Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Archaeologists have an important role to play in building a climate-resilient future, but any meaningful progress would benefit from a historical approach that considers multiple ways of understanding the environment, of operating an irrigation canal and of organizing an agriculture-based economy.
Whether we’re talking about climate change, civil rights, politics, or anything else, you control the mediums you expose yourself to. Use your critical thinking, set limits and boundaries, resist the manipulation of media.
It’s difficult to see the knock-on effects of our actions and it can be very dangerous not to.
Reintroducing European bison to Britain, despite their absence from its history, could help restore ecological balance by fostering biodiversity and reversing some of the damage caused by industrial farming practices.
If humanity is going to survive, and play a healthy role in the Gaian system, all of us will have to learn to accept limits – that certain areas of the world are not for us humans to exploit but belong to Gaia and the untold species that inhabit them.
Today Nate is joined by conservationist Kristine Tompkins, to discuss her decades of work on conservation initiatives in South America, the value of personal responsibility, and how she has cultivated a way of living without fear in taking on unprecedented environmental challenges.
Tribal governance takes a long view based in Native peoples’ deep history with these lands. And their legal and political status as sovereign nations – backed by the U.S. Constitution, treaties, more than 120 Supreme Court rulings and the plain text of federal laws – puts Native nations in a strong position to continue their efforts, no matter which ways the federal winds blow.
In line with the goals of the Ecosystem Restoration Communities movement the group strongly agrees that we need to significantly increase the number of farmers or local community members that can propagate tree-growth across Europe, and the planned visits are aimed at equipping the local leaders and experts that attended this first gathering with new tools and insights!
To describe Washington, DC, as anything other than a circus would be to do it an injustice. Mind you, it’s not just any circus. It’s a two-ring Roman Circus with President Trump as its master.
Already a land of rapid climatological change, Greenland could soon grow richer — and more powerful on the world stage. Ton by ton, its disappearing ice will reveal more of the mineral solutions to the world’s woes.
In artist Toshie Takeuchi’s work, she travels from Belgian archives to Congolese mines to expose the long durée trail of destruction that the powerful uranium leaves behind in the imperial — British, American, French, Belgian, German — drive for wealth and power.
Logging interests and the U.S. Forest Service have a history of using the wildfire threat to create “emergency” authority to bypass environmental reviews and curtail judicial oversight.
