Solidarity with animals
Solidarity with animals and solidarity with humans are entangled imperatives and strategies in the search for a Great Transition.
Environment featured
Efficient and fragile: Low prices, modern railroading and the toxic Ohio derailment
The toxic Ohio derailment is demonstrating that the drive for efficiency can be extremely dangerous.
Restoring the Ciénaga Grande de Santa Marta: Reversing a Century of Colombian Tragedy
If the Ciénaga Grande is going to recover, it needs long-term integrated research and planning, with local community participation and even guardianship, which has a record of success in other local and Indigenous-led areas.
Climate activists and water protectors honor pipeline resister Joye Braun with a national day of action
From sparking the resistance to Keystone XL to erecting the first structure in the Sacred Stone Camp at Standing Rock, Braun was a climate and Indigenous rights movement leader who provided inspiration to thousands and helped train hundreds of people to nonviolently resist pipeline projects.
First There Must Be An End
It matters which world we think is ending, and it matters what we tell each other is worth doing in such a time.
Klamath Countdown: Researchers Hustle Before Largest Dam-Removal Project Begins
By the end of 2024 the Lower Klamath River will run free for the first time in a century, enabling fish like salmon and steelhead to reclaim 400 miles of river habitat in California and Oregon.
Digging in and digging deep: My experience at Ecosystem Restoration Camp Altiplano
At some point it became clear to me that ecosystem restoration is an incredibly positive way for anyone to participate in addressing the problems we face today, and that this is of great importance to communities all around the world.
Love, Nature, Magic: Excerpt
Facing my fears head-on—by observing and working with nature up close, getting to speak with the things that scare me so that I can understand them instead—has enabled me to embrace wildness in a whole new way.
Of Maps & Places (part 1)
Bioregionalists are interested in deeply integrating maps and map-making with natural distinctions, because they seek to live not in an abstraction but in the real, concrete and natural world.
How can nature-based solutions help cities achieve their climate goals?
Two things are clear from the recent UN climate change and biodiversity summits: “nature-based solutions” appear here to stay, and not everyone is happy about it.
Who knew? There are limits to growth in the American West
Limits to growth in the American West were always there. Now residents are having to face them.
Amazon’s least-deforested areas are due to ‘vital role’ of Indigenous peoples
Only 5% of net forest loss in the Brazilian Amazon occurs in Indigenous territories and protected areas – even though these areas contain more than half of the region’s forest.
