Salween Peace Park: for all living things

https://theecologist.org/2020/sep/08/salween-peace-park-place-all-living-things

Karen territories boast fertile soil, where the ‘Ku’ shifting cultivation system is used to grow vegetables and other foods rotationally, allowing nature to recover. The rivers of our Karen territories, including the Salween, provide a means of reliable transport and trade, as well as a rich source of fish. Our people forage for wild foods like bamboo shoots, banana fruits and flowers, honey, mushrooms, and edible ferns in verdant forests.

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Salween Peace Park: for all living things

The Karen Indigenous People in Myanmar founded the Salween Peace Park to protect their mega-diverse territory and their culture from extractivism and conflict.

‘Nature has ceased to trust us’

https://theecologist.org/2021/aug/05/nature-has-ceased-trust-us

"Nature always loves balance. Therefore, [the old people] say we have lost the trust of nature. The way we dealt with her led to this.”

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'Nature has ceased to trust us'

The Indigenous Arctic peoples losing their home and heritage to the climate breakdown.

A forgotten classic of agroecological science

https://theecologist.org/2021/jan/12/forgotten-classic-agroecological-science

The agro-chemical industry definitely does not want a new agricultural revolution. And perhaps society at large, at least in western World, has been encouraged to agree. After all, revolutions are equated with uncertainty, and uncertainty can be scary for those enjoying relative comfort.

But at this moment in history, with chemically intensive agriculture wreaking havoc on life-giving soils, polluting land, water and our shared atmosphere, plunging farmers into crippling debt, we cannot afford to take half measures or hope for silver bullet solutions to arrive unbidden where they have failed before.

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A forgotten classic of agroecological science

Francis Chabboussou's Healthy Crops is a forgotten classic of organic science, with wide-reaching implications for global agriculture.

http://www.theecologist.org/blogs_and_comments/commentators/2751996/reclaim_environmentalism.html

Reclaim Environmentalism!

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Reclaim Environmentalism!

True environmentalism is not about making our rapacious and destructive industrialism a little more sustainable, writes Derrick Jensen, but transforming humankind's relationship with Earth and the life she sustains - for us to take our true place...