Tending the Garden of Eden in the Twenty-First Century

Among the many themes that can be discussed in the biblical story of Adam and Eve is the divorce between humans and nature: After being immersed in nature, humans were banished from the garden and began to experience nature as strange and foreign. Seen from this angle, the big question conservationists must ask is: how […]

Can our media shape our future?

Sea otter at a kelp forest

The things we engage with in our media and the things we enjoy do shape our belief in what is possible in the future. Terra Nil is a nature-restoration video game. Upon starting it, the player is greeted by a vast toxic wasteland where a guidebook with instructions on restoration is found. The player’s task […]

“Focus on the impact that you can make rather than what you cannot change”

“Focus on the impact you can make,” says Jelena Milenkovic. And that’s what we did: Our TiME to Seed a Future Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) has nearly 500 registrants. Almost half a thousand teachers across the globe have joined our course through the European Schoolnet Academy. They are learning the essential tools to teach […]

Nature reserves: Living on the front lines

For many people around the world, nature reserves seem like distant, faraway lands. Even when we consider their almost invisible rike in our everyday life as the “green lungs” of the Earth they still seem almost mythical. Unreal. No matter where in the world we are. But for many people they are home. Indigenous peoples […]