As natives and ranchers work together to oppose the Keystone XL pipeline, they're also learning to understand one another's history, culture, and relationship with the land.
On the frontlines of resistance to the Keystone XL pipeline, ranchers and tribal members join forces in a striking display of solidarity.
鈥淒ollarocracy鈥� examines innovations in other democratic nations to solve our money-in-politics crisis.
Darren Aronofsky talks to the Sierra Club and others about the intersection of religion and environmentalism.
The people behind the project borrowed some tricks from ride-sharing apps like Lyft, but tweaked the details so the rides are free.
Teachers are fighting the privatization wave by connecting with families right where they live.
Preliminary results from the 2012 Census of Agriculture show the increasing role of women in U.S. agriculture鈥攅specially on organic and small-scale farms.
A look at the growing influence of undocumented voices in the movement for immigrant rights.
Movements for economic justice and equality are rarely flush with cash. But "cryptocurrencies" like Bitcoin might stand to change the rules in their favor.
Everyday creative activities like knitting and cooking can boost your levels of serotonin and decrease anxiety.
Most organizers today believe that Alinsky taught to focus on building organizations and not social movements. But the author's own political work shows a more flexible approach.
How to get electricity, water, and the Internet in your tiny home on the range.
The business in chemicals extracted from seaweed鈥攑redicted to be worth $7 billion by 2018鈥攊s emerging as a source of employment for rural women.
By keeping workers healthy, the Affordable Care Act will help the working poor achieve greater financial stability鈥攁nd will probably boost the economy as well.
"Intersectionality" has evolved from a theory of how oppression works to a notion of how people can fight it.
The secret to learning self-awareness, cooperation, and other 鈥渟ocial and emotional learning鈥� skills lies in experience, not in workbooks and rote classroom exercises.
The Swahili word "madaraka" means "self-realization." The festival bearing that name seeks to empower youth to create positive change in their own lives, their communities, and the world.
The McCutcheon decision will boost the political power of the one percent at the expense of the rest of us. But it also adds to the urgency of the movement that's working to take back our democracy.
Having compassion leads to increased happiness, freedom from gender stereotypes, and better relationships with others.
Mayor Chokwe Lumumba implemented only the first steps of his plan to address Jackson's extreme income inequality, which most seriously affected black residents. Now the city faces a choice between vastly different approaches to economic development.
The British government is reversing damage done to local economies by the Great Recession by protecting local pubs.
City-dwellers are more likely than others to share housing, transit, and knowledge. Creating a new urban economy depends on valuing this interaction over individual consumption.
New approaches to kindergarten offer us a glimpse of what childhood used to be, and still could be鈥攖he modern re-creation of the children鈥檚 garden. If we looked to these examples, we might be able to rescue childhood.
From the author of Vegan Soul Kitchen, this cookbook charts a new course for southern, African American, and Caribbean cuisine.
Among the lessons of a major cooperative business' bankruptcy: The success of big co-ops might depend on things like radically reforming transportation and other parts of the larger economy.
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