A public documentation project
We are not separate from the earth. We are made of it — breathing oxygen exhaled by trees, built from calcium borrowed from ancient oceans, carrying in our bodies more microbial lives than human cells. When we die, our elements will not disappear. They will change form, feed new life, continue.
This is not metaphor. This is ecology.
Three Ways In
The Compost Heap
(An-archive)
A living space where art, science, and experiments in language-ing sense into our deep belonging and intra-dependence with a vibrant and agential world.
Contribute. Browse. Be composted.
Rewilding Guides
Accessible resources for death literacy that braid the Ecological Psychology of Dr. Lori Pye, diverse Indigenous wisdom, quantum physics, and community wisdom — inviting you to notice your intra-relatedness and imagine response-able ways of living and dying on a damaged planet.
Accessibility Fund
Ecological death care should not be reserved for the already-resourced. Through partnerships with human-composting providers and mutual-aid networks, we offer need-based support for people seeking to compost their dead — and to seed community-held funds for those who come after.
Begin Here: Five Vibrational Thresholds
Our founding contemplative practices — Elemental Belonging, Lichen Intra-Action, Deep Touch: Soil Attunement, Microbial Murmuration, and Ecotones of Becoming — are the first contributions to the Compost Heap. Audio offerings that dissolve the boundary between listener and living world. Begin with any one.