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A World Environment Day Reflection: Designing Nature's Half and the Work Ahead
More than fifty years after its creation, World Environment Day continues to raise awareness of environmental challenges. But as climate, biodiversity, water, and human systems become increasingly understood as interconnected, a deeper question emerges: how should society organize decisions across the systems that shape environmental outcomes? This reflection explores that question while marking an important milestone for Designing Nature's Half.
Earth Day Edition: Designing What Comes Next - Ecoregional Cooperatives and the Architecture of Landscape Governance
As environmental governance falters, the question is no longer whether coordination is needed, but how it can be rebuilt. This Earth Day essay explores Ecoregional Cooperatives, landscape conservation design, and ecosocialism as democratic, place-based approaches to organizing decisions at the scale ecological conditions demand.
Earth Day Edition: From Federal Failure to a New Conservation Movement
The system built in response to Earth Day is no longer holding. As the EPA turns away from the science that once defined its role, people across the country are beginning to organize and build what comes next.