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Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration

250) Jerry Yudelson: Sustaining activism through cultivating a practice of eco-spirituality

Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration

Kaméa Chayne

Earth Sciences, Philosophy, Society & Culture, Science

4.8694 Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Jerry Yudelson is an engineer and the author of 12 professional books in the field of green building and sustainable development, including his latest book, The Godfather of Green: An Eco-Spiritual Memoir. Jerry was also a co-founder of the first Earth Day in 1970.

In this podcast episode, Jerry sheds light on his experience as a long-time environmental activist and what we can learn from the past decades of the environmental movement; how he sees the relationship between spirituality, mindfulness, and sustainability; and more.

 

Featured music of the month: Yarrow by Kim Anderson

Episode notes: www.greendreamer.com/250

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