How can you make your community thrive?
There’s a crucial difference between places where people thrive and a thriving community. That distinction is the critical ingredient that enables some communities to flourish while others do not.
Vicki Robin
How an ecosystem restoration community is regenerating water cycles to mitigate forest fires in Portugal
Rewetting and restoring wetlands, building small dams, and restoring streams create landscape-level breaks that disrupt fire spread by retaining water in the land instead of letting it run off. EcoAtivo is putting this approach into practice.
What the climate movement can learn from organized labor
The climate movement needs the kind of leverage that comes from shutting down the economy — and it can only get there through deep organizing with workers.
California’s AI boom has made billionaires richer. Now a wealth tax is on the ballot
Without Prop. 40 revenues, Californians could face hospital closures, job losses, increased food insecurity, and state budget cuts to public schools, yet tech billionaires are pouring millions into opposing the wealth tax.
Remembering Richard Heinberg: Turning his advice for young people into an inspiring coloring book
Shortly after Richard passed, I started to draw a 32-page, all-ages coloring book that turns his advice into a practical journey.
What future does the EU’s strategy on livestock envision for farming? A look at the data
The EU Commission launched a livestock strategy and an action plan for the “protein system” in July. Predictably, reactions have varied.
What makes a community thrive? Look to the matriarchs at its heart
What helps communities thrive? Could one key be respected, benevolent women who lead without dominating?
Why bioregional learning is vital to how we transform systems
Bioregional learning opens up the design pathways for systemic change to emerge. And it does so with life at the center of every major decision that needs to be made.
‘Water isn’t enough’: As extreme heat devastates farms, community wisdom is more vital than ever
My intention was to write about simple self-sufficiency, especially when it comes to growing food. But then this summer was challenging in a way I thought I was prepared for… but wasn’t.
Big solar vs. forests: Why we remain determined to save these trees
The veneration of solar has taken up the oxygen in the climate conversation. While we have a modest array ourselves, I’m worried solar has been presented to the climate-worried public as a panacea, as if a wholesale switch to solar would stabilize the climate.
What do we still share in an age of political polarization?
Deepening fragmentation reflects an urgent challenge: our growing difficulty in identifying what truly matters, and therefore in designing policies that promote our collective well-being.
Sammy Gensaw: The restorative revolution and a river of reciprocity
In this keynote address, Indigenous activist Sammy Gensaw shares his experiences working for ecological and cultural revival along the Klamath River, central to his people’s identity and livelihood.
