5 Ways Small Actions Have Huge Power
To those who take the bus or refuse plastic toothbrushes: Don鈥檛 listen to the cynics. Research shows the little things matter.
Environment
Patience Gray鈥檚 Italian Slow Food Education
Foraging for weeds and mushrooms with a visionary of the sustainable food movement.
Searching for Words in Indian Country
A non-Native journalist encounters a tribal-managed forest and an indigenous garden. 鈥淚 had no idea how to use the English language to describe what I was seeing.鈥�
This Chef Is Fighting Gentrification With Hot Chicken
Tunde Wey鈥檚 dinner series-slash-public art project raised $50,000 to address Nashville鈥檚 affordable housing crisis.
Here鈥檚 Why Capitalism Can鈥檛 Fix Climate Change
With all due respect to The Guardian鈥檚 economics editor, our planet will not be saved by capitalism.
First Nations Celebrate Win Against Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion
Here鈥檚 how indigenous leaders pulled together a grassroots movement to resist the pipeline expansion.
World to Flint Kids: We Still See You
An 11-year-old social media celebrity collects thousands of encouraging letters from around the globe to remind her Flint schoolmates they are not forgotten.
Berry Farmers Break Free From Big Agriculture
These farmworkers created an organic co-op that guarantees fair wages and healthy working conditions while preserving indigenous heritage.
The Shrinking American Dream House
麻豆社事件 and more people are looking beyond the ordinary for ways of building that express their creativity and values.
Before You Try to Decolonize Your Diet, Read This
A new book digs into the paradoxes of American Indian diets most people don鈥檛 know.
5 Ways Communities Are Coping With Climate Anxiety
From action-oriented toolkits to talk therapy and meditation, these responses facilitate recovery, hope, and activism.
Can a Strict Vegetable Diet Cure Cancer?
A review of the documentary 鈥淭he Food Cure,鈥� which follows patients undergoing an intensive and controversial nutritional therapy.
Water Protectors Take Action to Keep Pipeline Out of Black and Indigenous Communities
An encampment of protesters in Louisiana is resisting the crude oil industry, whose environmental disasters disproportionately affect the poor and people of color.
What Wildfires Do to Our Minds
A Northern California community offers mental health first aid to survivors of devastating fires.
Tomato Canning as Protest: How a Community Resisted Corporate Farming
A Missouri town鈥檚 summer ritual brings much-needed support to small family operations.
The West Coast Electric Highway Enables Zero Emission Road Trips
Thousands of charging stations flank the roadway, which stretches from British Columbia to Mexico. Now, the alternative fuel corridor needs to grow.
A Community of Slave Descendants Is Protecting Unique Food Traditions from Rising Seas
One chef is raising the profile of Gullah/Geechee cuisine to help maintain the Nation鈥檚 cultural identity.
A Brief History of the Feral Blackberry
The Himalayan blackberry was introduced to North America as a food crop. Like a Gremlin doused with water, it escaped its confinement and became almost impossible to eradicate.
Resisting the Power Structures That Keep Colonialism Alive
We must look at the roots of capitalism, white supremacy, heteropatriarchy, and anti-Blackness to leave settler colonialism in the past.
Conserve Energy on Summer鈥檚 Hottest Days With a Text
College students wondered, 鈥淲hy build a new power plant when we could just ask people to cut down on their AC use instead?鈥�
How Residents of South LA Are Tackling Environmental Racism
In the polluted Watts neighborhood, residents鈥� average lifespan is 12 years less than people from affluent areas.
Pruitt鈥檚 Out, But What We Need Are Local Leaders Who Will Act on Climate
The real conflict of interest鈥攁nd the lasting damage鈥攚as Pruitt鈥檚 choice to put fossil fuel interests over the planet鈥檚 life support system.
This Boot Camp Trains Young People to Fight Plastic Pollution
Youth activists ages 11 to 18 return home to educate their communities about how to curb the crisis.
5 Reasons Salmon Are an Environmental Justice Solution
We need wild salmon鈥攁nd not just because they鈥檙e tasty. They are an indicator of ecosystem health.
The Push to Turn Church Land Into Farmland
Faith leaders, conservation experts, and food advocates are joining forces to connect young farmers to the vast quantity of land owned by churches.
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