By Sandra Steingraber, ORION. My mother was diagnosed with breast cancer at age forty-four. I have uncles with colon cancer, prostate cancer, stromal cancer. My aunt died of the same kind of bladder cancer—transitional cell carcinoma—that I had. But here’s the punch line to my family story: I am adopted.
Continue reading →By Sandra Steingraber ORION Well-informed futility flourishes whenever there are discontinuities in the messages we receive, as when we are told that a problem is dire (climate chaos) but the proposed solution (buy new light bulbs) seems trivial. If the … Continue reading →
By Richard Manning, Harper’s. The total amount of plant mass created by Earth per year is called the planet’s primary productivity. We humans, a single species among millions, consume about 40 percent of Earth’s primary productivity. We, six billion, have simply stolen the food: the rich among us a lot more than the rest. (English | Portuguese)
Continue reading →By FIS/MP, MercoPress. A team of marine scientists urge an end to most commercial fishing in the deep sea and instead recommend fishing in more productive and local waters. The only question is: whose productive local waters.
Continue reading →Neil deGrasse Tyson, Raw Replay | Raw Story. In a recent interview with the activist group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), reknowned astrophysicist Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson suggests that as human ethics continue to evolve, the practice of eating animals will come to appear more and more primitive, especially as science learns about the true mental faculties of ostensibly dumb beasts.
Continue reading →By Staff Writers Terra Daily Veterinarian Belinda Burwell, on one hand, counsels people about how to treat lost or hurt animals they find in the wild. On the other, she takes in orphaned animals as patients at her rural rehabilitation … Continue reading →
By Suvendrini Kakuchi, Inter Press Service | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. In Japan, the convergence of interests for humans and the natural world make interesting food for thought.
Continue reading →By Milagros Salazar, IPS. The Andean titi monkey (Callicebus oenanthe) has found refuge in a tiny slice of forest in San Martín, Peru, preserved by one woman. (English | Spanish)
Continue reading →By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Our Japanese brothers, sisters, and wildlife, you are in our hearts. If no more can be said, this is because this tragedy leaves us without words.
Continue reading →The classic Haitian tale, told by Dady Chery. KRICK? A long time ago, in a thatched house snuggled in a valley between the flamboyant-covered hills of Haiti, there lived a girl whose greatest ambition was to bring home the cleanest water in all the world.
Continue reading →By Staff Writers, SPX via Seed Daily. As natural vegetation and forests are cleared for agriculture and other types of development, the benefits that trees provide are best sustained by integrating them into agriculturally productive landscapes.
Continue reading →By Jay Walljasper, On the Commons. The developing world doesn’t simply do less of what’s wrong, it has pioneered new approaches to protect the environment that are rooted in a sense of the commons.
Continue reading →By Jill Richardson Alternet A common model in Cuba is the “organipónico,” an urban farm made up of long, narrow raised beds filled with a mix of soil and composted manure or another organic material. Often, the beds are intercropped, … Continue reading →
By Eduardo Galeano, Rebelion | Yes! Magazine. “Human rights and the rights of Nature are two names of the same dignity.” – Eduardo Galeano. (English | Spanish)
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