Maureen Nandini Mitra

Berkeley

Editor at Earth Island Journal

Podcast Host at KPFA - Terra Verde (Podcast)

Editor @earthislandjrnl. cat-lover, cook, dancer, wannabe homesteader. Pitch me at [email protected]

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Articles

This Artist Undertakes Painstaking Work for Endangered Creatures

4 weeks ago | earthisland.org | Maureen Nandini Mitra

Layered Love Pamela Pauline’s photographic artworks celebrate Australia’s endemic plants and animals. At first glance, Pamela Pauline’s sumptuous photographic artworks can easily be mistaken for paintings. That’s intentional. Her series of incredibly detailed creations featuring Australia’s endemic and endangered plants, flowers, and birds seeks to emulate seventeenth-century Dutch still-lifes, not only in style but also in the visual cues and symbolism hidden in them.
Bird Flu has Spread to Humans. How Worried Should We Be?

Jan 17, 2025 | earthisland.org | Maureen Nandini Mitra

A colorized transmission electron micrograph of H5N1 virus particles (purple). Photo courtesy of NIAID and CDC. Bird Flu has Spread to Humans. How Worried Should We Be? As wildfires continue smoldering in Los Angeles, looming over the horizon is another worrying development — the growing spread of bird flu.
California vs. Trump 2.0

Nov 17, 2024 | earthisland.org | Maureen Nandini Mitra

An anti-Trump protest in Los Angeles in 2016, when he was first elected president. California is expected to be the special focus of the president-elect’s ire. Photo by Ken Shin.
Young Climate Activists Inspire Hope

Oct 17, 2024 | earthisland.org | Maureen Nandini Mitra

Clockwise from top: Amelia Southern-Uribe, Austin Picinich, and Asa Miller. Photos courtesy of BYA.
Ricardo Morales Creates Art for Collective Healing

Oct 17, 2024 | earthisland.org | Maureen Nandini Mitra

Art for the People Ricardo Morales’ prints have supported the labor and environmental movements for decades. Growing up in a remote village in Puerto Rico, Ricardo Levins Morales had no access to drawing materials other than pencil and paper. Since supplies were hard to come by, his mother provided a new piece of paper only when he had filled every inch of both sides of the last sheet. His artworks reflect that need for economy to this day.
Saru Jayaraman on Organizing Workers Across the Food Chain

Sep 25, 2024 | earthisland.org | Maureen Nandini Mitra

The time is ripe to aggregate our power across multiple movements, says Saru Jayaraman. The US food system is the largest employer in this country. Around 22 million people work to put food on our tables, on farms and at sea, slicing, dicing, freezing and drying it, processing it in factories, packing it at warehouses, selling it at grocery stores, and cooking and serving it at restaurants.
Salvaging Fabric Scraps to Create Magical Animal Creatures

May 7, 2024 | earthisland.org | Maureen Nandini Mitra

Fresh Life Textile sculptor Bryony Rose Jennings finds sparks of life in fabric scraps and found objects Old fabrics hold a special charm for Bryony Rose Jennings. She has been collecting them since she was a young girl, picking them up at car-boot sales with her father, at vintage clothing shops, on eBay, from family and friends. Jennings has also always been drawn to animals. She says she finds them easier to relate to than humans.
Alok Shulka, Goldman Prize Winner mHelped Protect India’s Hasdeo Forest From Adani Coal

Apr 30, 2024 | earthisland.org | Maureen Nandini Mitra

Alok Shukla pulled together a community resistance campaign that saved an ancient forest in India from being dug up for coal. When Alok Shukla first set eyes on Hasdeo Aranya — a gorgeous, ancient forest spread across 657 square miles in central India — he knew right away that the struggle to save it would be “a battle for the soul of Chhattisgarh.” What Shukla didn’t anticipate back then was that the struggle would take 12 years.
Serving Justice All Along the Food Chain

Apr 18, 2024 | earthisland.org | Maureen Nandini Mitra

Not only do restaurant workers comprise at least half of the country’s 22 million food industry workers, they also happen to be among the lowest paid — the minimum wage for tipped workers is still just $2.13 an hour at the federal level. Photo by Andreas Brændhaugen.
Is California Really Ending Fracking?

Mar 14, 2024 | earthisland.org | Maureen Nandini Mitra

A boy plays basketball in front of an oil well that is covered with large colorful flowers and is located next to Beverly Hills High School. Wells like this are hidden throughout Los Angeles. Photo by Sarah Craig / Faces of Fracking. Is California Really Ending Fracking?