Living Earth Youth Dialogues
Sharing from the Heart
Planting Seeds of Hope
Towards Ecological Civilization
A project of the Living Earth Movement, the Institute for Postmodern Development of China, and the Cobb Institute
Living Earth Youth Dialogues is a monthly initiative where young people from China and the United States come together to explore our time’s urgent ecological, cultural, and spiritual issues.
Chinese and American youth build cross-cultural bonds by sharing their thoughts, personal stories, and actions in local settings to support a vision for a new ecological civilization. They discuss topics like food, poetry, gardening, climate crisis solutions, and the meaning of life itself.
Throughout this journey, they converse with renowned pioneer John B. Cobb, Jr., a seed-planting expert dedicated to fostering an Ecological Civilization. The inaugural event on December 2nd, 2022, was a resounding success.
For more information about the Youth Dialogues from program co-facilitators Jared Morningstar and Vivian Song, we highly recommend the recording of the introduction they shared with the world last June. Watch the video on the Living Earth Movement YouTube channel below or click here.
Recordings of many of our other monthly Youth Dialogues are available on the Living Earth Movement YouTube channel.
Upcoming Event
Past Events
The Living Earth Community and the Human Soul with Oliver Mesmer
The Living Earth Community and the Human Soul with Oliver Mesmer
In this workshop, Oliver Mesmer will explore what it means to be a part of a living community of sentient beings—a community of many species within the diverse kingdoms of life. His presentation will focus on what he has learned in his research with the Yale Forum on ...
Artificial Intelligence: Savior or Ecological Disaster? with Jared Morningstar
Artificial Intelligence: Savior or Ecological Disaster? with Jared Morningstar
In this dialogue, Jared Morningstar will raise the topic of ecological concerns involved with the rise of generative artificial intelligence. Do AI technologies have the potential to solve major aspects of the climate crisis? What is the relationship between human intel...
Envisioning the Future of Education in a Traditional Village with Mingyang Che
Envisioning the Future of Education in a Traditional Village with Mingyang Che
Join us on a dialogue and virtual-walk through an 800-year-old traditional village in China! Explore the future of eco-civilization education in a unique live-cast tour of Peitian Village, an 800-year-old community in China's Fujian Province. Amidst today's ecological c...
Ether Permaculture with Spencer Ward
Ether Permaculture with Spencer Ward
In this dialogue, Spencer Ward will join us in sowing paradigms to come. He will begin by inviting us to remember that we are all alive as ourselves, together in the basic tapestry of all the ways we live. Then we will contemplate the ethology of this tapestry—the eth...
Co-Facilitated by…
Jared Morningstar
Jared is an independent scholar living in Madison, Wisconsin with academic interests in philosophy of religion, Islamic studies, comparative religion, metamodern spirituality, and interfaith dialogue. His work in these areas seeks to offer robust responses to issues of inter-religious conflict, contemporary nihilism, and the “meaning crisis,” among other things. Jared graduated from Gustavus Adolphus College in 2018 with degrees in religion and Scandinavian studies and currently works for theCenter for Process Studies, theCobb Institute, and thePsychedelic Medicine Association.
Xinlin (Vivian) Song
Xinlin is an educator, writer, and program director at Yunhe Centre, a place-based learning center in China’s Sichuan Province. Her work focuses on forming cross-sector Glocal collaborations to create meaningful dialogues that ignite social change. At Yunhe Center, her work focuses on developing pedagogy and programs that engage locals and visitors with meaningful dialogues towards cultural appreciation, self-development and ecological restoration. Xinlin writes bilingually about regeneration and worldview change, pedagogy of indigenous ecological wisdom, and re-valuing the countryside for various publications within China and beyond. She works with various cultural institutions on developing exhibitions, publications and cultural programs, including the Guggenheim Museum, Museum of Chinese in America, Hethem Museum, Hongkong University Shanghai Centre. Beijing Design week, and Shenzhen/Hongkong Biennale.
