Earth’s Real Treasure
Which do you think is more valuable: the web of living animals on this planet, or all the gold accessible in the ground? If given a choice to eliminate one and preserve the other, which would you choose?
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Indigenous Rights and the Fight for Life at Standing Rock
With the announcement that the Dakota Access Pipeline will be re-routed, the water protectors at Standing Rock might have won a battle but they have not yet won the war.
Autonomous Nature
Whatever this troubling word nature may mean, it is an unruly force.
Making Space for Flowers
…making space for nature goes beyond the world of nature reserves, wildlife documentaries or even pilgrimages into the wilderness.
Small Talk: Life on a Farm
I live on a farm that was once part forest, part swamp. I live with animals both domesticated and wild, with plants, with flowers, with a garden. My grandparents lived here, my parents, my siblings and I, and then my children too. I walk on the land every day and never get bored. There is always something new to see and learn. In the summer, I sit on my deck, which overlooks a pond, a field, and past that, the lake. Barn swallows nest over my head. Paper wasps build small grey cones among the swallow nests.