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
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.
Ecosystem Action Research
A pilot program 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.
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.
Habitat's road to release: 04 Chalk - building [at] habitat
The one where we don't release an API :)
Community Tech Speakers
Dietrich was kind enough to describe the Mozilla Tech Speakers program he created and ran, where the people around the world already promoting Mozilla/ Firefox / etc got support to give talks. Calling it Ecosystem Activity Uplift Program here: This would need funding to run such a thing, although we could maybe prototype parts of it with the Community Fund. As input, one of the things we need is lists of events next year. I think I’ll start by making a wiki page here to get things started s...
Autonomous Forest | LAS Art Foundation
Autonomous Forest is a living work of art and a new techno-legal entity that reimagines ecological regeneration
Ocean Park: Libraries roiled by ‘no rainbow’ fight
OCEAN PARK — Timberland Regional Library (TRL) Board President Brian Mittge listened to nearly three hours of public comment in Ocean Park Wednesday, June 24, from his fellow board members […]
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
ecosystemaction.leaflet.pubLast 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 🧵
