One Earthly Body
About Me
Robin A. NíCatháin is an environmental scientist and philosopher currently earning a masters degree in Environmental Communications from Green Mountain College. She is of Irish and Ukrainian land-working background and feels deeply the song of life around us. She has been working for 35 years on rooting out the underlying causes of the myriad ills besetting humanity in our time, and believes she as found them in our beliefs about human nature and our relationship with the world.
Robin A. NíCatháin has extensive knowledge of ecology, biology, feminism, and other social justice causes. She is currently developing hands-on expertise in invasive plant control and ecosystem restoration (see GorseBusters.com). She has been developing her skills as a writer since her 4th grade reading teacher encouraged her to write poetry, and as a photographer since the 5th grade (Loving-Earth.net displays some of her photography). Recently, she has added website design, social media expertise and videography to her skill set (see OneEarthlyBody.com). Her work has appeared in Sinister Wisdom, Reclaiming, The L-Word Newsletter and the anthology Queer & Celtic--On the Irish LGBT Experience. You can also find her work at OneEarthlyBody.com and Loving-Earth.net.
Recent Works
Career
Having worked for nearly 15 years as an environmental regulator with all levels of government—Federal, state, city and tribal—she has come to conclude that regulation alone will not be enough to keep this planet habitable for humans. We will have to do more. She has spent an additional 15 years studying and promoting how we can begin to change culturally so that we are no longer waging economic war against the natural world that supports us, but learn to re-integrate with natural systems such that both human and ecosystem health improves.
One Earthly Body Project
OneEarthlyBody.com is her initiative to help build a better understanding of both who we are as humans and how we can relate to the living world that supports our very being in ways that serve both our own health and that of the living systems we rely on. She is passionate about the beauty and sanctity of life on Earth, and sincerely hopes humans can remain a part of it. She believes that the Earth would be diminished if humans were no longer able to survive in Her and hopes we learn to once again be a healthy part of thriving ecosystems. In the past, humans have acted in ways that increased the stability, resilience and productivity of the landscapes they inhabited. Robin is convinced we can learn to live that way again.
