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GMO ArborDay

By Local Food NowNo Comments
This document contains links to my cross-cultural climate justice book, two images (Rachel Carson and Nestle/ Monsanto diptych) from Zazu Dreams used as characters for the “Edible Education” community theater piece, one image of a three-foot mask puppet representing the...
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Edible Education

By Local Food NowNo Comments

We are Local Food Now–a farm-to-school cooperative of North Fork Valley bakers, farmers, ranchers, teachers, students, and community members. Located in the fertile valley of Paonia, Colorado, we offer nutritional education to support the health of our growing young people…

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Yoniversal Healthcare, Pleasure Power

By Body PoliticsNo Comments

During our Yoniversal Healthcare, Pleasure Power gathering I will share details about my work-passions as a Vulnerability Facilitator. I offer guidance and health services for the following: Yoni Steaming Self-Renewal through Private/Public Photography Sessions Sex-Trauma Counseling Sex-Positive Parenting Censorship in…

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Bloodlines

By Travels with CaraNo Comments

by Cara Judea Alhadeff, PhD Dear Saan, Jumping right into Seoul—I want you to know your ancestral home…. The City: It’s funny to think back on the night I landed in Seoul. Having just returned from my solo photography exhibition…

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Religious Studies Review Volume 49, Issue 4: Surrealism ↔ The Sacred: Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Manifesto of Surrealism

By Chapters in Anthologies

December 2023 Thirteen Surrealist Provocations: Embodied Sacred Activism (We Shall Overcome) The thirteen surrealist provocations explored in this essay guide citizen activists to embody the sacred in their everyday lives. Each provocation (strategy, principle, and technique) targets a hegemonic force…

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Living our Ecological Ethics: Life Lessons from the Love Bus at Oberlin College

By Environmental Justice, Love Bus, Performances, Petroleum Parenting

Oberlin College’s Environmental Studies Department at Oberlin presents my in-person workshops Thursday, September 28th 12:15-1:15pm Lunchtime Objects as Storytellers Adam Joseph Lewis Center for Environmental Studies 201 4:30-6:30pm Embodied Practice Workshop Oberlin Center for Convergence (StudiOC) I will be dedicating…

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Hospitality as an Antidote to Environmental Racism & Climate Chaos

By Environmental Justice, Interfaith, Jewish Multiculturalism, Uncategorized

When we live in a practice of gratitude, when we do not take things or people for granted, we truly embody hospitality. This practice unravels the interdependent relationships between waste/disposability and ethnocentrism/xenophobia–between ecological collapse and humanitarian abuses. Storytelling is a vehicle we can use…

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At Paris Institute for Critical Thinking: Unveiling Progress as Parasite, We Must Replace “Renewable” Energies with Ecological Ethics

By Environmental Justice, Love Bus, Publications (2020-Present)

Unveiling Progress as Parasite:  We Must Replace “Renewable” Energies with Ecological Ethics • From The Paris Institute for Critical Thinking dePICTions volume 3 (2023): Critical Ecologies. Summary: My essay examines the insidious manifestations of greenwashing and environmental racism in the context of humanitarian imperialism—the…

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Reclaiming the Commons, Biennial Conference

By Video Lectures

Association of the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE) in collaboration with the Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences (AESS) July 9-12, 2023 Portland, OR Cara’s presentation: “Radical Accountability through Creative-Waste Culture” How can we shift our epidemic of individualism from consumer…

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Aleph, Alliance for Jewish Renewal Series Dr. Alhadeff’s Lecture + Five-part series: Welcome the Stranger, Lessons from Zazu Dreams

By Jewish Multiculturalism, Zazu Dreams

Summary: Fall 2022 Dr. Cara Judea Alhadeff will investigate the Jewish commitment to a personal and collective cultural, economic, and agricultural pause (release or letting go). In response to the rapidly escalating climate crisis, Alhadeff’s interactive presentation shares the values…

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Ingenium 2023 Symposium/Think Tank, International Conference: The Culture of Creativity, “Improvising Counterhegemonies: A Lived Manifesto”

By Blog, Environmental Justice, Love Bus, Performances, Video Lectures
A central theme is how to integrate the personal with the political, the private with the public. As I discuss with the audience embodied energy and supply chains, Fibershed* consciousness (individual, community, corporation, infrastructure, policy paradigm changes as a collective practice of...
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Keynote Speaker, Quantum Entanglements: ReAnimating the Embodied Language of Ladino for 11th Annual LADINO Judeo-Spanish Symposium Poetic Pasts: Ladino Culture by Other Means

By Blog, Interfaith, Jewish Multiculturalism, Video Lectures

April 4th, 2:00pm PST University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Micaela Amateau Amato’s illustrations from Zazu Dreams projected during first break; Micaela Amateau Amato‘s art projected during 2nd break;  my projected photography on display during third break Ladino (the language of my maternal and paternal family)…

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Symposium on Anarchism and Collective Responsibility, “Radical Accountability through Creative-Waste Culture,” Interview with Emma Moormann

By Interview

March 25, 11am EST University of Antwerp, Belgium My interview with Emma Moormann, PhD researcher at NeuroEpigenEthics, will highlight creative-collective risk taking. I will challenge Western civilization’s taken-for-granted convenience-culture standard of living and explore social anarchism in the context of…

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Boycott Civilization ~ Part 1 Cancerous Collusions

By Blog, Environmental Justice, Love Bus, Solidarity & Sustainability Essays

For this month, I offer Micaela Amateau Amato’s recent presentation at Pennsylvania State University’s Cancer and the Environment Symposium. Amato is not only my mother, but my primary collaborator focusing on fossil-fuel addicted culture and counter-hegemonic, living-art practices. Amato’s presentation on Cancerous Collusions, is the…

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Ecological Justice Border Crossings, Part 6, Cultural Biomimicry

By Blog, Environmental Justice, Solidarity & Sustainability Essays

Cultural Biomimicry: An Evolutionary Guide to the Ecozoic through Epigenetics   In Silent Spring, Rachel Carson shares: “There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature.” These cycles are not about eventually doing more through increased efficiency, but about equilibrium and relationship. This sense…

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Equality: Industrial Capitalism’s Trojan Horse—Environmental Racism, Green Colonialism, and The Renewable Energies Revolution

By Chapters in Anthologies, Environmental Justice, Publications (2020-Present), Viscous Expectations

Published in: Philosophy as Practice in the Ecological Emergency: An Exploration of Urgent Matters, Ed. Lucy Weir, Palgrave Macmiilan, 2023 Summary: “I think the big crisis of our times is that our minds have been manipulated to give power to…

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Seed + Spark Series Intergenerational Climate Justice: Confronting Petroleum-Parenting

By Environmental Justice, Interfaith, Jewish Multiculturalism, Love Bus, Petroleum Parenting, Video Lectures, Viscous Expectations, Zazu Dreams

Petroleum parenting, what I identify as the decisions parents make that overwhelmingly contribute to both environmental destruction and body-phobic institutional practices, reifies the status-quo and our myopic capacity to engage beyond our shame-based, accumulationist individualism. In our petroleum-pharmaceutical-addicted cyber-world, our…

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Adapting Zazu Dreams, The Musical Stage Production: Micaela Amateau Amato and Cara Judea Alhadeff in Conversation​​

By Blog, Environmental Justice, Interfaith, Interview, Jewish Multiculturalism, Petroleum Parenting, Podcasts, Zazu Dreams

  By entering one’s consciousness through the mediated vehicle of storytelling, Alhadeff aims to surprise her audience—evoking a reconsideration of how the consequences of one’s daily choices impacts global human rights. Her story’s characters explore unfamiliar geographical and metaphysical terrain…

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Interview on Trafika Europe, Eco-Lit: Works and wisdom from authors and poets in vital connection with our natural environment with Andrew Singer

By Environmental Justice, Interfaith, Interview, Jewish Multiculturalism, Love Bus, Radio/TV, Viscous Expectations

  American-Ladino author, photographer, and performance artist Cara Judea Alhadeff speaks about her startlingly original book, Zazu Dreams: Between the Scarab and the Dung Beetle – A Cautionary Fable for the Anthropocene, an environmental tale which also takes up themes…

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Big Bold Jewish Climate Fest

By Environmental Justice, Interfaith, Interview, Jewish Multiculturalism, Love Bus, Video Lectures

Summary: The purpose of this environmental-justice performance is to generate cross-cultural, interdisciplinary, interfaith dialogue and Jewish-themed action. Reclaiming ancient Judaic spiritual-pharmacopeias, agricultural and architectural environmental engineering practices can be one resolution for systemic oppressions in our triple pandemic of racism,…

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The Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, Climate Justice Now: Transforming the Anthropocene into The Ecozoic Era

By Environmental Justice, Interfaith, Jewish Multiculturalism, Love Bus, Video Lectures

Summary: Presented for the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE), Nearly Carbon Neutral Humanities on the Brink: Energy, Environment, Emergency, UC Santa Barbara, 2020 Climate Justice Now: Transforming the Anthropocene into The Ecozoic Era asks: How can…

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The Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology, Greenwashing and Environmental Racism in the Renewable Energy Revolution

By Environmental Justice, Interfaith, Jewish Multiculturalism, Love Bus, Video Lectures

Summary: “Greenwashing and Environmental Racism in the Renewable Energy Revolution” is a video lecture from my chapter in the book Shifting Climates-Shifting Peoples, Dr. Miguel De La Torre, editor. The video-lecture that is shot outside our repurposed school-bus tiny home…

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Community Amulets and Collective Action: Environmental Justice through Sephardic Philosophies

By Environmental Justice, Interfaith, Jewish Multiculturalism, Love Bus, Video Lectures

Summary: This video was made for Harvard Divinity School’s Program for the Evolution of Spirituality international conference: Ecological Spiritualities, April, 2022. It was the Racial Justice Invocation for Ammud Jews of Color Torah Academy’s 3rd Anniversary Gala February, 2022. Watch…

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Harvard Divinity School, Indigenous Wisdoms, Reclaimed Action: Love Lessons from Zazu Dreams

By Environmental Justice, Interfaith, Interview, Jewish Multiculturalism, Love Bus, Video Lectures, Zazu Dreams

Summary: For Ecological Spiritualities Inaugural International Conference 2022, Harvard Divinity School’s Program for the Evolution of Spirituality Published in: The excerpts come from my interviews with National Public Radio: KPFA, Pacifica Radio KGNU KVNF Local Fauna AshevilleFM   Podcast interviews:…

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Interlude 2 ~ Educating Women: Green Colonialism or The Maternal Gift Economy

By Blog, Environmental Justice, Interfaith, Love Bus, Solidarity & Sustainability Essays

  Published in: Mother Pelican: The Journal of Solidarity and Sustainability, 2022 Summary: “Realizing the potential of women is the single most important pathway to planetary regeneration.”—Paul Hawken Yes, but how? Many environmental activists claim that empowering women through education is key…

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Ecological Justice Border Crossings ~ Part 4 ~ The Global Electrical Circuit: Enabling the Digital Epidemic

By Blog, Environmental Justice, Petroleum Parenting, Solidarity & Sustainability Essays

  Published in: Mother Pelican: The Journal of Solidarity and Sustainability, 2022 Summary: “Electricity is an element that is more intimate to us than the air we breathe.”—Abbé Nollet, 1746 “The relative divergence of my bodily senses….indicates that this body…

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Ecological Justice Border Crossings ~ Part 3 ~ Techno-Dystopias Breed Children as Collateral Damage

By Blog, Environmental Justice, Petroleum Parenting, Solidarity & Sustainability Essays

  Published in: Mother Pelican: The Journal of Solidarity and Sustainability, 2022 Summary: “There are only two industries that call their customers ‘users:’ illegal drugs and software.” — Edward Tufte We can no longer ignore the intricate interconnections between manufactured consent…

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Ecological Justice Border Crossings ~ Part 1 ~ In the Name of Red Herrings: The Green, Slow, and Whitewashing Ménage à Trois

By Blog, Environmental Justice, Solidarity & Sustainability Essays

  Published in: Mother Pelican: The Journal of Solidarity and Sustainability, 2022 Summary: As activist-educators, we must scrutinize extractive-capitalist interrelationships among slowwashing (including stress reduction technology that actually increases cortisol production), greenwashing (including fraudulent “corporate social responsibility” – CSR) and whitewashing “a coordinated attempt to…

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Confusion as a State of Grace: Climate and Kinship in 2021 Installment 4 ~ Terrestrials in Exile

By Blog, Environmental Justice, Jewish Multiculturalism, Petroleum Parenting, Solidarity & Sustainability Essays

  Published in: Mother Pelican: The Journal of Solidarity and Sustainability, 2021 Summary: The terrestrial has been exiled from the earth.—Sajay Samuel’s review of Zazu Dreams We woke in the Safeway parking lot, ash falling from the sky. The gated…

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Confusion as a State of Grace: Climate and Kinship in 2021 Installment 3 – The Shame Sham ~”Only You Can Prevent Forest Fires”

By Blog, Environmental Justice, Interfaith, Jewish Multiculturalism, Love Bus, Solidarity & Sustainability Essays

  Published in: Mother Pelican: The Journal of Solidarity and Sustainability, 2021 Summary: “You cannot regulate an abomination. You have got to stop it.”— Wendell Berry Driving across the United States in our over-heating converted eco-art school bus tiny home—painted…

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Love & Waste: Igniting A Permaculture Paradigm Shift~ A Personal Story, Part II

By Blog, Environmental Justice, Love Bus, Petroleum Parenting, Solidarity & Sustainability Essays, Viscous Expectations

  Published in: Mother Pelican: The Journal of Solidarity and Sustainability, 2021 Summary: I have always attempted to live my ethics to the utmost. During my book launch for Viscous Expectations: Justice, Vulnerability, The Ob-scene, author Jill Nagle, introduced me…

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Disentangling Green Colonialism: Greenwashing and Environmental Racism in the Renewables Revolution

By Environmental Justice, Publications (2020-Present)No Comments

  Published in: Shifting Climate – Shifting People, Ed. Miguel De LaTorre, Pilgrim Press, 2022 Summary: Alhadeff’s chapter examines the insidious manifestations of greenwashing and environmental racism in the context of humanitarian imperialism—the ways in which our taken-for-granted standard of…

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Disarticulated Membranes: Pregnancy, Excess, and Radical Resistance

By Chapters in Anthologies, Environmental Justice, Love Bus, Petroleum Parenting, Publications (2020-Present), Viscous Expectations

  Published in: Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, issue 41.3, The University of Nebraska Press, 2021 Summary: My color photography is a theater of psychological and physical transformations that reveal a luminescent excess. This excess combines both the civilized…

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