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The Coalition of Immokalee Workers is an organization of farmworkers fighting against abuses in the field, wage theft, and forced labor. After decades of rallying consumers, students and church groups, they have negotiated enforceable standards with major food corporations to safeguard farmworkers’ rights.
As young Black female scientist, renowned wildlife ecologist Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant set off on her own journey in the wild to study black bears and the ever-shifting relationship between humans, animals, and place.
Rae Wynn-Grant, one of the most captivating science communicators of our time and a leading advocate for women and people of color in the sciences, shares some of her experiences finding her way in a profession with very few scientists who looked like her as she embarked on a quest to study the ever-shifting relationship between humans, animals, and place.
In this week’s newsletter, we share four powerful keynote presentations from the Bioneers Conference.
Most fungi live out of sight, yet they make up a massively diverse kingdom of organisms that support and sustain nearly all living systems. Biologist and bestselling author Merlin Sheldrake drives home the critical importance of fungi and presents cutting-edge research into the flow dynamics of carbon and nutrients within mycorrhizal fungal networks.
The mass incarceration system has wreaked havoc on our society, leading to the destruction of the social fabric of countless communities and contributing to the ravaging of the global environment. Our only path forward is to make amends with the land, water and air, one harmful industry at a time, including abolition of the prison industrial complex as we know it.
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Dr. Shane Gero, a visionary marine biologist, is angling to crack the code of sperm whale communication. His mind-bending research is transforming what we thought we knew about these ancient leviathans. What can whale culture teach us, and can deep listening help us learn to coexist respectfully in kinship with these guardians of the deep?
Kim Stanley Robinson's visionary 2020 novel, Ministry for the Future, projects how a possible climate-disrupted future might unfold and how the world might respond. It’s also full of brilliant science and wildly imaginative ways humanity steps up. In this talk, Stan offers us his overview of where we currently stand in relation to the climate crisis.
In this conversation, Architect Katrina Spade shares how she came to invent human composting and its current trajectory.
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