There are two life-altering crises facing our world today: the continuance of the COVID-19 pandemic with the rise of the Delta variant, and the increasing climate change chaos that is already here and will continue to worsen quickly if we don’t take transformative action. The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change spelled out the severity…
Read MoreReshaping the Face of Hiking
In an attempt to escape the mayhem brought on by COVID-19, many Saint Louisans have sought and found solace in the great outdoors. Seven months before the pandemic, two locals founded an organization called Black People Who Hike (BPWH). As a teenager Toni Burgess had the opportunity to attend a five year summer camp. The…
Read MoreCall to Action: Tell Congress to Support Climate-Friendly Agriculture Programs!
Call your legislators today to win funding for climate-friendly agricultural programs! This month, we have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to advocate for major investments in addressing climate change. Congress is crafting a $3.5 trillion climate and infrastructure bill, which they will pass using the budget reconciliation process: an unconventional process which will allow the bill to…
Read MoreArtificial Intelligence: A Band-Aid on Bad Agricultural Policy
The United Nations is projecting that by 2030 the global population will stand at 8.5 billion and farmers are being forced to confront a dire situation regarding increasing demand of the decreasing supply of land and crops. On top of increasing population, poor land management practices, industrial and intensive agriculture, climate change, insects, and plant…
Read MoreThe Current River and Jacks Fork River are at Risk Again – Public Comments Open Until August 18, 2021
The National Parks Service needs to hear from us! Learn how to comment on the Roads and Trails Plan here. They have big problems along the Current and Jacks Fork Rivers and only public input during this critical and final review stage of their Roads and Trails Management Plan will provide them with the tools…
Read MoreUnalienable Rights
“To be self-evident, we hold these truths that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.” Most of us learned this passage from the U.S. Constitution when we were kids, and our society routinely discusses them….
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