Published in:
Mother Pelican: The Journal of Solidarity and Sustainability, 2022
Summary:
”The future enters into us in this way in order to transform itself in us long before it happens.” — Rainer Maria Rilke
For my Mother Pelican monthly essays, I have recently been writing about digital-technology addiction. I interrupted those investigations with a few essays on Martin Luther King Jr. (which I will continue next month), and now I am interrupting that exploration with this interlude on greenwashing for the month of May.
Before we continue our discussion from last month further exploring interspecies communication/collaboration—how tree-knowledge as tree-living can be nourished through prayer-as-action—I must address, yet again, the haunting ubiquity of greenwashing: this time in the context of the month of May. Across time and culture, May symbolizes transition. Maius, the Greek Goddess of Growth represents the personification of transmutation. Maia became an agricultural deity…
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