Finding a lever for civilizational transformation
From Indigenous-led governance to worker-owned cooperatives, scattered experiments may offer a blueprint for a pathway out of our global predicament.
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In defense of “nature”: why the word still matters in the age of AI
“Nature” is often cast as a word that separates humans from non-humans. But it can also mean something much larger: the universe, the course of things, the great event we live within. It’s a word worth defending.
Relationality: Rebuilding the connections that sustain life
This chapter of the Seeds Series explores “relationality” as a foundation for regenerative cultures, drawing on insights from various interviewees to show how empathy, accountability, place-based belonging, and interdependence can help heal the social and ecological fractures of modern life.
Is a new Copernican Revolution already underway?
A growing movement for the rights of nature and recognition of animal consciousness is challenging the ideology of human supremacy, treating the Earth as a community of beings rather than human property. It is a paradigm shift that may be the most urgent revolution of our time.
Can forests lose their memory? The warning coming from the Black Hills
In the Black Hills, Lakota teachings understand all beings as relatives bound together through relationship and reciprocity. As industrial forestry, extraction, and ecological disruption intensify, this article asks whether modern logging and restoration are eroding forests’ living memory and complexity.
Environmental protection depends on more than regulation
Wetlands, rivers and ecosystems do not stop functioning when legal definitions change. The long-term stability of environmental protection may depend less on enforcement than on cultural attitudes toward nature itself.
Forest gardening for resilience: Growing regenerative food systems in New Zealand
In New Zealand, forest gardening is being reshaped to fit local climates, ecosystems and cultural contexts. Drawing on years of research and practice, this work shows how place-based adaptation can support more resilient, regenerative food systems.
On a small island in Washington, the case for conservation as stewardship
A rare prairie ecosystem shaped by humans in Washington State exemplifies a shift in how conservationists envision our relationship with the natural world.
There’s no single path through collapse. It spans multiple systems and perspectives
In his new book, the author argues that without a clearer view of the systems we’re embedded in, as well as our cultural and historical contexts, our responses to the polycrisis will continue to fall short.
Rethinking our place in nature means rethinking the law
As Indigenous knowledge gains recognition and environmental crises deepen, a growing movement argues that granting legal rights to nature can protect it from exploitation.
How Pacific communities use sea worms to track time and seasonal shifts through a changing climate
In the Pacific Islands, the annual spawning of palolo sea worms feeds communities, marks time and sustains cultural traditions. Why this Indigenous tradition is becoming increasingly important as climate change intensifies weather events.
I Want a Better Catastrophe: Excerpt
What kind of ancestor do I want to be? What do I love too much to lose? What must I pick up and carry into the future? Across the days after our meeting, I realized Dr. Kimmerer’s questions weren’t just thought experiments, but heart experiments.
