We’re Getting Sick of Noise Pollution
Strong efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions will also have striking beneficial side effects, including more peace and quiet. And that should be music to our ears.
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Humanity Must Choose a New Path to Avoid Rapid Ecological Breakdown, Lakota Spiritual Leader Says
The first tribally hosted World Wilderness Congress that convened the last week of August, 2024, had an ambitious agenda—placing Indigenous knowledge at the center of global resolutions to protect biodiversity.
Never Mention Population
Bringing up the Earth’s growing human population (and its associated impacts) is not something you typically do in polite circles. If you do introduce the topic of overpopulation, even among staunch environmentalists, you risk being called all sorts of undignified names.
‘Land Back’ at the Center of Debates Over How to Preserve the Biosphere
Gathering in the last week of August in the Black Hills of South Dakota, or Hé Sapa in Lakota, speakers and organizers of the 12th convening of the World Wilderness Congress say the extinction crisis is intrinsically tied to both the dispossession of Indigenous peoples and the rising heat generated by the burning of fossil fuels.
Can non-natives play nice with natives?
Landscapes and gardens are not an argument to be won but a set of spaces that can stir the senses and spark a larger conversation.
How to Stop the AG-onizing Resistance to US Climate Policy
In the melee that marks the 2024 election year, it is easy to lose focus on down-ballot candidates that have as much—perhaps more—influence over US climate policy as the presidential contenders. Who are these influencers? Naturally, they’re the lawyers!
Buffalo are Center of Restoration Efforts from the Black Hills to the Texas Plains
This ‘keystone species’ can play a role in healing broken relationships—with nature and between people.
What is causing devastating floods?
Drainage systems have depleted Vermont’s small water cycles for decades, providing openings for large water-cycle storms, and leaving the region increasingly vulnerable.
Stagtine: Excerpt
Rewilding, or what I present as kincentric rewilding, is the awakening of memory, the rising together into ancient dreams as a collective memoir of individuals and not just a collective, like loving letters cast carefully in crafted words within the most wonderfully magical sentences.
Fritjof Capra: “The Physics of Connection: Understanding Relationships and Ecology”
Today, Nate is joined by one of the great systems thinkers, physicist and deep ecologist Fritjof Capra, to explore how his worldview has been shaped by his decades of work in physics, ecology, and community development – and his conclusions that addressing our ecological and social crises will require a broader shift in our values and philosophies.
How to Decolonize Our Battle Against Climate Change
Rich countries have exported climate breakdown through extractive industries, creating a “carbon colonialism.”
The Te Awa Tupua Act: An Inspiration for Communities to Take Responsibility for Their Ecosystems
The historic act, which recognized a river as a legal entity, deliberately moves away from litigation and places community decision-making at its center.
