How to Bring Nature Into Your Daily Life
The key is to make it feel like a daily gift.
Environment
How To Awaken Our Ecological Psyche
Rekindle the deep memory of where we come from.
The Gift of Ecological Humility
These Afro-Indigenous practices challenge ideas of human supremacy.
Reclaiming Our Common Home
Expand the commons to include everything we need.
A Nearly True Story: The Tale of the Hamlet
Sometime in the future of the After Times, a group of neighbors relearn how to grow food in community鈥攁nd feel joy amid uncertainty.
Living Ecologically Is Illegal
The Rights of Nature movement offers a solution.
What Does An Ecological Civilization Look Like?
A society based on natural ecology might seem like a far-off utopia鈥攜et communities everywhere are already creating it.
Toward an Ecological Civilization
The path toward an ecological civilization moves us from an uncivilized society based on selfish wealth accumulation to one that is community-oriented and life-affirming.
Pipelines Make Uncomfortable Neighbors in Appalachia
Residents face the threat of disasters, construction noise, and loss of control over their land.
The Enchantment of Ceremony
An Indigenous writer describes how ritual is the entryway to connection and wholeness.
Strengthening Communities and Shifting Power in Pursuit of a Just Transition
How two grassroots, BIPOC-led coalitions are helping to democratize the climate justice space.
It鈥檚 a Sign: How to Keep Climate Communications Compelling
鈥淢inimum Viable Planet鈥� is a weeklyish commentary about climateish stuff, and how to keep it together in a world gone mad. This week, on benign visual interventions in physical space.
Returning to the Roots of Community Resilience in Hawai鈥榠
Local agriculture initiatives offer a way toward food security through reconnection with the land and the true spirit of aloha.
Water Protectors Hold Their Ground in Wild Rice Country
A report from occupied Palisade, where Water Protectors confront a dying, but still deadly, energy behemoth.
How Art Can Help Cultivate Climate Resilience
鈥淢inimum Viable Planet鈥� is a weeklyish commentary about climateish stuff, and how to keep it together in a world gone mad.
Why 鈥淪olarpunk鈥� Gives Me Hope for a 麻豆社事件 Sustainable Future
鈥淢inimum Viable Planet鈥� is a weeklyish commentary about climateish stuff, and how to keep it together in a world gone mad.
Harnessing People Power to Protect Alaska鈥檚 Last Remaining Wilderness
A new social movement is bringing together Indigenous activists and TikTok creators to prevent drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Call for Submissions: Taking on the Plastic Problem
Send us your leads and pitches by Feb. 5.
What Will It Take to 鈥淏uild Back Better鈥�?
We鈥檙e in a time of global and national crises. President Biden must rise to the task.
The Year of Good Trouble
鈥淢inimum Viable Planet鈥� is a weeklyish commentary about climateish stuff, and how to keep it together in a world gone mad.
Cooperation and Chocolate: The Story of One Colombian Community鈥檚 Quest for Peace
A community in Colombia is ditching traditional capitalist models in order to build a collective future.
Reasons for Hope on Climate Change in 2021
Despite the onslaught of climate disasters, there is more momentum for political action now than ever before.
Why I Gave Away My Salary During the Pandemic
It wasn鈥檛 philanthropy. It was an investment in a marginally more livable world for us and our child.
Yes, You Can Grow Rice in Appalachia
Meet the farmers growing traditional Laotian foods in the hills of North Carolina.
Let鈥檚 Call Environmentalism What It Is
We should be thinking less about keeping a clear conscience and more about striving toward a mutualistic relationship with the rest of the earth.
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