Ecosexuality: When Nature Inspires the Arts of Love

Co-edited by SerenaGaia Anderlini-D'Onofrio and Lindsay Hagamen. SerenaGaia is the sacred name of Serena Anderlini-D'Onofrio, PhD. SerenaGaia believes that "love is the ecology of life." Her prophetic books include Gaia and the New Politics of Love and Eros: A Journey of Multiple Loves. They have inspired readers around the world to open up to the many-splendored glories of our poly-delicious life on this beautiful blue dot that the Greeks once called "wide-bosomed Gaia." Artfully weaving together Gaia and Eros, ecology and eroticism, SerenaGaia creates a multi-disciplinary, many-colored, poly-textured tapestry of love. She revives the vibrant, prehistoric connection between nurturing Gaia and mischievous Eros, whom the ancients envisioned as not just a sex god but a primal force that "blows the breath of life into all beings" She is also the author/editor of many books about Love, including Bisexuality and Queer Theory (2011), Plural Loves (2005), and Women and Bisexuality (2003). She teaches the Humanities and Cinema from the point of view of Love as a Professor at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez. She is a renown public speaker and is working on exciting new books. She was a 2012-13 Fellow for the project Amorous Visions at U Conn's Humanities Institute. Lindsay Hagamen is dedicating her life to creating a culture where we can live freely and love fully as we tend to and care for our only home, this Earth. She is the President of the Windward Foundation, an intentional community 30 years in the making, dedicated to developing the knowledge and skills needed to live well with one another and the Earth. Lindsay is the co-creator of the annual EcoSex Convergence, and offers workshops and presentations on ecosexuality, community, and land-based living. Lindsay studied Ecological Sciences at Brown University. Her interest in building sustainable community has led Lindsay to explore what lies at the heart of human connection - sexuality. She firmly believes that "in order to live well with nature we need to live well with our own human nature." healing and embracing our sexuality creates the only foundation from which we can create whole-cloth solutions for an ecologically sustainable culture. At Windward, when she is not writing or nurturing the ecosexual movement, Lindsay focuses her energy on dry-land permaculture and holistic forest management, growing healthy food and forest products for her tribe. www.myloverearth.org