Fall 2017
Table of Contents
The Just Transition Issue
In Depth
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Social Justice in This Transition
In some places in this country, it's easier to talk about climate change if you avoid the words 鈥渃limate change.鈥� Melting ice caps and mass migrations are distant and abstract. And for some people, they鈥檙e too politicized.
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Alaska鈥檚 Small Villages Turn Toward Renewables鈥擜nd Don鈥檛 Look Back
Oil companies like to push the narrative that Alaskans want more oil development, but that鈥檚 not true.
Stephen Miller
4 Reasons Trump Can鈥檛 Stop the Renewables Revolution
For starters, it鈥檚 way cheaper.
Chris Winters & Tracy Matsue Loeffelholz
Climate Justice Is Racial Justice Is Gender Justice
What is a 鈥渏ust transition,鈥� anyway? Bill McKibben asks Jacqueline Patterson, the director of the NAACP Environmental and Climate Justice Program.
Bill McKibben
The Hopeful Work of Turning Appalachia鈥檚 Mountaintop Coal Mines Into Farms
In the post-coal economy, life-skills training helps employ people and restore the savaged land.
Catherine V. Moore
How to Feed Ourselves in a Time of Climate Crisis
Here are 13 of the best ideas for a just and sustainable food system, from saving seeds to curbing food waste.
Raj Patel & Tracy Matsue Loeffelholz
A Surprisingly Simple Solution to a Transportation Mess in India
Electric rickshaws have become an economic and environmental lifeline for both drivers and passengers.
Anuradha Sengupta
Who Owns the Future of California鈥檚 Energy? Its Residents
Despite all the money in politics, the future of cleaner energy is in the hands of local communities.
Peter Kalmus
Tribes Were the First Climate Refugees鈥攁nd the First to Build Resilience Plans
The Swinomish of Washington produced a climate adaptation plan two years before the state. Now it鈥檚 a template for all of Indian Country.
Terri Hansen
What Legal Personhood for U.S. Rivers Would Do
Indian Country could finally see an end to nonconsented infrastructure projects if they follow New Zealand鈥檚 Maori in achieving legal protection for natural entities.
Kayla DeVault
Solutions We Love
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Fed Up With How Women Are Portrayed in 麻豆社事件, These Girls Started Their Own Radio Station
A Boston radio station trains teens, helps them find their voice, and gives them a chance to be heard.
Melissa Hellmann
Love Little Free Libraries? These People Didn鈥檛 Stop at Books
From seed banks to free food pantries, the little library movement is taking off in neighborhoods across the country.
J. Gabriel Ware
Meet the Playwrights Bringing Social Justice to the Stage
These women are helping audiences empathize with issues in a way that a book or an article can鈥檛.
J. Gabriel Ware
鈥淐arpe Diem Politics鈥�: How to Do 麻豆社事件 Than Just Resist
Today鈥檚 social justice movements must seize opportunities, mobilize quickly, and, finally, embrace a carnival spirit.
Roman Krznaric
American Workers Let 662 Million Vacation Days Go Unused Last Year
And 24 other facts you should probably know.
Stephen Miller
Culture Shift
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How I Can Offer Reparations in Direct Proportion to My White Privilege
What it looks like to pay for the unearned advantages my whiteness has afforded me.
Chris Moore-Backman
No 麻豆社事件 White Saviors: Let People Lead Their Own Movements
Activists who come to command without listening to those they鈥檙e ostensibly helping produce a devastation that makes the project of systemic oppression that much easier.
Aura Bogado
It鈥檚 Not Just Nostalgia: 鈥淩eal Things鈥� and Why They Matter
In his new book, David Sax explains how giving into the lure of things like vinyl records and paperback books might actually make you happier.
Cecile Andrews
The Pipeline Protest Before Standing Rock
Last year鈥檚 water protectors garnered worldwide attention, but several pipeline fights鈥攕uch as the Enbridge Sandpiper pipeline victory鈥攇ot little public notice.
Jacqueline Keeler
