The Esperanza Project

A Green Magazine for the Americas

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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Retrotopia Emerging: An EcoSapien Interview with Liora Adler

Gaia University cofounder on Food, Water and Community Security in a De-Industrialized Future

Esperanza Project

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Tikkun Eco Center : Spreading seeds of change

Creating resilient community through water harvesting in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico

Angelica Almazan

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Saving the Titicaca 'Scrotum Frog' in the Andean Highlands

Pollution and human consumption threaten one of the world's largest frog species

Angelica Almazan

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The ‘Adelante method’ helped me succeed as a Latina journalist

How the bilingual newspaper published out of University of Missouri-Columbia developed a community building method that defined a new generation of journalists

Rebecca Rivas

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The Rainbow Path of the Coyote: EcoSapien Interview with Alberto Ruz

Memories and dreams from the revolutionary cofounder of the Vision Council - Guardians of the Earth and many other peace and unity movements

Angelica Almazan Tracy L. Barnett

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Countdown in Sinaloa: 15 years left to save critical coastal habitat

Huizache Caimanero lagoon system, one of the most productive in the Mexican Pacific, is in danger of disappearing

Raquel Zapien

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“We are Nature expressing itself:” Arun Ruz on EcoSapiens

Insights from a third-generation ecovillager born and raised into the Vision Council - Guardians of the Earth

Angelica Almazan

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Ecuador: After National Strike, extractivism and equity debate begins

Large-scale mining and oil extraction go to the dialogue table along with economic relief measures for the poor

Alejandra Tapia

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Grief and Gratitude in a New Mexico Fire

As wildfire and floods bring devastation to Calf Canyon and Hermit’s Peak, community steps forward to rebuild lives

John McLeod

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An Earth-Sky Interview with Tracy L. Barnett

Esperanza Project founder kicks off the EcoSapien Speaker Series with astrologer Tami Brunk in a cosmic conversation from the heart

Esperanza Project

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Small-town citizens get creative in Black Hills uranium mine fight

Ballot initiative would declare mining a 'nuisance' — a way to protect treasured springs under seige

Talli Nauman

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