Why the Climate Change Message Isn鈥檛 Working
Threats of global catastrophe won鈥檛 move people to action. Only the heart can inspire zeal.
Environment
Standing Rock鈥檚 Surprising Legacy: A Push for Public Banks
The effort to divest from Wall Street鈥攁nd stop environment-killing projects gained momentum after the historic pipeline protest. Here鈥檚 what a city needs, and could gain, from municipal banking.
The Surprising Links Between Family Dinner and Good Health
Adults who prepare quality meals for children are offering something more important than a nutrition lesson.
From Me to We. My New Year鈥檚 Resolution
In 2019, we must move beyond the myth of the lone individual to recognize our deep interdependence and responsibilities for one another and nature.
Our Ladies of Perpetual Activism: Nuns for Social Justice
These spirited sisters act to change the world in specific ways.
The Fight Against Food Waste Starts at Home
Decreasing the environmental footprint of food waste can save the planet and your wallet.
How Native and White Communities Make Alliances to Protect the Earth
Tribal nations have always been on the front lines of environmental protection. Now their neighbors are catching up.
Racial Justice | Native rights | Wealth and inequality | Local power | Sustainable food and farming | Indigenous lands
10 Podcasts That Every Social Justice Nerd Should Listen To
These shows inspire, teach, advocate, and provoke.
How My Settler Ancestors Set Us Up for Uncontrollable Wildfires
I want us to go humbly to the very people our culture tried to exterminate to listen to what they can teach us.
Why the Migrant Caravan Story Is a Climate Change Story
Drought, crop failure, storms, and land disputes pit the rich against the poor, and Central America is ground zero for climate change.
A Good-for-Nothing Tree Makes Good
Once upon a time, mesquite got no respect. Now this desert survivor is celebrated as a sustainable food source and a symbol of the borderlands.
This Is the Only Plant That Can Save Monarch Butterflies
Monarchs lay their eggs on this perennial wildflower along their migratory path to Canada. Plant it now and be nature鈥檚 ultimate wingman.
What School Lunches Have to Do With Fixing Wealth Inequality
Dismantling a capitalist food system could begin with schools, which nationwide spend about $3 billion on food contracts.
How to Fight Climate Change in Your Own Garden
A series of videos are educating gardeners and farmers on the benefits of regenerative agriculture.
Nuclear Power Will Not Save Us From Climate Change
How the IPCC鈥檚 solutions for reversing the Earth鈥檚 warming encourage business as usual.
Why I Have Hope in the Face of Human Extinction
Around the world, people are realizing the current path will lead only to disaster, and they鈥檙e beginning to ask the hard questions about what to do next.
3 Things You Can Do to Help Avoid Climate Disaster
Hint: Putting solar panels on your house and walking to work are not on the list.
How to Get Carbon-Free in 10 Years
Meet the Joneses. They are your average U.S. energy consumers, and they decided to do their part. Watch how they go carbon-neutral in a decade, and then try it yourself.
Indigenous People Invented the So-Called 鈥淎merican Dream鈥�
Liberty, equality, the pursuit of happiness鈥攖hese values date back to well before Columbus arrived in the Americas or Pilgrims set foot on Plymouth Rock.
How Coal Country Is Cleaning Up Its Act
A program in eastern Kentucky is retraining miners in industries that help mitigate the environmental impacts of mining on communities.
Call for Submissions: The Soil Issue
Send us your leads and pitches by Nov. 1.
Women in Male-Dominated Harvest Industry Help Each Other
HarvestHER establishes a community for women, recognizing stresses and loneliness of life in conventional agriculture.
Indigenous Culture Reasserts Women鈥檚 Power Through Dance
Native women revitalize ceremony to resist the legacy of patriarchy that supports a long-entrenched history of abuse.
What Will Climate Change Do to the U.S.-Mexico Border?
Rather than continue on a path to militarize the border, we should consider the alternatives.
Activism | Local economies | Local power | Citizens United | Sustainable food and farming | Pollution
Locals Unite to Stop Hog Farms From Polluting Their Community
麻豆社事件 than 40 families in Iowa are fighting to contain the spread of concentrated animal feeding operations.
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