A Tale of Two Narratives
It’s not that human carbon emissions don’t matter; they matter hugely. It’s that they aren’t the only matter, and are intimately coupled with the land and our treatment of it.
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While we say hands off, we also need hands on to address our planetary crisis
We must both defend existing political institutions, saying hands off, and put our hands on the wheel to build new institutions that truly address the planetary crisis.
Guide to Becoming an Environmental Leader and Inspiring the Next Generation of Eco-Defenders
Since you know your community best, you are in the best position to become a local environmental leader.
Updates from the Polycrisis
I walk through some of the different solutions that can help address the polycrisis and post-polycrisis period and also imagine what an ecocentric civilization of the future could look like, if we actually work toward that.
Peru’s ancient irrigation systems succeeded in turning deserts into farms because of the culture − without it, the systems failed
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.
The Psychological Effects of Climate Change: The Scientific Explanations — and Solutions That Can Empower Your Mind
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.
Second- and third-order effects: Immigration, bird flu and climate
It’s difficult to see the knock-on effects of our actions and it can be very dangerous not to.
Restoring the Wild: How Reintroducing Bison Could Revive Britain’s Landscapes and Ecosystems
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.
The Dark Frontier
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.
Kristine Tompkins — Rewilding 15 Million Acres: Why True Wealth Means More Than Money
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.
As federal environmental priorities shift, sovereign Native American nations have their own plans
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.
Finding the most effective ways to plant trees
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!
