Video: Indigenous Elders Predicted Climate Crisis. Will Native Voices Finally Be Heard?
Indigenous communities are among the most vulnerable to climate change, yet they still struggle to be heard by governments around the world. Their spiritual teachings might help civilization to change course and prevent disaster.
Paul Christensen: What Binds Us. Together
We’ve had two small heat waves since I arrived here in southern France in mid-June. Neither was terrible, neither quite made it to the level of a canicule, a blistering heat bloom usually starting out its career in northern Africa and drifting down onto western Europe where it stagnates over the red-tile roofs…
Pablo Neruda: Ode to Summer | translated by Wally Swist
Summer, red violin,
clear cloud,
a buzz
saw
or cicada
Video: 7 Spectacular Moths in Slow Motion!
Shooting seven different moth species at a whopping 6,000 frames per second (fps) – compared with the standard 24 fps for film and television – the biologist Adrian Smith guides viewers through the incredible biophysics of moth flight.
Adrienne Maree Brown: Murmurations | Returning to the Whole
To heal ourselves, we must remember that we are a small part of a much greater whole.
John Clare: The Instinct of Hope
Is there another world for this frail dust
To warm with life and be itself again?
Abaki Beck & Rosalyn LaPier: For Indigenous Peoples, Abortion Is a Religious Right
For thousands of years, reproductive health care has been an important part of Indigenous peoples’ cultural practices, which include religious rituals, sacred rites, and the right to abortion.
Nick Engelfried: Climate activists across the Global South and North unite to stop the East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline
As a movement born in Uganda and Tanzania arrives in the United States, activists are drawing strength from lessons of earlier pipeline battles.
Derrick Z. Jackson: Children Will Suffer the Consequences of Recent Supreme Court Rulings
It appears to be of no concern to the Supreme Court’s 6-3 ultraconservative majority how children are collateral damage in its monumental rulings to close the 2021-22 term.
Paul Christensen: Return to France
And I come, suppressing my eagerness for as long as I can, until I burst with affection at the sound of a cork being pulled by a solemn waiter, who waits politely while I sink my liver into a pool of forgetfulness at the first sip.
Lora Shinn: Renewable Energy | The Clean Facts
Wind and solar are powering a clean energy revolution. Here’s what you need to know about renewables and how you can help make an impact at home.
Alison Luterman: Jasmine
now we’ve grown into our own
miniature galaxy,
a wall of starry scent
Deborah DeNicola: And After Armageddon . . . 
When will we stop
interrogating our souls, instead throw them wide,
allow them to leave our bones behind to stencil the sand
