The Esperanza Project

"Indigenous people shouldn't have to beg for justice"

After a monthlong march and three-day campout in front of the National Palace, Wixárika caravan gets presidential audience

Angelica Almazan

Wixarika Caravan to AMLO: We Want Our #LandBack

200 Indigenous men, women, children and elders march across Mexico to demand restitution of 11,000 hectares

Tracy L. Barnett

I am Mother Earth... and I know how to give life

Tzeliee-Kame Ramírez: A Wixárika poem for Earth Day

Tzeliee-Kame Ramírez

The Great Transition

We are not at the end, we are in a shift from a system that devoured our Earth to one that can work with Gaia.

John McLeod

Community Foresters Unite to Save Biodiversity Hotspot

Part II: New mining, timbering threaten Indigenous forestry in Oaxaca's Chimalapas reserve

Diana Manzo

Chimalapas: Building community to save a forest

Part I: Indigenous villages in Oaxaca join forces in border conflict zone

Diana Manzo

The teachings of Don Gustavo

Taking the lessons of University of the Earth founder Gustavo Esteva into the world and onto the road

Alberto Ruz Buenfil

'Helena from Sarayaku'

Award-winning film shows the struggle to save a community from petroleum megaprojects in the Amazon

Linda Etchart

Community Defenders of the Territories Moving Forward

Mexican resistance movements in defense of life and Mother Earth are blooming.

Victor M. Toledo

Renovation of the World in Wirikuta

Wixárika ceremony reveals there is still time to save life on the planet — by working together

Tracy L. Barnett

The Change Weavers: From Charity to Justice

From Ukraine to Los Angeles, platform empowers frontline communities to speak for themselves

Tracy L. Barnett Angelica Almazan

Wirikuta's Call: From the Heart of the World

Ancestral stories act as a guide for the flowering of consciousness

Adrian Villaseñor-Galarza

Pablo Alarcón and his luminous environmentalism

Honoring the life and work of Pablo Alarcón Chaires (1964-2022)

Victor M. Toledo

Wixárika Invitation Inspires 'Mirror Altars' Around the World

Thousands to synchronize with 'Renovation of the World' ceremony in Wirikuta to heal humanity’s relationship with Nature

Tracy L. Barnett

Discovering the Ecobarrios of Latin America

New book explores a model for green living that transcends borders

Diana Leon

Removing Racism, one statue at a time

"The Builders monument was a mockery, a humiliation for our peoples": Pavel Uliánov

Angelica Almazan

Facing Mexico’s zero-waste challenge

Grassroots organizers urge shared responsibility

Diana Leon

Throwaway people or valued environmental service providers?

Mexico's pepenadores seek to dignify a long-neglected role

Diana Leon

My Manifesto: Toward a Politics for Life

Victor Toledo on a way forward for a planet under siege

Victor M. Toledo Jane K. Brundage

Traditional fishers defend Colombia’s largest wetland ecosystem

Protecting the vital Mompós Depression Wetlands and its traditional fishing communities

Daniel Henryk Rasolt

Planting Agroecology in the Sacred Desert of Wirikuta

Renovating the Candles of Life Through Regenerative Agriculture

Diana Negrin

Enlightening Our Way Together - Best of 2021

We are celebrating another year of lifting up the voices of those who are making a difference. Will you be among them?

Tracy L. Barnett

Violence and Resistance at the Frontlines of Climate Justice

Artist reflects on her encounter with police brutality at Enbridge Line 3 encampment

Cindy Anders

Power, State and Capital: The Axis is Arrogance

We need to build a postmodern world that identifies arrogance as the evil to be overcome and replaces it with an ethic of humility and compassion.

Victor M. Toledo Jane K. Brundage