Dancing Rabbit Recognizes Our Impact🌏

Published: Tue, 04/21/20

Hello again ,

Humans impact the planet. It’s a simple premise, and one I imagine you already agree with. Meanwhile our government agents bicker about what is the cause of this or that. Policy lags behind any real-world change in a cycle of monotony. When will we collectively wake up?

It can be quite depressing to focus on the metrics of our planet.

3,900 Tigers are left in the wild
Between 1990 and 2016, the world lost 502,000 square miles (1.3 million square kilometers) of forest.
In the summer of 2015, more than 2 billion corals lived in the Great Barrier Reef. Half of them are now dead.

Dancing Rabbit cannot mitigate these losses. We can only strive to be people in the world that will model a sustainable lifestyle and ecovillage; an imperfect execution of an idea, and an example of doing something for what you believe in.

“DR is somewhere that will inspire you to be a better human. To be around so many engaged, thoughtful, informed and active people is infectious. It relit my spark that has been dimmed by pessimism. DR is active optimism. They are so purpose-driven, it helps to inspire some amount of that to your own life. I think anyone wanting to see what a purpose-driven life looks like should look no further than DR.”- Stacey Diggs, Visitor 2018

Giving to Dancing Rabbit allows us to increase the kind of impact described in the above testimonial. Give STL is on May 7th. You can double your donation up to the first $3,000 dollars through matching funds. In addition, giving from 12 pm - 1 pm CST can further maximize your gift by qualifying us for prize money. We appreciate all of our donors and their choice to engage with Dancing Rabbit through donation.

While the planet sustains damage inflicted by humans’ poor ecological actions, there are amazing stories of our world’s resilience. Have you heard of Cryptococcus neoformans fungi? (Yeah I didn’t know it by this name either.) It is the fungi that lives at the site of Chernobyl, one of humankind’s grand mistakes. Despite this toxic accident, life is returning throughout this humanless area. This fungi in particular is using the radiation to create energy, through melanin, in a process called radiosynthesis. This is one of many examples of the planet being harmed, yet adapting and thriving.

I hope that Dancing Rabbit will serve a similar role. Will these oases provide the model and space for species to adapt? What new lessons will nature teach us? Can we adapt to the changes that the planet is enduring? Can living intentionally in harmony with the natural world serve as a model for a possible future for humans as climate change shifts our accustomed norms? I hope so, and I imagine you do as well.

Whether or not you are able to move to Dancing Rabbit and join our project, I urge you to consider yourself part of the mission. What are you doing that creates resilience around you? What message of inspiration do you model for the world? What lessons can we learn from each other, as we traverse the planet of Earth?

Well Wishes,

Matthew Bunge

Development Director

The Center for Sustainable and Cooperative Culture

P.S. Don’t forget to consider making a contribution on May 7th from 12-1 CST. Our continued effort is augmented by your donation. Together we can make a difference.

Cited information below:

"Tiger | Species | WWF - World Wildlife Fund." https://www.worldwildlife.org/species/tiger. Accessed 8 Apr. 2020.

"Deforestation facts and information - National Geographic." 7 Feb. 2019, https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/global-warming/deforestation/. Accessed 8 Apr. 2020.

"Since 2016, Half of All Coral in the Great Barrier Reef Has Died." 18 Apr. 2018, https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/04/since-2016-half-the-coral-in-the-great-barrier-reef-has-perished/558302/. Accessed 8 Apr. 2020.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1238320/chernobyl-news-radiation-nasa-chernobyl-nuclear-reactor-fungi