Deonna Anderson

Deonna is the Surdna Reporting Fellow for YES!

Johnella Larose

These Indigenous Women Are Reclaiming Stolen Land in the Bay Area

The idea behind establishing a land trust, which was sparked after Gould attended a meeting with existing Native-led land trusts in 2012, was for these Indigenous women to create a land base for their community.

May 13, 2019

Mushrooms Clean Up Our Toxic Messes

Mushrooms have helped remove petroleum from soil everywhere from Orleans, California, where they cleaned up a small motor-oil-and-diesel-fuel spill at a community center, to the Ecuadorian Amazon, where they’re being used to clean up the largest land-based oil spill in history.

April 8, 2019

Climate Victory Gardens

Fight Climate Change in Your Own Garden

Over the next two years, Green America plans to educate people on the benefits of regenerative agriculture through its Climate Victory Gardens campaign. It is producing videos that will explain regenerative practices, and staff members will attend conferences to encourage gardeners and farmers to join the movement.

November 13, 2018