Environment
What Goes if USAID Goes?
The destruction of USAID will create shockwaves throughout the world — and worsen the ongoing climate and extinction crises.
Articles By
The Editors
Tree Dance editors curate what they read and present it here. They’re on the lookout for articles that amuse and inform. If you’d like to contact them, they can reached over here.
Books
Do Animals Think About Death?
The philosopher Susana Monsó asks what we can know from the variety of responses toward death we see in the animal kingdom.
Food and Agriculture
Tending the Garden
A year in the life of three family farms cultivating cannabis, food and community in the pursuit of a regenerative future.
Society
What Do 21st Century Land Reparations Look Like?
“Reparations is about repair and creating a world where everybody, including Black people, fully belong. A world where we respect the environment. And a world where the idea of dominating other groups or the land itself isn’t the dominant belief.”
Climate
What Would Happen if Parasites Disappeared
“They’re just puppet masters behind the scene holding the strings of everything you thought had free will.”
Ecology
Time Passages: Learning Life in a Colorado Meadow
A short documentary chronicles the passage of native wildflowers and hummingbirds as they’re tracked over the decades by grandfather and now granddaughter.
Art
AI Aesthetics are Weird
Among the schlock of AI generated imagery is an eclectic and sometimes electric visual language.
Books
Book Review: The Curious History of Life-Saving Viruses
While western medicine went all-in on antibiotics, scientists in the Soviet Union explored microbe battling viruses.
Ecology
Stop Logging These Trees
In 2022, President Biden announced a new effort to protect old growth forests. Logging continues. The Bureau of Land Management ignored the memo.
Environment
The Machines Won’t Save Us, Vol I
Climate tech is interesting but we need natural solutions to mitigate the effects of climate change.
