Defending the Birthplace of the Sun

By Tracy L. Barnett, Esperanza Project

It was the native Wixárika people—better known  internationally by their Spanish name, the  Huicholes—who galvanized a global movement  with their call for help.

A victory for Indigenous environmental activism in Ecuador

By Tristan Partridge, Open Democracy

To be successful, páramo protection will need to be led by the Indigenous and campesino communities who share the richest histories and everyday entanglements with these unique lands.

Traditional skills help people on the tourism-deprived Pacific Islands survive the pandemic

By Regina Scheyvens, Apisalome Movono, The Conversation

But our research shows how people are surviving – and in some cases, thriving – in the face of significant loss of income. This is due in part to their reliance on customary knowledge, systems and practices.

What could possibly go right?: Episode 26 Julian Brave NoiseCat

By Vicki Robin, Julian Brave NoiseCat, Resilience.org

Julian Brave NoiseCat is Vice President of Policy & Strategy for Data for Progress and Narrative Change Director for the Natural History Museum. Julian provides his insight on What Could Possibly Go Right?

Lessons from Evangeline’s garden

By Dennis Tabaro, The Ecologist

We must learn from our elders, so we can enjoy abundant gardens, nutritious food and a closeness to Nature for many generations to come.

Bringing disaster preparedness into resilience politics

By Brian Davey, Feasta

In preparing for disaster – and re-developing after disaster occurs – we must guide the redevelopment with a new kind of political economy that is socially just AND pulls back economic activity from recreating the same problems over and again.

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.

As the smoke subsides, West Coast climate activists show what an effective response looks like

By Nick Engelfried, Waging Nonviolence

Even as communities begin picking themselves up after the devastation, West Coast climate activists are experimenting with what an effective response to such crises looks like.

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.

Urban-Rural: The New Geographies of Innovation

By John Thackara, John Thackara blog

Growth, in this new story, means soils, biodiversity and watersheds getting healthier, and communities more resilient. The signals of transformation I talk about are not concepts, and they are not the fruits of a vivid imagination. They are happening now.

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.

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.