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Topics Include: Achdut and the unity of Israel, the Land as a “holobiont,” and the relationality of tribal blessings in the spatial equilibrium of nested ecosystems For a full transcript, please click the following link: https://www.dwinitiative.org/news/categories/untitled-category To follow this series weekly, please subscribe to the Deep Water Initiative mailing list on our website. The Torah for the Earth Podcast and Audio Essays are Copyrighted to Charles Scott Forbes Jr, 2019.

Topics Include: The wisdom of Torah watering the seeds of life, song as liberatory moments, and defending the harmony of creation For a full transcript, please click the following link: https://www.dwinitiative.org/news/categories/untitled-category To follow this series weekly, please subscribe to the Deep Water Initiative mailing list on our website. The Torah for the Earth Podcast and Audio Essays are Copyrighted to Charles Scott Forbes Jr, 2019.

Topics Include: Selichot and the New Year for the Animals, responsibility and standing together as a community, Shmita and an ecological consciousness For a full transcript, please click the following link: https://www.dwinitiative.org/news/categories/untitled-category To follow this series weekly, please subscribe to the Deep Water Initiative mailing list on our website. The Torah for the Earth Podcast and Audio Essays are Copyrighted to Charles Scott Forbes Jr, 2019.

Topics Include: Giving away some of our labor as a form of thanksgiving, the transformation of “strategic weakness,” and living in service of the Land For a full transcript, please click the following link: https://www.dwinitiative.org/news/categories/untitled-category To follow this series weekly, please subscribe to the Deep Water Initiative mailing list on our website. The Torah for the Earth Podcast and Audio Essays are Copyrighted to Charles Scott Forbes Jr, 2019.

Topics Include: Sending away a mother bird, considerate foraging practices, and avoiding the “second death” of nature For a full transcript, please click the following link: https://www.dwinitiative.org/news/categories/untitled-category To follow this series weekly, please subscribe to the Deep Water Initiative mailing list on our website. The Torah for the Earth Podcast and Audio Essays are Copyrighted to Charles Scott Forbes Jr, 2019.

Topics Include: Promotion of the law and nature imagery, the biblical commandment of Bal Tashchit, and devoting oneself to embodied change as a form of environmental justice For a full transcript, please click the following link: https://www.dwinitiative.org/news/categories/untitled-category To follow this series weekly, please subscribe to the Deep Water Initiative mailing list on our website. The Torah for the Earth Podcast and Audio Essays are Copyrighted to Charles Scott Forbes Jr, 2019.

Topics Include: Choosing life in the Anthropocene, supporting the holiness of the Land, earth-based tzedakah, and finding strength in times of crisis For a full transcript, please click the following link: https://www.dwinitiative.org/news/categories/untitled-category To follow this series weekly, please subscribe to the Deep Water Initiative mailing list on our website. The Torah for the Earth Podcast and Audio Essays are Copyrighted to Charles Scott Forbes Jr, 2019.

Topics Include: The link between climate and theology, spiritual sustenance from food, and the momentum of positive change For a full transcript, please click the following link: https://www.dwinitiative.org/news/categories/untitled-category To follow this series weekly, please subscribe to the Deep Water Initiative mailing list on our website. The Torah for the Earth Podcast and Audio Essays are Copyrighted to Charles Scott Forbes Jr, 2019.

Topics Include: Eretz Yisrael and Gaia Consciousness, the Land as animate space, and our material responsibilities as part of a spiritual life For a full transcript, please click the following link: https://www.dwinitiative.org/news/categories/untitled-category To follow this series weekly, please subscribe to the Deep Water Initiative mailing list on our website. The Torah for the Earth Podcast and Audio Essays are Copyrighted to Charles Scott Forbes Jr, 2019.

Topics Include: Teshuva and a “land ethic,” healing metaphysical geographies, and the importance of plurality For a full transcript, please click the following link: https://www.dwinitiative.org/news/categories/untitled-category To follow this series weekly, please subscribe to the Deep Water Initiative mailing list on our website. The Torah for the Earth Podcast and Audio Essays are Copyrighted to Charles Scott Forbes Jr, 2019.

Selichot for the month of Elul Cover of Eitan Katz's L'Maancha English Translation: For thine own sake act, our G-d, and not for ours. Behold our position, impoverished and empty. The soul is thine, and the body is thy work: O have compassion on thy labor.

The Deep Water Initiative works to capture soundscapes in nature. The preservation - through audio recordings - of various habitats, individual species, and wildlife sounds are a form of environmental activism. Soundscapes tell the story of a place, and we aim to share that music with the world. Park City, UT

Topics Include: Balaam’s reincarnation into a rock, nature as a medium for tikkun, and the open spaces of Levitical Cities. For a full transcript, please click the following link: https://www.dwinitiative.org/news/categories/untitled-category To follow this series weekly, please subscribe to the Deep Water Initiative mailing list on our website. The Torah for the Earth Podcast and Audio Essays are Copyrighted to Charles Scott Forbes Jr, 2019.

Topics Include: The role of zealousness in action, ‘green shaming’ as a reflection of our own faults, and social justice For a full transcript, please click the following link: https://www.dwinitiative.org/news/categories/untitled-category To follow this series weekly, please subscribe to the Deep Water Initiative mailing list on our website. The Torah for the Earth Podcast and Audio Essays are Copyrighted to Charles Scott Forbes Jr, 2019.

The Deep Water Initiative works to capture soundscapes in nature. The preservation - through audio recordings - of various habitats, individual species, and wildlife sounds are a form of environmental activism. Soundscapes tell the story of a place, and we aim to share that music with the world. Black Sand Beach Depoe Bay, OR

The Deep Water Initiative works to capture soundscapes in nature. The preservation - through audio recordings - of various habitats, individual species, and wildlife sounds are a form of environmental activism. Soundscapes tell the story of a place, and we aim to share that music with the world. Black Sand Beach Depoe Bay, OR

Topics Include: Water in the wilderness, integrating our ecological activism with gratefulness, and reducing the suffering of all living creatures For a full transcript, please click the following link: https://www.dwinitiative.org/news/categories/untitled-category To follow this series weekly, please subscribe to the Deep Water Initiative mailing list on our website. The Torah for the Earth Podcast and Audio Essays are Copyrighted to Charles Scott Forbes Jr, 2019.

Topics Include: The autonomy of the earth in the Rebellion of Korach, the earth swallowing the mutineers and their possessions, and the proper integration of material wealth into our lives For a full transcript, please click the following link: https://www.dwinitiative.org/news/categories/untitled-category To follow this series weekly, please subscribe to the Deep Water Initiative mailing list on our website. The Torah for the Earth Podcast and Audio Essays are Copyrighted to Charles Scott Forbes Jr, 2019.

Topics Include: Finding the essence of G-d through nature, fighting against those who cause us to fall, and the analogy between a tzaddik and a tree. For a full transcript, please click the following link: https://www.dwinitiative.org/news/categories/untitled-category To follow this series weekly, please subscribe to the Deep Water Initiative mailing list on our website. The Torah for the Earth Podcast and Audio Essays are Copyrighted to Charles Scott Forbes Jr, 2019.

Topics Include: The dysfunctionality of global systems revealed during Covid-19, the analogy between mitzvot and renewable energy technologies, the dissatisfaction with manna and the danger of nostalgia For a full transcript, please click the following link: https://www.dwinitiative.org/news/categories/untitled-category To follow this series weekly, please subscribe to the Deep Water Initiative mailing list on our website. The Torah for the Earth Podcast and Audio Essays are Copyrighted to Charles Scott Forbes Jr, 2019.

Topics Include: “Lifting up” the world, the Ordeal of Bitter Waters, and the eco-feminism of Torah For a full transcript, please click the following link: https://www.dwinitiative.org/news/categories/untitled-category To follow this series weekly, please subscribe to the Deep Water Initiative mailing list on our website. The Torah for the Earth Podcast and Audio Essays are Copyrighted to Charles Scott Forbes Jr, 2019.

Topics Include: The role of wilderness after the exodus, the nature and culture divide, and the ecological lesson in the prohibition against counting directly For a full transcript, please click the following link: https://www.dwinitiative.org/news/categories/untitled-category To follow this series weekly, please subscribe to the Deep Water Initiative mailing list on our website. The Torah for the Earth Podcast and Audio Essays are Copyrighted to Charles Scott Forbes Jr, 2019.

In this episode, I am joined by Paige Bardolph, who is the Director of the Global Museum at San Francisco State University, where she also teaches graduate courses in Museum Studies. Paige recently worked with graduate students to curate an exhibition on the impacts of climate change on indigenous communities. She was formally an Associate Curator at the Autry Museum of the American West and lead curator of the California Continued exhibit. She has held positions at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County and the California Academy of Sciences. Paige served as consulting producer and co-producer for multiple KCET projects, including “Tending Nature,” “Tending the Wild,” and “The Art of Basketry” episode on “Artbound.” The “Tending Nature,” and “Tending the Wild,” series shines light on the environmental knowledge of indigenous peoples across California by exploring how they have actively shaped and tended the land for millennia, whilst in the process developing a deep understanding of plant and animal life. These series examine how humans are necessary to live in balance with nature and how traditional practices can inspire a new generation of Californians to tend their environment. In this conversation Paige and I explore the role of museums and curators in decolonizing and re-curating cultural space. For additional resources to our conversation, please visit the DWI website. https://www.dwinitiative.org/post/theoldway-decolonizing-and-re-curating-cultural-space-a-conversation-with-paige-bardolph

In this episode I am joined by Dr. Frédérique Apffel-Marglin who is Professor Emerita at the Dpt. of Anthropology at Smith College and Distinguished Visiting Professor at the College of the Environment at Wesleyan University (2013-14). In 2009 Frédérique founded Sachamama Center for Biocultural Regeneration (SCBR) in the Peruvian High Amazon, which is the current focus of her theoretical, social and spiritual work. For additional resources on Frédérique work please visit the Deep Water Initiative website. https://www.dwinitiative.org/post/theoldway-podcast-with-dr-fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9rique-apffel-marglin

Topics Include: The relationship between the Sabbath, Shemittah, and Yovel; the tendency of the natural world to move towards greater complexity; and, how forms of human action can disrupt the balance of the natural world For a full transcript, please click the following link: https://www.dwinitiative.org/news/categories/untitled-category To follow this series weekly, please subscribe to the Deep Water Initiative mailing list on our website. The Torah for the Earth Podcast and Audio Essays are Copyrighted to Charles Scott Forbes Jr, 2019.

Topics Include: Speech and its relationship to environmentalism, the animal soul and ‘optional’ potentiality, and honoring all of creation through activism For a full transcript, please click the following link: https://www.dwinitiative.org/news/categories/untitled-category To follow this series weekly, please subscribe to the Deep Water Initiative mailing list on our website. The Torah for the Earth Podcast and Audio Essays are Copyrighted to Charles Scott Forbes Jr, 2019.

Topics Include: Finding a balance between our spiritual and material obligations, communal and individual varieties of atonement, loving one’s fellow, and the environmental intendment that are innate to mitzvot For a full transcript, please click the following link: https://www.dwinitiative.org/news/categories/untitled-category To follow this series weekly, please subscribe to the Deep Water Initiative mailing list on our website. The Torah for the Earth Podcast and Audio Essays are Copyrighted to Charles Scott Forbes Jr, 2019.

Topics Include: The Hebrew word for blood (dam) in both Adam (the first human) and adamah (earth), the eco-theological relationship between human blood and the blood of the earth, and how the laws of chukim can help us rethink material healing For a full transcript, please click the following link: https://www.dwinitiative.org/news/categories/untitled-category To follow this series weekly, please subscribe to the Deep Water Initiative mailing list on our website. The Torah for the Earth Podcast and Audio Essays are Copyrighted to Charles Scott Forbes Jr, 2019.

For more information of Rabbi Ellen Bernstein’s work, please visit: http://www.ellenbernstein.org https://www.thepromiseoftheland.com Themes discussed in the podcast: Shomrei Adamah – “Keepers of the Earth” Creation myths in Genesis The space and atmosphere created by ritual The academic field of Religion and Ecology

Topics Include: The category of chukim and the kosher laws, the parallel between dietary restrictions and spiritual development, and eating sustainably to live a healthy spiritual life. For a full transcript, please click the following link: https://www.dwinitiative.org/news/categories/untitled-category To follow this series weekly, please subscribe to the Deep Water Initiative mailing list on our website. The Torah for the Earth Podcast and Audio Essays are Copyrighted to Charles Scott Forbes Jr, 2019.

In this episode, I talk to Indian born transdisciplinary feminist scholar Monica Mody, Ph.D., MF.A., B.A. LL.B. (Hons.). Monica’s research interests include borderlands, transnational feminisms, decolonization, embodied relational paradigms, and genre. Her academic writing has been published in numerous journals and anthologies. Monica has been the recipient of the Kore Award for Best Dissertation in Women and Mythology, as well as the Nicholas Sparks Postgraduate Writing Fellowship at the University of Notre Dame. Monica holds a Ph.D. in East-West Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies, an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Notre Dame. Monica’s dissertation is entitled, “Claiming Voice, Vitality, And Authority In Post-Secular South Asian Borderlands: A Critical Hermeneutics And Autohistoria/Teoría For Decolonial Feminist Consciousness”.

Topics Include: the aish tamid and the continuous fire, ridding our lives of negativity to help the suffering of all living creatures, and the thanksgiving-offering For a full transcript, please click the following link: https://www.dwinitiative.org/news/categories/untitled-category To follow this series weekly, please subscribe to the Deep Water Initiative mailing list on our website. The Torah for the Earth Podcast and Audio Essays are Copyrighted to Charles Scott Forbes Jr, 2019.

Topics Include: The universal nature of sacrifice, humility and the small aleph in Vayikra, and sacrifice as a moral principle For a full transcript, please click the following link: https://www.dwinitiative.org/news/categories/untitled-category To follow this series weekly, please subscribe to the Deep Water Initiative mailing list on our website. The Torah for the Earth Podcast and Audio Essays are Copyrighted to Charles Scott Forbes Jr, 2019.

Topics Include: Ecology and the sanctuary of time, artisanship and modern industry, Shabbat as an ecological commandment For a full transcript, please click the following link: https://www.dwinitiative.org/news/categories/untitled-category To follow this series weekly, please subscribe to the Deep Water Initiative mailing list on our website. The Torah for the Earth Podcast and Audio Essays are Copyrighted to Charles Scott Forbes Jr, 2019.

Topics Include: How to use materiality appropriately, the environmental lesson of the golden calf, and reinstating the sacred in the material For a full transcript, please click the following link: https://www.dwinitiative.org/news/categories/untitled-category To follow this series weekly, please subscribe to the Deep Water Initiative mailing list on our website. The Torah for the Earth Podcast and Audio Essays are Copyrighted to Charles Scott Forbes Jr, 2019.

Topics Include: the Mishkan as an earthly residence for G-d, the human heart and our inner sanctuary, those who belong to the altar of copper or the altar of gold, and being like the earth For a full transcript, please click the following link: https://www.dwinitiative.org/news/categories/untitled-category To follow this series weekly, please subscribe to the Deep Water Initiative mailing list on our website. The Torah for the Earth Podcast and Audio Essays are Copyrighted to Charles Scott Forbes Jr, 2019.

Topics Include: motivations of the heart, symbolism of the Tabernacle, the Ark of acacia wood and the etymology of the word “folly” For a full transcript, please click the following link: https://www.dwinitiative.org/news/categories/untitled-category To follow this series weekly, please subscribe to the Deep Water Initiative mailing list on our website. The Torah for the Earth Podcast and Audio Essays are Copyrighted to Charles Scott Forbes Jr, 2019.

In the second episode of the Old Way, we are joined by Dr. Melinda Micco of the Seminole (tribal member), Creek and Choctaw tribes. Dr. Micco is Associate Professor Emerita of Mills College. Her research has focused on multiracial identity in American Indian and African American communities, primarily in the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma. Dr. Micco is the author of numerous articles and books, as well as a filmmaker and community activist. She is a member of the Idle No More SF Bay Solidarity Group that is dedicated to affirming treaty rights for First Nations peoples in Canada and American Indian peoples in the US. She is also a signer to the Indigenous Women of the Americas Defending Mother Earth Treaty to honor and protect the planet. For those looking to contribute to the completion of Melinda's latest film visit. https://www.gofundme.com/f/inspiring-film-every-step-is-a-prayer To hear more from Melinda join us in SF on the 19th of March https://www.dwinitiative.org/events/indigenous-storytelling-in-film-as-a-new-form-of-subtle-activism

Topics Include: What it means to be a ‘paid guardian’ of the earth, four prototypes of damages as they relate to the earth’s property, beri’ah and yetzirah For a full transcript, please click the following link: https://www.dwinitiative.org/news/categories/untitled-category To follow this series weekly, please subscribe to the Deep Water Initiative mailing list on our website. The Torah for the Earth Podcast and Audio Essays are Copyrighted to Charles Scott Forbes Jr, 2019.

The Deep Water Initiative works to capture soundscapes in nature. The preservation - through audio recordings - of various habitats, individual species, and wildlife sounds are a form of environmental activism. Soundscapes tell the story of a place, and we aim to share that music with the world. Charlottesville, VA

Topics Include: The Revelation at Sinai and levels of holiness, the link between a geographical position and a spiritual condition, ascent and descent, and Tu Bishvat (the New Year for the Trees) For a full transcript, please click the following link: https://www.dwinitiative.org/news/categories/untitled-category To follow this series weekly, please subscribe to the Deep Water Initiative mailing list on our website. The Torah for the Earth Podcast and Audio Essays are Copyrighted to Charles Scott Forbes Jr, 2019.

Topics Include: G-d’s disclosure through nature, time in the wilderness to lay the foundations of faith, ecofeminism and song. For a full transcript, please click the following link: https://www.dwinitiative.org/news/categories/untitled-category To follow this series weekly, please subscribe to the Deep Water Initiative mailing list on our website. The Torah for the Earth Podcast and Audio Essays are Copyrighted to Charles Scott Forbes Jr, 2019.

Topics Include: Leaving Egypt and our narrow-mindedness, Rosh Chodesh and time as a component of geography, Jewish lifecycle and a renewal during spring For a full transcript, please click the following link: https://www.dwinitiative.org/news/categories/untitled-category To follow this series weekly, please subscribe to the Deep Water Initiative mailing list on our website. The Torah for the Earth Podcast and Audio Essays are Copyrighted to Charles Scott Forbes Jr, 2019.

In the first episode of this long format podcast series, the Old Way, I interview astrologer, diviner, writer, and teacher Laura Michetti, where we discuss her dissertation research, which is titled, Divining Ecology: The Sami Shaman Drum. Music included by Mari Boine, "Gula Gula".

Topics Include: G-d’s providence in nature, warning signs, and a healthy partnership with the earth For a full transcript, please click the following link: https://www.dwinitiative.org/news/categories/untitled-category To follow this series weekly, please subscribe to the Deep Water Initiative mailing list on our website. The Torah for the Earth Podcast and Audio Essays are Copyrighted to Charles Scott Forbes Jr, 2019.

Welcome to the the Old Way, a Deep Water Initiative podcast series hosted by myself Chantal Noa Forbes. This podcast will feature artists, academics and educators whose work highlights the present ecological significance of Indigenous traditions, customs and former ways of life. The Old Way is a reference made by the Kalahari Bushmen of Southern Africa, to an environmentally centered way of life, which they followed for tens-of-thousands of years. This podcast is a tribute to the memory of their traditions. It further pays tribute to the legacy of the Marshall family as told by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas in her 2007 publication The Old Way: A Story of the First People, where she details her and her family’s anthropological experiences living with the Kalahari Bushmen at the end of an ecological era.

Topics Include: Moshe’s name as it relates to water, nature and Tselem Elohim, learning the names of local flora and fauna For a full transcript, please click the following link: https://www.dwinitiative.org/news/categories/untitled-category To follow this series weekly, please subscribe to the Deep Water Initiative mailing list on our website. The Torah for the Earth Podcast and Audio Essays are Copyrighted to Charles Scott Forbes Jr, 2019.

Topics Include: Willful subjugation to the earth as an approach to navigating climate change, Jacob’s blessings of the tribes and their relationship to agricultural responsibilities, and the sword and bow as metaphors for instruments to interact with the land For a full transcript, please click the following link: https://www.dwinitiative.org/news/categories/untitled-category To follow this series weekly, please subscribe to the Deep Water Initiative mailing list on our website. The Torah for the Earth Podcast and Audio Essays are Copyrighted to Charles Scott Forbes Jr, 2019.

Topics Include: Kal vachomer and climate action, using tshuva to discern the truth, and the relationship between food security and personal power For a full transcript, please click the following link: https://www.dwinitiative.org/news/categories/untitled-category To follow this series weekly, please subscribe to the Deep Water Initiative mailing list on our website. The Torah for the Earth Podcast and Audio Essays are Copyrighted to Charles Scott Forbes Jr, 2019.

Topics Include: the metaphysical relationship between famine and the seven sick cows, nakedness of the land and song of the land (zimrat ha’aretz), tshuva as a stimulant for chochmah and binah For a full transcript, please click the following link: https://www.dwinitiative.org/news/categories/untitled-category To follow this series weekly, please subscribe to the Deep Water Initiative mailing list on our website. The Torah for the Earth Podcast and Audio Essays are Copyrighted to Charles Scott Forbes Jr, 2019.

Topics Include: beauty and the superficialities of life, dreams in relation to exile, the physical and metaphorical significance of clothing, and the theme of slavery For a full transcript, please click the following link: https://www.dwinitiative.org/news/categories/untitled-category To follow this series weekly, please subscribe to the Deep Water Initiative mailing list on our website. The Torah for the Earth Podcast and Audio Essays are Copyrighted to Charles Scott Forbes Jr, 2019.