Springtide Gallery

The Springtide Gallery is a space to explore the many different artists and artworks that are part of our project!

Click the link below to visit the gallery where you will be able to click on a specific art piece and learn more about the artist, their contribution to the project, and ways to support them.

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Groundswell’s COP 26 Summit Workshop

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Envision the Big Picture Film

The combined knowledge from this project is being shared through a book and documentary film

The contributors

An additional web resource of documentary interviews with the contributing authors accompanies each chapter in an effort to personalize and expand the conversation.

Larry Emerson

Larry Emerson, a community activist, farmer, artist, and scholar, who lived in Tsédaak’áán, Diné Nation, east of Shiprock, New Mexico. He is Tsénahabiłnii, Tó’aheidlííní. His cheis (paternal grandparents) are Hoghanłání and his maternal grandparents are Kiiyaa’áanii. After completing his dissertation, “Hozhonahazdlii: Towards a Practice of Diné Decolonization,” he received his PhD from the joint doctoral program at San Diego State University and Claremont Graduate University in California. He devoted his time to Indigenous studies and scholarship, social justice, decolonizing research methodologies, Diné peacemaking, education, and health.

David Abram

David Abram is the founder and creative director of the Alliance for Wild Ethics. He is best known for his work bridging the philosophical tradition of phenomenology with environmental and ecological issues. He was named one of 100 visionaries currently transforming the world by the Utne Reader and profiled in the recent book, Visionaries: the 20th Century’s 100 Most Inspirational Leaders. David is the author of Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology, and The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-than-human World, for which he received the international Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction. His essays on the cultural causes and consequences of ecological disarray have appeared in such journals as Orion, Environmental Ethics, Parabola, Tikkun, and The Ecologist, as well as numerous anthologies. Abram coined the phrase “the more-than-human world” as a way of referring to earthly nature, a term that has become a key phrase within the lingua franca of the broad ecological movement.

Erin Brillon

Erin Brillon is from the Haida and Cree Nations. For over a decade Erin has been dedicated to the empowerment and healthy development of Aboriginal youth and families. Erin focuses on nutritional healing, mindfulness practices, social-emotional learning, and youth empowerment. Erin calls upon practices from many cultures to provide positive learning experiences through cultural connections and art. Erin also collaborates with her brother, Jesse, a Haida artist. Together they create clothing, jewelry, and home décor items with their company Totem Design House. The company is founded on Indigenous values, which means they utilize local workers and use eco-friendly fabrics and water-based inks to blend traditional designs into contemporary creations. Five percent of profits from sales of Totem Design House go towards Indigenous youth empowerment projects and programs.

Merle Lefkoff

Merle Lefkoff is the president of the Center for Emergent Diplomacy. She is a social change entrepreneur whose practice is devoted to applying nonlinear complex systems thinking to whole system change. Merle holds a PhD from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. In the early seventies, as president of Save America’s Vital Environment, Merle became the first environmental lobbyist at the Georgia State Legislature, where she and then-Governor Jimmy Carter worked together to pass legislation protecting the sand dunes along the Georgia coast from development. She later worked in the White House in the first year of the Carter administration. She led the planning group of civil society leaders at the United Nations’ launch of the Gross National Happiness Index. Merle is a member of the Global Advisory Board of the Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies network at Columbia University. She is a member of the Spirituality, Emergent Creativity, and Reconciliation Research Group at Saint Paul University in Ottawa, Canada, a visiting faculty at the Upaya Zen Center, and in 2012 she was elected a Lindisfarne Fellow.

Andy Everson

Andy Everson was born in Comox, British Columbia, and named Nagedzi after his grandfather, the late Chief Andy Frank of the K’ómoks First Nation. Influenced heavily by his grandmother, he upheld the traditions of both the K’ómoks and Kwakwaka'wakw First Nations. Andy completed a master’s in anthropology. An interest and background in linguistics inspired him to found Copper Canoe, Inc., a company that specializes in the creation of Aboriginal language media. In 1990 Andy started designing and painting Chilkat-style blankets for use in potlatch dancing. He has followed in the footsteps of his Kwakwaka’wakw relatives in creating bold and unique representations that remain rooted in the age-old traditions of his ancestors. The ability to create and print most of his own work has allowed Andy to explore and express his ancestral artwork in a number of contemporary ways.

Larry Rasmussen

Larry Rasmussen is recognized as a foremost Christian environmental ethicist. He has mentored a generation of Christians in eco-theology and green religion. He rooted his courses and scholarship at Union Theological Seminary in the practice of environmental justice with communities and community leaders. He has published numerous books, including two landmark, award-winning volumes, Earth Community, Earth Ethics and Earth-honoring Faith: Religious Ethics in a New Key. Rasmussen was appointed the Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Social Ethics at Union Theological Seminary in New York in 1986, retiring in 2004. From 1990 to 2000 he served as co-moderator of the Justice, Peace, Creative Unit of the World Council of Churches. He is currently directing a ten-year project on Earth-honoring Christianities at Ghost Ranch in Abiquiu, New Mexico.

Mary Roessel

Mary Roessel is a Navajo board-certified psychiatrist practicing in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She received her medical degree at the University of Minnesota and returned to the southwest to complete her residency in psychiatry. She received an APA/NIMH Fellowship during her residency and has since worked for twenty-five years with Indigenous peoples of the Southwest, Alaska, and British Columbia. She has a special expertise in cultural psychiatry. She grew up on the Navajo reservation with her parents and grandparents. Her grandfather was a Navajo medicine man. She worked with Navajo medicine men and women to provide trainings on Navajo healing for mental health staff. She also joined her parents to hold Navajo culture camps. In March of 2016, she spoke at the Commission for the Status of Women of the United Nations.

Nicole Neidhardt, Gina Mowatt, & Tekatsi’tsaneken Everstz

Joe Neidhardt

Joe Neidhardt received his medical degree from the University of Alberta. He did research on stress management through a Canadian government grant and incorporated environmental awareness into his preventive practices. He taught behavioral medicine at the University of British Columbia. He later trained at the University of New Mexico in psychiatry and has worked within Indian Health Service in the US and spent one year on Vancouver Island as a psychiatrist. He worked with Navajo medicine people to develop training for mental health professionals together with his wife, Dr. Mary Roessel. He is board certified in psychiatry and holistic integrative medicine, certified in eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, and provides trauma-based treatments in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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Groundswell Climate Collective would like to expand and raise $10,000 to do so. Our Envision the Big Picture project and documentary was fully funded by the creator of Groundswell Climate Collective, Joe Neidhardt. Retirement and health demands preclude his continuing to fund and is therefore asking you for help.

Your financial support will go toward our youth initiatives first and foremost, to operating costs, setting up all internet systems, support us while we apply for additional funding, and to future projects by Groundswell Climate Collective. We are confident that engaging youth & promoting Indigenous knowledge & action will build a movement from the ground up.

Our focus will be on art, poetry, short documentaries & stories, music, & relationality with Indigenous young adults in The US, Canada, Australia, & New Zealand. We will share what our participants are doing & creating.

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