2.12 The Three Environments and Consistent Life Culture—Carolina Allen and Kim Landeen Discuss Tenet Three

One of the Big Ocean Women beliefs is that we live and promote a life culture in the womb, the home, and our ecological environment. These three environments form the basis of an ethical code of consistent life culture. Join Carol and Kim as they discuss these three environments. 

“It’s an idea that is really integral to Big Ocean Women and how we work… We promote life culture within the womb, which is our first environment, and then we promote that into our second environment which is our home, and then everything else, community, ecology, ecological environment, outside of those two environments is the third environment. It’s the idea that if you can preserve peace and non-harm and abundance within those spheres that it just will naturally flow outward into the community or into the ecological environment because we’re all integrated. We’re all part of each other as human beings; we’re all part of our greater ecosystems. It’s important to look at the womb as an ecosystem. It’s important to look at the home as an ecosystem, and then it just spills over all of the abundance created within those first two spheres, those first two environments, it will spill over to the third.” – Carolina Allen

“This is a topic that we can address literally every single issue and/or problem and/or positivity in this world is through this lens of the three environments.” – Kim Landeen

“Environmental activism, Environmentalism, it very much pits human beings as an enemy to the environment… Environmental stewardship, on the other hand, looks at human beings as an integral part of the ecosystem, that we’re not apart from the environment at all, that we’re completely integrated, and that we have a more protective stewardship responsibility with the environment.” – Carolina Allen

“The abundance mindset that’s just generated from gardening is unreal.” – Carolina Allen

“The family system is an organic system.” – Carolina Allen

Carolina refers to being inspired by the work of Vandana Shiva; read more here.

“There truly is a cost to creation.” – Kim Landeen

“Truly when you’re caring for the earth, it feeds back into the family, it feeds back into the individual, and vice versa, when you as an individual feed into the earth obviously, it is improved, if done in organic, natural, and cyclical ways.” – Kim Landeen

“Our faith should lead into our environmentalism, into our environmental stewardship.” – Kim Landeen

“The word stewardship perfectly encapsulates what this is all about. It’s not environmental authority over, it’s environmental stewardship which means that you recognize that this doesn’t belong to you, that it’s just under your watchful care, and that as a steward you have the responsibility.” – Carolina Allen

Carolina is the founder and leader of Big Ocean Women, the international maternal feminist organization representing perspectives of faith, family, and motherhood throughout civil society. Carolina holds a B.A. in philosophy from the University of Utah with an emphasis in cultural religions and philosophy of science. Her inspirational and philosophical work has been presented at various international U.N. conferences. She is a native of Brazil, and a fluent trilingual. She and her husband Kawika are parents to 7 children. She is an avid soccer fan and had a brief career as a semi-professional player.

 

Kim Landeen is a founding member and a Global Team Director of Big Ocean Women, the international maternal feminist organization representing perspectives of faith, family, and motherhood throughout civil society. Kim has a deep love for the natural world. She lives in Alaska with her family where she enjoys spending the slower paced life with her children combing the beach for treasures, gardening, picking wild berries, and spending rainy lazy days making bread, reading books, and watching movies. She is an ecotour captain in Glacier Bay National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage site where she helps educate her clients on the relationship between humanity and the larger eco-environment. In addition to her love of nature, she also enjoys studying theology and the inner workings of the soul as well as tracking global political and social movements. Her love for God, people, and this world drives her to continually seek to improve her own circumstances and the circumstances of all those with whom she comes in contact.