Introducing:
Move Upstream Environmental Consulting
Karen offers a wide range of Speaking, Educational, Writing, & Policy advising services. She helps businesses, nonprofits, and educational institutions find their voice to openly and objectively discuss the more difficult, yet necessary topic of how overpopulation and unlimited human enterprise is a barrier achieving and sustaining a healthy and regenerative biosphere.
“When I ask people to move upstream, I am asking them to consider the biggest possible picture. Our fragile biosphere and the overall health of our planet determines our very existence. Unfortunately, our conversations, debates, attention and investments are all downstream, oblivious to the nature of our planet facing the dire consequences of overshoot.”
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Karen is an engaging speaker on topics ranging from over-population to wild plant recipes. She is available for talks, interviews, and book signings.
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Featured Books by Karen Shragg
Change Our stories, change our world
We need new stories. The ancient traditions and narratives under which we still operate have run their course and are no longer useful.
move upstream: a call to solve overpopulation
Our world is overpopulated. This fact lies outside of the typical activist's perspective and doesn't fit into society's dominant anthropocentric worldview.
Lucy’s hero: remembering paul wellstone
Lucy first meets Paul Wellstone when he comes to her farming community, campaigning from his green bus. When a flood devastates her family's farm, Senator Wellstone invites Lucy to the Capitol to appear at the congressional hearing where he appeals for flood relief funds for her area.