...So think "resistance" with all your aching heart, a word that must become our promise to what is left of this planet. Gather the others: you already know them. The brave, smart, militant, and, most of all, serious, and together take aim. Do it carefully, but do it.
Then fire for all you're worth.
“We need a new kind of politics. Not the politics of governance, but the politics of resistance. The politics of opposition. The politics of joining hands across the world and preventing certain destruction.”
Tue, Jun 24 2025
West Sulawesi Erupts In Protest Over Sand Mining
Editor’s note: Indonesia lifts its ban on sea sand exports More than 250 members of Indigenous and local communities gathered in Indonesia’s Merauke district to demand an end to government-backed projects of strategic national importance, or PSN, [...]
Wed, Jun 18 2025
Beyond Reforestation, Let’s Try Proforestation
Editor’s note: The International Day for Biodiversity was celebrated on May 22, which commemorates the adoption of the Convention on Biological Diversity, a global treaty. What lessons have we learned from undoing past harms and conserving biodiversity [...]
Thu, Jun 12 2025
Indigenous Land Defenders Face Rising Threats
Indigenous land defenders face rising threats amid global push for critical minerals The past decade has seen “a consistent, sustained pattern against people who speak out against business-related human rights” abuses. “This story was [...]
Fri, Jun 06 2025
Declaration of Yajxonax
Declaration of Yajxonax* Today, October 12th of 2024 –a symbolic date for Indigenous Peoples of this territory we call Abya Yala– we have gathered in these territories of resistance in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, at the Continental Encounter Building an [...]
Thu, May 29 2025
Power Propaganda
How Electricity was (and is) Sold to America By Elisabeth Robson / RadFemBiophilia’s Newsletter In 1915, General Electric released a silent promotional film titled The Home Electrical offering a glimpse into a gleaming, frictionless future. The film walks [...]
Sat, May 24 2025
First Major U.S. Refinery Built in 50 Years Sited for Texas
Editor’s note: Brownsville, Texas – “Element Fuels has received the necessary permitting to construct and operate a refinery capable of producing in excess of 160,000 barrels, or approximately 6.7 million gallons, per day of finished gasoline, [...]
Thu, May 22 2025
Queensland Floods
Editor’s note: “The 2025 Queensland floods refer to significant flooding that impacted the northeast Australian state of Queensland in late January, early February, into March and April 2025. The disaster resulted in at least two fatalities from [...]
Fri, May 16 2025
Laundering Carbon and the New Scramble for Africa
Editor’s note: “What if you could save the climate while continuing to pollute it?” If that sounds too good to be true, that’s because it is. But corporations across the globe are increasingly trying to answer this question with the same shady [...]
Tue, May 13 2025
In Alabama, a Fight for the Spotted Salamander
As a private university expands its footprint and threatens the amphibian’s habitat, residents are voicing their opposition and searching for another way forward. By Lee Hedgepeth April 10, 2025 This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a [...]
Sat, May 03 2025
Why Is Coal Powering Georgia’s Data Centers?
Editor’s note: “A new report from Harvard’s Electricity Law Initiative says unless something changes, all U.S. consumers will pay billions of dollars to build new power plants to serve Big Tech. Data centers are forecast to account for up to [...]