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Love Nature? A Chautauqua-Wawasee Program for Earth Day

Love nature?
How do you know it loves you back?

Chautauqua-Wawasee presented a unique program as part of WACF’s Earth Day celebration on April 30, bringing together voices focused on hope, harmony, and humility.

For the first time, Dani Tippman, Cliff Kindy, and John Edgerton collaborated to lead a series of sessions exploring humanity’s relationship with the natural world and our shared responsibility for its care.

Program Schedule

10:00–10:50 am | REMEMBRANCE
Water is life. Human and plant diversity make us stronger.
Facilitated by Dani Tippman

11:00–11:50 am | DIALOGUE
How can we face the challenges of our changing planet so that we and our children meet them with courage, empathy, and resilience?
Facilitated by Cliff Kindy

12:45–1:35 pm | EARTH STORIES
Stories exploring how each of us is needed in the web of life, and how harmony and mutual understanding support survival. Ancient wisdom now echoed by modern science.
Facilitated by John Edgerton

Participants also learned about Native American methods of plant diversification, organic farming techniques focused on water conservation and carbon-free practices, and ancient stories increasingly supported by modern science.

This program was free and open to the public.

Chautauqua-Wawasee also hosted a booth featuring Cindy Gackenheimer of Flutterby Gardens in Claypool, who shared information about Monarch butterflies and ways to attract them to home gardens. Free flower seeds were available.