Kalliopeia Foundation

08/30/2026

“In order for humanity and Mother Earth to heal we must walk together with our brothers, sisters and two spirits from all four directions who share our values for a greater common good.”

Learn more about grantee partner The Anahuac Program in this Oregon Pero en Español film. Anahuac is a program of Capaces Leadership Institute located in Woodburn, Oregon surrounded by the Willamette Valley of the Pacific Northwest. Its mission is to support the local farmworker community made up of Indigenous peoples of America to reclaim ancestral culture, traditions, knowledge and values and restore sacred relationships with all life and Mother Earth for generations to come. Acting as a bridge between ancestral and contemporary times, Anahuac offers traditional education in agriculture, culinary and cultural arts, wellness and native languages.

↘︎ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hccQhXCn5I

↘︎ Learn more about this grantee partner: https://kalliopeia.org/grantee-partner/capaces-leadership-institute-anahuac-farm/

08/27/2026

“I've used these [Asters and Goldenrod] for a long time as plant teachers, to really think about complementary colors, and for me, complementary knowledge systems of Western scientific knowledge and Indigenous knowledge.” —Robin Wall Kimmerer

Read this by CBS News Sunday Morning article by Martha Teichner—and watch the accompanying film—to learn more about Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer's new tree planting campaign, Plant Baby Plant, and hear more about her thoughts on reciprocity and economic thinking grounded in Indigenous principles and spiritual ecology: “Her message may sound like a religion, and her writing like poetry, but what Robin Wall Kimmerer really wants is that her readers don't miss her point: ‘I wanted to be sure that they understood the radical proposition which is baked into these stories, which is to model ourselves after the way that nature works.’”

↘︎ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/robin-wall-kimmerer-on-the-wonders-of-nature/

↘︎ Learn more about Dr. Kimmerer and The Center for Native Peoples and the Environment (CNPE) at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry: https://kalliopeia.org/grantee-partner/center-for-native-peoples-and-the-environment/

08/26/2026

“Last Stand: Saving the Elwha River's Legacy Forests” is an Earth Law Center film about the 200 acres of legacy forests in the Elwha River Watershed. These older, structurally complex, naturally regenerated, and uniquely carbon-dense forests surround the biggest dam removal and river restoration site in history.

“When a large, ecologically sensitive legacy forest in the heart of the Elwha River Watershed was identified for harvest, the Earth Law Center, Keystone Species Alliance, and Center for Whale Research began using all legal means possible against the Washington State Department of Natural Resources in an attempt to halt the impending clear-cut. Through breathtaking cinematography and intimate interviews, witness the profound beauty and ecological significance of the watershed, as well as the dire consequences of unchecked deforestation.”

↘︎ These legacy forests are still under threat. Learn more here: https://www.earthlawcenter.org/elwha-legacy-forests

↘︎ Watch the film here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnWXQAphs7w

↘︎ Learn more about Earth Law Center: https://kalliopeia.org/grantee-partner/earth-law-center/

08/25/2026

“In this conversation, Harris traces her own eco-memories and reflects on growing up with a rare and precious connection to land and growing things, even as her family navigated the very real dangers racism posed to simply being outdoors in rural America.”

A new Wonder Cabinet podcast episode is available!

Featuring Rev. Dr. Melanie L. Harris, founder of the Food, Health and Ecological Well-Being Program at Wake Forest University School of Divinity, and pioneer of ecowomanism on Black ancestral land wisdom, generational memory and healing through earth-honoring faiths, this episode's conversation points include the hidden ecological history of Black women, and Dr. Harris also talks about the intentional distancing of children from the land—a painful history tied to slavery and cotton she describes as “a protective severing that ecowomanism seeks to gently repair.”

This episode was produced in partnership with the Center for Humans & Nature, with support from the Kalliopeia Foundation, and was recorded during the Kalliopeia Foundation writing retreat in 2025.

↘︎ https://wondercabinetproductions.com/the-ecowomanist-theology-of-rev-dr-melanie-l-harris/

↘︎ Learn more about this grantee partner: https://kalliopeia.org/grantee-partner/food-health-and-ecological-well-being-program/

A founder of ecowomanism on Black ancestral land wisdom, generational memory and healing through earth-honoring faiths.

08/23/2026

Listen to Deenaalee Hodgdon Chase (Deg Hit’an Dene and Sugpiaq) and Ruth Łchav’aya K’isen Miller (Dena’ina), co-directors of grantee partner The Smokehouse Collective, talk about their mission to strengthen Indigenous food systems with the BBNC.

In this episode called “Empowering Communities with Traditional Foods,” they share more about the challenges of climate change and how their work empowers communities to reclaim traditional food practices.

Smokehouse Collective is a regenerative response to the disenfranchisement experienced by Indigenous communities in coastal Alaska, a region strongly impacted by the commercial fishing industry and climate change.

↘︎ Listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZhaSbw_AWA

↘︎ Learn more about this grantee partner: https://kalliopeia.org/grantee-partner/smokehouse-collective/

08/22/2026

Now available for pre-order, the latest Emergence Magazine print edition seeks the kinds of seeds and structures we will need to embody a new ecological consciousness.

Weaving the practical with the esoteric to explore spiritual ecology as an emerging ontology, it reimagines our most fundamental bodies of knowledge, investigates more-than-human structures we can emulate, and looks to ancient spiritual systems that recognize the Earth as animate and alive, and not separate from the Divine.

Within this edition you’ll find stories of seed-saving, indigenous seeds, buildings made of seaweed, the radical systems thinking of American architect and inventor Buckminster Fuller, and Japanese farmer Masanobu Fukuoka’s “do-nothing” approach to agriculture. Essays about cultural memories encoded in gourds, the relationship between seeds and our psyches, imaginal seeds for the future, and the process of serotiny as a symbol for our time of eco-collapse.

“We speak to visionary scientists working with forests, mycelial networks, and plant communication, and return to ancient systems and structures of knowledge, from Aboriginal governance structures and the Anishinaabe Four Orders of Creation to thirteenth-century Sufi philosopher Ibn ‘Arabi’s ontology of the ‘Oneness of Being,’ Daoist cosmology, and the women-led nonhierarchical Christian mystical movement of the Beguines.

It is perhaps our most ambitious issue to date, overflowing with different ways of being and knowing, all inviting you into the radical work of seeding renewal and engaging with the structures necessary for a living future.”

Volume 7: Seeds and Structures

↘︎ Now Available for Pre-order: https://emergencemagazine.org/print/emergence-magazine-vol-7/

Design: Bram Broerse
Visual research: .info

08/20/2026

The application deadline for this year's “Nature Telling Stories” workshop by recent grantee partner Wimblu is this Sunday, August 23rd.

Nature Telling Stories cultivates an ecological storytelling practice that fosters a more attentive and caring relationship with the Earth. This workshop offers theoretical knowledge and practical tools to enable participants to create stories that
・recognize and emphasise the agency, interconnectedness and animacy of the more-than-human world, and
・offer nuanced and intersectional interpretations of our complex eco-social context.

“Framed within spiritual ecology and creative nonfiction, the course addresses the need for a more sensitive and less sensationalist discourse surrounding the planetary crisis and our relationship with the Earth, inviting participants to develop their own critical and creative practice of ecological storytelling.”

↘︎ Learn more here:
https://wimblu.com/en/evento/nature-telling-stories-2026/

↘︎ Learn more about Wimblu: https://kalliopeia.org/grantee-partner/wimblu/

08/19/2026

Through developing a range of powerful cultural programs and workshops, grantee partner Alliance For Felix Cove is creating opportunities for community members–and youth–to engage closely with Tamal-ko history and culture.

“We honor and celebrate Tamal-ko language, ceremonial practice, knowledge of plant science to harvest food and medicine, and more–allowing the next generation to carry our traditional ways into the future.”

This film by Hewitt Visuals documents the Alliance for Felix Cove community during Tule season. During the harvest of this sacred reed plant, participants learn about California Indigenous lifeways and honor land and water through Traditional Ecological Knowledge by learning how to use tule for basketry, canoes, clothing, food, ceremony and more.

↘︎ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEfWHHkFzek

↘︎ Learn more about this grantee partner: https://kalliopeia.org/grantee-partner/alliance-for-felix-cove/

Photograph by Hewitt Visuals

08/16/2026

A project of the Center for Healing and Liberation, the Three Black Men Gathering: A Journey into the Magical Otherwise, convened three visionary Black leaders—Resmaa Menakem, Bayo Akomolafe and Orland Bishop—in three cities on three continents, tracing the transatlantic slave route in reverse: from Los Angeles to Brazil to Ghana. These leaders explored radical responses to contemporary challenges through a blend of public community gatherings, livestreams, recorded video, and a post-event study and practice.

“These destinations hold crucial pieces of Black history and representations of the forced migration, survival and demise of the millions who crossed the Atlantic. The mission is to liberate Blackness from the confines of colonialism and captivity, heal from historical trauma, and envision new paths beyond white supremacy. They challenge an oversimplification of Blackness and the stereotypes and entrapments of Black masculinity, and enter spaces to witness the connection between modern realities and historical origins of the Black experience. On their expedition, along with project vision holder Victoria Santos, they collaborate with Black and multi-cultural communities, engaging in discourse, play and ritual combined with artistic and spiritual expressions of resistance and hope.

By bringing together diverse perspectives, and honoring ancestral wisdom, Orland, Resmaa and Bayo seek to inspire new ways to respond to our global challenges by fostering spaces for collective dreaming, healing, and action. By sharing their work across three continents, they're not only cross-pollinating ideas but also creating a living example of global Black solidarity and intellectual exchange.”

↘︎ Learn more about this grantee partner, the film and screenings: https://kalliopeia.org/grantee-partner/three-black-men-a-journey-into-the-magical-otherwise/

08/15/2026

Dr. Suzanne Simard’s latest book, “When the Forest Breathes,” has been shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize in Conservation Writing that recognizes notable and important writing on global conservation.

During her visit to Kew Gardens, Dr. Simard spoke about her work with The Mother Tree Project and Program and shared the knowledge and experience that shaped her books.

“All forests reflect the wonder of regeneration and healing, the ability to adapt, learn, and evolve with change, and to persist over decades, centuries and millennia. We are part of this same cycle, inseparable from the trees, animals, water, and air. The forest teaches us to live in synchrony with the natural cycles, to stay in rhythm with the seasons, lifespans, and oscillations, the essential patterns that have evolved for success. Nature is waiting for us to learn that we are all bound by the same rules. And to remember that, when the forest breathes out, we breathe in. When the forest thrives, we thrive. When the forest lives, we live.”

↘︎ Learn more about her work and The Mother Tree Project: https://kalliopeia.org/grantee-partner/dr-suzanne-simard/

Reposted from Suzanne Simard