“Take time to look.”
“Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time -
we haven't time and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.”
― Georgia O'Keeffe

A short list of resources that have shaped my life and spiritual path.

Contemplative | Ethics, Philosophy, Meditation

Center for Humans and Nature
The Foundations of Well-being
Mindfulness Based Stressed Reduction Training

Craft | Philosophy, Textile

Alabama Chanin and the School of Making
Anchal Project
Bookhou, Canadian based artists Arounna Khounnoraj and John Booth. Multidisciplinary mark making, textiles and furniture.
Ekta Kaul, London-based textile artist with emphasis on narrative map stitchwork
The Modern Maker, Mathew Gnagy on Patreon and youtube
Project Threadways
Sewn Company
Tatter Library, textile library, resources, journal and class schedule
Threadwritten, Sarah Pedlow
Youngmin Lee, exploring and educating in modern use of traditional Korean hand stitch techniques.
Zak Foster

BOOKS & DOCUMENTARIES:
Art of Japanese Joinery. Kiyosi Seike
Centering in Pottery, Poetry and the Person. M.C.Richards
The Geometry of Hand-Sewing. Natalie Chanin
Indigo. Jenny Balfour-Paul
Seeing, Searching, Being: William Segal. An early film by Ken Burns.
Wabi-sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets and Philosophers. Book by Leonard Koren. Excerpt here.

Documentaries | Social & Environmental

The Biggest Little Farm with John and Molly Chester (Trailer)
Borealis, by Kevin McMahon and the National Film Board of Canada
Dorothea Lange: Grab A Hunk of Lightning by Dyanna Taylor/PBS
A Fierce Green Fire from Mark Kitchell/PBS
Green Fire Film: Aldo Leopold and the Ethic of our Time from The Aldo Leopold Foundation
How to Let Go of the World and Love All the Things Climate Can’t Change by Josh Fox: (Trailer)
Human Flow by Ai Weiwei (Trailer)
A Prayer for Compassion with Thomas Wade Jackson (Trailer)
JANE by Brett Morgen/National Geographic
La Peuple Migrateur (Winged Migration) by Jacques Perrin (Trailer)
River Blue with Mark Angelo (Trailer)
The Wisdom of Trauma, featuring Dr. Gabor Maté

Environmental Illness: The Sensitives, Unrest, Wifi Refugees

Environmental Advocacy

CONTINUING EDUCATION | STEWARDSHIP:
5G Space Appeal
Cellular Phone Task Force
Cornell Lab of Ornithology: Bird Academy, ebird
Farm Sanctuary
FLAP (Fatal Light Awareness Program) Canada
Reducing Bird Collisions (US Fish and Wildlife Service)
River Alliance of Wisconsin
Trees Are Good | Tree Owner Information
Valley Stewardship Network
Watershed Initiatives
Footprint, Handprint, : Carbon Footprint Calculator, Carbon Handprint,
Carbon Offset: Native (Carbon Offset Provider), (MyClimate) Carbon Offset, Wren

ENVIRONMENTAL CONSUMERISM:
Aspiration Bank Environmental Banking
Buy Me Once
Environmental Working Group Database and their Consumer Guides
1 Million Women
The Story of Stuff and their Catalog Choice opt-out portal

Building Supplies: AFM Safecoat, Green Building Supply, Green Product Databases, Urban Wood Network,
Clothing: Common Objective, Good on You, The Goodbase Project, Sustainability Certification Guide for Apparel Industry
Household cleaners: Identifying Greener Cleaning Products
Living Small: Little House on a Small Planet, Jay Shafer (and The Small House Book), Small House Society
Renewable Energy: RENEW Wisconsin, Solar/Enphase
Technology Wellness: AiresTech, EarthCalm, ElectraHealth, EMF Academy, TechWellness

POLLINATOR FRIENDLY HABITATS:
Organic Seed Companies: Everwilde Farms, High Mowing Seeds, Plant Good Seed, Strictly Medicinal Seeds.
Pollinator Friendly (Neonicotinoid free) Nurseries: American Meadows, Forest Farm, High Country Gardens, Prairie Moon Nursery.
Saving Wisconsin Native Pollinators
Xerces Society and their Publications Library

Global Citizenship | Helping Others Live with Dignity

Better Shelter: Providing homes for displaced peoples

GENDER EQUITY: Equality Now, Project Everyone, UN Women
Gender Equity versus Gender Equality: What’s the Distinction
The Secret Ingredient to Ending World Hunger, Raj Patel
Why Gender Equality is Good for Everyone—Men Included, Michael Kimmel