Mastodawn

In the 19th century, Americans idealized wilderness, which they defined as natural areas without people in them. The issue with this, of course, was that the “wilderness” areas that they wanted to turn into national parks had people in them.

So what was it like for the people who lived in these “wildernesses,” what happened to them, and what evidence is left of their lives?

https://worldhistory.substack.com/p/only-to-the-white-man-was-nature

#America
#history
#wilderness
#indigenous

Only to the White Man Was Nature a Wilderness

Native Americans in the national parks

Looking Through the Past

Deep Adaptation Forum Nov 24

RealJournalism Nov 24

As Robin Wall Kimmerer harvests serviceberries alongside the birds, she considers the ethic of reciprocity that lies at the heart of the gift economy. How, she asks, can we learn from #Indigenous wisdom and ecological systems to reimagine currencies of exchange? https://emergencemagazine.org/essay/the-serviceberry/?utm_source=Emergence+Magazine&utm_campaign=d75d618f64-Newsletter_20251123&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-0be9b497cf-357147382 #Solarpunk

The Serviceberry: An Economy of Abundance – Robin Wall Kimmerer

As Robin Wall Kimmerer harvests serviceberries alongside the birds, she considers the ethic of reciprocity that lies at the heart of the gift economy.

Emergence Magazine

Deep Adaptation Forum Nov 19

"a gap between prediction and reality that crew members say is becoming more common thanks to the effects of climate breakdown"

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/19/shipping-carbon-emissions-neoliner-origin-cargo-age-of-sail

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#transport #climate #weather #collapse #cargo #local #renewable #sail

Onboard the world’s largest sailing cargo ship: is this the future of travel and transport?

The Neoliner Origin set off on its inaugural two-week voyage from France to the US with the aim of revolutionising the notoriously dirty shipping industry

The Guardian

Deep Adaptation Forum Nov 18

Word to the wise...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVA6maXAaAM

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#permaculture #climate #ai #collapse #community #earth #college #university

is college in 2026 a bad idea?

YouTube

Deep Adaptation Forum Nov 17

Can WE imagine possibilities more hopeful than demons, dictators, and damnation?

https://www.thenerdreich.com/silicon-valley-apocalypse-capitalism/

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#technology #techbropocalypse #community #collapse #AI #endtimespropaganda #memeworldwar

Silicon Valley Apocalypse Capitalism

“Maybe if you aren’t trying to destroy the world, you’re not trying hard enough.”

The Nerd Reich

Deep Adaptation Forum Nov 17

Bruce Sterling @bruces Nov 15

*Televisions and phones are for poor people.

Deep Adaptation Forum Nov 16

Dotting the i's in GRAiN and crossing the t's in t-Shirts...

https://www.resilience.org/stories/2025-11-14/rethinking-supply-chains/

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#cosmolocal #community #scale #regeneration #ecology #bioregion

Deep Adaptation Forum Nov 2

Liz Ahern 🌈🧜🏼‍♀️🇲🇽🐸Nov 2

This child's mother is not an immigrant, she is an Indigenous woman, he is an Indigenous child. They deserve to be together on this land their ancestors walked before any real immigration came to terrorize them. Humanizing our stories & spreading the truth is a form of protest. #Indigenous

Deep Adaptation Forum Oct 31

DAF Upcoming Events

https://www.deepadaptation.info/index.php?page=acymailing_front&ctrl=archive&task=view&id=389&userid=51632-f89x2HaJkQl0yt&noheader=1&noheader=1

Deep Adaptation Forum Events Nov-Dec 2025

Deep Adaptation Forum Oct 29

DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME!

Or Kindergarten.

But no, you DO NOT NEED to "dig up and import" forest floors

BUT YES!

Get kids outside and rewilding...

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/29/soil-sandpit-children-dirty-biodiversity-finnish-nurseries-research-microbes-bacteria-aoe

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#earth #health #outdoors #play #education #children #learn

How a radical experiment to bring a forest into a preschool transformed children’s health

In Finland, kindergartens are exposing children to more mud, wild plants and moss - and finding changes to their health that show how crucial biodiversity is to wellbeing

The Guardian