Red Canary Magazine

As we approach our third year of Red Canary Magazine, we cannot help but reflect and express gratitude for all of our contributors and supporters who believe in and advocate for our mission of providing difference-making work focused on urgent environmental and social issues. 🍃🌻 🌊 In our three years so far, we have worked with over seventy contributors — journalists, photographers, filmmakers, and artists — to become an award-winning publication. As Founder and Publisher Tracy McCartney put it, "Over the past three years, we have focused on building Red Canary Magazine through bold narratives that cut through the clutter and engage readers." This year, we have celebrated five awards thus far. We are continuing to work on the critical stories that we have become known for. There is more to come, and we have our journalists working on more profound stories that we look forward to publishing over the coming months. But for now, if you have read our stories or believe in our mission as much as we do, please consider supporting us – either by sharing this post or donating at the link in our bio 🍃

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HIGHLIGHTS: The Haiti Factor by Sam Slovick About 2.3 million people are pushed up against the border in Tijuana. Migrants seeking to cross into the U.S. comprise a small percentage of them but occupy an oversized space in our news cycles. Read now to learn more about what happens when humans become election fodder.

NEW prose by Greg Blake Miller. https://lnkd.in/ePrVxDAw

It’s a pleasant surprise to see my article, ‘When Street Art Reaches for The Sky’ for Red Canary Magazine, as a finalist for LA Press Club’s National A&E Journalism Awards. Thank you to my supportive and talented editors at Red Canary Magazine, Victoria O'Campo and Joe Donnelly.

I'm thrilled to announce that the Society of Environmental Journalists has awarded my Red Canary Magazine story about Tulare Lake and the Yokuts people "honorable mention" in the "Outstanding Feature Story, Small" category of their Annual Awards for Reporting on the Environment. Huge thanks, once again, to the team at Red Canary Magazine! Red Canary does a lot of difference-making work with a small staff and limited resources. On the nonprofit mag's 4th anniversary, they are seeking monthly donors to fund their operations. If you're concerned about climate change, concerned about social justice, and like to stay informed about urgent environmental and human stories, please support Red Canary Magazine. They urgently need 375 new monthly sustaining donors to continue this journey. Support independent green journalism. Donate here: https://lnkd.in/gv5t9vTw #environmentalism #environmentaljournalism #independentjournalism

🏆ANNOUNCEMENT🏆 Our article “A Fabled Lake Returns, But Can Its People Do the Same?” received an honorable mention for Outstanding Feature Story in the 2024 Society of Environmental Journalist Awards for Reporting on the Environment. Here are the judges’ comments: ⁠“Award-winning journalist Aaron Gilbreath acknowledges that the resurgence of Tulare Lake has caused a media sensation. He provides tons of historical and scientific data to educate laypersons about the lake’s return after 130 years and the dream of its original inhabitants to settle in the area again. In the midst of mainstream media hype, Gilbreath offers a refreshing angle. He gets the often overlooked perspectives of the Indigenous Tachi Yokut as they describe the impact of ‘Pa’ashi’ on their spiritual, traditional and cultural lifestyles. He highlights the resilience of the Yokut, a people described by white historians as a tribe, but actually comprised 50 or 60 separate communities with their own distinct territory, beliefs, customs and leaders. They included, but were not limited to, Wowole, the Tachi, the Chunut, Yokodo, Tulumne, Yowlumne, Wukchumne, Chukchansi, Kaweah, Koyeti, Wechikit, Nutúnutu and Chaushila. Self-described Yokochs (the people) believed the lake to be a living thing that provided food, clothing, shelter and water. Gilbreath skillfully diverts attention from what the mainstream considers the loss of materials (farmlands, roads, wells, electric lines, transformers and grand-scale agri-business) and focuses instead on the ‘reclamation’ of spiritual concepts and culture (dance, language, lifestyle) by Indigenous people of the area, stressing the importance of this cultural reclamation in enlightening the audience about the Indigenous perspective. Gilbreath advocates for the return of the original land owners and believes the ‘Pa’ashi’s return has to mean something.’”

I like sidewalks. Insects make me jumpy. 🐜 🐛🐞🕷️🪳🪲🦟 This book by Joanna Brichetto gave me a new perspective. Read Benedict Cosgrove’s review of her book, “This Is How A Robin Drinks: Essays on Urban Nature” for more. https://lnkd.in/eQnwh36t #Nature #BookReview #UrbanNature Red Canary Magazine

Thrilled to write another #environmental story about California’s Central Valley, published in Red Canary Magazine. Of the states 280 state parks, about 32 of them are in the Central Valley, and many of those are recreation areas or historic sites, not natural areas. Where are central rural Californians supposed to learn about, let alone experience, their local natural history? My new essay is about greening California’s rural interior. Parks are there to serve the people as well as protect species and ecosystems. It’s time to serve the state’s most underserved region— especially here, since the Valley houses a large Spanish-speaking population who work the farms and deserve places to recreate outdoors and reap the benefits of time in nature. Maybe the creation of Dos Rios State Park, California’s first new state park in 13 years, will mark the beginning of large scale ecological restoration in this productive and troubled land of farming. Read it here: https://lnkd.in/gmQUFr9i #centralvalley #California #ruralcalifornia

🌎️⁠ NEW ARTICLE 🌎️⁠ Readers seeking what the British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins once described as “that authentic tingling up the spine” sparked by great popular-science writing are fortunate these days. Now, in “Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life,” the young journalist Ferris Jabr — a contributor to The New York Times Magazine, Scientific American and The Atlantic, among others — has produced an electrifying debut that earns its place alongside the best of today’s essential popular science books. In fact, “Becoming Earth” might just outstrip a few of those other titles in one respect: its sheer audacity. Read Benedict Cosgrove’s review of “Becoming Earth” in Proof of Life: https://lnkd.in/gmAkyePM