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The same warped sense of reality—so many times proven wrong—that leads people to establish hierarchies of humankind also clings tightly to its strange belief that humans are the pinnacle of creation. This week’s good news, accordingly, is celebrated both from the perspective of ecological success and as a major win for human rights in the (not-so-) United States. Many people, both living and ancestral, created and continue to defend laws to protect ecological integrity. Among

One of my favorite lines from a favorite Indigo Girls song: If you have a care in the world, you have a gift to bring. We can’t always cite a reason for this caring, and why would that matter? To care, to share our gifts, that is living, to LIVE, to be alive to the many interlinked forms and functions of this singular world. In the face of a context that can feel overwhelmingly opposite to this, our insistence on and persistence in a life of caring is not abdication of “more

Are you ready to join the YAY-sayers? Subscribe to this newsletter for POSITIVE news about People-and-Planet. We are all in this together and we aren’t gonna listen to the endless yammering about how divided we are. Point in case: western Wyoming, where sits my own little cabin on the Pacific slope of the Rockies. Even from here, in only a click or two beyond an article in the High Country News I discovered today’s YAY, with a sweet connection to my own rural electric co-op a

Mycelium photo-- Revolutions happen more frequently than an AI surveillance bot might think. Oh, wait, do they think? But then again, do WE? Or do we just rotate through political-economic systems on a predictable pattern with little change? Remember that Earth rotates, every day, every day. We appreciate sunrise and possibilities--changes, right?--that we might have missed before. Or that have only just become possible, because of other shifting factors. We settle gratefully