EcoMyths Alliance

03/04/2019

Soil microbes have been found to have similar effects on the brain as Prozac without side effects and chemical dependency. Learn how to harness the natural antidepressant in soil and make yourself happier and healthier in this article.

02/26/2018

Let’s be honest: It’s time for the whole world to stop buying coffee pods. https://buff.ly/2sTXJOr

02/06/2018

A Trip to a Museum for Convincing Americans About Climate Change https://buff.ly/2EneCpw

04/07/2017

The Institute for Nature and Culture at DePaul University are pleased to invite you to a public lecture by bestselling novelist (essayist, and teacher) Jeff Vandermeer during our Earth week celebrations.
His talk is entitled - AREA X: ENVIRONMENTAL STORYTELLING IN THE AGE OF TRUMP AND THE ANTHROPOCENE

April 19th, 6:30 p.m.
DePaul University
McGowan South, Room 108
1110 West Belden Avenue, Chicago

The event is free and open to the public. Please consider alerting friends and colleagues about this event.

ALSO: We will meet on the 17th at noon in 204 McGowan S to discuss the Southern Reach Trilogy trilogy. Please consider reading at least Annihilation, the first of these novels to add to the discussion.
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Jeff VanderMeer will dissect the death-wish impulses of the Trump administration and the role of Manifest Destiny and junk science in calamities like the Malheur Refuge occupation and the environmental policies of Florida governor Rick Scott, all in the context of his own personal connection to the Florida wilderness. He will push past the dystopic implications of the current era to explore positive and optimistic ways to confront our future, because acceptance of the status quo is not an option.
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VanderMeer’s New York Times bestselling and critically-acclaimed Southern Reach Trilogy (Annihilation, Authority, and Acceptance) explores ecological and global warming issues through the lens of the mysterious Area X, a pristine wilderness separated from the rest of the world by an invisible but potent barrier. The attempts of scientists and the government to uncover the mystery behind Area X allow VanderMeer to engage in what the New Yorker called “experiments in weird nature writing…and meditations on the theme of epistemic pessimism, in the tradition of Kafka.”

12/30/2016

Before you head out for the evening... before your midnight toast... before you close the books on 2016...

Please, make a gift to the 2016 EcoMyths Alliance Annual Campaign!

Now, more than ever, your gift to EcoMyths Alliance helps make life warmer, brighter, and more hopeful for people around the world. Your donation helps us by empowering you, and everyone else, care for the environment. We give a voice to science and you can help that voice get louder, much louder!

If you were waiting for the end of the year, this is it - please make your gift now!

Give directly here → http://bit.ly/EcoMythsGift
Suggested membership levels → http://ecomyths.org/donate-or-join

Thank you!

Please, make a gift to the 2016 EcoMyths Alliance Annual Campaign!

11/03/2016

🎉 ⚾️ Holy Cow!! ⚾️ Cubs win!!! ⚾️ 🎉

09/23/2016

French president François Hollande said the law will make France "an exemplary nation."

08/28/2016

Just in case you needed some reasons to go for a hike...

Forest Freak

07/22/2016

The forests, parks, refuges and trails that we love are at risk of being privatized. Once these places are gone--sold off for the benefit of a few--they are gone forever. Join the movement to save America's wild places from privatization so that generations to come can still call them . www.wilderness.org/ourwild

06/24/2016

04/26/2016

Man brutally attacked by baby elephant seal.

04/19/2016

Love to hike but don't want to kill an entire afternoon? Here are some incredible hikes you can take in a relatively short amount of time.