Zara Nur

A writer since childhood, Zara Nur has spent her life exploring the joys of learning every day. Her driving passion for Imma Teva (Mother Earth) and all life on it has led her into a love of documentaries, environmental science fiction including her own cli-fi (climate fiction) stories, vegetarianism with about a decade as a vegan in the past, holistic health including herbalism and embodied practices, studying both contemporary ecosystem science and traditional ecological knowledge of the Anishinaabeg who land she lives on and ithe Indigenous peoples including traditional plant medicines and foods of Levantine peoples, and to write about all of this since the path to a vital future starts by living in harmony and Oneness with the beautiful and miraculous planet we call home. She also loves animals, though she's especially particular to her cat and the many spiders that live in the basil and tomato plants she gardens year-round. Her love for the vast primal ocean of stars in sky is also reflected in her love of water, especially as she's lived on the shore of Gichigami (Lake Superior) most of her life with a brief stint in Los Angeles and some time in other desert places, which has left her with a deep fascination for life below the waves and for live eking out an existence in the harshest places on Earth with Antarctica being one of her favorite and most-mourned lands impacted by climate change. Adapting to and surviving climate change on a whole world level has been one of her many obsessions since before Y2K. Comic books, science fiction, computers, electronic, art, and DIY filled most of Zara's formative years along with hippie folk music festivals, organic food co-ops, swimming, and French Horn lessons. Over the years she's learned to read tarot, organic garden, program Arduino microcontrollers, build all kinds of things, and cook some great food. And over the past five years she's been entering the intersection between spiritual environmentalism and modern Chaddism which has led her to embark on a path from Michigan to Israel; she hopes to see you there at a potluck to share some delicious homemade food!