Alliance for Sustainability

Alliance for Sustainability The Alliance was created 42 years ago with a mission to co-create sustainability on a personal, organizational, and planetary level.

We welcome you as a Friend of the Alliance: www.afors.org We’re building on our pioneering successes to make sustainability mainstream using an open-hearted center of deep listening, empathy and collaboration. Join our Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/22924201089/

Two thoughts on World Migratory Bird Day:1. Community science is exciting and if you love birds, here’s a perfect way fo...
10/08/2026

Two thoughts on World Migratory Bird Day:

1. Community science is exciting and if you love birds, here’s a perfect way for you to be involved, via the World Migratory World Day website.
https://www.worldmigratorybirdday.org/

2. Meet the male Steller's eider — one of 229 bird species that need us right now.

Nearly half of all US bird species have declined by 50%+ in the last 50 years. But conservation works — cities that invest in habitat are already bringing migratory birds back.

Add your name to protect the places birds like this one depend on: sign Audubon's petition for the Local Communities & Bird Habitat Stewardship Act.
https://act.audubon.org/a/communities-bird-habitat-act-senate-2026

When faced with a virtual wall of bad news day after day after day, our psyches sometimes take what may at first glance ...
10/06/2026

When faced with a virtual wall of bad news day after day after day, our psyches sometimes take what may at first glance seem like the easy way out: we freeze.

Freezing isn’t necessarily bad, but what comes after is critical. We can develop practices to shake off our traumas, both large and small. Doing so individually and collectively brings healing.

One of those practices is awe, which heals us mentally and physically. When we get good at inviting awe we retrain our neural pathways to seek goodness, thereby changing our minds, bodies, communities and world. Practice is the key.

Awe is easy to find once we begin to look for it. In a recent study, people were asked to take a weekly 15-minute “awe walk” for eight weeks. The instructions were remarkably simple: Look at the world with fresh eyes, pay attention to the details around you, and engage your senses. People could walk in cities, suburbs, or the countryside.

The point wasn’t the route but the mindset.

Learn more: https://bit.ly/4i1EkBP

Trump Wants to Open 45 Million Acres of Wilderness to Logging and RoadsTrump’s USDA has announced a plan to rescind Road...
10/05/2026

Trump Wants to Open 45 Million Acres of Wilderness to Logging and Roads

Trump’s USDA has announced a plan to rescind Roadless Rule protections on 45 million acres of National Forests.

This move would affect more than 7 million acres of critical habitat for endangered species and pose a catastrophic threat to 88 federally protected animals and plants across the country.

The USDA has opened a final comment period, ending October 6. Join the Alliance and the Sierra Club in commenting to protect these irreplaceable treasures. has reached an incredible 55k comments of their 75k goal. Add your voice, and help us fight for the future of our forests. Together we can be a force of nature!!

Comment today: https://act.sierraclub.org/actions/National?actionId=AR06037

On World Vegetarian Day let’s talk about beef.“There seems at least a chance that this moment might also be the high-wat...
10/01/2026

On World Vegetarian Day let’s talk about beef.

“There seems at least a chance that this moment might also be the high-water mark for cut-up cattle. In the same way that, around the world, internal-combustion cars are suddenly, and rapidly, giving way to electric vehicles, it’s possible that a combination of technological, economic, ecological, and cultural factors might be lining up to challenge the hold of beef.” –Bill McKibben

Those factors include climate change including drought, rising prices for consumers, outbreaks of the screwworm fly and parasites, and higher costs for ranchers including diesel fuel.

McKibben wonders if “this confluence of events might give alternatives to beef a moment of opportunity.”

On this World Vegetarian Day, we’re hoping alternatives to beef have their moment in the sun.

Read more: https://bit.ly/3TgQfCt

Trump Wants to Open 45 Million Acres of Wild National Forest to Logging and RoadsTrump’s USDA has announced a plan to re...
09/30/2026

Trump Wants to Open 45 Million Acres of Wild National Forest to Logging and Roads

Trump’s USDA has announced a plan to rescind Roadless Rule protections on 45 million acres of National Forests. Roadless areas are where Americans hike, climb, bike, paddle, ski, hunt, and explore — and rolling back the Rule would allow new roads and large-scale logging in some of our most wild backcountry areas.

This move would affect more than 7 million acres of critical habitat for endangered species and pose a catastrophic threat to 88 federally protected animals and plants across the country, including grizzly bears, Canada lynx, wolverines, spotted owls, and native fish. It would also harm more than 300 other protected species that live in roadless areas but don’t have designated safeguards for their habitat.

The USDA has opened a final comment period, ending October 6. Join the Alliance in submitting a comment for the USDA using Outdoor Alliance’s form to voice your support for maintaining the Roadless Rule as is.

Submit a comment using Outdoor Alliance’s form: https://action.outdooralliance.org/a/roadless-deis-usfs

Special Event Sunday, November 15“What You Won't Do For Love” is a beautiful reminder that love shows up in action, incl...
09/29/2026

Special Event Sunday, November 15

“What You Won't Do For Love” is a beautiful reminder that love shows up in action, including love for the planet, and that spirit gives us hope

Come join us for an extraordinary evening with one of the world's top three sustainability leaders at The O'Shaughnessy Theater at St. Catherine University for “David Suzuki Live Onstage: What You Won't Do For Love.” The Alliance will have a table, and Alliance members, readers and supporters can get a 20% discount using code SUSTAINABILITY. Tickets can be booked at stkate.edu/oshag.

The evening will feature Suzuki's liminal play, “What You Won't Do For Love” followed by a 20-30 minute audience conversation, an exciting opportunity to hear from renowned environmentalists and authors David Suzuki and Tara Cullis. They'll share about their lifetime devoted to climate activism in an intimate and inspiring theatre experience, a rare behind-the-scenes look at a life shaped by deep love, commitment, and the courage to act.

They reflect on their extraordinary 50-year partnership in life and work. Honest, warm, and thought-provoking, David and Tara share captivating stories, powerful insights, and heartfelt moments of humor as they celebrate their love for each other, their love of the planet, and love’s capacity to inspire action.

David has written or co-authored over 55 books, including The Sacred Balance and Tree: A Life Story, and hosted the long-running science program, The Nature of Things on CBC for over 40 years.

Reserve your tickets today: https://www.stkate.edu/oshaughnessy/events/2026-27-season/what-you-wont-do-for-love

Latine artist Guadalupe Maravilla confronts trauma, disease, suffering and the difficult work of healing through his ser...
09/28/2026

Latine artist Guadalupe Maravilla confronts trauma, disease, suffering and the difficult work of healing through his series “Disease Throwers.” His art is a rebellion against sterility and achromatism and the constraints disease and illness places upon oneself.

The healing power of art and resonant sound is something I have come to believe strongly in, and Maravilla’s sculptures are the very embodiment of this ideal. The specific piece Disease Thrower #5 contains references to his struggle with colon cancer and his mother’s with breast cancer.

The Disease Thrower series as a whole features what he calls “healing machines,” and he uses this piece and others like it to heal himself and others. It is living art in every sense of the term, and I can feel the flow of life as I study #5, even through a computer screen.

Maravilla says that he learned to heal himself through the creation of art, and has now turned his attention toward healing others.

Learn more: https://bit.ly/3Tdw9sJ

Microplastics Don’t Just Bioaccumulate and Live Forever — Now They’re Bringing Friends to the PartyA new EU study found ...
09/23/2026

Microplastics Don’t Just Bioaccumulate and Live Forever — Now They’re Bringing Friends to the Party

A new EU study found that they also serve as a Trojan horse for toxic chemicals and antibiotic-resistant bacteria, giving them an inroad to further soil contamination.

Read more: https://e360.yale.edu/digest/microplastics-soil

On World Gratitude Day we celebrate gratitude as a critical component of sustainability and a light through our present ...
09/21/2026

On World Gratitude Day we celebrate gratitude as a critical component of sustainability and a light through our present darkness.

As Robin Wall Kimmerer said, “Gratitude plants the seed for abundance.”

She continues:

“Each of us comes from people who were once indigenous. We can reclaim our membership in the cultures of gratitude that formed our old relationships with the living earth…A deep awareness of the gifts of the earth and of each other is medicine…It celebrates cultures of regenerative reciprocity, where wealth is understood to be having enough to share and riches are counted in mutually beneficial relationships. Besides, it makes us happy.”

Happy World Gratitude Day!

On World Gratitude Day we celebrate gratitude as a critical component of sustainability and a light through our present ...
09/21/2026

On World Gratitude Day we celebrate gratitude as a critical component of sustainability and a light through our present darkness.

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