Radical Joy for Hard Times

Lessons from the Clearcut

In 2003, six years before the founding of Radical Joy for Hard Times, four people spent a

week in a clearcut forest on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. This article, by RadJoy

founder Trebbe Johnson, which appears in the current Powers of Place Initiative website,

tells what they learned.

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"Wounded Places are Like Wounds in People"

Photo by Kinde Nebeker

"Wounded places on Earth are like wounded places in people," said Kinde Nebeker of Salt

Lake City, shown here with friends at her 2011 Global Earth Exchange. To read more about

damaged places and how trying to ignore them is like trying to blot out personal shadows,

see our blog.

Repercussions

Painting by Avis Strong Parke. Photo by Steve Brown.

The 2011 Global Earth Exchange at Red Lily Pond in Craigville, Massachusetts inspired local artist

Avis Strong Park to found the Craigville Painters group, a weekly gatheringof artists who met at

various sites around the pond to pain. To read about this and other results of the event, see our blog.

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Radical Joy for Hard Times is a network of people worldwide who are dedicated to finding and making beauty in wounded places. When the land is hurt by pollution, clear-cutting, mining, and other environmental assaults, people hurt too. But by going to these places, telling our stories, and making simple acts of beauty there, we empower ourselves and heal the places we love.

We are a 501c3 non-profit organization based in rural northeastern Pennsylvania.