Amazon Standing
Financed by the Other Amazon Paying for Its Name It should be possible to pay to fully protect the Amazon rainforest while meeting local people’s needs. The best place to start is for online...
Global Ecological Restoration: The Leaves of the Tree Will Heal the Nations
“Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb down the middle of the great street of...
On Amazon Fires: It’s the Ecology Stupid
Global Ecological Sustainability depends critically upon ending the logging and burning of old forests and letting them recover, expand and reconnect “Each act of cutting and burning old trees diminishes and contributes to the...
Regenerating Gaia: Imagine a Peaceful Rebellion that Regrows Nature
Gaia – the living global ecological system – is collapsing and dying as human industrial growth overruns natural ecosystems and climate. Yet the biosphere can regenerate, as it has done before, given the time...
The Appalling Meaninglessness of Being in a Post-Modern, Pre-Apocalyptic World
Nothing really seems to matter much when your Planet is needlessly collapsing and dying. Big important ideas to base your life upon are in short supply. Pretty much god myths, stuff, and tribes are...
Declaring Climate Peace in an Age of Ecological Restoration
The global ecological system collapses and dies as human growth overruns natural ecosystems and climate. Our best hope is to declare peace with the natural world – starting with climate and old-growth forests –...
Bill McKibben’s Ecology-Free Declaration of War on Climate is Dangerous and Wrong
Why does Bill McKibben’s recent sensationalistic appeal for a “War on Climate” make no mention, not even one, of ecology or ecosystems? While understanding Mr. McKibben is trying to call for a rapid societal...
On Ecology and Going Back to the Land
Life begets life, making Earth livable. — Dr. Glen Barry Not much new land is being made, yet land’s health is central to the well-being of human and all life. On land, in a...
Open Letter: Post Keystone Win, Time to End Natural Forest Logging
An open letter/essay addressed to climate change luminaries Bill McKibben of 350.org and Michael Brune of the Sierra Club: After yesterday’s significant yet symbolic Keystone pipeline victory, not only must the climate movement demand...
California Wildfires Are Abrupt Climate Change, Ecological Collapse
It’s OK America, pop pills and watch TV. Don’t worry about abrupt climate change, environmental collapse, or perma-war blowback from your oil addiction. “California is a nice place to visit, but soon no one...