Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Will Pattiz It’s referred to as Unit 346 in the Twin Mountain II timber sale. On the ground, it’s some of the most spectacular old-growth we’ve ever witnessed, and it’s marked for clearcutting.
The catastrophic flood that killed hundreds of people in Nepal in August shows the ways rising temperatures, thawing permafrost and melting ice are increasing the risk of destructive floods in the Himalayas and other regions around the world.
With age, I’ve become more aware of the world’s complexity but also better equipped to come to simple, albeit painful, conclusions: We need to replace fantasies of endless growth with ideas about managing the contraction.
My family has feared water, depended on it, and moved uphill from it for four generations. The watching was never the point. What we did with what we saw was the point.
With the tenacity of salmon swimming home, Un-dam the Klamath is liberating their river before our eyes.
In the face of climate change, these small changes can support the recovery of declining populations of birds, insects, and other pollinators.
Humanity has dug itself into a hole. The first step to digging ourselves out is to acknowledge the depth of our civilizational failure.
For all our flaws, we evolved toward community and cooperation. Toward enough. Yet somehow, we got Egypt. What happened between ten and five thousand years ago that made this possible?
Frequent exposure to roadkill prompts my wife to say that this is why we should all live in cities. Leave the hinterlands to wild creatures.
Humanity is faced with the greatest failure in its long existence. What can we do about it?
Eight years ago, the Ecosystem Restoration Communities movement began with a simple but powerful belief: that everyday people everywhere could restore the land and, in doing so, restore hope for our shared future.
Why people migrate, who profits from division, and how working people can build power together.
