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Mary Purdy, an integrative, eco-minded Dietary Nutritionist, shares her research that shows that soil health and farming practices can have a major influence on growing food rich in the micronutrients and phytochemicals so essential to robust health and a strong immune system.
Dan Kittredge, an organic farmer, became interested in the flavor and aroma of food, and turned his attention to researching the complexities of food quality and nutrient density. He founded the Bionutrient Food Association to educate and empower people to make healthy food choices based on research and science.
If you can’t afford to live, what does democracy actually offer you? It’s a question sitting just beneath the surface of many political debates right now. For people struggling to get by, the idea of protecting democracy can feel abstract at best, disconnected at worst. And even in more progressive spaces where democracy is treated…
Locally and globally, land and food have been leveraged as tools of oppression, but they can also be portals for liberation. Groundbreaking Black Kreyol farmer and food justice activist Leah Penniman offers us living proof that when Land is reunited with her people, mutual thriving can flourish in the form of solutions to climate chaos and food apartheid.
Julian Brave NoiseCat, activist, author, filmmaker, and multi-hyphenate storyteller and artist from the Secwépemc and St’at’imc nations, makes the ancient but ever potent “Coyote Story” archetype, one of the most significant oral traditions in human history, come to vivid life to shed light on our current situation and possible paths forward in these trying times.
Kyle Trefny was 18 years old in 2020 when skies over much of the Pacific Coast turned orange with wildfire smoke. He shares how that moment led him to become a wildland firefighter and to join other youth in creating FireGeneration Collaborative, dedicated to building a future beyond intense wildfires and their devastating health impact.
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When members of Project CETI (the Cetacean Translation Initiative) witnessed the birth of a sperm whale, they observed a breathtaking scene of cooperation and communication that few humans have ever seen. The extraordinary experience was a scientific milestone as well as one more strand in the web of sperm whale culture that this innovative project is studying.
Mother Nature is the ultimate designer. After all, since life first emerged on Earth, she’s had 3.8 billion years of evolutionary R&D to get it right. Biomimicry is the art and science of learning from this ineffable genius: tapping into the patterns of nature to live harmoniously with life’s principles. With Janine Benyus, the “godmother of modern biomimicry”.
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.
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