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.
Environment featured
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.
Thanks to Trump, Climate Policy Has a Chance in 2024
For the US to have any chance of transitioning to a low-carbon economy in anything approximating the next 25 years, it will need to be lifted from the trenches of the culture wars. The US cannot continue to spend equal time at the extremes, believing it will all balance out in the end. It doesn’t.
Not if, but when: The coming North Atlantic deep freeze
In the next few decades, climate change is likely to have a counterintuitive effect on the North Atlantic and northern Europe when a major ocean current which brings heat from the tropics is projected to shut down.
Next big steps on climate
My big hope is for progressives to leave behind their issue silos, come together, and forge a mighty political force, both for immediate action and for deep, transformative change.
MM #15: What Now?
You can recognize that modernity does not pursue appropriate goals, and look forward to a changed world. That attitude shift alone will make you a driving force for a changing world. And that doesn’t sound too hard, does it? You can start today!
Tir the story of the Welsh landscape: Excerpt
And though this remains true for farmers and shepherds in areas like the Carneddau today, this need-to-know and name-your-environment according to its natural features and function within the rural economy held much more broadly across pre-industrial Wales.
Hurricane Exxon? Hurricane Ted Cruz?
For decades, fossil fuel propagandists have tried to weasel out of responsibility for climate change by blaming their customers, ordinary people like Debbie and Ernesto. The hurricane names reinforce that narrative. Let’s change it.
