Medicine Wheel for the Planet
A Journey toward Personal and Ecological Healing
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
"This beautiful book can completely change how we approach science, using both Indigenous and Western perspectives, and how we can work collaboratively to help foster balance in nature." —Suzanne Simard, bestselling author of Finding the Mother Tree
For readers of Braiding Sweetgrass: Future-saving insights and approaches to science and ecology using both Indigenous and Western perspectives.
A farm kid at heart, and a Nlaka'pamux woman of mixed ancestry, Dr. Jennifer Grenz always felt a deep connection to the land. However, after nearly two decades of working as a restoration ecologist in the Pacific Northwest, she became frustrated that despite the best efforts of her colleagues and numerous volunteers, they weren't making the meaningful change needed for plant, animal and human communities to…
DR. JENNIFER GRENZ is a Nlaka’pamux Indigenous ecologist and scholar with a PhD in Integrated Studies in Land and Food Systems from the University of British Columbia. In addition to her current position as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Forest Resources Management at UBC, Dr. Grenz runs her own consulting and land-healing company, Greener This Side, conducting landscape-level invasive species management and environmental restoration activities for all levels of government and Indigenous communities within British Columbia. She has traveled extensively across North America presenting keynote lectures on invasive species management issues, environmental policy, and effective environmental communication strategies to different professional organizations and government agencies.
