Kalliopeia Foundation

The Land of the First Light Fellowship, hosted by grantee partner Native Land Conservancy, Inc., is an exceptional opportunity for Indigenous youth who are interested in exploring careers with a focus on protecting the Earth. This ten-week-program based in the Native Land Conservancy office in Mashpee, Cape Cod, aims to open up pathways to careers in conservation for Native Americans. “We believe that it is in all our best interests when the next generation of Indigenous conservationists are encouraged to bring their wholeselves to their training, including their culture.” Applications close March 31st. Learn more: bit.ly/firstlightfellows Learn more about this grantee partner: https://lnkd.in/dVaufqZd #SpiritualEcology #GranteePartner

Farming While Black is a feature length documentary about Black farmers' resilience, history, and the fight for food justice and Black land sovereignty, featuring Leah Penniman, co-founder, co-director and program manager of recent grantee Soul Fire Farm. Join the film's director Mark Decena, Leah Penniman, Karen Washington, Blain Snipstal, together with discussion moderator Konda Mason on March 21st at 12am CET for an exclusive live screening and discussion. A recording of this event will be available for a limited time for those unable to attend in real time. “We hope to ignite discourse that leads to reconnecting to land and the deep afro-indigenous regenerative agricultural heritage that is the origin story of our country.” Find out more: https://lnkd.in/d_nfuj5i #SpiritualEcology #FarmingWhileBlack

“I see that house, not just as a shelter for our family, but as a relative, as an ancestor. And we’ve been sharing prayer as a way to feed the spirit of the house. When I go and stand at the beach and I listen to the waves coming in, it’s like Tamaliwa like she’s talking to me, like the ancestors are talking to me.” —Theresa Harlan, founder and director of grantee partner Alliance For Felix Cove What does a place, a community, look like when it welcomes home Indigenous presence? Recorded in January 2025, this new episode explores the impact of Theresa Harlan’s work to protect, restore, and rematriate Felix Cove over the last three years. Amid ongoing vandalism of her ancestral home, rancher evictions, and new land management, Theresa continues to fight for a larger vision of healing, and asks, are we willing to come together to honor the entire story of a land? Listen to Episode Four of “Coming Home to the Cove: A Story of Family, Memory, and Stolen Land,” an Emergence Magazine Production: https://lnkd.in/daVW8Huw Photos courtesy of Hewitt Visuals. #SpiritualEcology #EmergenceMagazine #CoastMiwok #TomalesBay

“We understand ourselves as belonging to the land and caring for the land, and want to be in reciprocal relationship with the land.” —Brooke Hecht “[a document] doesn't mean anything unless you do that self-work to go through the process of understanding the land and developing a relationship with it, developing relationship with other humans who have stewarded that land since time immemorial.” —Elizabeth D. Part of Kalliopeia Foundation's Land Reunion series, this short video captures highlights from an inspiring panel about how Elizabeth Dunne (Director of Legal Advocacy, Earth Law Center), Brooke Hecht (President, Center for Humans & Nature), and Matt Ruhter (Conservation Attorney, Openlands) transformed a typical conservation easement into an expression of our sacred relationship with Nature. Janelle Orsi (Co-Founder, Sustainable Economies Law Center) compliments their story by providing keen insights on kincentric land stewardship. “I have this core belief that we as humans are designed to take care of each other and take care of land.” —Janelle Orsi ↘? https://lnkd.in/gmxv96ay This video was created by The Understory. #SpiritualEcology #GranteePartner #GranteePartners

Emergence Magazine has added a fourth episode to their podcast series “Coming Home to the Cove”—a multigenerational story of a Coast Miwok family’s eviction from their ancestral home in Northern California and one woman’s mission to bring the living history of her family back to the land. Marin County in Northern California, where Emergence Magazine and Kalliopeia Foundation are located, has been home for millennia to the Coast Miwok people, who continue to live and thrive here despite settler-colonial efforts to erase them from the story of this land. Throughout this series, Theresa Harlan (founder and director of grantee partner Alliance For Felix Cove) chronicles the story of her family’s displacement from their homestead on a cove in Tomales Bay and shares her grassroots efforts to involve the wider community in protecting both the history and the future of this place. Recorded in January 2025, this new episode explores the impact of Theresa's work to protect, restore, and rematriate the cove over the last three years. Amid ongoing vandalism of her ancestral home, rancher evictions, and new land management, she continues to fight for a larger vision of healing, and asks, are we willing to come together to honor the entire story of a land? ↘? Listen to this series: https://lnkd.in/dBTYc5UE Photo courtesy of Hewitt Visuals. #SpiritualEcology #GranteePartner #EmergenceMagazine

Listen as grantee partner Dr. Suzanne Simard discuss forest “kin-doms” with Dr. Teresa Ryan in the third episode of Nature’s Genius—a Bioneers podcast series that explores how “the sentient symphony of life holds the solutions we need to balance human civilization with living systems.” “We trek into the ancient old-growth forest where the trees reveal an ecological parable: A forest is a mightily interwoven community of diverse life that runs on symbiosis. Our guests are two Canadian ecologists whose work has helped reveal an elaborate tapestry of kinship, cooperation and mutual aid that extends beyond the forest boundaries.” ↘? Listen or read: https://lnkd.in/dMfxz5-Z ↘? Learn more about this grantee partner: https://lnkd.in/gE5ZJRc6 #SpiritualEcology #GranteePartner

“Time-keeping is among the greatest accomplishments of the human species—but somewhere along the way, we made a fundamental miscalculation: we began to mistake our clocks for time itself.” The Art of Time is a new Deep Time episode that explores the work of contemporary artists who make art out of time, finding new ways to bridge the distance between us and the furthest reaches of time: Katie Paterson works with melting glaciers, fossilized insects and the dust from meteorites, Jonathon Keats engineers monumental-scale clocks to un-standardize our atomic time, and Alex Braidwood turns the dawn chorus into music. Deep Time is a series about the natural ecologies of time from the Peabody award-winning national public radio show To the Best of Our Knowledge and grantee partner the Center for Humans & Nature. In this series, To The Best of Our Knowledge explores biological time, geological time, cosmic time, ancestral time, imagining time as a spiral, a loop, and also as an eternal present—as we learn to live beyond the clock. Listen to this series: https://lnkd.in/de6uzWwu #SpiritualEcology #GranteePartner

What if we gave a voice and rights to ecosystems, plant and animal species, and future generations? What if the legal system represented all life on the planet, not only humans? Earth Law Center's Earth Law Portal is an invaluable open source digital repository of Earth Law legal models, templates, and resources for movements that include, amongst others: ?Indigenous Law Supporting inherent relationships and responsibility based frameworks as well as empowering rematriation and revitalization of Indigenous legal systems. ?Rights of Nature Recognize that ecosystems have inherent rights, just as humans do. ?Species Rights Recognizing the rights of species, such as Orcas (subset of Rights of Nature movement). "The Earth Law Portal is your gateway to learn from cutting-edge legal models and letters, particularly those being developed internationally, that recognize rights and honor the voice of ecosystems, species, and future generations while empowering local communities to create a thriving future." Learn more about this grantee partner: https://lnkd.in/dkUMfgCN #SpiritualEcology #GranteePartner #EarthLaw

Grantee parter TEXAS TRIBAL BUFFALO PROJECT celebrated their third annual Buffalo Harvest Festival over the weekend, and shared these images of the event that was held at their new Floresville Ranch location. The community enjoyed the harvest ceremony, traditional activities, buffalo stew and meaningful conversations at the Tipi Talks—"a space for Indigenous women, held by Indigenous women," where panelists shared their wisdom, strength, and leadership, and discussed rematriation, food sovereignty, as well as land and bison restoration. The men were invited to hold space, give support and stand in solidarity by drumming outside. Lucille Contreras, CEO and Founder of Texas Tribal Buffalo Project, is pictured in the first photograph. Learn more about this grantee partner: https://lnkd.in/dpj-rM5b #SpiritualEcology #GranteePartner

“For the Karuk Tribe, Cal Fire will no longer hold regulatory or oversight authority over the burns and will instead act as a partner and consultant. The previous arrangement, tribal leaders say, essentially amounted to one nation telling another nation what to do on its land — a violation of sovereignty. Now, collaboration can happen through a proper government-to-government relationship.” ↘? Read this Los Angeles Times article here: https://lnkd.in/gxnvvCj2 Learn more about the Karuk Tribe in “Fire Is Our Relation”—one of five films that share the stories of Native American communities who are restoring their traditional land management practices in the Global Oneness Project feature “Inhabitants—An Indigenous Perspective.” ↘? https://lnkd.in/d4D_YZRQ #SpiritualEcology #GlobalOnenessProject