







Scott Silver, executive director of Wild Wilderness, calls it the “corporate takeover of nature and the Disneyfication of the wild.” He’s referring the American Recreation Coalition, an industry trade association, and its new “Scenic Byways” website that proposes inserting “tonal patterns” into roadways as a new form of “innovative communication” (i.e., advertising). Kym Murphy, the former v.p. for environmental policy at the Walt Disney Company, explains:
State of Conservation Technology | WILDLABS
Explore insights from the first community-sourced assessment of the State of Conservation Technology

Wildland: Why, What and How?
We are excited to present the paper outlining the project’s high-level rationale, as well as some nuts and bolts of this initiative.
Building Digital Public Parks with Deepti Doshi
Designed for trust and connection, not ad clicks and outrage

A Bestiary of the Digital Wilds: The Score - Astral's Blog
Open Letter to Organic Maps Shareholders
Community contributors to Organic Maps have expressed serious concerns about the project's governance, transparency, and the potential for shareholder profit at the expense of the community. They are calling for a shift to a nonprofit structure, greater inclusivity in decision-making, and financial transparency, and are considering starting a new project if these issues are not addressed.
Call for Participation: AT Protocol Ecosystem Action Research - Ecosystem Action
A pilot program to facilitate cooperative, research-led innovation in the AT Protocol ecosystem.
Call for Participation: AT Protocol Ecosystem Action Research - Ecosystem Action
A pilot program to facilitate cooperative, research-led innovation in the AT Protocol ecosystem.
Habitat's road to release: 08 search - building [at] habitat
Bringing search to groups in Habitat!
Habitat's road to release: 08 search - building [at] habitat
Bringing search to groups in Habitat!
Ecosystem Action Research
An initiative to facilitate cooperative, research-led innovation in the AT Protocol ecosystem

Trails and public spaces — Rafael M. Batista
A reply to Kenny Peng and colleagues on designing social media around trails — and why the campground or the piazza may be the better analogy.
Defining “Participatory Ecosystem” — Grow the Pie, N...
A blog on social software, collaboration, trust, security, privacy, and internet tools by Christopher Allen. Defining “Participatory Ecosystem” — Grow t...
Ecosystem Action Research · Events Calendar
View and subscribe to events from Ecosystem Action Research on Luma. EAR is an emerging collective that intends to facilitate cooperative, research-led innovation in the AT protocol technology ecosystem.
Last year, the Trump administration launched a sweeping campaign to censor American history and science in the National Park Service. A crowdsourced project aims to document every sign in the more than 400 national parks and historic sites across the country before the government removes them 🧵
Introducing Ecosystem Action Research: a pilot program to address shared challenges in the AT Protocol ecosystem with a cooperative approach to strategic innovation. By the community, for the community. Sign up to participate here:
Call for Participation: AT Protocol Ecosystem Action Research
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