BAY VIEW, MI – Anishinaabe author Robin Wall Kimmerer came to Northern Michigan and called on all of humanity to take a lesson from the trees and get to work fighting climate change.

“In this year, which is the warmest ever recorded, when glaciers are melting, storms rising and hundreds of our fellow species are in grave danger, it’s important to recognize that we don’t have to innovate ourselves out of this dilemma alone because we have our plant teachers,” she said.

Kimmerer, a Potawatomi woman and environmental biology professor in New York, spoke Thursday, Aug. 7, to a crowd of more than 1,000 people at Bay View near Petoskey. She discussed the existential climate and ecological crises facing the world and called for a return of traditional ecological knowledge.

“There already is a

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