What if ancient stories and forgotten laws could help us imagine new ways of living with the Earth? Ireland’s old traditions are not only relics of the past. They are fragments of ecological memory, sometimes […]
Tag: ecomythology
Writing (with) Marsh Reed is Becoming Mud
A Growing Gathering Around Plants and Stories The latest Writing (with) Plants session brought together a large and geographically diverse group of participants for a two-hour online gathering dedicated to marsh reeds and the myth of Syrinx. I […]
Skipping International Women’s Day, Rewilding St Patrick’s Day instead
Bringing Back the Snakes and Wild Waters to Ireland Every year as Saint Patrick’s Day approaches, I find myself thinking about snakes. Not the symbolic ones we are told were driven out of Ireland by Saint Patrick, but […]
Rivers, Folk Songs, and the More-Than-Human World: Exploring Latvian Ecomythology
Our summer symposium 2026 will take place in Latvia. Therefore, during our NSU circle winter symposium on Eco-mythology (17-18 January 2026), Kārlis Lakševics, a lecturer at the University of Latvia, shared ideas what an Eco-mythology […]
An ecomyth: Rewriting and living the Kalevala’s Nine diseases and sampo
Eco + MythologyEco from oikos: home, household.Myth from mythos: story, narrative.Logy from logos: knowledge, deep inquiry. Eco+Mythology is the art and practice of creating new stories, ceremonies, and rituals calibrated to the needs, challenges, and resources of our time. We live […]
Swamp-thinking, Soil soups and a Billion Folk Songs in the Nordic-Baltic region of Europe – a synthesis of our eco+mythology symposium
The eco+mythology winter symposium was dense with richness and layers. What I carried out of it will inevitably differ from what others took home. What follows is not a neutral report, but a situated retelling, […]
Brewing Soil Soup in a Cauldron – Tools for an online symposium
During the weekend of 17–18 January 2026, we hosted an online Winter Symposium for our study circle Ecology of Transformative Learning Practices With/In a More-than-human World. This gathering marked the third of six symposia taking place […]
EcoMythology online winter symposium (17-18 January 2026)
We welcome anyone on this online weekend event, who wants to learn together more what the methods are to create an eco-mythology for your watershed, city, region, neighbourhood, or your life. The programme Timezone: Brussels […]
Eco-imagination: A place-based writing workshop during Ecoliteracy festival in Heimdall’s home in Denmark
In August 2025, I attended the International Ecoliteracy Research Festival, held at the enchanting Himmelberggaarden in Ry, Denmark. A few days beforehand, I learned from Anika, a wandering “serial rooter” currently based in Aarhus (just […]
ECO+MYTHOLOGY 2026: Call for contributions for our online NSU winter symposium (Deadline 31 october 2025)
The Word of 2026 will be Eco+mythology (home+narrative). Co-create an eco-mythology with us in the weekend of 17-18 January 2026 Hosted by the Nordic Summer University Study Circle: Ecology of Transformative Learning Practices with/in the More-than-Human […]
Stories from the Wood Wide Web 