The Wild Soul ✨

Total Energies' huge scandal in Yemen

Dear earthlings,

The relationship between our environment and our psychology is widely discussed, with climate anxiety increasingly prevalent in our society. This week’s story looks at this relationship, and how it can guide our path forward.

🗞️ In Climate News

• 🇫🇷 🇾🇪 New report shows France's Total Energies behind 'greatest environmental scandal' in Yemeni history.

• 🇬🇱 Greenland ice sheet shrinking 20% faster than previously thought, NASA says .

• 🇮🇩 Foreign-backed nickel hub in Indonesia causes mass deforestation.

• 🇨🇴 Colombia boosts renewable energy: new rules empower indigenous groups to contribute to national grid.

• 🇨🇮 Côte d’Ivoire release historic land cover map for combating deforestation.

• 🌍 The lack of access to clean water and sanitation facilities in Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe worsen a “terrifying and overwhelming” cholera outbreak.

• 🇿🇦 Severe flooding continues to hit South Africa.

• 🇪🇺 EU bans ‘misleading’ environmental claims that rely on offsetting.

📈 Cool Trends

• 🚬 Transforming cigarette filters into asphalt for roads.

• ♻️ Accepting plastic waste as school fees.

♾️ eco-story

✨ The Wild Soul

Petrine McCrohan is a wild soul. 

For her, a wild soul allows the mystery of their inner world to truly meet their external world, our environment. Through her work, Petrine facilitates individuals to meet their environment, supporting this interaction through nature-based activities with intention. Petrine runs Wild Soul Experiences across Australia, together with her facilitation partner Terry Hewett. The focus for both Petrine and Terry is to reconnect people with their inner wisdom through a powerful shared and supported experience in the Australian landscape, which is steeped in natural history and Ancient Aboriginal wisdom. This connection with landscape has been with Petrine throughout her life.

“I felt this connection as a child on my grandfather’s farm, but I wasn’t cognisant of it. But I think that’s where my unconscious goes back to, and as I’ve become more cognisant of it, it has become so important, because that’s what helped me since my childhood. Nature and animals.”

🌏 The Culture Column

📺 What we’re watching: Putuparri and the Rainmakers

📸 Profile of the week: @wildsoulexperiences

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Wild Soul Experiences on Instagram: “And The Trees Runaway Backwards. 20 years ago when I first started working and living in the Kimberley I heard a story about a Aboriginal woman who had walked out of the desert into a remote community and when she first sat in a car and the car moved she thought the trees were running backwards (rather the car moving forward) Her life was nature based animistic and grounded in ceremony and ritual. Of course this would be her perception!! It’s all about perception…how do you perceive your suffering? What makes sense of suffering for you? What brings joy? How do you perceive what happens to you ? Is there a perception of what is my responsibility and what can I do? Or are these events happening to you randomly? kimberley#suffering#perception#wildsouloz#meaning#soulcentred#responsibility”

January 20, 2024

📖 What we’re reading: Position Doubtful, mapping landscapes and memories by Kim Mahood.
🤯 Amazing fact we learnt this week: Archaeological evidence confirms that the Aboriginals are the oldest continuous civilisation and culture on earth, extending back at least 75,000 years.