Katharine Burke
@katharineburke.bsky.social
Author: EARTHWARDS: Transformative Ecological Education. (TREED) MEd. Nature Ecology and Sustainability, Regenerative Practitioner (Regenesis), Permaculture farmer and facilitator of The Work that Reconnects.
wow, last week's conversation was so interesting and rewarding; emerging naturally from the experiences of participants. This coming week will explore shifting paradigms Earthwards- working with Donella Meadows' leverage points and others. As always, dm for meeting link.
November 23, 2025 at 12:12 PM
wow, last week's conversation was so interesting and rewarding; emerging naturally from the experiences of participants. This coming week will explore shifting paradigms Earthwards- working with Donella Meadows' leverage points and others. As always, dm for meeting link.
This week's Earthwards Conversation is on land, garden, food and deeper entanglement with outdoors and living places. Wednesday Nov. 19th at 16.00 CET DM for calendar link.
November 17, 2025 at 7:58 AM
This week's Earthwards Conversation is on land, garden, food and deeper entanglement with outdoors and living places. Wednesday Nov. 19th at 16.00 CET DM for calendar link.
These are the times for warmth and community. I am offering this four week book talk for Earthwards: Transformative Ecological Education. The past book circles have been so inspiring and formed communities of care and cohorts of action all over the world. DM me to register and receive the links.
October 29, 2025 at 8:06 AM
These are the times for warmth and community. I am offering this four week book talk for Earthwards: Transformative Ecological Education. The past book circles have been so inspiring and formed communities of care and cohorts of action all over the world. DM me to register and receive the links.
What if these are the fleeting temples we make together, so far from tribe and fire?
October 25, 2025 at 9:00 AM
What if these are the fleeting temples we make together, so far from tribe and fire?
If you haven't bought 'Earthwards: Transformative Ecological Education' yet, it's available now through several different e-book stores, and with a forward by Stephen Sterling.
October 24, 2025 at 10:55 AM
If you haven't bought 'Earthwards: Transformative Ecological Education' yet, it's available now through several different e-book stores, and with a forward by Stephen Sterling.
I was reminded of this again this morning. Ron Finley is known as the 'guerilla gardener' for his work with community gardening in South Central Los Angelos. Here is his iconic Ted Talk: www.ted.com/talks/ron_fi...
September 5, 2025 at 6:27 AM
I was reminded of this again this morning. Ron Finley is known as the 'guerilla gardener' for his work with community gardening in South Central Los Angelos. Here is his iconic Ted Talk: www.ted.com/talks/ron_fi...
We are not disconnected- we are in fact inseparable from the rest of the natural world, and must come to re-member this.
August 30, 2025 at 5:36 PM
We are not disconnected- we are in fact inseparable from the rest of the natural world, and must come to re-member this.
A Contagion of Gratitude: Understanding nature as gift.
'When we change how we think, we suddenly change how we act and how those around us act, and that’s how the world changes. It’s by changing hearts and changing minds. And it’s contagious.' Robin Wall Kimmerer, The Guardian 2020
'When we change how we think, we suddenly change how we act and how those around us act, and that’s how the world changes. It’s by changing hearts and changing minds. And it’s contagious.' Robin Wall Kimmerer, The Guardian 2020
August 14, 2025 at 7:24 AM
A Contagion of Gratitude: Understanding nature as gift.
'When we change how we think, we suddenly change how we act and how those around us act, and that’s how the world changes. It’s by changing hearts and changing minds. And it’s contagious.' Robin Wall Kimmerer, The Guardian 2020
'When we change how we think, we suddenly change how we act and how those around us act, and that’s how the world changes. It’s by changing hearts and changing minds. And it’s contagious.' Robin Wall Kimmerer, The Guardian 2020
How can we introduce early systems thinking and nature awareness with younger students? Chapter 7 of Earthwards tells the story of students developing awareness of our interdependence on natural cycles and networks.
Book available here: www.hawthornpress.com/books/change...
Book available here: www.hawthornpress.com/books/change...
July 22, 2025 at 10:21 AM
How can we introduce early systems thinking and nature awareness with younger students? Chapter 7 of Earthwards tells the story of students developing awareness of our interdependence on natural cycles and networks.
Book available here: www.hawthornpress.com/books/change...
Book available here: www.hawthornpress.com/books/change...
Summer reading: if you are a teacher or student or parent, or you know one, this book shifts the focus from simple 'sustainability action' to deep awareness of who we are in relation to the living web of life. Full of reflections, exercises, and resources for kids, for young people, and for you.
June 20, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Summer reading: if you are a teacher or student or parent, or you know one, this book shifts the focus from simple 'sustainability action' to deep awareness of who we are in relation to the living web of life. Full of reflections, exercises, and resources for kids, for young people, and for you.
Some perspective:
June 11, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Some perspective:
Bill Sharpe’s Three Horizons Model describes how innovations spread through society to create social change. To read about how students used this model to design transformative actions, buy the book Earthwards: Transformative Ecological Education www.hawthornpress.com/books/change...
May 22, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Bill Sharpe’s Three Horizons Model describes how innovations spread through society to create social change. To read about how students used this model to design transformative actions, buy the book Earthwards: Transformative Ecological Education www.hawthornpress.com/books/change...
I will present Transformative Ecological Education for Global Schools Group on Saturday, 10 May at 9.00 ET (3pm, 15.00 CET). Zoom link for registration: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
May 7, 2025 at 5:56 PM
I will present Transformative Ecological Education for Global Schools Group on Saturday, 10 May at 9.00 ET (3pm, 15.00 CET). Zoom link for registration: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Strawberries and the Revolution. A musing: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
April 11, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Strawberries and the Revolution. A musing: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
Not much up here yet in Norway, but I have been starting out my peanut seedlings. They just look so pretty to me, and happy to be bursting out of their seeds.
April 8, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Not much up here yet in Norway, but I have been starting out my peanut seedlings. They just look so pretty to me, and happy to be bursting out of their seeds.
Final book circle session for Earthwards: Transformative Ecological Education. DM for the links.
March 22, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Final book circle session for Earthwards: Transformative Ecological Education. DM for the links.
Free book circle on Earthwards: Transformative Ecological Education based on chapters 12 and 14. Stories of deep time, geological processes, and indigenous teachings develop a deep ecology perspective and the acknowledgement of transrational ways of knowing. DM for links.
March 14, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Free book circle on Earthwards: Transformative Ecological Education based on chapters 12 and 14. Stories of deep time, geological processes, and indigenous teachings develop a deep ecology perspective and the acknowledgement of transrational ways of knowing. DM for links.
Is our 'recursive creativity' the tragic flaw that makes us maximally destructive, or can it be harnessed for the benefit of all life? In chapter 12 we explored how we might shift paradigms in our responses to the problems of our times. www.hawthornpress.com/books/change...
March 8, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Is our 'recursive creativity' the tragic flaw that makes us maximally destructive, or can it be harnessed for the benefit of all life? In chapter 12 we explored how we might shift paradigms in our responses to the problems of our times. www.hawthornpress.com/books/change...
Earthwards Free Book Circle Session Six: Here is the upcoming book circle if you want to join- you do not have to gotten to these chapters yet! Times are CET: as usual, dm me for links.
March 6, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Earthwards Free Book Circle Session Six: Here is the upcoming book circle if you want to join- you do not have to gotten to these chapters yet! Times are CET: as usual, dm me for links.
We can do this in schools! I threw last year's potatoes into bags of leftover soil inside the house in the coldest part of winter. They were attacked by mites, so I pulled them out: they were packed with beautiful little new potatoes! We will have roasted new potatoes for supper.
March 3, 2025 at 12:43 PM
We can do this in schools! I threw last year's potatoes into bags of leftover soil inside the house in the coldest part of winter. They were attacked by mites, so I pulled them out: they were packed with beautiful little new potatoes! We will have roasted new potatoes for supper.
The Inconvenience of Conveniences: Hands-on in Service to Earth and Other
Session 5 of the book circle series based around themes from chapter 9 of Earthwards: Transformative Ecological Education. You do not have to have read the chapter or the book yet to join. DM for a link in your time zone.
Session 5 of the book circle series based around themes from chapter 9 of Earthwards: Transformative Ecological Education. You do not have to have read the chapter or the book yet to join. DM for a link in your time zone.
February 28, 2025 at 8:52 AM
The Inconvenience of Conveniences: Hands-on in Service to Earth and Other
Session 5 of the book circle series based around themes from chapter 9 of Earthwards: Transformative Ecological Education. You do not have to have read the chapter or the book yet to join. DM for a link in your time zone.
Session 5 of the book circle series based around themes from chapter 9 of Earthwards: Transformative Ecological Education. You do not have to have read the chapter or the book yet to join. DM for a link in your time zone.
What is your school mission? Is it healthy for people and planet?
Aldo Leopold: “A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.”
What if this were the mission of schools and the values taught?
Aldo Leopold: “A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.”
What if this were the mission of schools and the values taught?
February 26, 2025 at 9:22 AM
What is your school mission? Is it healthy for people and planet?
Aldo Leopold: “A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.”
What if this were the mission of schools and the values taught?
Aldo Leopold: “A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.”
What if this were the mission of schools and the values taught?
Friday, Feb. 28> We can also have a Buy Nothing day: go outside, enjoy what is free, and cultivate gratitude for the natural world. Reflect on the abundance of Nature's gifts, on the sacredness of Life, and show that we are not led by consumption but by more meaningful belonging and connection
February 26, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Friday, Feb. 28> We can also have a Buy Nothing day: go outside, enjoy what is free, and cultivate gratitude for the natural world. Reflect on the abundance of Nature's gifts, on the sacredness of Life, and show that we are not led by consumption but by more meaningful belonging and connection