Yurok Attorney Amy Cordalis tells the story of the decades-long struggle to remove dams that have choked the life flow of the Klamath river and severed salmon migratory routes, and how a combination of traditional ecological knowledge, environmental law, and old-fashioned diplomacy helped remove 4 of 6 dams.

An excerpt from ‘When the Forest Breathes,’ in which Suzanne Simard explores how kinship, cooperation, and intergenerational connection shape forest resilience — and challenge the foundations of industrial forestry.

Cristina Jiménez Moreta  moved to the United States  from Ecuador at five years-old with her family. At seventeen, she became a youth organizer in the movement for immigrant/migrant rights. She is a founding member of United We Dream and was instrumental in getting the DACA act passed in 2012, the first major immigration policy victory…

Rather than predicting a distant future, Jesse M. Keenan examines the mechanisms already in motion—and the difficult tradeoffs and untapped opportunities defining climate adaptation across America.

In this excerpt from ‘North,’ Jesse M. Keenan argues that climate migration is not a distant scenario but a structural shift already unfolding across America’s housing markets, infrastructure systems, and governance institutions.

Scientific evidence is increasingly supporting the theory that the Earth is alive and replete with intelligence. How is it then, by the law, that a corporation is a person, but nature is not? What if we expand the anthropocentric boundaries of our systems of laws, rights and responsibilities to encompass ALL living beings?