Books
FIERCE CONSCIOUSNESS:
SURVIVING THE SORROWS OF EARTH AND SELF
Calliope Books, 2023
When grief and anxiety beat us down, the struggle to cope can feel like it’s crushing us even more. To meet big challenges we need to develop fierce consciousness. Trebbe Johnson offers 35 smart, sassy, bold practices for not only surviving tough challenges to our personal lives and our ailing planet, but also engaging with them in ways that give new meaning and beauty to daily experience.
“Unabashedly courageous and edgy, wise and poignant, Trebbe Johnson recognizes that each of us is a makeweight in the shaping of any possible future for us and the planet. She turns away from nothing, inviting each of us to find our deep affection for this beleaguered world and to put our love on the line.”
—Francis Weller, Author of The Wild Edge of Sorrow
101 WAYS TO MAKE GUERRILLA BEAUTY
Calliope Books, 2017
The Spanish word guerrilla refers to warlike actions undertaken by small, independent groups of combatants fighting large military forces. Guerrilla beauty shares that spontaneity, boldness, and anonymity. However, guerrilla beauty is non-confrontational, compassionate, and always creative.
Guerrilla beauty also differs from other forms of environmental activism. We give attention and beauty to places we love without expectation of payment, fame, or thanks. The places we love have given so much. Now they’re struggling. We have a chance to give back.
In this slim book, Trebbe offers suggestions for making guerrilla beauty at clearcut forests, places where violence has occurred, fracking sites, and many more.
FINDING AND MAKING BEAUTY FOR EARTH’S BROKEN PLACES
RADICAL JOY FOR HARD TIMES
North Atlantic Books, 2018
What do we do when the places we love are damaged or endangered? By facing what’s broken, sharing stories, and making wild, spontaneous, heartfelt acts of beauty, we reconnect with the ground beneath our hearts and find, yes, even joy.
“It’s a great vision that Trebbe Johnson is sending out into the world, and it is very much her own. The great central truth of what she is doing is the very hard lesson for all of us in our lives, and yet it is our blessing.”
—W.S. Merwin, former poet laureate of the United States