The Esperanza Project

Mentoring Our Climate Future

What do a WWII combat general, a brilliant nonviolent strategist, a Berkeley poet laureate and a German puppeteer have in common?

John McLeod

Esperanza is the Antidote: A Year Later

In a year of triumphs and tragedies, The Esperanza Project continues to bring a message of hope

Esperanza Project

Conversations with LaDonna and Cheryl

From the Sovereign Sisters Transcripts, in honor of a mighty matriarch

Tracy L. Barnett

LaDonna fights on in the resistance of Native youth

Late pipeline resister inspires young Water Protectors

Talli Nauman

Bathing in the Wisdom of Forests

If we are open to the possibility of plant sentience, forest bathing can be a social or even spiritual communion with nature.

Robert Engelman

Migrant ‘Protection’ Protocols Survivor Stories #4: Enrique

His resilience, leadership and loyalty make him an asset to any nation, yet all Trump & Co could see was Brown

Sarah Towle

Dental Floss, Radium Poisoning and the Green New Deal

Exploring the toxic parallels of our destructive economic system

Erik Assadourian

As temps rise, so do water protector arrests

Enbridge’s Line 3, KXL face growing Indigenous-led resistance

Justine Anderson Talli Nauman

The Plot Thickens in Mexico's Glyphosate War

Presidential decree for a gradual withdrawal of the possible carcinogen and prohibition of GM corn comes under attack.

Victor M. Toledo Jane K. Brundage

Monkeys Reaching for the Moon: An Environmental Parable for Our Times

Are we reaching for the illusion of sustainability rather than sustainability itself?

Erik Assadourian

Oak Flat: Fresh hope for menaced Apache sacred land

Biden tribal consultation memo waylays giant Apache Leap copper mine

Talli Nauman

Natasha: Migrant Protection Protocol Survivor Story #3

When your choices are persecution, solitary confinement, or going underground, ‘protection’ is prevarication

Sarah Towle

Migrant ‘Protection’ Protocols Survivor Stories #2: Perla

Fleeing political persecution only to be persecuted by politics at the US border, this front-line worker finally gets her day in court

Sarah Towle

Native observers question 'nefarious' attitude toward Deb Haaland

Laguna Pueblo Interior Department nominee awaits word on her confirmation after gruelling Senate hearing

Talli Nauman

Migrant ‘Protection’ Protocols Survivor Stories #1: Gabriel

This businessman and his family survived the trek north only to be trapped in Mexico by Trump’s cruel America. Will they now get to cross?

Sarah Towle

Navajo Nation: From No. 1 in infections to No. 1 in vaccinations

Covid-19 disparities fuel tribal vaccine rollout success

Justine Anderson

Colombia's resilient Wayuu resist global and local threats

Colombia's largest Indigenous ethnic group preserves vibrant traditions in the face of a potentially desolate future

Daniel Henryk Rasolt

Tokata Iron Eyes stars at Black Hills Film Festival

Lakota youth, at the forefront of pipeline resistance movement

Talli Nauman

México: The 4th Transformation in a Global Context

Strenghtening the defense of human values and those of nature

Victor M. Toledo Jane K. Brundage

Love & Waste Aboard a Bus Called Home

One Family's Journey to Ignite a Permaculture Paradigm Shift

Cara Judea Alhadeff

May 13th, a Day to Do Nothing for the Climate

Erik Assadourian

Keystone XL Cancellation: Honoring the Treaties?

Native pipeline fighters target Line 3, DAPL

Talli Nauman

Putting the Heart Back in the Valley by Putting the Fire Back in the Ground

A place-based, indigenous approach to ecological restoration in eastern Oregon

Kollibri terre Sonnenblume

Modern Civilization and Its People Without Spirit

Only beings with conscience will save the species.

Victor M. Toledo Jane K. Brundage