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Healing with the Jajañ: A Wider Divide - Ancestrality vs. Coloniality

Environmentalists must not take monoculture for granted but instead challenge those assumptions and take Indigenous knowledge more seriously

Letter-to-the-Editor: Empowering Youth through Municipal Climate Advisory Committees

Paul Presendieu

May 202 min read

Letter-to-the-Editor: Empowering Youth through Municipal Climate Advisory Committees

It is imperative that we recognize and harness the potential of young voices in shaping our environmental future.

Healing with the Jajañ: Indigenous Polyculture as a Remedy to Colonial Monoculture

Rowan Glass

Mar 316 min read

Healing with the Jajañ: Indigenous Polyculture as a Remedy to Colonial Monoculture

A verdant basin nestled between the Andean highlands and Amazonian lowlands of southwest Colombia, a battle is being waged.

Mar 131 min read

Communion

I want to roll myself up in a sheet of grass like a blanket. Don a cloak of velvet moss.

Arriving at the Deer Dance: Indigenous by the Numbers

Antonio Valentino Gomez

Mar 105 min read

Arriving at the Deer Dance: Indigenous by the Numbers

Discovering my strength and environmental stewardship through a deeper connection to my roots and ancestry in the deer dance.

Breaking Down Carbon Markets: Trust in Decline

Mar 83 min read

Breaking Down Carbon Markets: Trust in Decline

To fight climate change, we need a better carbon market, wrote Peter McKoy for the New York Times . But how much better could it be?

Oct 31, 20232 min read

The Same Ocean

Photo by Angelea Hayes On my last day in Kaikoura, New Zealand, I went out into the 40°F weather with a coat But no shoes, rolled up my...

Breaking Down Carbon Markets: Planting Trees May Not be So Green After All

Oct 2, 20235 min read

Breaking Down Carbon Markets: Planting Trees May Not be So Green After All

"Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and you make it survive, you haven’t done a thing. You are just talking." ― Wangari...

History In the Making; Is it Enough? A Young Ocean Leader’s Take on New York Climate Week

Bodhi Patil

Oct 1, 20233 min read

History In the Making; Is it Enough? A Young Ocean Leader’s Take on New York Climate Week

Here are Bodhi Patil's 5 top takeaways and actions you can take to support a growing movement of ocean stewards:

How Findings on Bottlenose Dolphins Taught Me to be a Better Father

Sep 30, 20233 min read

How Findings on Bottlenose Dolphins Taught Me to be a Better Father

I’m a new father. Spending time with my daughter is one of the greatest gifts life has to offer, but sometimes it feels silly. I knew of...

Breaking Down Carbon Markets: The Challenges with Quick Solutions to the Climate Crisis - Intro

Sep 17, 20233 min read

Breaking Down Carbon Markets: The Challenges with Quick Solutions to the Climate Crisis - Intro

This summer was a huge moment for mainstream environmentalism. In July, the planet was the hottest it’s ever been. Smoke from Canadian...

A Re-Imagined Food System Needs to Look Beyond Organic Agriculture

Sep 4, 20234 min read

A Re-Imagined Food System Needs to Look Beyond Organic Agriculture

Shifting towards organic agriculture is a crucial step in creating a more sustainable food system, but scientists recently highlighted a...

An Indigenous Re-Write of the Narrative on the Spread of Horses Across North America

Aug 31, 20233 min read

An Indigenous Re-Write of the Narrative on the Spread of Horses Across North America

History is not always written by victors. A Spoiled Victory The Pueblo Revolt is noted by the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center to be, “the...

Aug 21, 20231 min read

When the Lights Go Out

A poem by Angelea Hayes.

The Impact of the Russia-Ukraine War on Europe’s Energy Trade Diversification

Ramsha Hameed

Aug 7, 20235 min read

The Impact of the Russia-Ukraine War on Europe’s Energy Trade Diversification

The European Union (EU) is a significant contributor to global energy consumption, representing more than 12.5% of the world’s energy...

Several Short Sentences on Surviving as a Simple Cell (a Lesson on the Simple Life)

Aug 2, 20232 min read

Several Short Sentences on Surviving as a Simple Cell (a Lesson on the Simple Life)

Even a single cell can be very complex. Plants and animals – the most intricate – contain tens of thousands of genes for the proteins...

Jul 28, 20231 min read

Fire Season

Fire season is upon us.

A guide to organizing social enterprises

nolandmonaghan

Jul 14, 20234 min read

A guide to organizing social enterprises

There are alternatives to the nonprofit model — Let’s break them down.

Masting the Playground Swing-set with Physics

Jun 30, 20232 min read

Masting the Playground Swing-set with Physics

Physicists Chiaki Hirata, Shun’ichi Kitahara, Yuji Yamamoto, Kazutodshi Gohara, and Michael Richardson offer new insights into the...

Understanding Lebanese American Identity Through Tabbouleh

Max Sano

Jun 17, 20235 min read

Understanding Lebanese American Identity Through Tabbouleh

Tabbouleh is valuable to Lebanese culture not only because of its flavor, but how it has stood the test of time.

Beverly Ndifoin

May 29, 20231 min read

She Feeds Them All

A sneak peek into an environmental poetry anthology.

Laura Valeri

May 28, 20231 min read

Tides

A poem by Laura Valeri.

Julie Garcia Souza

May 15, 20234 min read