Environment

Profit Trumps People and Planet in Brazil’s Eucalyptus Industry
Procter & Gamble, Mondelēz and Nestlé Are Among 10 of the Leading Consumer Brands Driving Global Deforestation
Reviving the Serengeti: How Maasai Women’s Dairy Initiatives Protect Wildlife and Communities
Guide to Preserving Sacred Land Near You
Nanoplastics Are Entering Our Bodies
The Hidden Costs of Light Pollution: Protecting the Night for People and Planet
Why Wild Bats Matter to Agave, Tequila, and Desert Ecosystems
The Voluntary Carbon Market Explained: Why Big Carbon Offsets Often Fail
The Long History of Controlling Water—and Why It No Longer Works
How Humans Have Driven Bird Populations to the Brink of Extinction
The Environmental and Social Impacts of Fish Farming and Industrial Aquaculture
How Microplastics Threaten Marine Ecosystems and the Food Chain
Why Climate Change Legislation Hits a Wall in Washington D.C.
How Environmental Laws Are Shifting the Focus From Humans to Nature
How Queer Ecology Reveals the Diversity of Nature and Human Experience
How a Bird Flu Outbreak Wiped Out a Generation of Seals in Patagonia—and What It Means for Wildlife Conservation
Equitywashing and the Hidden Costs of Sustainability
Why Women’s Leadership Strengthens Disaster Resilience and Environmental Stewardship
Wildfires Aren’t Just a Threat to People—They’re Killing Off Earth’s Biodiversity
Indigenous and Environmental Defenders Risk Their Lives as the Last Line Protecting the Planet
Why America Is Removing Thousands of Dams and Letting Rivers Run Free
Afro-Descendant Communities Offer a Living Blueprint for Amazon Conservation
Bluewashed: How the Beauty Industry Sold an Ocean-Friendly Illusion
The Founding Fathers: America’s First Climate Advocates
How to Build a Closer Connection With the Living World Around You
The ‘Blue Economy’ Myth: We Have to Stop Thinking the Ocean Can Be Run Like a Business
Can We Save the World’s Largest Flowers From the Brink of Extinction?
The Hidden Cost of AI: How Energy-Hungry Algorithms Are Fueling the Climate Crisis
We Have Entered the Era of ‘Global Boiling’—Marine Wildlife, Ecosystems, and Economies Are Being Devastated
Illegitimate Power, Illegitimate Violence: How Nations Are Built on the Backs of Disenfranchised Children
Rethinking Climate Action: A New Guideline for Planetary Health
How U.S. States Can Protect the Environment From Federal Rollbacks and Intervention
How Tourism Could Actually Help African Wildlife in One of Kenya’s Important National Reserves
How Animal Agriculture Drains Our Freshwater Supplies
Why Children’s Rights Are Critical for Climate Policy and Environmental Activism
What Would a Real Renewable Energy Transition Look Like?
We Need a Plan for the Transition to Renewable Energy
The Sustainability Scam: How Self-Interest Ruins Good Ideas
The Southwest Offers Blueprints for the Future of Wastewater Reuse
The Myth That Meat Is Essential for Human Health Could Harm Us All
The Growing Inequality Among Countries and the Worsening Climate Crisis
The Globalized, Industrialized Food System Is Destroying the World—We Urgently Need to Support Local Food Economies
The Dark Side of Ecotourism: When Green Travel Exploits People and the Planet
Ten Grim Climate Scenarios When Global Temperatures Rise Above 1.5 Degrees Celsius
See the World and Save the Planet: 10 Incredible Places That Desperately Need Eco-Volunteers
Sanitation in Namibia Is a Catastrophe for Its People and Environment
Saving the Bumblebee Starts With Changing Our Farming Practices
Restoring the Wild: How Reintroducing Bison Could Revive Britain’s Landscapes and Ecosystems
Removing Hydropower Dams Can Restore Ecosystems, Build Climate Resilience, and Restore Tribal Lands
Organic Farming Increases Soil Carbon and Helps Counter Climate Change
Navigating the Energy Transition: Renewables Abound, but Grid Challenges Loom
Malawi’s Farmers Face a Precarious Future From Climate Change-Related Storms
Is the Food Industry Concealing Possible Destruction of the Tropics From the Public?
Imagine You Are a Poor Nation, Trapped by Debt and Strangled by Climate Change—What Are Your Options?
How to Decolonize Our Battle Against Climate Change
How to Help Wild Birds During Their Spring and Fall Migrations
How the World Hides Liability for Climate Deaths
How the Camp Lejeune Justice Act Can Help Veterans Impacted by Toxic Exposure
How the Constitution Fails to Protect the Environment
How the Built Environment Is Damaging Children’s Connection to Nature
How a 20th-Century Family Planning Agenda Fueled the Climate Crisis
How Science Fiction Can Inspire Environmentalism and Climate Action
Indigenous Land Management Practices Are a Blueprint for Climate-Resilient Agriculture
Guide to Climate Action in Your Local Community
Guide to Becoming an Environmental Leader and Inspiring the Next Generation of Eco-Defenders
Grow Your Own Food—and a Kinder World: How Veganic Farming Can Turn Your Garden Into a Haven for All Life
Forests Thrive When Indigenous People Have Legal Stewardship of Their Land
Conservation Innovations: How Sustained Resistance Is Saving One of the Earth’s Most Critical Rainforests From Corporate Greed
Climate Change Is Worsening Seasonal Allergies by Boosting Plant Pollen Production
Big Banks Break Their Climate Promises by Propping Up Big Meat
Air Pollution Is Killing Millions and Rising Exponentially—A Shift in Agriculture Can Solve It
Agrivoltaics: The Farm-to-Solar Trend That Can Help Accelerate the Renewable Energy Transition
A Tale of Two Nations: The North Aral Sea Rebounds While the South Aral Sea Dries Up
The Nuclear Energy Dilemma: Climate Savior or Existential Threat?
Sustainability Is Not as New an Idea as You Might Think—It’s More Than 300 Years Old
Plastic Pollution Is a Crime Against People and the Planet
The Activist Success Story Behind the Biggest Dam Removal Deal in U.S. History
How California’s Farmers and Ranchers Could Lead the Way to Climate Resilience
Home Improvement Through Community Land Trusts
Connecting With Nature Is a Path to Finding Joy in Life
Can Humanity Repair Its Relationship With Nature? Weaving Earth Education Center Offers a Promising Path
‘Sacrifice Zones’: The New ‘Jim Crow’ That’s Sickening and Killing People of Color
How Media Companies Can Meet Their Climate Commitments—and How Readers Can Help
The Case Against Artificial Intelligence: Risks to Society, Democracy, and the Planet
The Danger of Releasing Genetically Modified Trees Into the Wild
Ninety-Nine Percent of Seabirds Will Have Plastic in Their Guts by 2050
Can Humanity Make a Shift to a Less Pollutive Energy System?
Should Harming Mother Earth Be a Crime? The Case for Ecocide Laws
Have Nonprofits Misled Supporters by Hiding Unsustainable Growth Policies?
Is Eating Locally and in Season Actually Better for the Environment?
Yemen’s Socotra Archipelago: The UAE’s Occupation and Destruction of a World Heritage Site
Why Women Are More Likely to Be Environmentalists Than Men
Why Small Farming Is Essential for Creating a Sustainable Future
Why Las Vegas Is at the Heart of Western States’ Water Conundrums
Why Healthy Forests Mean Fewer Pandemics
What’s So Green About Burning Trees? The False Promise of Biomass Energy
Whole Foods, Tyson Foods, and McDonald’s Are Fueling the Massive Dead Zone in the Gulf of Mexico
We Ignore Thousands of Threatened Plant Species at Our Peril
7 Ways You Can Address the Plastic Crisis Without Relying on Recycling
Veganic Farming: How My Tiny Plot Produced 5,000 Pounds of Food Without Using Manure
Unchecked Human Activity Is Pushing Ecosystems Toward the Brink
The Potential Impact of Wireless Technology on Wildlife
How Unclear Federal Law Allows Logging, Farming, and Mining to Threaten U.S. Ecosystems
Toxic Chemicals in Food Packaging Weaken the Immune System Response
These U.S. Banks Are Financing Climate Chaos Through Fossil Fuel Expansion
The Supreme Court’s Clean Water Act Decision Threatens the Nation’s Rivers
The Renewable Energy Transition Is Failing
The Internet Is a Major Environmental Problem
The Global Push for Population Growth Shows We’re Not Grappling With the Climate Crisis
Why Recycling Plastic Is Not Easy
The Case for Protecting the Tongass National Forest, America’s ‘Last Climate Sanctuary’
Should Humans Try to Modify the Amount of Sunlight the Earth Receives?
Renewables Are Gaining Traction, but We Need to Be Able to Store the Energy
A Quick Guide to Creating a Wildlife Sanctuary in Your Own Backyard
Populist Climate Action Requires Thinking About Freedom From Specific Oppressors—Not Just Species Survival
The Impact of Plastic on Human Health
Palm Oil in Common Household Products Is Destroying the World’s ‘Orangutan Capital’
Palm Oil: The Ingredient Behind Human Rights Abuses and Eco-Destruction That’s Probably in Your Home Right Now
Our Planet Versus Plastic Bags—A Tale of Two Cities
Our Food System Is the Bullseye for Solving the World’s Climate Challenges
Methane: The Forgotten Climate Change Driver That’s Poisoning Frontline Communities
Meet Alexander von Humboldt, the First Person to Understand Climate Change—More Than Two Centuries Ago
Medicine Residue Is Everywhere in Our Rivers and Lakes—and Fish Are Behaving Strangely
Kids Are Really Worried About the Climate Crisis
Keeping Cattle on Public Land Is Bad for People, Cows, Wildlife, and the Planet
Is Wastewater an Answer for Adapting to Climate Change?
Humanity’s Main Environmental Problem Is Consumption—Climate Change Is a Byproduct
How to Talk to Your Kids About Climate Change (and Have Fun, Too)
How to Make Recyclable Plastics Out of CO2 to Slow Climate Change
How the Rights of Nature Movement Is Reshaping Law and Culture
How the Acequia Ancient Irrigation Method Makes Sustainable Life Possible in the U.S. Southwest
How the American Legislative Exchange Council Turns Disinformation Into Law
Our Coffee Addiction Is Destroying the Environment
How Factory Farms Pollute the Environment and Poison Drinking Water
How Banks and Investors Are Fueling a Global Biodiversity Crisis
Guide to Sustainable, Eco-Friendly, Organic and Vegan Wine
Human Overpopulation Is a Key Driver Behind Some of Humanity’s Biggest Challenges
How We Can Protect the Air Despite the Supreme Court’s West Virginia v. EPA Decision
Exposing the Climate Hypocrisy of International Insurance Companies
How Europe Is Depleting U.S. Forests in the Name of Fighting Climate Change
Damming Rivers Is Terrible for Human Rights, Ecosystems and Food Security
Carbon Farming: A Sustainable Agriculture Technique That Keeps Soil Healthy and Combats Climate Change
Carbon Capture Is a Potential Weapon Against Climate Change
Is 100 Percent Renewable Energy Attainable?
Better Family Planning Can Improve Public Health, Inequality and the Environment
Animal-Free Agriculture Is Key to Restoring Biodiversity
Water Conflicts Across Africa Threaten Security, Health, and the Environment
How Land Use Is a Tool for Solving Climate Change
8 Billion Humans? Population Is a Difficult Conversation, But Let's Have One
600 Million Metric Tons of Plastic May Fill Oceans by 2036
10 Reasons Why Hydropower Isn’t a Climate Solution
1,3-Dichloropropene: The Dangerous, Sweet-Smelling Pesticide You’ve Never Heard Of
Why the World’s Most Popular Herbicide Is a Public Health Hazard
Rivers Are Key to Restoring the World’s Biodiversity
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Guide to Alternatives to Industrial Agriculture

Reynard Loki, Earth Food Life Project

Food production shapes the health of ecosystems, communities, animals, and the climate. Yet many modern agricultural systems rely on practices that contribute to soil degradation, biodiversity loss, water pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, and animal suffering. As concerns about the environmental and social costs of industrial agriculture continue to grow, farmers, researchers, Indigenous communities, and advocates are developing and refining alternative approaches. This guide explores a range of alternatives to industrial agriculture, including organic farming, small-scale farming, regenerative agriculture, carbon farming, veganic farming, Indigenous land stewardship practices, and emerging innovations such as agrivoltaics. Together, these approaches offer different pathways toward producing food while protecting ecosystems, improving soil health, supporting biodiversity, reducing environmental impacts, and building more resilient agricultural systems for future generations.
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Guide to Birds

Reynard Loki, Earth Food Life Project

Birds are among the most diverse, intelligent, and ecologically important animals on Earth. They pollinate plants, disperse seeds, regulate insect populations, and inspire human cultures through their songs, migrations, and extraordinary adaptations. Yet many bird species also face unprecedented pressures from habitat loss, climate change, invasive species, pollution, and other human activities. This guide explores the science of birds, their relationships with people and ecosystems, and the many ways we can better understand and protect them.
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Guide to Climate and Environmental Action

Reynard Loki, Earth Food Life Project

In a democratic society, the power to address the climate crisis lies with the people. And it begins at home, our backyards, our neighborhoods and local communities.

When we think about effective climate action, there are many different factors and options to consider, from working within your local community to advance climate resiliency projects and urging the media to meet its climate commitments, to supporting the growth and popularity of climate fiction. Climate action can also be aided by reframing the climate crisis. Instead of seeing it only through a scientific lens but rather as a form of oppression by the wealthy elite or a matter of children’s rights, the climate crisis can be addressed on a systemic, sociopolitical level.

This guide explores various ways to approach climate action and activism, including concrete examples you can use in your own backyard and local community, plus success stories that can be emulated and reproduced wherever you are.
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Guide to Conscious Consumption

Reynard Loki, Earth Food Life Project

Conscious consumption means recognizing that everyday purchasing decisions shape the well-being of nonhuman animals, ecosystems, and human communities. It includes choosing foods that minimize harm, supporting ethical and sustainable production, avoiding products linked to environmental destruction, and rejecting exploitative labor practices. From humane food labels and plant-based alternatives to shade-grown coffee, eco-friendly wine, and reduced reliance on fast fashion and fossil fuels, each choice carries impact. The Observatory’s Guide to Conscious Consumption brings together practical tools and deeper context to help you make informed decisions that support your health, reduce harm, and contribute to a more just and sustainable world.
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Guide to Environmental Health

Reynard Loki, Earth Food Life Project

Environmental health explores how the natural and built environments influence human well-being. Factors such as air and water quality, climate change, toxic chemical exposures, food systems, and ecosystem health can all affect physical and mental health. Pollution, environmental degradation, and hazardous substances contribute to a wide range of health risks, while healthy ecosystems help provide clean water, nutritious food, disease regulation, and other essential services. Understanding these connections can help societies develop policies and practices that protect both human health and the environments on which life depends.
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Guide to Renewable Energy

Reynard Loki, Earth Food Life Project

This guide explores the promise and perils of renewable energy. Can renewable energy achieve the emissions cuts we need to avoid the worst impacts of the climate crisis? Can we avoid an energy crisis if we abandon fossil fuels? What is the dark truth behind bioenergy? Is hydropower a real or false solution? Is the renewable energy transition succeeding or failing?
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Guide to the Plastic Crisis

Reynard Loki, Earth Food Life Project

The guide will help readers understand the global plastic crisis from multiple angles, including the impact of plastic on human health, wildlife and the environment, the upstream forces in the lifecycle of plastics, the complex reality of recycling plastic, the unique threat posed by tiny plastic particles called nanoplastics, and how two similar cities have handled the plastic issue in different ways.
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Mouna Hashem
Mouna Hashem, PhD, is an international development consultant.
Jeremy Rifkin
Jeremy Rifkin is and economic and social theorist, author, and political advisor.
Eugene Simonov
Eugene Simonov is the international coordinator of the Rivers without Boundaries Coalition.
Tia Schwab
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.
Jonathan Sharp
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Doug Tallamy
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.
Rachel Rose Jackson
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Esther Afolaranmi
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Keith C. Heidorn
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Sophie A.H. Osborn
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Zahara Nabakooza
Zahara Nabakooza is an advocate for children’s rights and climate action.
Nnimmo Bassey
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Ava Kofman
Ava Kofman is a journalist. She is the 2023 recipient the Hillman Prize for Magazine Journalism.
Darryl Knudsen
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.
Anne Petermann
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Laura Lee Cascada
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Katrina Kuh
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Laurel Sutherlin
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Damon Orion
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John Feffer
John Feffer is the director of Foreign Policy In Focus and Global Just Transition at the Institute for Policy Studies.
Reynard Loki
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Ward Warmerdam
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Teresa Coady
Teresa Coady is an award-winning architect, sustainability expert, and Fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada.
Lauren Collee
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Monique Mikhail
Monique Mikhail is the campaigns director of the agriculture and climate finance program at Friends of the Earth.
Tina Casey
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.
Fabiana Maizza
Fabiana Maizza is an assistant professor in anthropology at the Federal University of São Paulo.
David Blanton
David Blanton is a writer, photographer, conservationist, and environmental activist. He is the founder of Friends of Serengeti.
Irikefe V. Dafe
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.
Kate Petty
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Claudio Campagna
Claudio Campagna is a senior marine conservation consultant for the Wildlife Conservation Society.
Helena Norberg-Hodge
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Lydia Chodosh
Lydia Chodosh is a writer, designer, and fine artist based in Providence, Rhode Island.
Michael Engelhard
Michael Engelhard is a writer and wilderness guide.
Sam Davis
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.
Jimmy Videle
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.
Alex Crisp
Alex Crisp is the host of the Future of Foods Interviews podcast.
Ashley Berke
Ashley Berke is co-executive director at Fair Start Movement.
L. Michelle Moore
L. Michelle Moore is the CEO of Groundswell, a nonprofit that builds community power by connecting solar and energy efficiency.
Cate Mingoya-LaFortune
Cate Mingoya-LaFortune is a climate adaptation planner, community organizer, educator, and author.
Jenipher Changwanda
Jenipher Changwanda is a Malawian journalist specializing in gender reporting for the Center for Collaborative Investigative Journalism.
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Erika Schelby
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.
Gary Belan
Gary Belan is the senior director of clean water supply at American Rivers.
David Hastings
Dr. David Hastings is a distinguished oceanographer and educator with extensive expertise in marine geochemistry, climate change indicators, and microplastics research.
Lucy Goodchild van Hilten
Lucy Goodchild van Hilten is a writing fellow at }}, 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.
Emma Rae Lierley
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.
James R. May
James R. May, Esq. is Distinguished Professor of Law and Founder of the Global Environmental Rights Institute at Widener University Delaware Law School.
Daniel Klem Jr.
Daniel Klem Jr. is the Sarkis Acopian Professor of Ornithology and Conservation Biology and director of the Acopian Center for Ornithology at Muhlenberg College.
Peter Christie
Peter Christie is a science journalist and author who writes frequently about conservation.
Mwesigye Robert
Mwesigye Robert is the founder of the Rejoice Africa Foundation.
Ronnie Cummins
Ronnie Cummins was the cofounder and director of the Organic Consumers Association and a longtime advocate for organic agriculture and food-system reform.
Leslie Alan Horvitz
Leslie Alan Horvitz is an author and journalist specializing in science. He serves as the science and tech editor at the Observatory.
David Fridley
David Fridley is a staff scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a fellow of the Post Carbon Institute.
Valeria Falabella
Valeria Falabella is a director at the Wildlife Conservation Society.
Katherine Dolan
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.
Bridget A. Lyons
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Mary Mazzoni
Mary Mazzoni is the senior editor of TriplePundit and director of TriplePundit’s Brand Studio.
Jairus James
Jairus James is an environmental and animal rights advocate.
Chris Smaje
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.
Mohammad Golam Sarwar
Mohammad Golam Sarwar is a doctoral researcher at SOAS University of London.
Danna Smith
Danna Smith is the founder and executive director of Dogwood Alliance.
Fitri Arianti
Fitri Arianti is a senior forest campaigner at Rainforest Action Network.
Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner
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.
Suren Moodliar
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).
Robin Scher
Robin Scher is a freelance writer and journalist based in South Africa.
Freddie Clayton
Freddie Clayton is an investigative journalist with the Center for Collaborative Investigative Journalism, focusing on environmental themes, specifically water and sanitation issues worldwide.
Lorraine Chow
Lorraine Chow is the stewardship and outreach coordinator at the Santa Fe Watershed Association.
Julieta Campagna
Julieta Campagna monitors coastal protected areas for the Wildlife Conservation Society.
Caroline Cox
Caroline Cox is a pesticide scientist whose work has focused on the health and environmental impacts of pesticides.
Isaias Hernandez
Isias Hernandez aims to improve environmental literacy through content creation, storytelling, and public engagement.
Ann Leslie Davis
Ann Leslie Davis is an award-winning freelance journalist.
Cameron Edwards
Cameron Edwards runs <u>Still Water Microsanctuary</u>, a small-scale rescue for birds and tropical fishes.
John J. Berger
John J. Berger is an environmental science and policy specialist, prize-winning author, and journalist.
Tara Lohan
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Orin Langelle
Orin Langelle is the director of Langelle Photography and co-founder of the Global Justice Ecology Project.
Carter Dillard
Carter Dillard is the policy adviser for the Fair Start Movement.
Jim Cubie
Jim Cubie, JD, is a consultant to the Muhlenberg College Center for Ornithology where he advises on bird safety and native plants.
André Leu
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Richard Heinberg
Richard Heinberg is senior fellow at the Post Carbon Institute and the author of ''Power: Limits and Prospects for Human Survival''.
Chelsea Henderson
Chelsea Henderson is a journalist, author, and climate policy expert.
Josh Klemm
Josh Klemm is co-director of International Rivers.
Martha Mundy
Martha Mundy is a professor emerita of anthropology at the London School of Economics.
Derek Gow
Derek Gow is a farmer, nature conservationist, and author.
Alessandra Korap Munduruku
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.
Sonja Smith
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.
Jennifer Barckley
Jennifer Barckley is the vice president of communications at The Humane League.
Ruhi Bhasin
Ruhi Bhasin is a senior journalist and features editor with the Independent Media Institute.
Elizabeth Henderson
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.
Fabian Cardenas
Fabian Cardenas is an international law professor at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá, Colombia.
Dan Ross
Dan Ross is a journalist whose work has appeared in Truthout, the Guardian, FairWarning, Newsweek, YES! Magazine, Salon, AlterNet, Vice, and a number of other publications.
Raphael Calel
Dr. Raphael Calel is a Ciriacy-Wantrup Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Berkeley, and a visiting fellow at the London School of Economics.
Ryan Mitchell
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Adam Alexander
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Steve Taylor
Steve Taylor is a freelance journalist and the host of the podcast Breaking Green produced by Global Justice Ecology Project.
Dana Zartner
Dana Zartner is a professor in the International Studies Department and adjunct professor at the School of Law at the University of San Francisco.
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