … more →
On Knowing What You Want
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Madronna Holden wrote 6 months ago: What I’d like for Mother’s Day is for our children to get what they want. But first they have to kno … more →
How to Love a River
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Madronna Holden wrote 7 months ago: Lower Chehalis elder Henry Cultee obtained his own long life from sharing it with the river his peop … more →
A few poems for the earth
Madronna Holden wrote 7 months ago: The Tern’s Dying Glance What are these words To the tern who lies so still on the beach? She h … more →
Misusing Darwin: How a limited view of “Survival of the Fittest” Makes us Unfit for Survival
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Madronna Holden wrote 9 months ago: The competitive notion of “survival of the fittest” keeps us from understanding evolutio … more →
Indigenous Peoples
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Madronna Holden wrote 9 months ago: Summary This essay presents on overview of the environmental values, knowledge, and subsistence stra … more →
Notes from the new generation on Inaugural Day
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Madronna Holden wrote 10 months ago: It seems appropriate that the post I wrote on Election Day ( “note to the next generation … more →
Partnering with the Natural World
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Madronna Holden wrote 11 months ago: In 1927 Chehalis elder Mary Heck testified on behalf of her people before the U.S. Court of Claims. … more →
Taking Back the Power to Nurture
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Madronna Holden wrote 11 months ago: In the November/December 2008 issue of the Women’s Health Activist Anabella Aspiras relates he … more →
Belonging to the Land: Some Historical Perspective
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Madronna Holden wrote 12 months ago: “We immigrants who call ourselves ‘natives’ after one paltry generation on the land, can scarcely fa … more →
A personal note to the next generation
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Madronna Holden wrote 1 year ago: “We are not the ones who created these problems”, one of my students recently said, … more →
The Green Revolution--Whoops! The Women of Bangladesh Offer an Alternative
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Madronna Holden wrote 1 year ago: The more we try to manage a problem with a technological magic bullet, the less effective we may be … more →
Gilgamesh and other pioneers in paradise
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Madronna Holden wrote 1 year ago: 11,000 years ago the country where modern Iran is today was a “paradise”, according to t … more →
