Guide to Preserving Sacred Land Near You
Preserving biodiversity is among the most urgent issues of our time, and it needs to be addressed regionally to succeed.
Series
Who Does Minnesota’s White Earth State Forest Belong To?
The coming years will tell how these communities might find continuity between a fractured past and what could become a hopeful future.
Wild Communities, Tamed Publics
At present, we can only try to shape the emergence of resilient livelihood communities as best we can and speak up for agrarianism and against the industrial food system and its processes of corporate enclosure.
The Regeneration Handbook: System-changing strategies
To inspire hope that ordinary people such as ourselves can bring about meaningful change, I’ve included brief snapshots below of some of the largest and most successful systems-changing strategies I know. Because these kinds of stories are not often reported on in the mainstream media, we need to do everything in our power to get them out as far and wide as possible.
How the Hé Sapa Resolution Could Help ‘Indigenize’ Global Wilderness Conservation
All relevant institutions [must] actively promote wilderness policy that acknowledges that nature is multi-dimensional, transcending the material and physical realms; and use language that honors the rights and roles of Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Knowledge and Wisdom Systems, natural and customary law.” —Hé Sapa Resolution, 2024
‘Land Back’ at the Center of Debates Over How to Preserve the Biosphere
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.
Cascadia and the Global Resurgence of Bioregional Activism
Instead of seeing everything through the lens of the political economy and civilization, as if they were somehow divorced from earthly systems, bioregionalism proposes that ecological systems be treated as the foundational substrate for everything.
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.
Democracy Rising 33: A Democratic Revolution in Rojava
How the Rojavan democracy was made to happen should be of deep interest to everyone seeking a democracy built and nurtured from the bottom up.
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.
Crazy Ideas, Wise Strategies, Small Politics
At the very moment when our survival demands a deep overturning of what we have long believed to be true and proper, settling for less will look like the crazier option.
Climate, Kincentric Rewilding, and The Color of Clouds
One day, when a new world rises from the ashes of this chemically-infused and churned and oil-burned wasteland, the basement of history, we may all work together to rebuild, to try again, and, most importantly, to love and to have better memories.
