Alberta’s Highest Court Jams Smith’s Coal Plans
Premier Danielle Smith’s efforts to revive a contentious open-pit coal mining project owned by the litigious Australian billionaire Gina Rinehart have met a major legal hurdle.
Andrew Nikiforuk
We Need Predators!
We need to foster balance even if that means that sometimes careless pet keepers will lose their cat to a hunting owl, even if we have to re-train ourselves to live with coyotes by not putting garbage outside where they can eat it rather than the rats, even if we have to hold regular deer hunts, rabbit culls and autumn feasts that feature large, fattened rodents — because we are predators also.
Reflections on Collective Grief in These Times
Communal grieving allows us to metabolize our grief in a way that we can’t access when we grieve alone, in a way that our ancestors knew, that our bones recall.
Forests Thrive When Indigenous People Have Legal Stewardship of Their Land
The fate of intact forests is closely linked to that of Indigenous peoples.
Ancient settlements show that commoning is ‘natural’ for humans, not selfishness and competition
Humans have been and are still very resourceful and imaginative when it comes to working out how to live together in peace, democracy and abundance. I believe that commons ideas can deliver those things.
Growing passion for the power of ecosystem restoration in Matera, Italy
Engaging and training people in ecological restoration lies at the core of our mission. That’s why we’re passionate about training and mobilising everyday people from across the globe to collect environmental data through citizen science.
Urban futures, rural futures
Claims that existing (or augmented) patterns of urbanism are more pro-social and pro-nature than rural alternatives appeal to people’s contrarian nature. And since most people live in urban areas, especially in the rich countries, it also tells them what they want to hear…
We’re Getting Sick of Noise Pollution
Strong efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions will also have striking beneficial side effects, including more peace and quiet. And that should be music to our ears.
When there is no “Other Side” to Teach: Navigating Ambiguity in Teaching the Environment
When academics address reflexive social science questions, such as the gaslighting of society through propaganda, from the university, we are often told that we don’t want to alienate partners, like Shell Oil, from continuing funding us.
Humanity Must Choose a New Path to Avoid Rapid Ecological Breakdown, Lakota Spiritual Leader Says
The first tribally hosted World Wilderness Congress that convened the last week of August, 2024, had an ambitious agenda—placing Indigenous knowledge at the center of global resolutions to protect biodiversity.
New system possibility
My hope is that the US and other countries will see the wisdom of fusing measures for transformative change with measures to address climate threats. The two should go forward hand in hand.
Why Transition? And why now?
At its heart, Transition is about reimagining and reshaping our world, responding to big global challenges as well as those specific to our place, through local, practical, human-scale action, together with other people. It’s an antidote to feeling over-whelmed and under-powered in the face of the complex problems of our times.
