Life Saves the Planet

After taking the Water Stories Core Course in 2025, this month I joined a wonderful group of volunteers for a week of camping to support their East Coast team with whatever they needed as they built two earthen ponds and connected them to a third.

This blog explores the complex story of donkeys from their long partnership with human communities to their changing place in landscapes around the world. It considers how history, human movement, abandonment, and conservation have shaped the way we understand and treat donkeys today.

Beneath every field lies an ecosystem at work. The Living Soil explores how Andhra Pradesh Community-Managed Natural Farming (APCNF) is putting that idea into practice at remarkable scale—farming without synthetic fertilizers or processed external inputs by working instead with soil biology, diverse crops, living roots, fungi, microbes, insects, and natural nutrient cycles. Written by Pavan…

In Alma, Colorado, a newly built beaver dam has raised the water level by three feet, restored trout habitat, and helped keep the surrounding landscape moist in a fire-prone region. Bio4Climate Board Member Sue Farist Butler shares how this community restoration is bringing water, wildlife, and learning back into the heart of the town.

This summer, Biodiversity for a Livable Climate co-hosted the 3rd Annual Cambridge Mothball 2026 at the Kingsley Park, Fresh Pond Reservation, Massachusetts. The glimpses of the event as reported by Beck Mordini, John Minkle and Jim Laurie are presented in this blog.

The Lyons family story penned by Bill Myatt reminds us that ecological restoration is also a legacy of care, connection, and responsibility across generations. This post honors Tom Wallace Lyons’ generous support of Biodiversity for a Livable Climate and reflects on how his family’s values continue to inspire the work of restoring ecosystems, strengthening communities,…