The Esperanza Project – A Green Magazine for the Americas

A Green Magazine for the Americas

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Mexican Indigenous Group Fights to Preserve Sacred Sites

In August, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador signed a decree to protect sacred indigenous sites, but for the Wixárika community, the struggle isn’t over.

Maya Piedra

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Healing the body and the land on Lake Chapala, Mexico

Women of town plagued with water pollution, kidney disease and poor healthcare options turn to growing their own medicine

Mariana Mora María Quinn

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Native ‘hempsters’ follow global cooperative example

Organizers aim to create intertribal consortium for generational wealth

Talli Nauman

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'Stop the criminalization of planting in public spaces': Agroecology collectives

Community gardening activists denounce proposed law that would restrict food sovereignty in Guadalajara

Víctor Ibarra

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Land defenders caravan to Mexico City to defend Chimalapas

Indigenous communities in Oaxaca decry government neglect in protecting biodiversity hotspot

Diana Manzo

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Mexico: Fighting the Heat Wave with Memes and Prayers

JUNE 23: Join the synchronized Global Rain Petition for the Renovation of the World from the sacred desert of Wirikuta.

Tracy L. Barnett

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Oaxaca Mural Documents Struggle to Defend Native Corn

Inauguration celebrates Milpa culture, Supreme Court decision banning cultivation of transgenic corn in Mexico

Tracy L. Barnett

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Community Radio and Social Power

"Everything that decentralizes, localizes, makes society horizontal and empowers must be disseminated and celebrated"

Victor M. Toledo

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Mine Resisters Denounce the Dangers of the New "White Gold" Rush

Canada, U.S., Mexico Lithium Contagion Calls for Urgent Care

Talli Nauman

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Maya Villagers Resist Mega Hog Farms in Yucatán

Communities fight back as industrial farms overwhelm them with stench, contamination and corruption

Patricio Eleisegui

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Guardian of Temaca: “I had to see with my own eyes”

Mexican village wins fight to pierce the megadam that threatened to inundate them

Mario Marlo

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Hope Amid Climate Chaos: A Conversation with Rebecca Solnit

Future is being decided in the present; what we do matters, says the writer and activist

Stella Levantesi Rebecca Solnit

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50th anniversary of 1973 standoff honors women of Wounded Knee

Historic 71-day seige helped galvanize the movement for Native American rights across the United States.

Talli Nauman

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A family lost and found — and the ongoing menace to Indigenous land defenders

Disappearance of Santos de la Cruz Carrillo is a wakeup call to a world in serious trouble.

Tracy L. Barnett

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Ciénaga Grande de Santa Marta: Reversing a Century of Colombian Tragedy

Can science and tradition heal the world's most productive estuarine ecosystem?

Daniel Henryk Rasolt

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Agroecology Center revalues agriculture - and culture - in Oaxaca

Centro Santa Cruz teaches children to plant, heal the soil, care for the Earth, and enjoy their native traditions

Diana Manzo

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Permaculture for Climate Change Resilience in Mexico

Tikkun Eco Center works with Mexican villages to solve water crisis

Victoria Collier Ben Ptashnik

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The Parable of the Humane Philanthropist

Does throwing starfish, or dead fish, back into the sea make any difference?

Erik Assadourian

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Botany as archaeology, to save a sacred site from a lithium mine

“First foods” survey reveals an ancient kinship of place with a “horticulture based in endearment”

Nikki Hill

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Top 13 Good-News Stories from 2022

Esperanza Project shares a year of regeneration, resilience, resistance and creative solutions

Esperanza Project

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“Embrace of the Amate” generates hope, healing and action

The XVI Vision Council sparkled with music, ecological consciousness and magic

Tracy L. Barnett Angelica Almazan

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Art with Heart: An EcoSapien Interview with Luix Saldaña

Artistic pillar of the Vision Council on making music, magic and world-class festivals on a shoestring

Esperanza Project

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Remembering Joye Braun: Water Protector, Grandmother, Revolutionary

Previously unreleased interview with Talli Nauman at Standing Rock captures the essence of a leader and a movement

Tracy L. Barnett

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Vision Council - Guardians of the Earth returns after 5-year hiatus

“Embrace of the Amate” transformational gathering merges art, culture, spirituality, healing and land defense in the heart of Mexico

Tracy L. Barnett

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