How much must change? 

Our worlds are changing unbelievably fast now. Every week brings more drastic news. Unbearable uncertainties effect us all. As we learn to integrate each new challenge facing our generation on the planet - personal, political, environmental, bodily, cultural, technological, and spiritual thresholds all arriving at the same time - it's a whole lot of transformation to move through.

How's this been going for you?? How is your home shifting - or not - with the times? The choices we make around the planet THESE NEXT FEW YEARS will touch generations to come, effect vital limbs of earthly life. But we're waiting, held down, overwhelmed, met with our most intense feelings - despair, dread, rage, shame - and so we understandably numb out, turn away again. The world is too much.
 

Because encouraging humanity to
reckon with climate collapse requires
creative education, regenerative relationships, and radical art ~

Eco Courageous Education Creations
are currently offering three branches of engagement
through our ECO-CURRICULUM:

EVENTS * MEDIA MAKING * ART-ACTIVISM

Watershed Witness Tours

RECONNECT WITH the WATERS that LET YOU LIVE

~ Local Neighborhood Creek/Arroyo Tours
~ Sierra-Nevada Mountain Headwaters
Overnight Eco-Educational Immersions
Book A Tour FOR 2024

debut HOME HOWLS album
A Void Dance

(Fresh Ghost Fruits EP Coming 2024)

Climate Impact Response Songs

“PURGE ON THE VERGE /
BLINK ON THE BRINK /
FUSS ON THE CUSP /
THE UNTIL THRILLS”

homehowls.com
or avoid.dance

Climate Courage Cafés

Our bodies (our homes) are made up of (and nested within) other bodies. We include tiny teeming epigenetic and microbiotic tummy mates, rely on nearby neighbors to transform human-scale homescapes together, and map the ongoing long seasons of our star-shed's Laniakean kinships. Our allies are abundant.

More Workshops Here

~ CURRICULUM BEYOND CRISES ~

ECEC creates eco-curriculum -- offering conscious, compassionate, fun, and often seriously funny educational ecological experiences.

We share skills around ecological reconnection and resilience, practice placemaking and peacemaking, and expand our connections through outdoor immersions, art, music, movement, and media making. 

Importantly, we also set safe space for holding and processing what often show up as difficult, intense, frightening, or numbed feelings for our rapidly changing homescapes. 

We mean home to include both house and town, body and bioregion, family and planet. We appreciate different scales and perspectives. And we give special consideration to solastalgia - the homesickness experienced as our homes disappear around us.

If you're able to support us, Eco Courageous work needs your help - to encourage more communities, children and adults, to share skills for facing our climate challenges creatively and courageously - via concrete steps that catalyze collaborations, inspire climate confidence, and strengthen solidarities.

MORE TESTIMONIALS 

PRESS

Town Topics: Princeton Native Joshua Halpern Has Unique Approach to Climate Crisis
                        Hub Oakland: Transforming Home Together: Solastalgia, Solidarity, and Silliness

AND THANK YOU AGAIN! OUR FIRST AND ONLY CROWDFUNDING CAMPAIGN CAME TO $4,444.00! AND WE'VE CONTINUED RECEIVING DONATIONS SINCE THE CAMPAIGN CLOSED, BRINGING US CLOSE TO $5K! CONTRIBUTORS PLEASE FOLLOW UP ON PERKS HERE. CAMPAIGN VIDEOS BELOW:

EVENTS

• LEARN and SHARE SKILLS for ECOLOGICAL RECONNECTION, RESILIENCE, and COURAGE.

• HONOR our EXPERIENCES of CLIMATE DREAD, DESPAIR, and SOLASTALGIA - 
  the HOMESICKNESS EXPERIENCED as our HOMES DISAPPEAR AROUND US

• FOSTER IMAGINATION, GROW GRATITUDES, and CULTIVATE CREATIVITY for COMMUNITY CLIMATE CHALLENGES. 

• PLACEPLAYING PRACTICES for TRANSFORMING our HOMESCAPES TOGETHER

Upcoming Events:

• Climate Courage Cafes: Once a month, in a garden, delicious food, real talk (online when necessary)

• Watershed Witness Tours - Mokelumne River: We'll follow the flow of our bioregion's water from ocean, to bay, to Oakland taps, to meandering valley stream, to precious reservoirs, to thunderous mountain headwaters, to trickling sacred springs. 2 days, 1 night with riverside camping (only online if we never go outside in groups again)

Past Events Include:

• It'll Come: Feb 12 2017 Live loop performance at Resistance Monologues, Hurricane of Bikes, Oakland CA

• Being Nests Workshop: Nov 3th 2016 Embracing Our Embedded Holobiont Bodies, from Our Guts to Our Gardens to Our Galaxies, at Esalen Institute in Big Sur California

• Cosmology of Love Conference: April 17th 2015 Our Precious Few and You: Love and Plans at the Mega Drought, at CIIS in San Francisco

More Workshop information here

MEDIA MAKING

Videos, Photos, Poetry, Articles, and Books 
showcasing stories of sacred and justice-rooted solidarities.

Communities around the globe weave the cycles of life and death into their place on the body of earth, as they have for generations.

Joshua Halpern, the founder of Eco Courageous Education Creations, has traveled around the world from Hawaii to the Himalayas, sharing stories from small family farms and community cultivated sacred sites, honoring ancestral dynamics, alive and vital.

Our recent crowdfunding campaign has allowed for the media making wing of Eco Courageous to dramatically improve the quality and quantity of our Education Creations -- while remaining committed to providing avenues where silenced voices (the oppressed, the near extinct, the magical) can sing, places where all our neighbors are welcomed in wholeness. 

Explore Josh's body of work, decades of multimedia explorations, at outsidejosh.com, and as more educators and art activists collaborate they'll become available through ecocourageous.com. Producing media that feels aligned? Get in touch, we'd love to feature you!

ART-ACTIVISM

Current Project: A VOID DANCE
a Full album of songs and music videos from Home Howls
 

Home Howls produces seriously funny climate justice imaginings, live looped into unexpectedly sexy beats, sometimes costumed as future animals, or nuclear meltdowns, or galactic supercluster starsheds, making for astonishing live performances. 

Home Howls’ environminstrel/edgejester musical branches bore ripe fruit in Winter 2020, proudly self-producing a weird, gritty, silly and deadly serious album. Though admittedly, the whole “home howls” and “a void dance” themes do feel a little on the nose now, you know?

Home Howls and a rotating crew of friends spent every Friday a few summers back filming at stunning locations around the Bay, where the confluence of local and global ecologies are transforming most rapidly, most beautifully, or most worryingly. Home Howls is one of the privileged humans still inhabiting a home, and films music videos where they can while abiding of shelter in place guidelines. More collaborative videos are very imaginable when gatherings grow again.

We raised $4,444.00 on INDIEGOGO. Please visit our SUPPORT page for more ways you can help further this work in the world.
 

Testimonials