* Welcome Andrés Edwards, author of Renewal: How Nature Awakens Our Creativity, Compassion, and Joy!

Please join me in welcoming Andrés Edwards, author of Renewal: How Nature Awakens Our Creativity, Compassion, and Joy by Andrés Edwards



Read the book review here!

Andrés will be hanging out in the forums until May 5th answering questions and sharing his experiences with you all.

At the end of the week, we'll make a draw for 4 lucky winners to win a copy of his book! From now until Friday, all new posts in the Personal Care forum are eligible to win.

To win, you must use a name that follows our naming policy and you must have your email set up to receive the Daily-ish email.

The winners will be notified by Personal Moosage and must respond within 24 hours. Only the winners who respond within that timeframe will receive their book. Watch for a PM, and a notice in this thread announcing the winners!


Please remember that we favour perennial discussion.  The threads you start will last beyond the event.  You don't need to use Andrés' name get his attention. We like these threads to be accessible to everyone, and some people may not post their experiences if the thread is directed to the author alone.

Welcome Andrés Edwards! What a fascinating topic near and dear to many a permies heart! Thank you for being here.

Welcome to permies, Andres!

Welcome Andrés! Your book sounds wonderful!!

Welcome Andres!
My favorite place is outdoors. There is something about the sounds and smells that sooth and move me. I am excited to read your book.

Welcome!!

Welcome Andres.

My poet partner needs your book. I'm trying to engage him in helping me build our forest garden and get back in touch with nature, but he's always glued to his computer and never goes outside. He's a microwave and fast-food kind of guy, and I need help turning him around. Appealing to his desire to be more creative might be the ticket.

This book sounds fabulous! Looking forward to reading more about your ideas.

Glad to see more people are waking up to the natural world around us that has the most profound affect to us all. Looking forward to listening or reading about Andre Edwards book, Renewal: "How Nature Awakens Our Creativity, Compassion, and Joy".

Welcome Andres!  I look forward to learning more about this subject.  It's something most people know intuitively, but we don't have much to back our assertion other than intuition.

Welcome Andre!  I watched the videos over on your book page and the ones about outdoor kindergarten are sooo... valid. There were no programs like that locally when my sons were young, but I had read a little about what was happening in Europe and recognized how much both of them would have benefited from being in an active, outdoor classroom. That would have been on top of them riding their bikes about a mile to school.

Hi all. Thank you for the warm welcome. I'm looking forward to sharing the ideas from my new book, Renewal, and really looking forward to your questions, comments and ideas regarding the impact that we derive from being in nature. One of my intentions in the book is to show the numerous ways that nature impacts us --- ranging from the awe and beauty of nature to the health benefits to how to better coexist with the natural world. I'm also curious to hear about your own experiences in nature and how your activities in nature help you in your daily life.

I find fractal forms to be one of the most source of joy in nature! A taste of the infinite...

Nice week and look forward to it!

Fractals are quite amazing! I've always enjoyed books that show the patterns in nature (Patterns in Nature by Philip Ball and On Growth and Form by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson.
I want to give everyone a heads up that I will be traveling all day tomorrow and off-line. I'm looking forward to resuming our conversation on Thursday.

I look forward to reading your book Andre.   I was shocked recently to find out that the most important thing to a group of children in grade four was a room with a plug in it so your book is very timely!  

Andres Edwards wrote:Fractals are quite amazing! I've always enjoyed books that show the patterns in nature (Patterns in Nature by Philip Ball and On Growth and Form by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson.
I want to give everyone a heads up that I will be traveling all day tomorrow and off-line. I'm looking forward to resuming our conversation on Thursday.

Some are very obvious as the aeaonium I posted in another thread, or the romanesco....
But in nature we can learn to see ALL of them, even when more discreet!

Actually I am also writing a book about how to use nature in connexion to our daily life for self-regulation + act for nature and life without being in eco-anxiety, oeverwhelm and powerlessness! Part of it will be based on how we use our nervous system compared to animals, so that we can use it properly too.

Same as what indicates your title and same as the line of this forum, it will not be about being angry at bad guys and not about focussing on what's wrong...

Nicole Alderman wrote:Please join me in welcoming Andrés Edwards, author of Renewal: How Nature Awakens Our Creativity, Compassion, and Joy by Andrés Edwards



Read the book review here!

Andrés will be hanging out in the forums until May 5th answering questions and sharing his experiences with you all.

At the end of the week, we'll make a draw for 4 lucky winners to win a copy of his book! From now until Friday, all new posts in the Personal Care forum are eligible to win.

To win, you must use a name that follows our naming policy and you must have your email set up to receive the Daily-ish email.

The winners will be notified by Personal Moosage and must respond within 24 hours. Only the winners who respond within that timeframe will receive their book. Watch for a PM, and a notice in this thread announcing the winners!


Please remember that we favour perennial discussion.  The threads you start will last beyond the event.  You don't need to use Andrés' name get his attention. We like these threads to be accessible to everyone, and some people may not post their experiences if the thread is directed to the author alone.

Welcome to permies, Andres! Can't wait to read your book

Welcome Andres. Is amazing how nature does have the ability to re-open parts of our slumbering brain!

Xisca Nicolas wrote regarding fractals:

Some are very obvious as the aeaonium I posted in another thread, or the romanesco....  

I seem to have trouble remembering the name, "romanesco" so I'm always calling that broccoli, "Fibonacci Broccoli". My husband hadn't seen it before, but as soon as he did, he got the reference.

Welcome! I can't wait to get my hands on this book whether I win or not

Welcome Andres Edwards. Sorry I never heard of you before, but the title of your book sounds interesting to me. Nature & creativity are two of the most important things in my life

It's my favorite time of the week! Time to announce some lucky winners!

They are.....


Hugo Morvan
Xisca Nicolas
Aaron Tusmith
Lesley Verbrugge


I'll be sending you all PMs. Please respond by Monday to claim your book!

Thanks! Today too has become one of my favorite time of the week! I am sure this book is going to be very enriching for me!

Did anyone get their book in the mail yet?

Yeah, i did and i'm on the other side of the Atlantic. Great read thanks!

Yay! I'm glad you got it, Hugo! Any chance you could drop a short review for Andrés on our permies review page (https://permies.com/wiki/109968/Renewal-Nature-Awakens-Creativity-Compassion) or even on Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0865718806/RS12-20/?tag=pfa12-20). Having reviews really helps people decide to buy a book, especially with a new book!

I have barely started to read… It is very dense.

Hugo Morvan wrote:Yeah, i did and i'm on the other side of the Atlantic. Great read thanks!

Moi aussi! Du meme coté de l'Atlantic…

I wrote something there already Nicole ,although i’ve not finished the book yet. It has these questions and activities at the end of chapters and reading the third chapter about awe and beauty opened up something in me which i describe. I thought i put it there, if i was an author i’d like to know my readers to be inspired by what i write. Know you’ve struck that chord.
I might put it on Amazon reviews

I have not received it yet