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August - Climate Solutions

Finding Climate Solutions in Nature

August 11, 2024
by Autumn Ricksecker

Should climate action come before biodiversity conservation? In the words of our friend and climate scientist, Katharine Hayhoe, indigenous groups, communities of color, and the poor often suffer the effects of climate change ‘first and worst’. We add ...

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Iceplant-Graveyard

The Spiritual Work of Habitat Restoration

April 5, 2024
by Autumn Ricksecker

Since moving to a new home, with my new husband, I’ve declared war. War on the invasive iceplant covering a hillside all along the property.

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From Agreement to Action: A COP28 Reflection

January 17, 2024
by Autumn Ricksecker

For the first time at a UN Climate Conference, the burning of fossil fuels was officially acknowledged as the key cause and driver of climate change. Will this signify a new era of climate action? At the end of 2023, representatives from 200 countries me ...

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Coast Live Oak, photo by Autumn Ricksecker

Hope the Size of an Acorn

January 12, 2024
by Autumn Ricksecker

When you think of Southern California, what plants come to mind? Perhaps it’s palm trees lining the streets of Los Angeles, citrus orchards cascading across Orange County, or eucalyptus groves offering a fragrant canopy on college campuses. However, these ...

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Love The Fast

February 21, 2023
by Autumn Ricksecker

By: Autumn Ayers "I admit that each year as Lent approaches, I am pricked by a feeling of dread. Traditionally, the Lenten fast involves abstaining from certain foods (meat and meat products) and generally eating less in order to make us ...

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Celebrating 40 Years of Creation Care: A Rocha’s Journey from Cruzinha to a Global Conservation Movement

January 17, 2023
by Autumn Ricksecker

The Harris Family This year, we are celebrating A Rocha’s 40th birthday! In 1983, Miranda and Peter Harris and their four children moved to southern Portugal to establish Cruzinha: the very first A Rocha field center near the Alvor marshes. The reg ...

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Clean Cookstoves in Peru

Can Carbon Offsetting Really Work?

November 21, 2022
by Autumn Ricksecker

The whole community of creation–from people to habitats to wildlife–are already suffering the effects of a warming climate, stirring more and more people to take a hard look at their own carbon emissions. For many organizations, companies, and individual ...

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Creating Waters of Hope for International Coastal Cleanup

October 5, 2022
by Autumn Ricksecker

by Autumn Ayers Led by The Ocean Conservancy, the International Coastal Cleanup, held on September 17 each year, inspires over 200,000 people to restore marine ecosystems by tackling plastic pollution. From oceans, lakes, and streams to roadsides, park ...

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