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Michaela McCormick

Michaela McCormick is a member of XRPDX, and a life-long social justice activist. She also studies, teaches, and writes about the confluence of spirituality, contemplative practices, and transformative change.

Book Review: Climate Change as Class War

February 16, 2023 by Michaela McCormick

He contends we will never build a mass movement unless we identify the sectors of the working class that can lead a transition to renewable energy.

Tags Climate Change, Climate Justice, Degrowth, Renewable Energy, Transition, Working Class

Where Are the Birds?

November 17, 2022 by Michaela McCormick
2 crows on a fence

I wake most mornings now to the singular “caw” of Crows. So precious, for it comes less and less with the songs of other Birds. Where are the Mourning Doves, the House Sparrows, Finches, Scrub-Jays, … Read more

Tags Birds, Extinction, Regenerative Culture

Water is Life

October 17, 2022 by Michaela McCormick

Stories can kill or save our planet. The story ruling the world in recent centuries is the one pushed by white settler colonialists for their own profit and power. It depicts the Earth as an … Read more

Tags Dakota Access Pipeline, Degrowth, Earth, Environmental Injustice, Indigenous, Sacrifice zones, Water Is Life

Spider, Cabbage Moth, and Me

August 7, 2022 by Michaela McCormick

Maybe it’s not too late/ to study the humility, restraint, and wisdom/ of other species.

Tags Insects, Species

Stoel Rives: Working Both Sides of the Energy Industry

June 17, 2022 by Michaela McCormick

So which is it, Stoel Rives?  Do you defend the blooming of our earth or the dooming of it? 

Tags endangered species, oil industry, Shut Down Zenith, Stoel Rives, Zenith Energy

Profit and Poison

April 20, 2022 by Michaela McCormick

“Profit and poison
so unevenly divided
yet mercilessly entangled.”

Tags Climate Change, Poetry, Poisons, Profit

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