PROTECTING HALF-EARTH: OPPORTUNITIES AND OBSTACLES RESOURCES

The Dangers of Climate Change

• Extinction crisis puts 1 million species on the brink, Reuters 

• The Great Climate Upheaval: One Billion People are Expected to Migrate by 2050, Politics Today 

• Honolulu Approves Most Dangerous Wind Farm In United States 

Drivers of Biodiversity Loss

• More on direct and indirect drivers, Greenfacts 

• Global elite produce almost half greenhouse emissions, UN says, Financial Times 

• Our global food system is the primary driver of biodiversity loss, United Nations

Indigenous Knowledge

• Native.land.ca - find the Indigenous land you’re on

• The Red Review — Challenging Eco-colonialism Using Indigenous Science with Dr. Jessica Hernandez

• More on Kiani Akina’s work in her hometown of Kahuku, The Harvard Gazette 

• Mapping Abundance for a Planetary Future, Candace Fujikane

• Restoring Paradise: Rethinking and Rebuilding Nature in Hawaiʻi, Robert J. Cabin

• Thinking Like an Island: Navigating a Sustainable Future in Hawaiʻi, Jennifer Chirico, Gregory S. Farley

• Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer

• Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes through Indigenous Science, Dr. Jessica Hernandez

• The Three Sisters of Indigenous American Agriculture, USDA National Library

• How to Grow a Three Sisters Garden, Melissa Kruse-Peeples, Native Seeds Search 

Kincentric Ecology

• Native American and Indigenous Peoples FAQs, UCLA Equity, Diversity & Inclusion 

• Redefining Sustainability through Kincentric Ecology: Reclaiming Indigenous Lands, Knowledge, and Ethics, Dennis Martinez, Cambridge University Press

• Kumulipo, A Hawaiian Creation Chant (Text and Translation)

• Teaching Kincentric Ecology in an Urban Environment, Enrique Salmon, The Journal of Sustainability Education

• We live in the future. Come join us, Bryan Kamaoli Kuwada, Ke Kaʻupu Hehi ʻAle, “the wave-treading kaʻupu.”

Western Conservation Theories

• E.O. Wilson’s Half-Earth Project 

• The Push to Conserve 30 Percent of the Planet: What’s at Stake? Council of Foreign Relations 

Climate Hope Resources

• Statement and poem by Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner, Climate Summit 2014 - Opening Ceremony

• To Hell With Drowning, Julia Aguon, The Atlantic 

• What if climate change meant not doom — but abundance? Rebecca Solnit, The Washington Post

Food Sustainability and Biodoversity

• Bringing biodiversity back into farming, Sustainable Food Trust

• Fight climate change by preventing food waste, World Wildlife Fund 

• The 6 environmental and health benefits of growing your own food, Ecological Garden Continuum

• CARBON SEQUESTRATION IN GRAZING LAND ECOSYSTEMS, University of Florida

• Farmed Shrimp, World Wildlife Fund

Steps Forward to Fight Climate Change

• Nearly Every Country Signs On to a Sweeping Deal to Protect Nature, Catrin Einhorn, New York Times

• Climate change is here: ecological restoration can help us meet this moment, Society for Ecological Restoration

• Biodiversity beyond national jurisdiction treaty

• Transboundary Marine Biosphere Reserve of the Tropical Eastern Pacific of Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador and Panama

• Strengthening networks for wildlife health surveillance (WildHealthNet) in Viet Nam, WCS

• Dasgupta Review: Nature’s value must be at the heart of economics, Fred Lewsey, University of Cambridge 

• Investing and Climate Change, MIT

Support These Organizations

• Bio4Climate.org

• Colombia Biodiversa

• Harvard Climate Coalition 

• Harvard Forest 

• Markets Institute

• Rethink food

• Wildlife conservation society

• Wildlands, Woodlands, Farmlands & Communities - An initiative to conserve the New England landscape