What Snails Can Teach Us About the Extinction Crisis
A new book about efforts to save endangered snails in Hawai‘i provides valuable insight into threats to global biodiversity.
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Solving the Climate Crisis Requires Traditional Ecological Knowledge
Enrolling local tribal experts as science advisers, partners, and co-managers in addressing biodiversity loss, climate change, legacy pollutants, and other pernicious issues not only makes sense, but is the only way to effectively turn things around.
Is Climate Breakdown a White Swan?
So, gaze into the eyes of the White Swan; and act like you have never have before.
The Free Agent Beaver
A gentle, intentional and more precise reshaping of language around beavers, and nature as whole, could help reconnect us with the origin of our knowledge of interspecies living — recognizing we are not at the “top,” and that human supremacy is a myth.
Bad communication on climate has bad consequences. We must do better.
The future of communications on the climate crisis must focus on freeing all of us from the systems that drive us to dump costs onto others and nature.
Where there is guilt, there is a chance for justice and healing
I believe an aversion to feeling guilty has no place in a meaningful global climate movement. Because without any recognition of fault and how past injury shapes current power, there is little basis for moving towards either justice or healing.
Stories for a living future
We cannot avoid having to walk through the ruins of our present civilization. But we can walk together to a living future, where our well-being and the well-being of the Earth are not in conflict, but part of a shared journey. This we can do.
I need to watch things die from a distance.
If you consider yourself to be environmentally-conscious as well as privileged enough to have stepped foot on a commercial airliner (80% of humans never have), you may feel (as I do) an emerging sense of dismay about the state of aviation.
Today’s Politics Are Tomorrow’s Climate Policies
Will the 2022 midterms be like 1994, 2006, and 2018? Or will they result in narrow majorities like those of the 117th Congress, no matter the victors?
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 88 Janine Benyus
Janine Benyus is the co-founder of Biomimicry 3.8 and Biomimicry Institute. She is a biologist, innovation consultant, and author of six books, including Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature. She addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?
Grief and Gratitude in a New Mexico Fire
By carrying both grief and gratitude, we seem to be transforming at a rate matching the surrounding land.
How ancient ice-age valleys could hold the key to global ice-sheet loss
Advances in satellite technology over recent decades have allowed scientists to chart the melting of the Earth’s ice sheets in remarkable detail.
