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Groundswell - Indigenous Wisdom and the Moral Revolution for Climate Change Indigenous wisdom and a moral revolution can be instrumental in saving the planet as we know it. This augmented book is a collection of Indigenous and non-Indigenous authors who articulate a way forward. Addressing the human condition and providing new, yet ancient wisdom that can challenge us to consider a gifting economy, provide insights into sustainable agriculture, define parallel paths and give direction on how we can change. Authors tap into religious and spiritual perspectives, explore the wisdom of youth, and share the insights of a nature based philosophy. These collective writings give you a chance to contemplate and formulate your own direction. A moral revolution that can produce a groundswell of momentum toward a diverse society based on human rights, Indigenous rights, and the rights of Mother Earth. The book honors art and esthetics and is available as a paperback and electronically as an e-book. We invite you to read, contemplate, and join in moral action to mitigate climate change. To access resources and video content that augment the book visit: envisionthebigpicture.com

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The most important environmental development of the last decade is the full emergence and full recognition of the native leadership at the very front of every fight. One of the things that makes that leadership so powerful is its deep roots in tradition and thought; this book gives the reader some sense of that tradition, though of course it is so vast that it would take a thousand such books to capture it all! -Bill McKibben; Author Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet Groundswell: Indigenous Wisdom and The Moral Revolution for Climate Change by Joe Neidhardt, is a powerful text that introduces a much needed perspective on the issue of climate change. Much has been said and written on the topic of climate change from a purely logical perspective, which is essential, but Groundswell: Indigenous Wisdom and The Moral Revolution for Climate Change introduces an equally important perspective, that of the spiritual implications of climate change. From the perspective of Native people, we start to unravel the complex emotions when learning of the negative effects of climate change through an entirely different lens than the lens supplied to us through westernized education. - Forrest Goodluck; Award-winning youth filmmaker, appears opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in The Revenant Groundswell is about helping one another through the threat of death we experience on this increasingly traumatized planet - in the air, on the land and in the water - and nurturing it back to life. Neidhardt and his kindred spirits offer us new, yet familiar, resources for a creative participation in that gracious process. -Thomas G. Christensen; Author of An African Tree of Life This book shares Indigenous knowledge that can teach us to listen to and be in relationship to the Earth in a way that honors the sacredness and interdependence of all life forms. A paradigm shift, informed by Indigenous ways of knowing and acting, is crucial in this time of climate change. - Laura Stivers; Author of Disrupting Homelessness: Alternative Christian Approaches The most important environmental development of the last decade is the full emergence and full recognition of the native leadership at the very front of every fight. One of the things that makes that leadership so powerful is its deep roots in tradition and thought; this book gives the reader some sense of that tradition, though of course it is so vast that it would take a thousand such books to capture it all! -Bill McKibben; Author Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet Groundswell: Indigenous Wisdom and The Moral Revolution for Climate Change by Joe Neidhardt, is a powerful text that introduces a much needed perspective on the issue of climate change. Much has been said and written on the topic of climate change from a purely logical perspective, which is essential, but Groundswell: Indigenous Wisdom and The Moral Revolution for Climate Change introduces an equally important perspective, that of the spiritual implications of climate change. From the perspective of Native people, we start to unravel the complex emotions when learning of the negative effects of climate change through an entirely different lens than the lens supplied to us through westernized education. - Forrest Goodluck; Award-winning youth filmmaker, appears opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in The Revenant Groundswell is about helping one another through the threat of death we experience on this increasingly traumatized planet - in the air, on the land and in the water - and nurturing it back to life. Neidhardt and his kindred spirits offer us new, yet familiar, resources for a creative participation in that gracious process. -Thomas G. Christensen; Author of An African Tree of Life This book shares Indigenous knowledge that can teach us to listen to and be in relationship to the Earth in a way that honors the sacredness and interdependence of all life forms. A paradigm shift, informed by Indigenous ways of knowing and acting, is crucial in this time of climate change. - Laura Stivers; Author of Disrupting Homelessness: Alternative Christian Approaches

The most important environmental development of the last decade is the full emergence and full recognition of the native leadership at the very front of every fight. One of the things that makes that leadership so powerful is its deep roots in tradition and thought; this book gives the reader some sense of that tradition, though of course it is so vast that it would take a thousand such books to capture it all! -Bill McKibben; Author Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet</p> Groundswell: Indigenous Wisdom and The Moral Revolution for Climate Change by Joe Neidhardt, is a powerful text that introduces a much needed perspective on the issue of climate change. Much has been said and written on the topic of climate change from a purely logical perspective, which is essential, but Groundswell: Indigenous Wisdom and The Moral Revolution for Climate Change introduces an equally important perspective, that of the spiritual implications of climate change. From the perspective of Native people, we start to unravel the complex emotions when learning of the negative effects of climate change through an entirely different lens than the lens supplied to us through westernized education. - Forrest Goodluck; Award-winning youth filmmaker, appears opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in The Revenant</p> Groundswell is about helping one another through the threat of death we experience on this increasingly traumatized planet - in the air, on the land and in the water - and nurturing it back to life. Neidhardt and his kindred spirits offer us new, yet familiar, resources for a creative participation in that gracious process. -Thomas G. Christensen; Author of An African Tree of Life</p> This book shares Indigenous knowledge that can teach us to listen to and be in relationship to the Earth in a way that honors the sacredness and interdependence of all life forms. A paradigm shift, informed by Indigenous ways of knowing and acting, is crucial in this time of climate change. - Laura Stivers; Author of Disrupting Homelessness: Alternative Christian Approaches</p>

The most important environmental development of the last decade is the full emergence and full recognition of the native leadership at the very front of every fight. One of the things that makes that leadership so powerful is its deep roots in tradition and thought; this book gives the reader some sense of that tradition, though of course it is so vast that it would take a thousand such books to capture it all! -Bill McKibben; Author Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet Groundswell: Indigenous Wisdom and The Moral Revolution for Climate Change by Joe Neidhardt, is a powerful text that introduces a much needed perspective on the issue of climate change. Much has been said and written on the topic of climate change from a purely logical perspective, which is essential, but Groundswell: Indigenous Wisdom and The Moral Revolution for Climate Change introduces an equally important perspective, that of the spiritual implications of climate change. From the perspective of Native people, we start to unravel the complex emotions when learning of the negative effects of climate change through an entirely different lens than the lens supplied to us through westernized education. - Forrest Goodluck; Award-winning youth filmmaker, appears opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in The Revenant Groundswell is about helping one another through the threat of death we experience on this increasingly traumatized planet - in the air, on the land and in the water - and nurturing it back to life. Neidhardt and his kindred spirits offer us new, yet familiar, resources for a creative participation in that gracious process. -Thomas G. Christensen; Author of An African Tree of Life This book shares Indigenous knowledge that can teach us to listen to and be in relationship to the Earth in a way that honors the sacredness and interdependence of all life forms. A paradigm shift, informed by Indigenous ways of knowing and acting, is crucial in this time of climate change. - Laura Stivers; Author of Disrupting Homelessness: Alternative Christian Approaches

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Joe Neidhardt received his medical degree from the University of Alberta. He did research on stress management through a Canadian government grant and incorporated environmental awareness into his preventive practices. He taught behavioral medicine at the University of British Columbia. He later trained at the University of New Mexico in psychiatry and has worked within Indian Health Service in the US and spent one year on Vancouver Island as a psychiatrist. He worked with Navajo medicine people to develop training for mental health professionals together with his wife, Dr. Mary Roessel. He is board certified in psychiatry and holistic integrative medicine, certified in eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, and provides trauma-based treatments in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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