Offering Testimony on the Decline of the EPA
To undermine the Endangerment Finding is a breach of government responsibility, one that will not lead to an improved future for even special interests like energy producers and car companies.
Erik Assadourian
Hurricane Katrina Revealed Why Climate Justice Must Include the Right to Free Movement
Among a long list of lessons, Katrina taught us that climate migration is not a distant possibility, it’s already here. We were among the first in recent history to be displaced by a storm of its magnitude, but we absolutely will not be the last.
Carbon and Canada’s Cars: “Business As Usual, Electrified”
Electrification is an important and necessary step for a sustainable, healthy future, but growth-driven Business As Usual—even Electrified—is killing us.
Where will humanity move when the earth gets too hot?
In this episode, Nate is joined by environmental and migration historian, Sunil Amrith, to explore the complex history of human movement – and what it reveals about the looming wave of climate-driven migration.
Restoring Appalachia’s ex-coalfields: How native trees are reviving the region
Renew Appalachia is working to be a beacon of hope for the region. With native tree restoration, community involvement, and sustainable practices, they’re showing that even the most damaged landscapes can heal.
Bread of Heaven
To find satisfaction you have to have an encounter with the real world and absorb its great subtleties. It’s difficult to make the deep connections about food without meeting the people that grow the plants or bake the bread, or doing those things yourself.
The Canary Has Fallen Silent: Episode 2 of Going Steady with Herman Daly
We follow Herman from the lecture halls of Louisiana to the forests of Brazil – and through a period of global upheaval and personal transformation. It’s the late 1960s: war, civil rights, and the first whispers of ecological collapse are reshaping the world.
The Annihilation of the Ontological Feminine: The Second Essay of the Five-Essay Series – The Abyss of Civilization
Every myth matters. Each one reveals how people once understood their place in the cosmos. Most have been lost, their meanings erased. The story of Marduk and Tiamat survives—and that alone makes it worth examining.
Organic agriculture: to standardize or to diversify?
The developments of the organic certification system is today driven by the actors who have a vested interest in it, such as the standard-setters, certification bodies, government bureaucrats and consultants; not by the farmers, food producers, consumers and the trade they are supposed to serve.
Outrage as Plug Pulled on Coal Mine Public Hearing
In an unprecedented move Rob Morgan, the CEO of the Alberta Energy Regulator, has bowed to intense bullying from an Australian-based coal company and cancelled a planned public hearing on a large underground project near the town of Grande Cache.
Dear Ecologist, Don’t Forget About the Economy
Ecologists, this is a call to emerge from your niche occasionally, enough to acknowledge the root cause of the issues you study. You don’t need to start a new movement. There’s an existing movement of academics and activists establishing the need for degrowth to a steady state economy and raising awareness of this need.
The Silent Collapse: What the Disappearance of Insects Means for Humanity and the Earth
On this episode, Nate is joined by environmental journalist, Oliver Milman, to discuss the alarming decline in insect populations in the past few decades and the far-reaching consequences this has for ecosystem stability, human well-being, and the overall health of the biosphere.