Spark Series: Cara Judea Alhadeff
Becoming Healthy Amidst a Sick(ening) Society -- this Wednesday night at 8pm
It makes sense that it was Cara Judea Alhadeff — the scholar-activist who teaches, performs, parents, and lives a creative-zero-waste life — to remind me of Krishnamurti’s warning (prescient as ever) that “it is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”
After all, more than anyone I know, Cara lives her ethics to the utmost — whether it was leaving home as a teenager to live on communes and organic farms in Europe and North Africa, or revitalizing the meaning of home altogether by converting a retired school bus into a zero-waste “lovebus.”
As Cara explains it, “home is a dynamic and diverse practice, an ongoing unfolding to be reanimated each moment in relation to our needs, desires, values. Home is an action, a reflection of a constellation of our belief systems. Home is a living organism with a metabolism that continually transforms energy.”
But what are the implications of Cara’s observations, and her choices, for those of us who remain, however consciously or unconsciously, trapped within the bubble of conspicuous consumption? And how can all of us reexamine our relationship to waste, in order to create new infrastructures that support ecologically just behavior?
If those are the sorts of questions that make you uncomfortable — and/or scream in solidarity — I hope you’ll join us for a special Spark Series this Wednesday night — May 25, at 8pm EST, via this link — in which we’ll spend time with Cara searching for ways to re-ignite our spiritual intelligence, and explore what it means to live and teach embodied energy.
“Social justice and environmental regulations are inextricably bound,” she contends. “And that is exactly why there is hope—why we can and must collectively act to halt both environmental and humanitarian disasters.”
This is how we #changethestory . . .