A new and silent land grab is underway – we must stop it
Securing land and preventing land grabbing must go hand-in-hand with inclusive, redistributive forms of economic development.
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Does US Climate Policy Have a Herring Problem? (Part 3)
The ultimate question SCOTUS must answer is this:
Is there ever a time when the health of democracy trumps judicial philosophies and precedents? If not now, when?
Nation-states are destroying the world. Could ‘bioregions’ be the answer?
Now, from the war-torn border regions of South Asia to the Amazon rainforest, people are questioning whether sustainability can ever be achieved through the framework of nation-states. They are turning to other ways of organising society based on Indigenous worldviews and practices that respect all humans and the rest of nature.
Tromelin Island’s Impressive Comeback
But small as it is, Tromelin Island shows that seabirds are resilient. If people can get rid of invasive predators, island restoration can work—sometimes stunningly.
Science Conference Sunrise
This knowledge, about Earth’s capacity for regulation and renewal, is still just cresting the horizon of human understanding, but as with a sunrise, the Earth is rolling us towards it. It feels inevitable.
Local Newspapers Are Lifelines for Climate-Disaster Communities
As floods, fires, and tornadoes surge, and daily as well as weekly publications collapse, local journalism maintains an all-too-slender lifeline in devastated rural communities like mine.
Do Ruddy Turnstones ask Red Knots for directions?
The Internet of Animals relies on the latest products of high-tech manufacturing, and it is vulnerable to the turbulence of human power struggles. But at its heart the project is the life’s work of dedicated scientists simply doing their best to learn from animals.
Arizona wants to mine uranium near the Grand Canyon. Tribal nations are fighting back.
Arizona wants to mine uranium near the Grand Canyon. Tribal nations are fighting back.
Does US Climate Policy Have a Herring Problem? (Part 2)
It is nearly impossible to conceive of any significant environmental regulation over the past four decades that has not involved the application of the “Chevron deference.”
How Do You Protect Something Most People Will Never See?
Meet the Fab Five: A combination of visual and virtual community engagement tools using charismatic species to help win hearts and minds toward saving the ocean.
Pella Thiel: “Criminalizing Ecocide: The Rights of Nature”
On this episode, Nate is joined by maverick ecologist Pella Thiel to discuss the legal frameworks behind the Ecocide and Rights of Nature Movements. Our current economic and legal systems have no mechanisms to consider nature in our decision making – much less to make systemic planetary stability a priority.
Summoned by the Earth: Excerpt
Our identification with a separate sense of self will no longer be the organizing principle for life on Earth. Our evolution as a species and as a planetary culture depends not only on our realization of this, but our embodiment of it. Living our lives in a profoundly transformed way and connecting our communities in service to Mother Earth is where hope can be found.