How an Indigenous Scientist Studies Global Change

By Tara Lohan, The Revelator

Dr. Danielle Ignace has found a way to unify her Native American and Western science identities to better understand big ecosystem changes.

Bolivia’s new Vice President David Choquehuanca called the brotherhood to unity

By David Choquehuanca, Resilience.org

We children have inherited an ancient culture which understands that everything is interrelated, that nothing is divided and nothing is outside.

What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 23 Vanessa Andreotti

By Vicki Robin, Vanessa Andreotti, Resilience.org

Vanessa is one of the founding members of the Gesturing Decolonial Futures Collective (decolonialfutures.net) and “In Earth’s CARE”, an international network of Indigenous communities located mostly in Canada and Latin America. Vanessa provides her insight on What Could Possibly Go Right?

Colombia’s Dynamic Rivers: Integrated Interpretations and the Rights of Nature

By Daniel Henryk Rasolt, Solutions

If we cannot listen, learn and change our ways, for the good of all “persons” of the planet, power should be put in the hands of those that have listened for millennia and can speak in defense of the violated interconnected rivers of the world.

Koitajoki: Flagship re-wilding of a Finnish river gets underway

By Gaia Foundation staff, Gaia Foundation

In this article our Finnish partners Snowchange announce the launch of a new, world-leading effort to re-wild the Finnish-Russian Koitajoki River System using a combination of science and traditional knowledge. Gaia is proud to be a partner in this exciting project.

The Emergence of Earth Jurisprudence in Africa

By Carlotta Byrne, Gaia Foundation

Across Africa, a network of Earth Jurisprudence Practitioners is accompanying traditional and indigenous communities in the revival and enhancement of their Earth-centred customary governance systems.

Our land was taken. But we still hold the knowledge of how to stop mega-fires

By Bill Tripp, The Guardian blog

As wildfires rage across California, it saddens me that Indigenous peoples’ millennia-long practice of cultural burning has been ignored in favor of fire suppression.

What Indigenous Wisdom Can Teach Us About Economics

By Helena Norberg-Hodge, Local Futures

Just as Indigenous wisdom is rooted in a myriad of complex and reciprocal interactions with the community, the land and water, the animals and plants, localizing makes visible the threads of interdependence that hold the living world together.

Why we need racial justice in farming

By Josina Calliste, Landworkers Alliance

We need all the support we can get to build this movement locally. In the spirit of “a high tide raises all ships”, racial justice in the progressive farming movement will benefit everyone.

Decolonizing ecology

By Jade Delisle, Briarpatch

Protecting and restoring Indigenous Peoples’ lands is the fastest and most readily available way to sequester carbon and mitigate the impacts of climate change, a result of the optimally efficient relationships between fungi, plants, animals, and people in a given bioregion, which Indigenous cultures have coded into their knowledge systems over millennia of human-environmental interactions.

Brazil’s Indigenous Peoples Face a Triple Threat from COVID-19, the Dismantling of Socio-Environmental Policies, and International Inaction

By Grace Iara Souza, London School of Economics and Social Policy

The wilful jeopardising of indigenous peoples’ lives is particularly grave when you consider that the death of each elder represents the “burning of a library“.

Indigenous Tribes are at the Forefront of Climate Change Planning in the U.S.

By Naveena Sadasivam, Grist

As other North American tribes have begun to experience the effects of climate change over the past decade, they too have started to adopt climate resilience and adaptation plans. According to a database maintained by the University of Oregon, at least 50 tribes across the U.S. have assessed climate risks and developed plans to tackle them.