Memoirs of an Earth Steward & Ecosystems Restoration Manual

Sparked into action by Rachel Carson’sĀ Silent SpringĀ John Todd and his wife Nancy Jack-Todd, together with their friend Bill McLarney, founded theĀ New Alchemy InstituteĀ (N.A.I.) in 1969Ā ā€œto restore the land, protect the seas, and inform the Earth’s stewards.ā€Ā 

Lackan Cottage Farm Design

Lackan Cottage Farm is the product of permaculture design, which can be seen in everything from our natural building products, to our waste and water treatment, energy production, and food growing. It is constantly evolving and growing with our own permaculture experience.

How Native American Diets Benefit From Tucson’s Indigenous Seed Bank

The organization’s Native American Seed Request program distributes up to 10 free or low-cost traditional seed packets, annually, among individual Southwest Native Americans, and regional tribe members who live elsewhere.Ā 

Connecting to Nature is a Matter of Environmental Justice

Environmental activism is meaningless if it does not grapple with issues of injustice and expose the links between environmental devastation, colonial history, and the exploitative relationships of the North and the South. But does this mean that campaigns focused on our connections to the natural world and the suffering of non-human animals are irrelevant?

Istanbul Restaurant Offers Job Training and Other Services for the Homeless

Explaining the many barriers former sex workers, abuse victims, and the homeless face at getting a fresh start in life, Tükrükçü says her personal experiences helped her understand that what is needed most to build a new life is skills.

Why Liberals Should Be ā€œConservativeā€: Climate Change, Excellence, and the Practice of Happiness

By ā€œconservativeā€ I am not referring to anything resembling Republicans or European ā€œcenter-rightā€ parties, or positions yet further to the right on the liberal-conservative continuum as it is commonly understood today.Ā 

The Palestine Heirloom Seed Library and El Beir, Arts and Seeds.

In 2014, I founded theĀ Palestine Heirloom Seed Library. The Library and associated El Beir Arts and Seeds symbolize this core belief: that agriculture is truly comprised of both ā€œagriā€ (traditional farming practices) + ā€œcultureā€ (the associated lifestyle/livelihood traditions essential to a community’s identity).

Alexandra Rowland on Hopepunk, Grimdark, Story and Imagination

Hopepunk is about fighting for a better future and taking action and doing radical kindness. A lot of times people want to soften it, and think that it is about fluffy self-care, and that’s certainly a part of it, but I want to emphasise that ā€˜punk’ is the operative half of the word hopepunk. It’s about actively taking action…

Inside 350.org and Why They Rise for Climate

350 not only networks people together at the grassroots level, but connects fellow climate change activist groups and unites them for major conglomerate projects and demonstrations. It helps smaller organizations make big changes together. There may not be a more significant presence in climate change activism thanĀ 350.