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2025: Hope for the Best, Prepare for the Worst

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - Here comes a new year. We are about to transition from a bumbling elderly president's administration to a chaotic malignant elderly narcissist's attempt at autocracy. What could possibly go wrong?

But also, what could go right?

rewilding LA: Matilija Dam History and Ecosystems

Creative FRONTLINE Interview with Tracker Ginamarie Rangel Quinone (Chiricahua Apache, AIM Grassroots)

(LOS ANGELES, Calif.) - Gina "Tracker" Quinone (Chiricahua Apache) knows what it feels like to lose access to traditional lands, a devastating and heartbreaking loss, stripping away connections to a homeland that exists only in memory.

Filmmaker/Journalist Robert Lundahl documents this loss of land and culture across the West.

Climate Change: Impending Doom

Our efforts to combat climate change have been too little, too late.

(SAN FRANCISCO, CA.) - "The world is likely to surpass its ambitious climate target — limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) above preindustrial temperatures — by the early 2030s.

"Beyond that threshold... climate disasters will become so extreme that people will not be able to adapt."

What Do We Mean by Environmental Justice? A Legacy of Greenaction

More sacred sites lost. All in the name of Capitalism and Greed.

(LOS ANGELES, Calif.) - For over 35 years, Bradley Angel has been a local and national leader in the environmental health and justice movement and has helped communities win some of the most significant victories in the history of that movement.

He serves as the Director of Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice.

Thacker Pass, An Archaeological Perspective

We want to do better, but we’re doing the worst possible thing. And sometimes we confuse the two.

(LOS ANGELES, Calif.) - Austin Ringelstein joined the U.S. Navy before 911. After, he wound up on the bomb squad, defusing munitions in Iraq.

Now he's on a "bomb squad" of a different kind: helping to defuse the "bombs" of failure to consult and its resulting disharmony at Thacker Pass and beyond.

Nature Corrects Itself ...Through Us

A massive shift that must take place in the next seven years if we are to survive.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - The doomsday scenario of human extinction and the scale of the transition to a renewable-powered society make many of us uneasy, worried, and frightened. But of the two, I know which one I choose.

We need to wake up to our role in the rebalancing, if the Earth truly is to correct itself.

The Climate Time Bomb

The Bomb is Ticking

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - Once again we are told that 2030 is the year of living dangerously—when humanity must cut greenhouse gas emissions in half, and then proceed to stop them altogether by 2050.

Otherwise, the planet faces all the climate catastrophes we’re already witnessing evolve.

Envisioning Positive Futures

Patrick Anderson’s Future State introduces tools for recognizing and achieving personal and community potential

(Los Angeles, CA / Anchorage, AK) - It is common to hear some degree of incredulity from friends, family, co-workers, and in the popular media, that there are people out there who can really, truly see the future – think forward decades, visualize solutions to existing problems, create a roadmap to potential.

Merkley Announces Launch of Center for Pollinator Conservation

During the past 30 years, the western monarch butterfly population has decreased by nearly 99%.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - Pollinators like honeybees and butterflies face big challenges, like climate change, pesticide exposure, and habitat loss, and benefit greatly from continuous widespread conservation efforts.

The Center will launch initially as a virtual collaborative space.

World Elders Building New Leaders

Television series, The Sky Ahead of Us, tells a story of life along the edge of continents

(Los Angeles, CA / Anchorage, AK) - The historical and culturally based television series, The Sky Ahead of Us, in production for PBS distribution, explores climate change through the lens of several millennia of traditional aboriginal knowledge and wisdom (TKW).

The series traces the historic migrations of peoples who would populate the vast land masses.