The Kind of Heroes We Need to Actually Save the Planet
By Rena Priest, YES! magazine
As storytellers, we plant beliefs that blossom into the structure of the world. In these times, we need a new structure—a narrative built on climate justice.
Tag: indigenous lifeways
Cloud forests: narrow bands of biodiversity filled with mist, fog and mystery
By Monica Evans, Landscape News
Cloud forests are born of very specific geographic and climatic features: they usually form partway up mountains, when moisture-laden air currents from surrounding lowlands and bodies of water are forced upward and then cool and condense as they rise, creating persistent fog or cloud cover in a particular area.
Being connected to the land
By Alice Damiano, Dan Morgan, Resilience.org
While late 2019 and the year 2020 will probably be remembered for the covid-19 pandemic, the world should not forget about another disaster: The bushfires in Australia, that this year were unusually intense and out of control. What let them be so terribly out of control in the first place?
These Indigenous educators are bringing Western and Native science together in the classroom
By Natalie Rademacher, Ensia
By meshing laboratory science with Traditional Ecological Knowledge, college professors aim to cultivate better environmental decision makers — and decisions.
American environmentalism’s racist roots have shaped global thinking about conservation
By Prakash Kashwan, The Conversation
American environmentalism’s racist roots have influenced global conservation practices. Most notably, they are embedded in longstanding prejudices against local communities and a focus on protecting pristine wildernesses.
The Lost Forest Gardens of Europe
By Max Paschall, Shelterwood Forest Farm blog
As we search for ways to remake the way we garden, farm, and live in a time of climate change, extreme inequality, and political disarray, looking back at the innovations of Europe’s hidden agroecological past can provide invaluable lessons on how we might collectively move forward.
Coming back to life in Tharaka, Kenya
By Simon Mitambo, The Ecologist
This is our vision and our contribution to the transformations we need around the world. If we really want to survive on this planet, we have to take care of our own biodiversity. COVID-19 is a wake-up call about how we should live in harmony with Nature, as our ancestors in Tharaka once did.
What to Do When the World is on Fire
By Henry Coleman, Local Futures
What we can do, however, is to raise the call for an economics of humility; an economics that respects the diversity and dynamic flows of the natural world; an economics of localisation.
The Walkers and the renaissance of indigenous culture in Peru
By Aaron Ebner, Resilience.org
It took a pandemic to reveal that the most resilient communities are oftentimes the most overlooked. It’s time to listen and learn from indigenous knowledge and livelihoods.
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.
How Rights of Nature victories in Colombia’s rainforests can inform shared knowledge systems globally
By Daniel Henryk Rasolt, Shareable
Rights of Nature is a movement that has been fortifying itself around the world as an antithesis to the dominant paradigm of limitless growth and extractivism. Firmly grounded in holistic Indigenous worldviews, this ecocentric paradigm could be a global game changer if a coordinated and adaptable effort — based on shared knowledge systems and accountability — is established.
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.