Science Denialism is Dangerous. But So is Science Imperialism.
Calls for strict science-based decision making on complex issues like GMOs and geoengineering can shortchange consideration of ethics and social impacts.
View ArticleThe Real Seed Producers
The picture often painted for us is that we need corporate seeds to feed the world: they are alleged to be more efficient, productive and predictable. Locally developed farmer varieties are painted as...
View ArticleThe Palestine Heirloom Seed Library and El Beir, Arts and Seeds.
In 2014, I founded the Palestine Heirloom Seed Library. The Library and associated El Beir Arts and Seeds symbolize this core belief: that agriculture is truly comprised of both “agri” (traditional...
View ArticleWhat a Saami-Led Project in Arctic Finland can Teach us about Indigenous Science
A successful Saami-led, salmon rewilding project on the Näätämö river in Arctic Finland illustrates the success of partnership between Indigenous knowledge and western science on environmental...
View ArticleAn Uneasy Alliance: Indigenous Traditional Knowledge Enriches Western Science
Science is a multicultural enterprise that benefits from and indeed requires competing views. Indigenous observations, perspectives and values enrich, not threaten, our collective knowledge of the world.
View ArticleBy Reconnecting With Soil, We Heal the Planet and Ourselves
The truth is that for thousands of years Black people have had a sacred relationship with soil that far surpasses our 246 years of enslavement and 75 years of sharecropping in the United States.
View ArticleLet’s get ‘creaturely’: A new worldview can help us face ecological crises
We argue for the Creaturely based not just on time but more importantly on the greater creativity and efficiency of nature’s ecosystems, compared with the limited vision and mixed record of human...
View ArticleClimate Change is Fueling Wildfires around the World. Can Indigenous...
Combining traditional knowledge with modern science and technology could reduce loss of property and human life from out-of-control blazes.
View ArticleConsuming the Anthropocene
In the basic conception of the Anthropocene, there are two actors: mankind and the environment. This sweeping and seemingly compelling divide at once highlights the separation of the two categories and...
View ArticleRegenerating the Human Story
“You know, what’s really wonderful about this is that it’s not just about regenerative agriculture, It’s about regenerating the human story; it’s about regenerating the way that we look at health,...
View ArticleFrom Sunset Strip to the Sierra Madre to a Nobel Nomination
Susan Eger was more adventurous than your average UCLA anthropology student in 1975 – even for a psychedelic-savvy follower of Carlos Castañeda. But a chance meeting with a fellow adventurer would set...
View ArticleHow First Australians’ Ancient Knowledge can Help us Survive the Bushfires of...
Many of those commenting on the current bushfire crisis in Australia argue about fuel reduction, hazard reduction, use of aerial incendiaries, drip torches, ancient Indigenous techniques and western...
View ArticleCrossing the Threshold
To cross this threshold is to become vulnerable: one way or another, you can be changed by what you come to know, and that change may come in the form of loss. Perhaps the loss of who you thought you...
View ArticleIndigenous Tribes are at the Forefront of Climate Change Planning in the U.S.
As other North American tribes have begun to experience the effects of climate change over the past decade, they too have started to adopt climate resilience and adaptation plans. According to a...
View ArticleBrazil’s Indigenous Peoples Face a Triple Threat from COVID-19, the...
The wilful jeopardising of indigenous peoples’ lives is particularly grave when you consider that the death of each elder represents the “burning of a library“.
View ArticleDecolonizing ecology
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...
View ArticleWhy we need racial justice in farming
We need all the support we can get to build this movement locally. In the spirit of “a high tide raises all ships”, racial justice in the progressive farming movement will benefit everyone.
View ArticleWhat Indigenous Wisdom Can Teach Us About Economics
Just as Indigenous wisdom is rooted in a myriad of complex and reciprocal interactions with the community, the land and water, the animals and plants, localizing makes visible the threads of...
View ArticleOur land was taken. But we still hold the knowledge of how to stop mega-fires
As wildfires rage across California, it saddens me that Indigenous peoples’ millennia-long practice of cultural burning has been ignored in favor of fire suppression.
View ArticleThe Emergence of Earth Jurisprudence in Africa
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.
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