Terra Verde

Learning from Young Environmental Leaders

Over the past 17 years the Brower Youth Awards, given out Earth Island Institute’s New Leaders Initiative, have become the top prize for young environmental leaders in North America. The awards, which honor six youth every year, have recognized some 104 young activists for their leadership and creative efforts in tackling our many pressing environmental problems … Continued


Wildfires, large and small, have been an essential part of Western landscapes for millennia. And now a growing body of research is showing how most of the traditional fire-control methods we have been employing for nearly a century — like logging dense forests to thin them and removing dead trees so that the fire can’t … Continued