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Reynard Loki

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Reynard Loki
Editor. Journalist

Reynard Loki is a co-founder of the Observatory, where he is the environment and animal rights editor. He is also a writing fellow at the Independent Media Institute, where he serves as the editor and chief correspondent for Earth | Food | Life.

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Reynard Loki is a co-founder of the Observatory, where he is the environment and animal rights editor. He is a writing fellow at the Independent Media Institute, where he serves as the editor and chief correspondent for Earth • Food • Life. He previously served as the environment, food, and animal rights editor at AlterNet and as a reporter for Justmeans/3BL Media covering sustainability and corporate social responsibility. He is also a co-founder of MomenTech, an experimental art production studio based in New York and Prague.

Reynard is a member of the Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ) and the American Alliance of Museums (AAM).

He volunteers with New York City Pigeon Rescue Central, NYC Audubon, Stuyvesant Park Neighborhood Association, and the Manhattan Borough President’s Office Volunteer Corps. He can sometimes be found talking to kids about environmental activism.

His work has been published by Yes! Magazine, Salon, Truthout, BillMoyers.com, Counterpunch, Independent Australia, Down to Earth, Public Seminar, Asia Times, and Pressenza, among others.

Alternet | May 2019

On May 16, 2019, hundreds of Indigenous peoples traveled from different regions of the Ecuadorian Amazon to the capital city of Quito to demand respect for the April 26 historic court ruling, in which the Waorani people of Ecuador successfully defended half a million acres of Indigenous territory in the Amazon rainforest from oil drilling. Coming after two weeks of deliberations, the landmark decision by the three-judge panel of the Pastaza Provincial Court immediately and indefinitely suspended plans to auction around 180,000 hectares of Indigenous Waorani territory to oil companies. It represents a major setback for the Ecuadorian government.

The total land area that the ruling protects, at least for now, is much larger even than the land that was up for auction. According to Amazon Frontlines, a nonprofit advocacy group that assisted the Waorani’s legal case, “The verdict also disrupts the contemplated auctioning of 16 oil blocks that cover over 7 million acres of Indigenous territory by providing an invaluable legal precedent for other Indigenous nations across the Ecuadorian Amazon.”

Greenbiz | March 2015

Women are disproportionately impacted by disasters, but they are rarely included in disaster and resilience planning. That must change.

Advancing a gendered disaster analysis will help to eliminate two incorrect assumptions in traditional emergency management thinking: one, that non-governmental forms of social organization, many of which are led by women, such as families and community-based groups, are ineffectual in crisis situations; and two, that during disasters women are passive victims.

Greenbiz | May 2015

Investing in an environmentally responsible way doesn’t necessarily mean a trade-off in performance.

Analyzing the performance of more than 10,000 mutual funds over the past seven years, a Morgan Stanley Institute analysis found that sustainable equity funds met or exceeded median returns of traditional equity funds during 64 percent of the time periods examined.

Greenbiz | 2014

Preparing for a sustainable urban future won't just help the global environment—from supporting biodiversity and public health to reducing carbon emissions and pollution—it also makes economic sense.

By reducing sprawl and creating cities that are more connected, more compact and served by efficient and easily accessible mass public transport, $3.4 trillion can be saved worldwide over a 15-year span.

3BL Media | November 2011

When it comes to connecting the environmental and business sides of sustainability, ultimately it's a numbers game

Publications by this author
Salem Press | 2013

Contributing author. Print. Four-volume, 1440-page academic reference encyclopedia edited by Robert Warren Howarth (Cornell University); illustrates the biology, geography, history, and ecological importance of biomes and ecosystems around the world.

Interview | April 2022

WKPN's Scott Harris, host of the radio show "Counterpoint" talks to Reynard Loki, who discusses his 2022 article, “Kids Are Really Worried About the Climate Crisis,” and the IPCC report that concluded that the window to avert catastrophic climate change is quickly closing.

Interview | June 2019

Reynard Loki, Editor/Environmental Reporter-Independent Media, joined Thom Hartmann to discuss the Indigenous fight against oil development in the Amazon rainforest.

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