THE STORY IS IN OUR BONES: HOW WORLDVIEWS AND CLIMATE JUSTICE CAN REMAKE A WORLD IN CRISIS
By Osprey Orielle Lake
It’s time to rewild ourselves and our dominant worldviews to build earth-centered communities for all.
The dominant cultural worldview is based upon extraction and exploitation practices that have brought us to the precipice of social, environmental, and climate collapse. Braiding poetic storytelling, climate justice analyses, and collective knowledge of Earth-centered cultures, The Story is in Our Bones opens a portal to restoration and justice beyond the end of a world in crisis.
Lake calls forth historical memory of who we are in the Earth’s lineage to bring into being the world we keenly long for, at the delicate threshold of great peril or great promise.
For anyone grieving our collective loss and wanting to take action, The Story is in Our Bones is a vital guide to remaking our world. This hopeful, engaging, and creatively lyrical work reminds readers that another world is possible, and provides a desperately needed antidote to the pervasive despair of our time.
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Winner 2024 IPPY
Gold Medalist
The Story is in Our Bones: How Worldviews and Climate Justice Can Remake a World in Crisis by Osprey Orielle Lake has won the 2024 Independent Publishers Book Award (IPPY) for Current Events – Social Issues/Humanitarian.
The IPPY Awards “rewards those who exhibit the courage, innovation, and creativity to bring about change in the world of publishing.”
About Osprey Orielle Lake
Founder and executive director of the Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN), Osprey works internationally with grassroots, BIPOC and Indigenous leaders, policymakers, and diverse coalitions to build climate justice, resilient communities, and a just transition to a decentralized, democratized clean-energy future.
She sits on the executive committee for the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature and on the steering committee for the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty. Osprey’s writing about climate justice, relationships with nature, women in leadership, and other topics has been featured in The Guardian, Earth Island Journal, The Ecologist, Ms. Magazine and many other publications.
She is the author of the award-winning book Uprisings for the Earth: Reconnecting Culture with Nature. Osprey holds an MA in Culture and Environmental Studies from Holy Names University in Oakland and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area on Coast Miwok lands.