Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
What does a second Trump election with his myriad lies say about the power of facts and truth? What happens to the EPA when its cadre of scientists, analysts, lawyers, economists and other specialists are removed from their jobs or intimidated?
Threats to ginseng across Appalachia are a legitimate concern, and curbing profligate overharvesting is important. But diggers helped facilitate the existence and persistence of ginseng populations, and they could be knowledgeable, skillful conservation allies.
Engaging and training people in ecological restoration lies at the core of our mission. That’s why we’re passionate about training and mobilising everyday people from across the globe to collect environmental data through citizen science.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
This ‘keystone species’ can play a role in healing broken relationships—with nature and between people.
Drainage systems have depleted Vermont’s small water cycles for decades, providing openings for large water-cycle storms, and leaving the region increasingly vulnerable.
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.
