Hello from post-Equinox heat wave here in the sacred Mojave.

We see with the return of the sun also the return of young tree leaves, bees, dragonflies, and so much more. The cover crops I failed to grow last year are sprouting en masse in newly finished infiltration basins, irrigated with greywater from the communal house, and I've even seen mushrooms that I've inoculated into straw beds fruit after rains. So much of this feels like hope. Our young chickens are enjoying their first unsupervised forays into their little fenced run (until they're big enough to trust foraging), and we saw our first Great Horned Owl a few weeks ago.

Our website is live, and I hope you'll join us if you haven't already. We're releasing our first newsletter Monday, trying to put to digital paper Equinox contemplations, and bring you along on this journey with us.

https://rancholibertad.com

It's free, and we appreciate your support.

We are also trying to get a few trees in the ground before it gets too hot. If you feel up to monetary support to help us with purchasing saplings, we don't have our own ko-fi or paid tiers of the newsletter offering, yet, but we can accept donations (or purchases that support the ranch) through Siin's ko-fi:

https://ko-fi.com/sigillosacro

We appreciate & love you all, being to being. Stay safe out there.

Siin & Star

Shoot the messenger. Today’s cartoon by Max Gustafson. More cartoons: https://www.cartoonmovement.com/search?query=&sort=created&order=desc

"n his timely new book, French climate activist Clément Sénéchal argues that the environmental movement itself is also partly to blame. Pourquoi l’écologie perd toujours (Why Environmentalism Always Loses) is a survey of the increased pessimism among ecologists, such as could only be expected from someone who has devoted the first years of his adult life to the cause. The book charts how Sénéchal, a former campaigner with Greenpeace France, lost faith in the multinational NGO — and the broader mode of environmental politics in which such groups are embedded. “As I broach middle age, my generation finds itself in an ontologically degraded natural world, in a negative reality,” Sénéchal writes in the introduction. “We still have our lives to lead, but it seems like they’ll only play out in a continuum of dead-ends.”

For the author, the original sin of political ecology lies in its failure to establish itself as a durable mass movement, picking up where broad-based struggles such as the labor movement, feminism, and anti-racism leave off. Despite ever-present warnings about climate change, environmental politics and policy remain the preserve of well-educated and genteel urban dwellers, the “new ecological class” as the late philosopher Bruno Latour lauded in a recent pamphlet. This demographic’s concern and sense of urgency is undoubtedly sincere. But its domination over the movement’s main organizations — from legacy NGOs such as Greenpeace, Oxfam, and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) to the tepid Green parties of western Europe — has been politically catastrophic. Since the 1970s, when that organizational ecosystem first took form, environmentalism has diverged from what Sénéchal views as its natural home: in a working-class politics that incorporates the defense of the environment into the critique of capitalism."

https://jacobin.com/2025/03/environmentalism-climate-activism-ngos-policy

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Climate Denial Group Aided Legal Defense of Alleged Exxon Hacker-for-Hire #ExxonMobil #hacker #ClimateActivism #dirtytricks #AviramAzari https://www.desmog.com/2025/01/27/climate-denial-group-aided-legal-defense-of-alleged-exxon-hacker-for-hire/

International students come to Canada from all over and find the freedom here to raise their voices for causes that are bigger than themselves. Causes, like #climateChange for which they might have no voice at all in their home countries.

But I guess Canada isn't about that anymore. If you're a trouble maker... even if it's Good Trouble, you're out.

This is not the Canada I grew up in.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/zain-haq-deported-save-old-growth-1.7441765

How Can We Exploit Polluters’ Vulnerabilities Clues from Some Movements That Won | Dr. Kevin Young

https://tube.rebellion.global/videos/watch/4f1b099a-e0bd-4e7a-8b6a-123dfbb9c254