Samantha Harvey is a writer, meeting facilitator and climate justice activist. She is currently developing 5×5 Refuge, a rewilding project intended to build community connection and resilience via pollinator pathway gaps.
Only the Plants Can Save the People
My belief is that the plants can save the people; my hope is that we’ll let them. And in reconnecting with our local landscapes, we can reconnect with each other, so that four years from now, the people will be able to save the people once again.
November 18, 2024
An End to Silver Linings or An Old Lesson for a New World
Recognizing that caring for the environment and dismantling racism are not silver linings but interconnected, interdependent goals in their own right is the first, beautiful step.
April 24, 2020
Reflections on Houston in a Time of Contradiction
Perhaps one gift the Trump administration has given us is the final lifting of this veil — just in case there was any lingering faith that authority still meant something and could be depended on. Now we no longer need suspect. Benefit of the doubt is over — it’s all a façade, a sham, a bully’s blow-horn silencing a people’s wisdom. So now we know. What we do with this knowledge holds the key to the future.
October 16, 2017