News and Insights
How an Indigenous Community Defended its Ancestral forest from Logging
The rights and roles of indigenous peoples is critical to good decision making and protecting important ecosystems.
“The researchers compared global conservation maps and colonial-era cartography with a detailed map created by the community itself. The result reveals something striking: the forest that appears empty in official datasets is, in fact, layered with history and meaning.”
Bringing Food Justice and Criminal Justice Together to Heal People, Land, and Communities
A Los-Angeles Urban Farm is working to shift perspectives about prison, address food insecurity, and model how food and criminal justice systems can be transformed and offer training, paid work, and community for an overlooked and underserved population of formerly incarcerated people.
Events and Community
Farewell to A Founder and Friend
Friends and family of Adam Sacks gathered together on March 4, 2026 to celebrate his life through stories, photos, video, music and even a poem. Members of the Bio4Climate community came from as far away as Maine and Maryland filling the benches in the Cambridge Friends Meeting Center, where so many shared how they came to know Adam and the impact he had on their lives. A recurring theme was how Adam’s commitment to Bio4Climate gave people hope, created connections and changed the course of the climate change narrative. The love in the room made it clear that Bio4Climate is more than an organization, it’s a family.
Books for Biodiversity Lovers
The Overstory, a Novel
By Richard Powers
This Pulitzer Prize-winning, New York Times bestseller takes a new approach to exploring how sustainability and human survival are inseparable.
This fictional story weaves together multiple characters’ lives, using personal struggles, realizations, and choices to explore how their lives become intertwined with a “hidden” world of trees and revealing the consequences of ignoring and defending the living systems that sustain life on our planet.
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