Tony Skrelunas, Navajo member raised in Big Mountain, Dine Nation, United States tells of his plans to build a Navajo Nation Lamb Meat Cooperative.

Brian Harding shares his experience working with UNEP on developing the first large scale Global Environment Facility project in South Sudan focusing on climate change adaptation.

Vanesa Ramos writes about life after ALLSA 2015, including working on a project to collect and revalue the knowledge in traditional medicine of older adults from different regions of Peru.

Yaqui men and women carry a lot of ancestral and present pain: a history of genocide and dispossession which weighs on the body, soul and land. I believe that the many stories of heroism, perseverance and struggle to survive as individuals and as a people encourages a sense of full-fledged pride as a collective, and as individuals.

After GESA 2013, Thiago Gomes jumped right into a PhD program in Ecology at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, working with the Laklãnõ (Xokleng) Indigenous People on social-ecological change, traditional systems of knowledge, forest management and strategies for biocultural conservation and restoration in their territory located within the Atlantic Rainforest biodiversity hotspot.

Aili Pyhälä continues her work with community-based conservation.

Yuki Yoshida and her advisers make a case for the reevaluation of societal assets to place greater emphasis on the maintenance of rural areas.

Shingo Hamada continues working on the issue of seafood cultures and politics.

Nessie Reid writes about her journey during and after attending the Global Environments Summer Academy 2013 in Bern, Switzerland.

"It is rediscovering this magic in mechanical work and owning it up that will really help in saving our crafts... and hopefully even push our boundaries of what it means to be ecologically conscious."

Eda Elif Tibet creates a powerful film with the intention to transform power structures and influence the mainstream media narrative on who a refugee is.