Leadership for the Ecozoic

🎬 This Friday in Burlington!

Join us for a screening of The Shepherd and the Bear, a documentary by Max Keegan, at Spiral House.

🎟️ Free admission
🍕 Free pizza

📅 June 5 | 5:30-8:00 pm
📍 Spiral House
106 Main St, Suite 2E, Burlington, VT

Come watch, connect, and enjoy an evening of film and conversation. We hope to see you there!

More information on our website: https://www.l4ecozoic.org/events/the-shepherd-and-the-bear

🎙️ New Podcast Episode! Agroecology: Lived, Political, Historical

In this episode, Juliana Neira sits down with Katie Horner (L4E alum) and Anisah Madden (L4E postdoc fellow) to explore agroecology as both a discipline and a social movement.

Katie, Anisah, and Juliana are all members of the UVM Institute for Agroecology community, and this conversation reflects the shared commitments of both organizations: advancing justice, ecological flourishing, food sovereignty, and nourishing futures for all.

Listen to the episode here: https://www.l4ecozoic.org/reflections-detail/agroecology

🎙️ Episode 5 of Radio Ecozoic is out now: “The Rise of Political Violence in Our Communities.”

This episode emerged from a shared need to process and discuss the rise of state violence targeting immigrant communities in the United States, including recent ICE actions in Minnesota and Vermont.

Through personal reflections and collective analysis, they discuss the emotional impact of these events, their effects on our communities, and the forms of resistance and solidarity that emerge in response.

Featuring Juliana Neira, Liam Grima, Shashank Poudel, Matias Vaccarezza Sevilla, Francis Guarascio, Bobi Steel, and Alana Redden.

🎧 Listen now on our website, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Pocket Casts.

Bon cinéma !

We're thrilled to share L4E's explainer video - a creative take on a simple question: what is L4E?

This project brought together staff and students, and we couldn’t be prouder of the result.

Watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cLAibhha5U

✨ Illustration by Cassady Turnbach
🎬 Animation & coordination by Alana Redden
🎧 Sound & narration by Julian Flavin
✍️ Script by the whole team (+ Lizah Makombore & Riley Bertoncini)

If you know someone who’s been wondering what L4E is all about, send this their way! 💚

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A workshop "Lessons from the Ground", organized by the Next System Teach-In group is coming up on April 24, 12:00–1:15 pm ET.

Register and learn more here: https://nextsystem.org/next-system-teach-ins-organizer-workshops-lessons-from-the-ground/

New blog post is out!

Building community and hope to resist fascism in the USA: feelings from an international student by Matías Vaccarezza Sevilla

In this piece, Matías reflects on his experience as an international student in the US, connecting personal experiences with broader questions of imperialism, migration and the importance of collective action and community.

Read the full post here: https://www.l4ecozoic.org/reflections-detail/building-community-and-hope-to-resist-fascism-in-the-usa-feelings-from-an-international-student

We're inaugurating our new website with a blog post by PhD Fellow Julie Davenson: Beyond Capitalism: Indigenous Economics as Relational Practice for the Ecozoic

In this new post, Julie shares insights from Dr. Ronald Trosper’s talk at L4E’s Next Systems Teach-In that took place last November, inviting us to rethink economics as a practice rooted in relationship, reciprocity, and care with each other and with the more-than-human world.

✨ You’ll find this blog post and more in the Radical Reflections section of our newly redesigned L4E website.

https://www.l4ecozoic.org/reflections-detail/beyond-capitalism-indigenous-economics-as-relational-practice-for-the-ecozoic

After many months (and even years!) of reimagining our website, we're thrilled to share that the new Leadership for the Ecozoic website is officially live.

The goal of this redesign was to simplify the language without losing the complexity of the ideas, and to communicate more intentionally through images, videos, and color. We hope you enjoy exploring the new site.

Many congratulations to everyone who contributed their time, creativity, and care to bringing this project to life.

www.l4ecozoic.org