Food and Farming
Because industrial agriculture is the single most destructive human activity against the environment, what we put on our collective plate and how we...
Restoring Ecosystems
Perhaps we should call it Watershed Earth. We’re made of water, totally dependent on it, yet it in turn depends on us to play our part in a good...
Restoring Ecosystems
Do you think of the wilderness as something far away? Not in the age of climate change and human population growth. The real wilderness is always...
Restoring Ecosystems
From the microbes to the mammals, all life shares far more in common than what makes us different. In other words, it’s all relatives. If we knew...
Indigeneity
The Original Instructions represent the ancient empirical wisdom of Traditional Ecological Knowledge earned over generations and millennia by people...
Indigeneity
The current industrial system generates 94 percent waste. It all lands somewhere, often ultimately in our bodies. A society that wastes its...
Eco-Nomics
Labor leader César Chavez helped ban DDT. Truckers are helping address appalling asthma rates at the filthy port of Los Angeles. And inner-city...
Justice
Garbage in, garbage out, as the early computer innovators remarked about information. A vital free press is the single most important feedback loop...
Food and Farming
GMO labeling initiatives in California and Washington State lost narrowly because a powerful alliance of Big Ag and Big Food spent millions to...
Justice
What does governance look like when it aligns with the ground truths of nature? How does culture change? What models exist? Hosted by Kirsten...
Indigeneity
This session challenges the paucity of funding for indigenous-led initiatives of preservation, conservation and revitalization in Indian Country and...
Ecological Design
How do we align political governance with ecological realities rooted in watersheds, foodsheds, culturesheds and regional economies? Hosted by:...