Ecosystems

Protecting the web of life.

The Fight Against Fracking

by Maura Stephens

posted Aug 13, 2010

How New Yorkers won a moratorium on a drilling practice that threatens their lives, homes, and water.

Can Mushrooms Save the Planet?

posted Aug 13, 2010

Video: Mycologist Paul Stamets gives six ways fungi can help save the planet.

Update: Post-Prison Garden Project Grows Earth Stewards

by Berit Anderson

posted Jun 25, 2010

Ten years ago YES! Magazine reported on Cathrine Sneed and her Garden Project. Today there are 37 Earth Stewards and seven full-time Garden Project employees.

Perseverance: Lost in the Gulf of Mexico

by Margaret Wheatley

posted Jun 04, 2010

We need to surrender our need to blame, acknowledge that we are truly lost, and then reclaim our capacity to think together if we are to find a way to solutions.

River Rescue: Citizen Riverkeepers Protect Their Waters

by Elizabeth Grossman

posted May 27, 2010

Who protects the public's right to clean, accessible waterways? We do.

Protecting our Water Commons: Interview with Robert Kennedy Jr.

by Sarah van Gelder

posted May 27, 2010

We can be the most powerful protectors of our own sources of water.

Restoring California's Wild Watersheds

by Jane Braxton Little

posted May 27, 2010

Why more water for wildlife means more water for people.

A Sea Change :: Film Trailer

posted May 13, 2010

Hidden below the waves, ocean acidification is wreaking havoc on marine ecosystems.

All Hands on Deck

by Riki Ott

posted May 13, 2010

What can you do to respond to the Gulf oil spill?

Meet the Riverkeepers

by Margit Christenson

posted May 13, 2010

Meet citizen riverkeepers from Milwaukee, Atlanta, and Washington D.C.

Leave It to Beavers?

by Ashlee Green

posted May 13, 2010

Nature's water engineers can restore river channels.

The End of the Long Summer

by Sherry Boschert

posted Apr 13, 2010

A new book by a leading science writer tells what we need to do to survive climate change.

People We Love :: Ricardo Navarro

by Ashlee Green

posted Apr 13, 2010

Choosing a sustainable path.

An Interview With Paolo Lugari, Founder of Las Gaviotas

posted Feb 10, 2010

Paolo Lugari, the founder of Las Gaviotas in Colombia, describes how the incredible energy of the human spirit has made Las Gaviotas into a world-famous example of sustainable living in a harsh environment.

Big News for Small Forests

by Ian Hanna

posted Jan 07, 2010

Sustainable, small-scale working forests are feeling the economic pinch. But nonprofit groups are helping family- and community-owned woodlands thrive by connecting them with carbon markets.