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Stargazing party at the Mt. Lemmon SkyCenter Observatory.
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Can words help us out of climate despair and toward repair?

by Ruxandra Guidi August 1, 2024July 31, 2024

How naming the climate struggle matters.

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Audio: What’s so funny about climate change?

by Ruxandra Guidi July 26, 2024August 8, 2024

Resorting to absurdity can make people care.

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Audio: Undoing the dams

by Ruxandra Guidi June 19, 2024August 8, 2024

Bringing flow back to Western waterways.

The Bowtie parcel in Los Angeles, California.
Posted inJune 2024: The Idea of Wilderness

What if the future is the past?

by Ruxandra Guidi June 1, 2024May 31, 2024

Degrowth offers a path for dealing with our serious environmental issues.

Posted inArticles

Audio: The Joshua tree-yucca moth link

by Ruxandra Guidi May 2, 2024August 8, 2024

These desert species wouldn’t survive without the other. Can they weather climate change together?

Collage features Juliana v. United States plaintiff Levi Draheim and other young climate protesters.
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Youth are leading the way on climate action

by Ruxandra Guidi April 1, 2024April 1, 2024

Start thinking like young people to secure our future.

Wupatki Pueblo in Northern Arizona.
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Audio: Listen to the Earth breathing

by Ruxandra Guidi March 18, 2024March 15, 2024

Blowholes are more common than you think.

A visitor takes a photo of “Cruz,” a mountain lion at the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum who was rescued as a cub in California.
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We need to reframe our thinking about what’s wild

by Ruxandra Guidi November 29, 2023March 14, 2024

Why we should take a look from wildlife’s perspectives.

Posted inSeptember 1, 2023: Food Justice

We don’t need utopias

by Ruxandra Guidi September 1, 2023March 14, 2024

What if Eden is chilling out in your neighborhood?

Tucson, Arizona's Rillito River as seen after a summer monsoon storm in 2022.
Posted inMay 1, 2023: Reemergence

The spirit of the Rillito

by Ruxandra Guidi May 1, 2023March 14, 2024

‘New animism’ seeks a connection to nature’s pulse.

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