Watercolor of a sunny community: people of all ages tending a garden, elders under fruit trees, children playing, and two women with a big white Great Pyrenees and a little dog
Patricia Mikkelson

Why I’m Starting the Animal Earth Alliance

Watercolor of a sunny community: people of all ages tending a garden, elders under fruit trees, children playing, and two women with a big white Great Pyrenees and a little dog
This is the kind of community I have dreamed of my whole life: every age working and playing together, and Barbara and me in the middle of it with our dogs.

Why should I be the one to start this? It’s a fair question, and I wanted to answer it from the heart. I have been organizing people for as long as I can remember. When I was a little girl, I never wanted to play alone.

In this article I share the long road that led me here, from saving old-growth trees in Fayetteville to Community: Connect! circles, and why I believe the animals and the earth need all of us working together.

Read the full article on the Animal Earth Alliance blog

I wrote this together with Claude, an AI from Anthropic. I brought my stories and experiences, and Claude helped put them into words.

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