Love (and revolution) Radio: Reconciliation Ecology: Saving the Ecosystem With Wild Backyards

Summary: This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we speak with citizen scientist and master gardener Adrian Fisher about reconciliation ecology and how her neighborhood outside Chicago, IL used wild plant gardening to not only connect two wildlife preserves on either side of her, but also a bi-continental migration route for innumerable wild species. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/ About Our Guest: Adrian Fisher is a sustainability coordinator, a wild and native plants gardener, and writes and speaks about Reconciliation Ecology and Regenerative Gardening. She lives in Oak Park, Illinois, and is a featured writer on Resilience.org Related Links: Why Reconciliation Ecology Matters by Adrian Fisher http://www.resilience.org/stories/2016-04-28/ethics-and-ecosystem-interactions-why-reconciliation-ecology-matters Reconciliation Ecology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconciliation_ecology Wild Ones Organization http://www.wildones.org/ Deep Ecology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_ecology Resilience.org http://www.resilience.org/ Blessed Unrest by Paul Hawken http://www.blessedunrest.com/ Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer https://www.amazon.com/Braiding-Sweetgrass-Indigenous-Scientific-Knowledge/dp/1571313567 Win-Win Ecology https://global.oup.com/academic/product/win-win-ecology-9780195156041 Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation http://www.xerces.org/ The Sunflower Forest by William Jordan https://www.amazon.com/Sunflower-Forest-Ecological-Restoration-Communion/dp/0520233204 The Carbon Farming Solution by Eric Toensmeier http://www.chelseagreen.com/the-carbon-farming-solution Paradise Lot (Book and Blog) https://paradiselotblog.wordpress.com/ Rodale Institute http://rodaleinstitute.org/ Rodale Institue White Paper on Regenerative Organic Agriculture and Climate Change http://rodaleinstitute.org/assets/WhitePaper.pdf Music by: "Love and Revolution" by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radio www.dianepatterson.org This week's featured musician is Melissa Crabtree. This is her song, "Bees" from her album "The Day I Fell Into the Water". You can find this and other music by Melissa at www.melissacrabtree.com About Your Co-hosts: Sherri Mitchell (Penobscot) is an Indigenous rights attorney, writer and activist who melds traditional life-way teachings into spirit-based movements. Follow her at Sherri Mitchell – Wena’gamu’gwasit:https://www.facebook.com/sacredinstructions/timeline Rivera Sun is a novelist and nonviolent mischief-maker. She is the author of The Dandelion Insurrection, Billionaire Buddha, and Steam Drills, Treadmills, and Shooting Stars. She is also the social media coordinator and nonviolence trainer for Campaign Nonviolence and Pace e Bene. Her essays on social justice movements are syndicated on by PeaceVoice, and appear in Truthout and Popular Resistance.http://www.riverasun.com/