KXL Victory Celebrations Roll Across the Great Plains
The Keystone XL victory was sweet for Native pipeline foes in unceded Lakota treaty territory, and a month later, they were still celebrating.
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On The Animal Trail: Excerpt
To ‘enforest ourselves’, we will need an acrobatics of the intelligence and the imagination, and an indefinite, delicate suspense, as we try to translate what those plants and animals do, what they communicate and how they live.
Upon Consideration of a Lone River Birch
Every tree matters—even stunted ones living out just a shadow of their tree nature—so get your shallow tray out of the house when you can, or, if possible, find ways to plant your roots in the ground outside.
Elinor Ostrom’s Essential Lessons for Collective Action: Excerpt
Earth’s climate system has the attributes of a common-pool resource. The climate system’s limited ability to absorb greenhouse gas pollution makes it a depletable resource. I
Diversifying Power – A MAHB Dialogue with Jennie C. Stephens
“Diversity matters in climate and energy policy because for too long, concerns of vulnerable communities have been minimized and dismissed while white-male-dominated-fossil-fuel interests have profited from exploiting marginalized people. “
A Blueprint for Coastal Adaptation: Excerpt
As the need for large-scale migration to safer areas becomes more accepted (or we wait until we have no choice), these inequities will only be exacerbated unless policies are put in place to prevent it.
altered landscapes
The much larger-scale but invisible transformation of our world – elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide levels – will outlast us and will wreak climate havoc for millennia.
Scientists Call Northwest Heatwave the ‘Most Extreme in World Weather Records’
A pair of climate scientists on Thursday said the record-high temperatures that have ravaged the northwestern U.S. and western Canada over the past week—killing hundreds and sparking dozens of wildfires—represent the “world’s most extreme heatwave in modern history.”
The show is over
The climate crisis is today — at best — being treated only as a business opportunity to create green new jobs, new green businesses and technologies.
An Introduction to Common Earth
We believe that people armed with particular skillsets and understanding of the world, who together form a community able to harness the power of the collective wisdom can, and will, embrace an emerging regenerative world.
Why the National Páramo Day in Ecuador matters
In early May, Ecuador’s National Assembly voted to declare June 23rdDía Nacional de los Páramos, or National Páramo Day. This designation at once recognizes the importance of these high mountain grasslands and underscores the need for improved conservation efforts.
Voting Rights and Climate Policy—Not as Odd a Couple as You Might Think
Some things just seem to go together–Bogey and Bacall—for example. There are other things—voting rights legislation and the future of national climate policy—not so much.
