Tag: biodiversity

  • How Rewilding Yourself Can Reduce Energy Costs 

    How Rewilding Yourself Can Reduce Energy Costs 

    By: Isabel Molina, RNJCC Strategic Advisor 2024 was the hottest year on record since 1880, breaking the previous top record-holding year, 2023. 2025 is on track to receive second place for hottest year recorded. With temperatures consistently climbing, it has never been more important for people to have access to a cool environment during extreme…

  • Summer Symphony

    Summer Symphony

    By: Dare Euler, RNJCC Strategic Advisor Summer nights. Seasons bring more than just changes for our eyes and clothing. More than just temperature and daylight hours. Nights in summer are layered with sound. One August night, I sat on my back deck. Initially the woods seem quiet compared to the constant streaming of daytime noise.…

  • Adventures from the Knepp Estate England Part III

    Adventures from the Knepp Estate England Part III

    By: Francesca Mundrick, Founder & CEO The Knepp Estate is a 3,500-acre rewilding project in West Sussex, England. Over the past few decades, Knepp has become an internationally recognized example of success for rewilding in practice. Over thirty years, the rewilding practices at Knepp took hold and with that, sustainable business followed. Knepp offers the public…

  • The Loop of Self-Sufficiency

    The Loop of Self-Sufficiency

    By: Anna Bergen, Outreach & Engagement Intern When transforming your backyard into a self-sustaining ecosystem, it’s best to start with simplicity. My family is trying to mimic natural cycles, within a contained space, that being my own backyard. At my house, we have a rainwater collector, which contains and stores water that can be used…

  • Wilderness Life In The 21st Century?

    Wilderness Life In The 21st Century?

    By: Jonathan Kocsis, Lead Intern When hearing the words wilderness survival, most think about being stranded on a deserted island and having to survive by any means necessary. What most people wouldn’t do is willingly sign up for the opportunity to do this at just 13; however, that is exactly what I did during my…

  • Domain or Stewardship? Interpreting Our Relationship with Nature Through Genesis

    Domain or Stewardship? Interpreting Our Relationship with Nature Through Genesis

    By: Dare Euler, RNJCC Strategic Advisor Genesis 1:26 Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps…

  • Episode 1: Conservation, Knepp, & Rewilding England

    Episode 1: Conservation, Knepp, & Rewilding England

    Tony Whitbread President, Sussex Wildlife Trust Get notified for every new post. Subscribe to our Media today! Join the Rewild NJ Movement. Joined the Rewild NJ Movement? Practicing Community Rewilding? Rewilding Your Land and Yourself? Using our Resources? We want to capture the action, stories, and successes of our Movement Members. Submit the form below…

  • Adventures from the Knepp Estate England Part I

    Adventures from the Knepp Estate England Part I

    By: Francesca Mundrick, Founder & CEO In my early search for rewilding knowledge and community, I found a book called Wilding by Isabella Tree. Wilding tells the story of the Knepp Estate, a famed, internationally recognized rewilding project. The Knepp Estate sits on a 3,500-acre area near Horsham in West Sussex, England. After inheriting the estate…

  • Reconnecting with Lenapehoking: We Are All Keepers of This Land Now!

    Reconnecting with Lenapehoking: We Are All Keepers of This Land Now!

    By: Ty “Dancing Wolf” Ellis, RNJCC Strategic Advisor Lenapehoking is what the Lenape traditionally & currently still call these lands; a territory in which New Jersey is the only state that is entirely within (next to the partial inclusion of Delaware, Pennsylvania, and New York). With generations of forced erasures of culture and the removal…

  • Memory in the Concrete: Rewilding Through Bioregionalism

    Memory in the Concrete: Rewilding Through Bioregionalism

    By: Sam Scalio, Outreach & Engagement Intern I grew up in South Philly, where green space can be hard to find, and having a tree on your block or two made it stand out amongst other streets. My neighborhood, as well as most of South Philly, consists of row homes, sometimes expansive, then narrow sidewalks,…