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Planting Seeds in Times of Darkness

Winona LaDuke shares four concepts for a sustainable future. "On a worldwide scale, Indigenous people represent about 5 percent of the world’s population but steward 75 percent of the world’s biodiversity. We are successful in protecting these lands because we are committed to the land, to life, and to moderating our own behavior so that life can continue. That’s how we can hang out in an ecosystem for a thousand years and it’s still healthy. Indigenous knowledge and values help preserve life."

A Story For These Times: Knowing Where the Ground Holds

"When the terrain turns unstable — whether it’s bog underfoot or federal power flexing where it doesn’t belong — we don’t march louder into danger. We look for the paths that hold. We orient toward what supports life, community, and steady ground."

Shodo Spring’s Book Inspired by the Natural World

“As a whole we know how to control, not how to engage; how to destroy, not how to grow. This is our great loss, and the reason we mourn. We do not know how to be part of the family.”

BOOK: The Life of Helen Hoover in the Northern Woods

“The first light reveals the trees and brush as greenish-gray shapes, like amorphous, primordial predecessors to themselves. … Somewhere a bird chirps, a squirrel sputters into a lively argument with itself, gulls pass like shadows overhead, and the eastern sky flushes with pink.” 

Marcella Prokop: Creating Rural Fellowship in Storytelling

As both a writer and an educator, Prokop encourages her students and communities to think about their unique interactions with place.

THIS IS US: A Latina-led nonprofit finds hope in nature

“When we are together, we feel strong,” Méndez says. “Sometimes I feel fear and I say, ‘Shall I continue with this? Am I putting people in a dangerous situation?’ I don’t know. But at the same time, I want people to take a break.”

My “Can Do Canine” Has Helped Me Hike Thousands of Miles

  I am an author, storyteller, educator, activist,…

BOOK: A Conversation About Simple Living With Tamara Dean

What was one aspect of sustainable farming and living off the land that was not expected? 

Susan Raffo: Listening to America’s People and the Land

I wanted to know, “Is it possible for us to live on and with this land together?” What tended to happen would be a pause, a connection, a softening, and a listening.

Greta Gaard Speaks About the Interconnected Message of Ecofeminism

This interconnected self-identity is what will bring us together. It has the ability to save our communities. A relational ecological selfhood is not limited to a single gender, species, age, sexuality, or race. It is rooted in our interbeing. This is ecofeminism.

Soil and Air Matter

There are grassroots organizations and cooperatives led by women and people of color that are making a real difference in renewable energy, urban farming, and more. In Minnesota, we need to invest in these community-led models and ensure that green opportunities are accessible to Latino families and other historically excluded communities.

Ecofeminism, Then to Now

"Feminists today understand that climate is more than weather. It is the violent context of toxicity, entitlement, and appropriation, whether targeting women’s bodies, Black lives, Indigenous lands, migrant workers fleeing ICE raids, or garment workers in unstable buildings."