Why the UN must rely more on indigenous wisdom and less on fossil fuels

By Jeremy Jiménez, Resilience.org

It is time for the United Nations and its various agencies to recognize that its top-down organizational structure is not suited to address our myriad ecological crises, and rather use its influence to advocate for, and allocate its resources to support, land custodianship for the millions of indigenous communities keeping alive the knowledge of how to live within the bounty of what our mother Earth provides.

In times of climate crisis, the future is a territory to defend

By Indigenous Futures Network, 15/15\15

We can regenerate the life systems to which our future is linked. But change must be at the root. Because after every crisis, we don’t want to return to normality, we want to return to the earth.

‘Existential Threat’: Indigenous Leaders Urge Citigroup to Stop Backing Amazon Oil

By Rachel Sherrington, DeSmog Blog

Indigenous leaders have called on Citigroup to stop financing oil and gas projects in the Amazon, saying the bank’s activities contradict its climate pledges by putting the threatened ecosystem at greater risk.

Rules of Thumb, 30×30, and the Laws of Nature

By Adrian Ayres Fisher, Ecological Gardening

The answer is that to avert the worst effects of climate change, tamp down on pollution, and avoid ecological destruction and the sixth extinction, everything—ethics, economics, business practices, basically the whole of modern industrial society, needs to change, to be conducted along different lines, and fast.

Chimalapas: Building community to save a forest

By Diana Manzo, Esperanza Project

The municipality of San Miguel Chimalapa, located here, contains the largest section of virgin tropical evergreen cloud forest, according to Conabio, the Mexican biodiversity commission. Yet its 6,470-member Zoque population, descended from the Mayan Empire, is heir to a painful history.

Declared Extinct, the Yaghan Rise in the Land of Fire

By Jude Isabella, Katrina Pyne, Hakai Magazine

The Indigenous people of Tierra del Fuego were once relegated to historical oblivion. Now, archaeologists are helping them pursue deeper stories about their ancestors.

Our struggles are your struggles: stories of Indigenous resistance and regeneration

By Robert Raymond, Shareable

Standing Rock was a pivotal moment in regards to Indigenous resistance — but it was just one in a long line of battles that Indigenous peoples have been fighting against the twin forces of colonialism and capitalism since first contact.

Resources for a better future: Technology

By Corporate Watch Staff, Corporate Watch

"Technology is not neutral. We’re inside of what we make, and it’s inside of us. We’re living in a world of connections — and it matters which ones get made and unmade"

Community Defenders of the Territories Moving Forward

By Victor M. Toledo, Esperanza Project

Like vegetation on a burned grassland, Mexico is seeing a growth in community resistance movements in defense of local territories, of life and of Mother Earth.

Down to the Ground – Green Medicine for the People!

By Ursula Billington, ARC2020

Health is a human right, not a privilege, which is why Herbalists Without Borders work to deliver health justice to displaced and disadvantaged people via the powerful medium of herbs.

The Nutmeg’s Curse: Review

By Eliza Daley, By my solitary hearth

In the The Nutmeg’s Curse, Amitav Ghosh presents a sweeping historical perspective of the interwoven crises of our times, showing us that our problems are structural, global and deeply rooted.

Choosing to “stay with the trouble”: a gesture towards decolonial research praxis

By Jennifer J. Casolo, Selmira Flores, Noémi Gonda, Andrea J. Nightingale, Undisciplined Environments

In the midst of growing hunger from colonial academia we reflect on the need to right our relationships with the Indigenous and other racialized peoples with whom we work in Nicaragua.