Facing An Uncertain Future – A Letter From Starhawk

Dear Friends,

We are in a disheartening time this winter as the US takes a turn to the hard right. We don’t know what the next four years will bring, what will happen to vulnerable communities, and if the earth’s climate can withstand the abuse we fear will come.  More than ever, we need knowledge and skills that can help us face uncertainty and danger: the skills of providing for basic human needs such as clean water and food security, the skills of tending and regenerating ecosystems, and the skills of community building and organizing.

That potent combination is what Earth Activist Training teaches. In our in-person and online courses, we train students in permaculture-ecological design-and all its facets: communication and conflict resolution, land management, campaign planning and strategy, soil, water and energy conservation, disaster planning and remediation, all with a grounding in spirit and a focus on social justice.

We are committed to bring these tools to folks on the front lines of struggles through our Diversity Scholarship Program. In the past year, we have given over $33,000 worth of scholarships to students from targeted communities who are working on social and environmental justice issues.

Our alumni are doing such vital work—from teaching herbal medicine on the Standing Rock Reserve, to advocating for policies that support Black farms and farmers, from creating food security in Alaskan villages to providing aid to bombed-out refugees in Lebanon to growing food for Pygmy communities displaced by war in the Congo, and so much more!  They are part of a quiet legion of people all over the world working in their communities to sustain life, provide healing and hope, and you can be part of it!

We need your support to carry on this work. There’s many ways you can help:

Donate to our diversity scholarship fund!

• $3000 supports a student for an in-person permaculture design certificate course, or helps us provide long-term online training for an advanced student in our Regenerative Land Management Program.
• $1000 supports three students in our Emergency and Disaster Planning, Bioremediation or Sustainable Infrastructure online courses, among others.
• $500 supports two students to take our Empowering Collaborative Groups or other social permaculture online offerings.
• $100 Allows a student who might not otherwise be able to afford a course to take it.

Any amount, no matter how small, adds up to a big opportunity to support change!

Sign up to become a regular monthly donor.

Giving even the price of a coffee each month helps us enormously, because it gives us money we can count on in our planning, for scholarships and for the unglamorous, annoying but absolutely vital administrative work that supports our programs.

Take one of our courses!

We have so many offerings, online and in-person, short, long, with a focus on everything from healing toxic soil to transforming toxic relationships!

Help us spread the word!

Please pass this on to others who may be interested in positive responses to these challenging times.

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With gratitude and love,

Starhawk & the Earth Activist Training team