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Reducing global inequality and saving the planet from climate catastrophe are intertwined. Let’s address both at once.
States have powerful legal tools to counter federal environmental rollbacks, from enacting stronger local regulations to forming interstate coalitions that protect natural resources and public health.
Most plastic is tossed after minutes of use, but its impact on wildlife and the environment can last for centuries.
Many U.S. veterans are suffering from asbestos-related illnesses due to past military exposure, highlighting the urgent need for a national asbestos-exposure registry to improve early detection, diagnosis, and access to VA benefits.
Foods with unnaturally high levels of sugar and salt keep Americans snacking their way to obesity.
We are closer to nuclear disaster than ever before.
Unsustainable tourism threatens Africa’s wildlife and ecosystems, particularly in the Maasai Mara. The travel industry can help tourists contribute to the solution.
The strategy used by Big Tobacco is called state or “ceiling” preemption: promoting weaker state public health laws to override stronger local laws.
Experimenting on monkeys is cruel—and keeping them is a threat to public health.
Known by its brand name Roundup, glyphosate is a clear and present danger to human health.
Eating animal products is analogous to the oppressive and unjust actions by powerful humans upon other humans.
Bees are remarkable creatures, even for the mundane tasks we see them engaged in daily.
Local and rural cooperative utilities can use community solar to meet unique place-based clean energy needs.
Marine heat waves are causing record-breaking ocean temperatures that kill animals and impact ocean-based industries.
Preserving biodiversity is among the most urgent issues of our time, and it needs to be addressed regionally to succeed.
Unfair family planning regimes have stalled progress in the climate fight and prevent children from having a fair start in life.
By Ashley Berke, Carter Dillard, Beatrix Homler and Rei Stone-Grover in Environment | Earth Food Life Project | English
Factory farming has devastating environmental impacts, but there are ways we can protect our vital resources.
Renewable energy doesn’t matter if we can’t distribute it.
Decades of toxic contamination at Camp Lejeune have left veterans, military families, and civilians with devastating health issues.
Nineteenth-century activists revolutionized attitudes toward nonhuman animals amid cultural, economic, and moral shifts in a rapidly changing nation.
By Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy in Animal Rights | Earth Food Life Project and Human Bridges Project | English | February 3, 2025
Lack of law enforcement leads to needless suffering of sentient beings.
Untreated windows can be deadly for wild birds—hummingbirds are particularly at risk.
Fish are sentient beings subjected to cruelty to maximize profits for the multibillion-dollar industry.
Factory farming has made us think of chickens as mindless automata. But our downy friends know much more than we give them credit for.
As a rapidly warming world strains at the shortcomings in industrial farming, key lessons can be taken from Indigenous practices.
By Dan Ross in Environment | Earth Food Life Project | English | Guide to Alternatives to Industrial Agriculture
Sleep is a biological necessity, but it remains a mysterious phenomenon we don’t fully understand.
Bats and vultures may not be widely loved, but their decline has profound negative implications for humans.
Listening to birds benefits our mental health, leading to less stress and paranoia.
When global leaders won’t save our food system, cities take the lead.
By Anita Krajnc, Laura Lee Cascada and Nital Jethalal in Animal Rights | Earth Food Life Project | English
Massive industrial livestock financing sabotages major U.S. banks’ climate goals.
Society’s addiction to palm oil—the world’s most widely consumed vegetable oil—is killing critically endangered Sumatran elephants.
By Laurel Sutherlin in Animal Rights | Rainforest Action Network and Earth Food Life Project | English | Guide to Conscious Consumption
Unchecked human activity is clearing the skies of flying animals and insects.
Wolves benefit the entire ecosystem they inhabit. So why hunt them?
Birth equity is essential for ecological security.
By Esther Afolaranmi and Carter Dillard in Environment | Earth Food Life Project and Fair Start Movement | English
We can no longer rely on simple solutions like recycling to solve our plastic waste problem.
By Lydia Chodosh in Environment | Earth Food Life Project | English | Guide to Conscious Consumption
Several EU nations have embraced biomass electricity, which speeds up carbon emissions, pollution and forest destruction.
By Danna Smith in Environment | Dogwood Alliance and Earth Food Life Project | English | Guide to Renewable Energy
Plastic is in the air we breathe, the food we eat, and the water we drink. How does it get there—and what does it mean for human health?
By Erica Cirino in Environment | Island Press and Earth Food Life Project | English | Guide to Environmental Health
Despite industry rhetoric, hydropower is high-cost and high-risk. There are better options for a renewable energy future.
By Deborah Moore, Michael Simon and Darryl Knudsen in Environment | International Rivers and Earth Food Life Project | English | Guide to Renewable Energy
Our existing water supplies could go further by turning wastewater into drinking water.
We are the cause of the bumblebee decline—and the solution.
The fate of intact forests is closely linked to that of Indigenous peoples.
More than a million Namibians lack adequate access to toilets, resulting in one of the world’s highest rates of open defecation.
Millions of tons of palm oil are ‘missing’ from Big Food’s deforestation-free claims.
Malawi’s farmers—mostly women—lost their land, livestock, and livelihoods after a storm. They are struggling to recover in a nation considered one of the world’s most affected by extreme weather events.
The carrot has followed armies, colonial explorers, and politicians to become one of the world’s most prized vegetables.
Genetically engineered eucalyptus will worsen a bad situation in Brazil.
By Steve Taylor and Orin Langelle in Environment | Global Justice Ecology Project and Earth Food Life Project | English
Despite corporate commitments, deforestation rates remain high, and community land conflicts continue.
Plastic particles and chemicals pollute all of our bodies. But people living on the fencelines of the fossil fuel, plastic, and waste industries face even more life-threatening pollution.
We all have a moral obligation to do the least possible harm to our planet, and that ethos has a name: veganics.
Bioenergy companies are clear-cutting American forests to heat and electrify Europe. This broken system harms public health, the environment, and the climate.
Major U.S. brands involved in the meat industry are causing enormous environmental destruction.
How one North Dakota farmer saved his farm and livelihood using carbon-friendly farming methods.
A city in the middle of the desert with less rainfall than any other in the nation was bound to have a water problem.
Biological age may really just be a number.
Animal whisperer Sy Montgomery argues that we share greater similarities than differences with our fellow animals, and that fact should make us reexamine our relationships with them.
By Leslie Crawford and Sy Montgomery in Animal Rights | Stone Pier Press and Earth Food Life Project | English
Lack of governmental oversight of factory farms has created a public health crisis of antibiotic-resistance diseases in people.
By Tia Schwab in Animal Rights | Stone Pier Press and Earth Food Life Project | English | Guide to Factory Farming
Americans eat more meat per capita than any other country, even though meat consumption is linked to heart disease, diabetes and cancer.
By Jennifer Barckley in Environment | The Humane League and Earth Food Life Project | English | Guide to Conscious Consumption
The seven steps that could help build a social movement and ensure a sustainable future.
The growing emergence of diseases from animals suggests that we need to rethink our reliance on animals as a food source.
By Vicky Bond in Animal Rights | The Humane League and Earth Food Life Project | English | Guide to Environmental Health
How to build a relationship with a hawk—and learn about nature, life, and love in the process.
The Bureau of Land Management is misleading the American people about the nation’s wild horses and burros.
Protecting the Earth’s oceans is problematic when profit is the leading concern.
Profit-driven urban development has disconnected us—particularly children—from the wilderness. The effects are unhealthy.
Our food system is linked to an economic system fundamentally biased against what’s good for people and the planet.
Every piece of bacon comes from a unique personality.
With more farmers today than at almost any point in history, humanity’s future will likely be agrarian. We must imagine that world into being.
By Chris Smaje in Environment | Earth Food Life Project | English | Guide to Alternatives to Industrial Agriculture
Palm oil is found in 50 percent of all consumer goods. And it’s killing the environment.
Cataclysmic wildfires have been increasing in intensity and frequency due to human-caused climate change.
Americans discard 100 billion plastic bags annually, the equivalent of 12 million barrels of oil.
The United Arab Emirates is destroying the biodiversity of a Yemeni archipelago.
A nationally protected wildlife reserve in Indonesia is under attack by popular, big-name brands.
By Laurel Sutherlin in Environment | Rainforest Action Network and Earth Food Life Project | English
The destruction of nature might one day become a criminal offense adjudicated by the International Criminal Court.
The eco-footprint of the wine industry is significant, and some wineries are taking steps to reduce their impact. For conscious consumers, it’s about knowing what to look for.
By Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner in Environment | Earth Food Life Project | English | March 25, 2020 | Guide to Alternatives to Industrial Agriculture
Middle school student activists write to their elected representatives to urge climate action.
The “lungs of North America,” the Tongass National Forest is the Earth’s largest intact temperate rainforest. Protecting it means protecting the entire planet.
Time-proven acequia irrigation systems already in use in New Mexico make it possible for people to thrive in arid regions.
The U.S. beef industry is destroying the American Wild West and worsening the climate crisis.
Veganic agriculture is the food revolution for the modern world.
A genetically engineered chestnut tree may be the first to spread into forests, setting dangerous global precedents.
By Anne Petermann in Environment | Global Justice Ecology Project and Earth Food Life Project | English
Water pressures like droughts are intensifying due to global warming and population growth. Treating wastewater is a powerful solution, finally gaining more public support.
Wet markets are perfect breeding grounds for pathogens that can jump from animals to humans.
A changing climate and population growth are fueling water-based conflicts across the African continent.
By Robin Scher in Environment | Earth Food Life Project | English | March 25, 2022 | Guide to Environmental Health
No version of “waters of the U.S.” (WOTUS), part of the Clean Water Act, adequately protects the nation’s natural areas.
Livestock waste can contain dangerous pathogens, pharmaceuticals, and chemicals.
Under the cover of greenwashing, global insurers are fueling climate change.
A product of entrenched, historic racism, “sacrifice zones”—designed to site pollution hot spots within communities of color—are a frontline in a largely silent, often deadly, and steadily growing health crisis across the United States.
Modern sustainability evolved from forest management of the 18th century, and its ancient roots go back even further. Could it help with today’s climate crisis and lumber shortage?
We must find a better way to prevent land use from changing.
Countless dairy cows experience a shocking level of cruelty every day at factory farms.
Regulatory loopholes allow more than 30 million pounds of a cancer-causing pesticide to be sprayed on U.S. crops.
We wouldn’t say “it” or “that” when referring to humans, so why would we for other sentient individuals?
By Alicia Graef, Debra Merskin and Carrie P. Freeman in Animal Rights | In Defense of Animals and Earth Food Life Project | English
Workers were documented killing piglets by smashing their heads against the ground.
Factory farms are harmful to animals, the environment, local communities, and public health. We need a more logical and just food system.
The COVID-19 pandemic has given rise to the world’s new pollution problem.
Despite centuries of domestication, the call of the wild has always been in the chicken’s heart.
Here’s a frightening peek into our climate-addled future.
Seventy-five percent of new or emerging diseases that harm humans start in non-human animals.
It is possible to ‘grow’ leather without raising and killing animals.
People are growing less tolerant to violence against animals, and lawmakers are responding. But more needs to be done.
Chemists are manipulating carbon dioxide to make clothing, mattresses, shoes, and more.
By Ann Leslie Davis in Environment | Earth Food Life Project | English | Guide to the Plastic Crisis
We must ensure ecocentric standards to reverse environmental and social injustices.
By Esther Afolaranmi, Carter Dillard, Beatrix Homler and Mwesigye Robert in Environment | Earth Food Life Project | English
Direct sales and the organic label are not enough to keep family-scale farms viable.
The average American believes the false narrative that natural gas is a “clean fuel.”
Bioenergy is often seen as a more environmentally-friendly alternative to other forms of energy generation. But the truth is that it can actually be quite harmful to the environment.
By Sam Davis in Energy | Dogwood Alliance and Earth Food Life Project | English | Guide to Renewable Energy
The absence of clear and broad constitutional authority to protect the environment limits the scope of federal environmental law.
Broken child welfare policies have undermined political systems and destroyed the planetary ecosystem.
Many nonprofits have accepted family planning policies that are harmful to women, children, and the environment.
It’s a harsh reality for the climate: What’s already been emitted must be sucked out of the air, too.
A key to fighting climate change could be right under our feet.
By Dan Ross in Environment | Earth Food Life Project | English | Guide to Alternatives to Industrial Agriculture
When it comes to maintaining energy flows, there is a closing window to avert both climate catastrophe and economic peril.
Hydropower dams, initially celebrated as feats of engineering, are now scrutinized for their negative environmental and societal impacts.
Switching to organic products is an easy way to eat healthier and support the environment.
Radical societal transformation is inevitable; a plan could make a difference between catastrophe and progress.
Decades of unjust land use decisions have deliberately shaped and harmed communities. But there are concrete actions you can take to make positive changes.
By Cate Mingoya-LaFortune in Environment | Earth Food Life Project and Island Press | English | Guide to Climate and Environmental Action
As the European Union phases out animal research, the United States just wants more.
The immense suffering endured by factory farmed chickens is grossly inhumane. We must treat them better.
Leaving river protections to states doesn’t make sense when rivers cross state lines.
Commercial financial flows to the forest-risk commodity sectors are driving the majority of tropical deforestation.
By Laurel Sutherlin in Environment | Rainforest Action Network and Earth Food Life Project | English | April 24, 2024
No food should be worth the amount of suffering experienced by sentient animals trapped in our food system.
Progress is being undone by growth, especially as the climate crisis deepens.
Rich countries have exported climate breakdown through extractive industries, creating a “carbon colonialism.”
Harnessing the power of story may help us survive and thrive on a climate-altered planet.
By Katherine Dolan in Environment | Earth Food Life Project | English | Guide to Climate and Environmental Action
Renewable energy isn’t replacing fossil fuel energy—it’s adding to it.
By Richard Heinberg in Environment | Post Carbon Institute and Earth Food Life Project | English | Guide to Renewable Energy
The promise of AI is eclipsed by its perils, which include our own annihilation.
Chemicals commonly found in consumer products have been proven to harm human health, yet they still remain legal stateside.
COVID-19, SARS, and Ebola were transmitted to humans from wild animals living in tropical forests. Destroying their habitats is killing us.
A few simple strategies for recipe curation can help newsgroups achieve their own climate goals.
Using the same land for the production of both agriculture and solar energy is a win-win for the climate and farmers.
By Tina Casey in Environment | Earth Food Life Project | English | Guide to Alternatives to Industrial Agriculture
Here are five surprising ways to reconsider your backyard so it can promote native plants while also protecting wildlife.
By Daniel Klem Jr., Doug Tallamy and Jim Cubie in Environment | Earth Food Life Project | English | Guide to Climate and Environmental Action
It’s time to rethink our broken and unfair family planning systems.
Not only does hydroelectric power fail to prevent catastrophic climate change, but it also renders countries more vulnerable to climate change while emitting significant amounts of methane, one of the worst greenhouse gases.
By Josh Klemm and Eugene Simonov in Environment | International Rivers and Earth Food Life Project | English | Guide to Renewable Energy
Milk made from plants is entering the public consciousness (and stomachs) in coffee shops across the globe.
By Mikhala Kaseweter in Animal Rights | Better Food Foundation and Earth Food Life Project | English | Guide to Conscious Consumption
Nuclear power has promise and peril, posing many challenging questions for environmentalists.
Desert conditions could spread rapidly from groundwater depletion and plant destruction.
In its illogical support of Big Dairy, the U.S. government is misleading the public and padding the pockets of one industry over another.
Pets and the industry that supports them are fueling the loss of wildlife populations around the world.
Endangered animals may get more attention from the public, but without plants, humans won’t survive.
Electromagnetic radiation from Wi-Fi and cell towers may pose a “credible risk” to birds, mammals, insects, and even plants.
If the internet were a country, it would be the sixth biggest user of electricity.
Less than 10 percent of the plastic used in the United States is recycled.
By Mary Mazzoni in Environment | Earth Food Life Project | English | October 17, 2018 | Guide to the Plastic Crisis
Investing in grid infrastructure would enable utilities to incorporate modern technology, making the grid more resilient and flexible.
Managing solar radiation through technology is possible, but there are ethical and political concerns.
It is clear that plastic is choking the planetary environment. What is less clear is the impact of plastic on human bodies.
By Robin Scher in Environment | Earth Food Life Project | English | March 9, 2019 | Guide to Environmental Health
The industrialized food system is a major source of greenhouse gas emissions, but it is not a major topic at climate talks.
As the world burns—and as kids sound the alarm—the original environmental scientist is worth revisiting.
We have a new major environmental problem on our hands.
By focusing the climate fight on what we emit, not what we consume, we are destined to fail.
We can empower children to be a part of the solution.
To achieve justice for all species and the environment, we must create a more relational world.
State lawmakers introduced nearly 2,900 bills based on ALEC templates from 2010 through 2018. More than 600 of them became law.
If it wasn’t shade-grown, your coffee most likely destroyed forest cover and wildlife habitat.
By Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner in Environment | Earth Food Life Project | English | October 3, 2018 | Guide to Conscious Consumption
Experts warn that continued world population growth will make things worse.
America’s highest court has limited the EPA’s authority to regulate power plant emissions.
Higher carbon dioxide levels and warmer temperatures are causing plants to increase their pollen production.
By Lucy Goodchild van Hilten in Environment | Earth Food Life Project | English | Guide to Environmental Health
To prevent the worst climate scenarios, carbon emissions must be slashed to net-zero by 2050.
Smaller, more sustainable families would create massive long-term savings and catalyze sustainable development.
Are our dietary choices are linked to brain function? Brain scans and social media may offer clues.
Fossil fuel stakeholders have been seeking new revenue in the petrochemical industry in general, and plastics in particular.
The climate crisis is a form of oppression by a wealthy few.
By Carter Dillard in Environment | Fair Start Movement and Earth Food Life Project | English | Guide to Climate and Environmental Action
The nascent industry of next-gen materials is set to dethrone unsustainable animal-based materials.
Women are more supportive of pro-environmental policies, but they’re generally not in a position to make such decisions.
Eating locally reduces your ecological footprint, but studies show what you eat may be even more important.
Biodiversity is plummeting, but restoring rivers could quickly reverse this disastrous trend.
By Alessandra Korap Munduruku, Darryl Knudsen and Irikefe V. Dafe in Environment | International Rivers and Earth Food Life Project | English
Edited by Reynard Loki, Earth • Food • Life explores the critical and often interconnected issues facing the climate/environment, food/agriculture, and nature/animal rights, and champions action—specifically, how responsible citizens, voters, and consumers can help put society on an ethical path of sustainability that respects the rights of all species who call this planet home.
Earth • Food • Life emphasizes the idea that everything is connected, so every decision matters.
Associated Authors
Josh Klemm is co-director of International Rivers.
John J. Berger is an environmental science and policy specialist, prize-winning author, and journalist.
Brittany Michelson is an animal rights activist, writer and former teacher.
Nital Jethalal is a policy analyst and economist. He currently serves as strategist and policy advisor for the Plant Based Treaty and also oversees economics and policy research for Plant Based Data. Nital is also the president of VegTO and a director at the Toronto Vegetarian Food Bank.
Eva J. Charalambides is a photographer and vegan advocate.
Lydia Chodosh is a writer, designer, and fine artist based in Providence, Rhode Island.
Caroline Cox is a retired pesticide scientist. She was a staff scientist at the Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides from 1990 to 2006 and a research director and senior scientist at the Center for Environmental Health from 2006 to 2020.
Steve Taylor is a freelance journalist and the host of the podcast Breaking Green produced by Global Justice Ecology Project.
Carrie P. Freeman, PhD, is a professor of communication at Georgia State University and is a co-founder of Animals and Media.
Leslie Crawford is the author of Sprig the Rescue Pig and Gwen the Rescue Hen, both published by Stone Pier Press.
Chris Smaje has co-worked on a small farm in Somerset, southwest England, since 2007. Smaje is the author of A Small Farm Future, writes a blog at about farming, ecology, and politics, and is a featured author at resilience.org.
Suren Moodliar is the editor of the journal Socialism and Democracy and coordinator of encuentro5, a movement-building space in downtown Boston. He is the coauthor of Dying for Capitalism: How Big Money Fuels Extinction and What We Can Do About It (Routledge, 2023).
Gary Belan is the senior director of clean water supply at American Rivers.
Karen Davis, PhD, (1944–2023) was the president and founder of United Poultry Concerns. She was an award-winning animal rights activist and the author of numerous books.
Eugene Simonov is the international coordinator of the Rivers without Boundaries Coalition.
Freddie Clayton is an investigative journalist with the Center for Collaborative Investigative Journalism, focusing on environmental themes, specifically water and sanitation issues worldwide.
Nina Jackel is the founder of Lady Freethinker, a nonprofit media organization dedicated to exposing and stopping the suffering of animals, humans, and the planet. Find them on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
Sy Montgomery is a naturalist, documentary scriptwriter, and author of 31 books of nonfiction for adults and children. She is the recipient of lifetime achievement awards from the Humane Society and the New England Booksellers Association.
Alessandra Korap Munduruku is a Munduruku Indigenous woman leader from Indigenous Reserve Praia do Índio in the Brazilian Amazon. She is a member of Pariri, a local Munduruku association, as well as the Munduruku Wakoborûn Women’s Association. In 2020, Alessandra won the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award for her work defending the culture, livelihoods and rights of Indigenous peoples in Brazil.
Anne Petermann is the executive director of Global Justice Ecology Project.
Sam Davis is a staff scientist at the Partnership for Policy Integrity (PFPI), a nonprofit that uses science, litigation, policy analysis, and strategic communications to promote policies that protect climate, ecosystems, and people.
Alicia Graef is a guardian and dog meat campaigner at In Defense of Animals. A lifelong animal lover and freelance writer with a Bachelor’s degree in animal and veterinary science, Alicia has covered issues relating to animals for more than a decade.
Teresa Coady is an award-winning architect, sustainability expert, and Fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada.
Dr. Stephen Buchmann is a pollination ecologist specializing in bees and an adjunct professor with the departments of entomology and of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Arizona.
Richard Heinberg is senior fellow at the Post Carbon Institute and the author of Power: Limits and Prospects for Human Survival.
For more than two decades, Darryl Knudsen has channeled the power of civil society movements to create enduring, positive change toward social and environmental justice for the underrepresented. Darryl holds a master’s degree from Columbia University and a BA from Dartmouth College. He served as the executive director of International Rivers.
Orin Langelle is the director of Langelle Photography and co-founder of Global Justice Ecology Project.
Lorraine Chow is the stewardship and outreach coordinator at the Santa Fe Watershed Association.
Doug Tallamy is the T. A. Baker Professor of Agriculture in the Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology at the University of Delaware and co-founder of Homegrown National Park.
Mikhala Kaseweter, MSc, advances right relationships with nonhuman animals through her work at the Better Food Foundation.
Jim Cubie, JD, is a consultant to the Muhlenberg College Center for Ornithology where he advises on bird safety and native plants.
Tia Schwab is a former news fellow for Stone Pier Press, a San Francisco-based environmental publishing company with a food focus. She is a graduate of Stanford University, where she studied human biology with a concentration in food systems and public health. Tia was born and raised in Austin, Texas, and she is passionate about using storytelling to create a healthy, just, and sustainable food system.
Jennifer Barckley is the vice president of communications at The Humane League.
Ann Leslie Davis is an award-winning freelance journalist.
Reynard Loki is a co-founder of the Observatory, where he is the environment and animal rights editor.
L. Michelle Moore is the CEO of Groundswell, a nonprofit that builds community power by connecting solar and energy efficiency.
Mwesigye Robert is the founder of the Rejoice Africa Foundation.
Elizabeth Henderson is an organic farmer. She is the co-chair of the Interstate Council policy committee of the Northeast Organic Farming Association and represents the Interstate Council on the Board of the Agricultural Justice Project.
Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner is a writing fellow at Earth | Food | Life, a project of the Independent Media Institute. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, AlterNet, Architectural Digest, Travel & Leisure, Condé Nast Traveler, and other publications.
Sonja Smith is an award-winning journalist based in Namibia. She is a member of the Center for Collaborative Investigative Journalism and a correspondent for the Associated Press. Smith has worked for various Namibian media outlets, including Confidente, the Windhoek Observer, and the Namibian.
Gigi Kellett is a managing director for Corporate Accountability.
Ginger Fedak is a lifelong animal welfare advocate and horse professional, having spent decades teaching about and advocating for domestic and wild horses.
Beatrix Homler is an animal and human rights activist.
Lisa Jones-Engel is a primatologist.
Tina Casey has been writing about sustainability, the global energy transition, and related matters since 2009. She is a regular contributor to CleanTechnica and TriplePundit, where she also focuses on corporate social responsibility and social issues.
Jenny Canham is a leading professional in the global animal protection sector. She is an experienced journalist and works with governments, corporations and the public to achieve critical changes for animals.
She is the Director of Outreach and Engagement at Animal Outlook, a leading U.S. animal protection organization.
Lucy Goodchild van Hilten is a writing fellow at Earth • Food • Life, a project of the Independent Media Institute. She has served as assistant editor of Microbiology Today and senior marketing communications manager for Life Sciences at Elsevier. She holds an MSc degree in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology from Imperial College London.
Anita Krajnc is executive director of the Animal Save Movement and global coordinator of the Plant Based Treaty initiative.
Carter Dillard is the policy adviser for the Fair Start Movement.
Charles Derber is a professor of sociology at Boston College and has written 25 books. Most recently, he coauthored Dying for Capitalism: How Big Money Fuels Extinction and What We Can Do About It (Routledge, 2023).
Helena Norberg-Hodge is the founder and director of Local Futures. She is the author of Ancient Futures (Chelsea Green, 2016) and the producer and director of the award-winning 2011 documentary “The Economics of Happiness.” Norberg-Hodge is the recipient of the Right Livelihood Award, the Goi Peace Prize, and the Arthur Morgan Award.
Marc Bekoff is an ethologist, behavioral ecologist, compassionate conservationist, and author. He is professor emeritus of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Debra Merskin, PhD, is a professor of media studies in the School of Journalism and Communication at the University of Oregon and is a co-founder of Animals and Media.
Robin Scher is a freelance writer and journalist based in South Africa.
Ashley Berke is co-executive director at Fair Start Movement.
Emma Rae Lierley is a senior communications manager at Rainforest Action Network. A lifelong writer and environmentalist, she works to harness the power of storytelling for social change.
Matthew Ponsford is a London-based journalist and producer who has written for Thomson Reuters, CNN International, Financial Times, the Guardian, the Independent and Vice. Follow him on Twitter @mjponsford.
David Blanton is a writer, photographer, conservationist, and environmental activist. He is the founder of Friends of Serengeti.
Adam Frank is the Helen F. and Fred H. Gowen Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Rochester and a winner of the Carl Sagan Medal.
Erica Cirino is a writer, artist, and author who explores the intersection of the human and more-than-human worlds.
Jonathan Sharp is the chief financial officer at Environmental Litigation Group, PC.
Daniel Klem Jr. is the Sarkis Acopian Professor of Ornithology and Conservation Biology and director of the Acopian Center for Ornithology at Muhlenberg College.
Esther Afolaranmi is an attorney, humanitarian, researcher, and writer. She is co-executive director of the Fair Start Movement.
Jenipher Changwanda is a Malawian journalist specializing in gender reporting for the Center for Collaborative Investigative Journalism.
Mary Mazzoni is the senior editor of TriplePundit and director of TriplePundit’s Brand Studio.
Bill Wasik is the editorial director of the New York Times Magazine.
Peter Christie is a science journalist and author who writes frequently about conservation.
Erika Schelby is the author of Liberating the Future from the Past? Liberating the Past from the Future? (2013) and Looking for Humboldt and Searching for German Footprints in New Mexico and Beyond (2017). Schelby lives in New Mexico.
Katherine Dolan is a writer, editor, and researcher at the Independent Media Institute from Dunedin, New Zealand. She has held previous posts as a senior writer for Fairfax Media Custom Publishing in New Zealand and Lifestyle Magazine in Moscow, and as a copy editor for the U.S. news site NSFW Corp.
David Hastings is a marine scientist.
Jimmy Videle is a farmer, naturalist, and researcher. He is the author of The Veganic Grower’s Handbook: Cultivating Fruits, Vegetables, and Herbs from Urban Backyard to Rural Farmyard and the co-founder of NAVCS-Certified Veganic. His writing has appeared in CounterPunch, Countercurrents, and LA Progressive, among others.
Vicky Bond is a veterinary surgeon, animal welfare scientist, and the former president of The Humane League.
John Feffer is the director of Foreign Policy In Focus and Global Just Transition at the Institute for Policy Studies.
Laura Lee Cascada is the campaigns director for the Better Food Foundation and the founder of the Every Animal Project, a collection of true tales reshaping our relationship with animals.
Emilia A. Leese is an author, re-wilder, podcast host, public speaker, and magazine editor.
Katie Schmidt is the associate director of the national dam removal program at American Rivers.
Irikefe V. Dafe has advocated for river protections in Nigeria and throughout Africa for three decades. Much of his work has focused on protecting the River Ethiope and the rights of communities who rely upon the river for food, water and their livelihoods. He is a lead organizer of the First National Dialogue on Rights of Nature in Nigeria. He is also the founder and CEO of River Ethiope Trust Foundation and an expert member of the UN Harmony with Nature Initiative.
Laurel Sutherlin is the senior communications strategist for Rainforest Action Network. He is a lifelong environmental and human rights campaigner as well as a naturalist and outdoor educator with a passion for birds and wild places. Follow him on Twitter @laurelsutherlin.
Danna Smith is the founder and executive director of Dogwood Alliance.
