How a Tribal Rights Lawyer Is Winning Back the Rights of Nature
Attorney Frank Bibeau found a way to legally protect nature by suing the state of Minnesota in the name of manoomin, or wild rice, sacred to the Ojibwe people.
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Accelerating recovery of wild European mammals brings hope of wider nature regeneration
In sum, while the world is facing a human-induced mass extinction event and unprecedented losses of biodiversity and wildlife worldwide, it is important to remember the power we have to make positive choices to protect species and the environments they live in and upon which we all depend.
From Smart Innovation to Wise Design. The World Population Recently Passed 8 Billion. We Have No Plan to Deal with All that Shit
Our current predicament demands an alternative design paradigm that envisions its infrastructures as if we were 8 billion humans living in an overstressed finite planet—because we are.
Crazy Town: Episode 72. Sucking CO2 and Electrifying Everything: The Climate Movement’s Desperate Dependence on Tenuous Technologies
Meet Mark Jacobson and David Keith, the leading techno-fixologists who overpromise overhyped “solutions” to the climate conundrum. Please share this episode with your friends and start a conversation.
Steppe-World
The future Steppe world, if it comes, is one we seem unprepared for.
Little things mean a lot: The world’s microbiome under threat
The smallest living things in the world may be the most important to us humans.
Recipes for car dependency
A car-dependent society isn’t built overnight. It takes concerted effort by multiple levels of government and industry to make private cars the go-to, all-but-obligatory choice for everyday personal transportation.
What Sound Can Tell Us About Our Changing World
As new technologies supercharge the field of bioacoustics, researchers can better listen to environmental changes — and use the information to guide conservation efforts.
Crazy Town: Episode 71. How Ecomodernists Hijacked the Environmental Movement: Technotopian Bullshit and a Raging Case of God Complex
Meet Stewart Brand and his band of merry dematerialists, the Silicon Valley salesmen who undermined environmentalism with planet-saving fantasies that reek of technofetishism. Please share this episode with your friends and start a conversation.
An epic global study of moss reveals it is far more vital to Earth’s ecosystems than we knew
New global research on soil mosses published today in Nature Geoscience reveals they play critical roles in sustaining life on our planet.
20 Theses for Liberation
Below, we propose some basic insights, claims, and commitments that all seekers of new societal relations might choose to further develop and refine. The 20 theses are not ours per se, but come from many movements over years, decades, and even centuries.
Coral Reefs Are in Crisis. Could a Controversial Idea Help?
To preserve habitat for fish and benefits for humans, some scientists suggest we need to explore the need for assisted migration.