Why Ecoliteracy?
Developing an ongoing ecosocial art practice 'The Hollywood Forest Story' (begun 2008) and pursuing a Creative Practice-led doctorate 'The Ecological Turn' (Fitzgerald, 2019) alerted Haumea Founder-Director Cathy Fitzgerald, Ph.D., to the urgent necessity, challenges and rewards of bringing art and ecology together. Ecological wisdom–ecoliteracy and ecophilosophy–guides holistic, ethical creativity for a better world, in contrast to current fragmented education that largely alienates us from wider community of life. Cultural research confirms an ecoliterate creative sector has a critical leadership role to inspire diverse communities toward a more life-sustaining era...