Give Back Stolen Land
By Ashley Dawson, Great Transition Initiative
Viewed from the perspective of history, Treuer notes laceratingly, America’s national parks are a crime scene.
Tag: conservation policy
Radical Conservation: Misdirections, New Directions
By Bram Büscher, Robert Fletcher, Great Transition Initiative
Imagining conservation outside the capitalist box is a liberating exercise, countering eco-anxieties and catastrophic nightmares, while releasing positive collective energy. A movement united around a convivial conservation vision would be a powerful change agent in the Great Transition.
The Extinction Crisis in Watercolor and Oils: Using Art to Save Plants
By John R. Platt, The Revelator
My biggest challenge is our biggest challenge, and that is to engage people to appreciate the importance of plant life. I mean, it’s not just plants, of course. It’s all life and ecosystems. But plant life specifically, because it doesn’t have as much traction as animals.
Thoughts on Activism
By Frederic Jennings, Resilience.org
Having spent a good deal of my life on projects intended to “save the world” (which decidedly does NOT want to be saved!), being confronted with the idea of sharing some of my thoughts about “activism” has provoked a flood of ideas about what to say on such an intriguing subject.
The Revolution Will Not Be “Green”
By Jordan G. Teicher, Uneven Earth
Long imagined as a bulwark against ecological destruction, players in the mainstream conservation movement—think big NGOs like The Nature Conservancy and their corporate partners—have actually been complicit in that destruction by propping up a fundamentally unsustainable capitalist system and the nature-culture dichotomy it’s built upon.
Two Important New Books
By Richard Heinberg, Post Carbon Institute
The Carbon Farming Solution: A Global Toolkit of Perennial Crops and Regenerative Agriculture Practices for Climate Mitigation and Food Security and Half-Earth: Our Planet’s Fight for Life.
In Kenya’s Mountain Forests, A New Path to Conservation
By Fred Pearce, Yale Environment 360
Kenya’s high-elevation forests are the source for most of the water on which the drought-plagued nation depends.