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Ancestral legacy of nature’s connections – Teresa Ryan at TEDxBerkeley

By Teresa Ryan, originally published by TEDx Berkeley

February 28, 2018

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Dr. Teresa Ryan draws from her ancestral Tsimtian heritage and her work as a fisheries scientist and natural resource conservation expert. Motivated by the way her forefathers interacted with the environment, Dr. Ryan demonstrates how the synergistic Aboriginal knowledge of cyclic resource production and variability can help promote the sustainable use of fishing resources today.

Video reposted from TEDxBerkeley under a (CC BY–NC–ND) license.

Teresa Ryan

Dr. Teresa Ryan (Sm’hayetsk) is a Tsimshian scientist, Indigenous knowledge practitioner, and fisheries/aquatic ecologist whose work bridges Indigenous knowledge systems and Western science to advance forest and watershed stewardship. A lecturer in the Faculty of Forestry & Environmental Stewardship at the University of British Columbia, she teaches courses on complex adaptive systems, ecological sustainability, and Indigenous forest and fisheries stewardship.

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A Guide to Staying Human (Part 1): Desperately Seeking Agency

By Nate Hagens, Resilience.org

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By Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights

A lot of nonsense is being communicated about the war with Iran.

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Do Beavers Care About Climate Justice?

By Evelyn Byrne, Resilience.org

By moving from seeing nature as something we – a distinct group causing harm – need to protect, to understanding it as a system we are actively involved in, battling climate change becomes less a concept of preservation and more a question of how we can help to shape a world that allows many beings to thrive.

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