Life Saves the Planet
The Bio4Climate Blog
“Life Saves the Planet” is more than just a blog—it’s our philosophy and a partnership with GBH public television’s Lowell Lecture Series. In the search for answers to climate change, we look to the interconnected living systems that sustain our planet. These biodiverse systems shape our atmosphere, regulate temperature, and maintain balance in weather patterns. Inspired by the words of Janine Benyus, who proclaimed that “life creates the conditions of life,” we gather cutting-edge research, ideas, and resources to guide the way.
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Day 2 Summary & Reflection — 2025 Northeast Miniforest Summit
Root to Canopy: Growing the Miyawaki Method In 2025, Biodiversity for a Livable Climate organized and hosted the inaugural Northeast Miniforest Summit, bringing together more than a dozen speakers across two virtual half-days and an in-person bus tour. Practitioners, researchers, and leaders from diverse fields gathered to explore the Miyawaki method of afforestation from root…
Day 1 Summary & Reflection—2025 Northeast Miniforest Summit
Root to Canopy: Growing the Miyawaki Method In 2025, Biodiversity for a Livable Climate organized and hosted the inaugural Northeast Miniforest Summit, bringing together more than a dozen speakers across two virtual half-days and an in-person bus tour. Practitioners, researchers, and leaders from diverse fields gathered to explore the Miyawaki method of afforestation from root…
Beyond Carbon: Proforestation and the Undoing of Human Mastery
Beyond Carbon: Proforestation and the Undoing of Human Mastery In a powerful new essay, Pavan Muntha invites us to rethink proforestation beyond its technical framing. Rather than seeing forests as instruments in a planetary climate portfolio, the article asks us to consider them as living, more-than-human communities — with their own histories, relationships, and claims…
An Intergenerational Miniforest Now Grows in Belmont, MA
Beyond Gates: What COP 30 needs to address now.
Bill Gates recently made headlines with his advice for world leaders ahead of this week’s COP30 Climate meeting. The post was widely denounced for suggesting that climate change is a future problem while today’s priority should be immediate human suffering. Gates implies we must choose between addressing climate change and easing human suffering, which misses…
