EcoHearth: Come Home to the Earth

Toss a mega loop of rope over the Four Corners where Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona meet. Now arrange the perimeter so it divides Utah diagonally northeast-southwest in half and encloses the western quarter-slice of Colorado. Pull the lower edge around the northwest corner of New Mexico and the northern half of Arizona. You’ve just cordoned off 130,000 square miles of “red rock country,” known as the Colorado Plateau. Within this province lie eight national parks, including the Grand Canyon and Canyonlands, and six national monuments. Read on…

Wallace “J.” Nichols has an inordinate fondness for sea turtles. His Ph.D. dissertation was on the “Biology and Conservation of Sea Turtles in Baja California, Mexico.” In 1998 he founded Grupo Tortuguero, an international grassroots movement dedicated to restoring Pacific sea turtles and to sustainable management of ocean fisheries. In 1999 he co-founded WiLDCOAST, an international conservation team dedicated to the protection of coastal wilderness where he and a diverse group of partners organized fishermen to protect endangered sea turtles and helped coastal ranchers protect their shores for future generations. Read on…

Tom Wyant gets some strange calls. Recently, he got one about a public display of affection. It seemed a young couple had parked themselves beneath some poor woman’s window and decided it was as good a place as any to get romantic. Wyant’s job was to relocate the amorous couple to a more appropriate setting. His job was made more difficult by one single fact: the couple in question was a pair of Western Diamondback rattlesnakes. Read on...

Brock Dolman is a permaculturist at the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center (OAEC) based in Occidental, California. He is a member of the Sowing Circle Intentional Community and is Director of the OAEC’s WATER Institute (Watershed Advocacy, Training, Education, & Research) and Permaculture Design Program. He also co-directs OAEC’s Wildlands Biodiversity Program. Read on…

Featured in Business Week, the New York Times, CNN and NPR, along with dozens of other major publications, and appearing in television shows and films, on radio programs and at countless conferences, South Bronx environmental-justice advocate Majora Carter is one very busy woman. Read on…