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Food and Farming
Pesticides Devastate Farmworkers Lives

The Campaign for Organic and Regenerative Agriculture (CORA) is challenging the largest berry grower in the world to transition to organic and eliminate the exposure to toxic pesticides that farmworkers endure with devastating regularity and horrific consequences. CORA is working to phase out agrochemicals starting with restrictions around schools and homes.

Food and Farming
Agriculture’s War on Nature: Are Toxic Pesticides Worth the Harm?

What rational sense does it make to spray food with poison? And yet that is the prevailing method in which food is grown commercially with the exception of a small percent of crops that are grown organically. Chemical pesticides (the suffix “cide” means killer) leave residues on foods that we consume daily. The USDA found…

Nature, Culture and Spirit
Cowpuppy: What Cows Are Really Saying When They Moo

In this excerpt from his book “Cowpuppy,” neuroscientist Gregory Berns explores the rich, surprising language of cow vocalizations — and what it reveals about emotion, intelligence, and connection across species.

Intelligence in Nature
What Neuroscience Reveals About Animal Minds

Neuroscientist Gregory Berns uses brain imaging to explore how animals perceive, feel, and decide — and what those discoveries mean for how humans treat other species.

Justice
Women Weaving the Way Forward: A Conversation with Zainab Salbi

Zainab Salbi shares what her team’s global research reveals about women’s leadership, integrated solutions, and lasting ecological and social change.

Indigeneity
Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians Pass Historic Youth-Led Rights of Nature Resolution

An Eastern Band of Cherokee Tribal Council resolution affirms the rights of the stream system in the Great Smoky Mountains.

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Indigeneity
Colorado Mountain Becomes the First Mountain in the U.S. to Own Itself

This landmark initiative gives a mountain in Colorado its own deed, and places stewardship in the hands of an Indigenous-led guardianship council.

Food and Farming
Where Have All the Farmworkers Gone?

Farmworkers are essential workers who can be ripped away from their families with no notice in ICE deportation raids. The fear of being deported is resulting in serious farm losses because people are too frightened to come to work and earn the wages they desperately need.

Justice
Dolores Huerta – Organizing for Justice
Video

Drawing from her decades of experience, Dolores Huerta shares her thoughts on the critical importance of organizing unions in all sectors of the economy to fight for a fairer society, and on how to build more unity between labor, social, racial, gender, and climate justice movements.

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