Pachamama Alliance

06/03/2026

What if we organized our lives around watersheds instead of borders?

Bioregionalism invites us to reconnect with the ecosystems, communities, and Indigenous knowledge that shape the places we call home. As climate disruptions intensify, it reminds us that resilience begins locally—through strong relationships with the land and each other.

What’s one thing you know (or want to learn) about the place you live?

05/29/2026

We’re looking for amazing volunteers to help bring our 30th Anniversary Celebration to life in San Francisco on September 12! Whether you’re a longtime supporter or new to the community, volunteering is a meaningful (and fun!) way to get involved and connect with like-minded people.

We’ve got a range of roles and shifts available, including:

Welcome & Registration: Greet guests, hand out name tags, and set a warm, welcoming tone

Hospitality: Help guests find their way around the venue, from seating to restrooms and refreshments

Event Setup & Breakdown: Support the behind-the-scenes magic that makes the day run smoothly

Volunteer with us:

Volunteer for Our 30th Anniversary Celebration in San Francisco! This September, we are gathering in person in San Francisco to celebrate our 30th Anniversary, and we need an incredible team of volunteers to help bring this special event to life. Whether you are a long-time supporter or new to our c...

05/26/2026

Poem 133: The Summer Day by Mary Oliver.

05/20/2026

Land Back is climate action.
Land Back is cultural survival.
Land Back is justice.

For generations, Indigenous communities have protected some of the most biodiverse ecosystems on Earth—despite colonization, forced displacement, and ongoing extraction. Today, Indigenous peoples around the world are reclaiming stewardship of their ancestral lands.

In the Bay Area, the Sogorea Te' Land Trust is rematriating land and restoring Indigenous stewardship practices across Lisjan Ohlone territory.

In the Sierra Nevada, the return of more than 10,000 acres to the Washoe Tribe is supporting cultural revitalization, sacred site protection, and traditional fire stewardship.

In Australia, organizations like Laynhapuy Homelands Aboriginal Corporation and Warddeken Land Management are revitalizing Indigenous fire stewardship practices that reduce catastrophic wildfires while caring for ecosystems shaped over tens of thousands of years.

In Hawai‘i, groups like Paepae o He'eia and Kua'aina Ulu 'Auamo are restoring traditional fishponds, watershed systems, and Indigenous foodways rooted in reciprocity and care for land and water.

Land Back is not about ownership in the colonial sense. It’s about restoring relationships between people, land, water, culture, and future generations. It’s about returning decision-making power to the communities who have cared for these places since time immemorial.

What becomes possible when land is returned to the people who know how to care for it?

05/18/2026

In our Resilience & Possibility conversation, Hilary Giovale explores what it means to become a “good relative” in a time of ecological and social unraveling.

From confronting ancestral legacies of colonization to reconnecting with the Earth through daily practices of gratitude, ritual, and repair. This conversation offers a deeply human pathway through grief, shame, and overwhelm—and toward accountability, belonging, and love.

Read now:

Explore Hilary Giovale’s journey into ancestry, healing, and becoming a “good relative” through truth-telling, Indigenous wisdom, and relationship with the Earth.

05/12/2026

We're hiring a Social Media Intern!

If you’re someone who craves a creative role where your work can make a meaningful impact, we want to hear from you!

This role offers hands-on experience across all things social and content. You’ll have the opportunity to build real portfolio work while collaborating directly with our Social Media Manager to develop content ideas, brainstorm creative campaigns, and help grow a global community rooted in sustainability, Indigenous partnership, and care for the Earth.

We’re looking for someone who:
🎥 Loves creating Reels/TikToks/social content
🌿 Cares about climate, storytelling, and social impact
💡 Is creative, collaborative, and excited to learn
📍Can work in-person at our Presidio office Tuesdays & Thursdays

This is a paid opportunity ideal for students or recent grads interested in content creation, social media marketing, and creative strategy.

Apply here: https://hubs.li/Q04g7hVV0

05/10/2026

This Mother’s Day, we honor the sacred cycle of life.
The mothers who bring us into this world.
The women who care for generations before and after them.
And Mother Earth herself—who nourishes, protects, and sustains all life.

In Achuar and Shuar communities of the Ecuadorian Amazon, Indigenous midwives are often the first hands to welcome new life. Carrying ancestral wisdom and essential medical supplies in their backpacks, they cross rivers and muddy forest trails to reach women giving birth in remote rainforest communities.

Since 2006, Fundación Pachamama’s intercultural health program has supported more than 2,000 pregnancies and distributed over 5,000 safe-birth kits throughout the Amazon. Each kit contains essential tools—from gauze and alcohol to stethoscopes, blood pressure monitors, rain ponchos, and snakebite kits.

A fully equipped safe-birth kit costs $500 and protects the life of a mother and her newborn child.

This Mother’s Day, we’re raising funds to provide more safe-birth kits to Indigenous midwives serving communities across the rainforest.

And if donating isn’t possible right now, simply sharing this story or helping spread awareness is also an act of care.

May we remember that to care for mothers is to care for the future.
To protect the rainforest is to protect life itself.

Happy Mother’s Day! 💚

05/06/2026

Join us for a powerful conversation with Otto Scharmer, a leading voice in transformational leadership and systems change.

Together, we’ll explore what it means to shift from ego-system to eco-system awareness, and why real change begins beneath the surface, in the “social soil” of our relationships, attention, and collective awareness.

In a time of uncertainty, this is an invitation to slow down, listen deeply, and act from what is wanting to emerge.

This Resilience and Possibility in These Times conversation features Otto Scharmer, a leading voice in transformational leadership and founder of the Presencing Institute

05/04/2026

With the Stones of Our Stories by Rosemerry Trommer ❤️

04/29/2026

What would it take to build a world that works for all life and not just some?

In a recent Resilience & Possibility conversation, Jeremy Lent explored this question through the lens of “ecocivilization,” a way of seeing the world that moves us from extraction to relationship and from separation to interconnection.

His work connects science, history, and spiritual wisdom to show how our current crises stem from a worldview of separation and how shifting that worldview opens the door to a different future.

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Insights on Ecocivilization, systems change, and Jeremy Lent’s vision for a world beyond separation, rooted in cooperation and ecological balance.