The Water Remembers
The Water Remembers by Amy Bowers Cordalis is a moving multigenerational memoir of Indigenous resistance, environmental justice, and a family’s fight to preserve its legacy. For members of the Yurok Tribe in California, the Klamath River and its salmon are the lifeblood of the people—a vital source of food, income, and cultural identity. When a […]
Lynne Twist
Lynne Twist is a recognized global visionary who has spent more than 40 years committed to alleviating poverty, ending world hunger, empowering women and girls, and supporting social justice and environmental sustainability. The breadth of her work ranges from working with Mother Teresa in Calcutta to guiding refugees in Ethiopian camps to protecting threatened Amazon […]
YES!
YES! (Youth for Environmental Sustainability), founded by two teenagers in California in 1990 Ocean Robbins & Ryan Eliason, connects, inspires, and collaborates with change-makers to build thriving, just, and regenerative ways of life for all. The organization provides co-creative brave spaces for people gifted with compassion and a desire to make a difference—people looking for […]
The Glorians
Born from a pandemic dream—a vow to create what Terry Tempest Williams calls the “Epic Documentation of the Glorians”—this essay collection defines a Glorian as an encounter with grace in the unexpected: an ant ferrying a magenta blossom across the desert floor, the sound of baby birds heard for the first time in a newly […]
Blue Forest
Blue Forest is a nonprofit conservation finance organization that brings people, finance, and science together to restore and protect forests, watersheds, ecosystems, and communities. The organization builds partnerships with investors, land managers, nonprofits, Native Nations, private companies, and the public sector to catalyze the funds and partners needed to make restoration projects happen. Blue Forest […]
Disaster as a Springboard for Thriving Resilient Communities
This article, published in December 2013 by the Society of Organizational Learning’s Reflections Magazine, explores what happens when catastrophe fundamentally shifts the world we know. On March 11, 2011, the triple disasters of earthquake, tsunami, and radiation leak devastated northeastern Japan. In the aftermath, people from throughout the country began to gather not just to […]
Ashes to Resilience
Ashes to Resilience: A Guide to Wildfire Recovery is a resource developed by NewStories and Regenerating Paradise, drawing on their experiences to offer starting points for communities navigating wildfire recovery. Recognizing that what needs to happen is shaped by local culture and geography, the guide supports communities in their own journey of recovery and Re-Storying. […]
Regenerating Paradise
Regenerating Paradise is a nonprofit organization formed in the wake of the Camp Fire with a mission “to weave the social fabric that regenerates us.” The organization defines regenerating as a process of rebuilding and recovery that, as in regenerative agriculture, replenishes rather than depletes. Looking to Ridge community residents for resources, Regenerating Paradise works […]
Building Resilience
Building Resilience: Social Capital in Post-Disaster Recovery by Daniel P. Aldrich examines why responses to disaster recovery vary greatly in ways not explained by the magnitude of catastrophe or amount of aid provided. The difference between resilience and disrepair, Aldrich shows, lies in the depth of communities’ social capital. The book highlights the critical role […]
Ed Yong
Ed Yong is a Pulitzer Prize-winning science journalist and staff writer at The Atlantic, where his work has fundamentally shaped public understanding of biology, ecology, and the hidden complexity of life. Born in Malaysia and raised in Britain, Yong has spent his career finding the stories inside science that change how people see themselves and […]
I Contain Multitudes
Ed Yong’s 2016 New York Times bestseller arrived at a pivotal moment in biology, introducing a general audience to one of the most profound scientific shifts since Darwin: the discovery that every animal—including every human—is not an individual at all, but a living ecosystem. The trillions of microbes that inhabit us sculpt our organs, educate […]
An Immense World
Pulitzer Prize-winning science journalist Ed Yong opens a door most of us never knew existed. His 2022 book introduces the concept of the “Umwelt”—the unique sensory bubble each animal inhabits—and then takes us on a journey through dozens of them: the magnetic field a sea turtle navigates by, the electrical pulses fish use to communicate, […]
Brett KenCairn
Brett KenCairn is the Founding Director of Center for Regenerative Solutions and Senior Policy Advisor for Climate and Resilience in the City of Boulder’s Climate Initiatives Team, where he coordinates the city’s nature-based solutions work. Brett has worked across the western U.S. in community-based initiatives in rural, Native American, and other marginalized communities, and is […]
Becoming Earth
Becoming Earth by Ferris Jabr, New York Times bestseller and winner of the Rachel Carson Environment Book Award, reveals life’s profound influence on our planet through acclaimed science writing that transports readers to extraordinary places—a former gold mine nearly one mile underground, an experimental nature reserve in remote Siberia, an observatory on a dizzyingly tall […]
Michael Pollan
Michael Pollan has been writing books and articles for over thirty years about the places where the human and natural worlds intersect: on our plates, in our farms and gardens, and in our minds. Pollan is the author of eight books, six of which have been New York Times bestsellers, with three—including How to Change […]
Julian Brave NoiseCat
Julian Brave NoiseCat is a writer, filmmaker, champion powwow dancer, and student of Salish art and history. He is the first Indigenous North American filmmaker ever nominated for an Academy Award and the first Indigenous North American author to ever write about healing from intergenerational trauma by getting stoned with his dad in the pages […]