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News and education about landscape conservation and design.
Conservation Can’t Wait For The Next Election
America’s environmental protections are being systematically dismantled while climate change, biodiversity loss, and concentrated political and economic power continue reshaping the world. Conservation must fight back—but defense alone is not a strategy for the future. It’s time to build a conservation movement capable of shaping what comes next.
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.