Being the Change
Living sustainably can serve as quiet persuasion for those who may be turned off by scolding and hypocrisy.
Environment
On Unraveling and Resilience
In a world unraveling due to climate change, an environmental scientist looks to Indigenous stories of resilience.
Drawing a Path to Action
Finding your place in the fight against the climate crisis doesn鈥檛 have to be rocket science.
Rediscovering Nature and Myself
This spring, focus on reconnecting to foodways as a means to reconnect to your inner self during this season of emergence, renewal, and growth.
How to Transform the Way You Experience Winter
鈥淩ather than letting our relationship with nature extinguish itself during the cold, wet, dark days, we need to take special care to keep it kindled.鈥�
Why Every Job Is a Climate Job
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, how to be a climate ally where you are.
Growing Community in Vacant Chicago Lots
Most community gardens don鈥檛 last more than 10 years. But the Harambee Garden鈥攁t 12 years and running鈥攈as lessons to share.
Individuals Are Not to Blame for the Climate Crisis
The fossil fuel industry uses greenwashing and woke-washing to shirk their own responsibility.
The Race to Zero Emissions
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, we get ready for a climate marathon.
Environmental Education Is Falling Short. Activism Can Help
鈥淲e can鈥檛 afford to let our education systems get in sustainability鈥檚 way.鈥�
What They Knew: The U.S. Government and the Climate Crisis
In a new book, Gus Speth charts 50 years of the U.S. government鈥檚 role in causing global warming.
How India鈥檚 Farmers Launched a Movement Against Modi鈥檚 Farm Bills鈥攁nd Won
Hundreds of thousands of Indian farmers spent a year relentlessly protesting the Modi government鈥檚 push to corporatize Indian agriculture. Their fight offers a model for social movements worldwide.
2022鈥檚 Imperative: Letting Go of Our Past to Birth Our Future
Building an ecological civilization is the only way forward to saving both the planet and humanity. And time is running out.
Why Children鈥檚 Stories Are a Powerful Tool to Fight Climate Change
Stories are the most diverse, innovative, and dynamic technology for social transformation.
Smoked Salmon for Amelia: A Native Perspective on Homelessness
鈥淭he ultimate cause of homelessness is our spiritual break with the land.鈥�
Black Farmers Are Rebuilding Agriculture in Coal Country
Jason Tartt saw opportunity in the terraced hillsides of his native West Virginia, both for restoring the land and for other Black farmers.
17 Months Later, Dixie Fire Survivors Are Experiencing a New Kind of Disaster
Getting the mail used to take 5 minutes. Now it's a 50-mile round trip that can take up to 4 hours due to the constant removal of hazardous trees.
Climate Justice Through Divestment
鈥淲e are on the edge of a fundamental reshaping of finance.鈥�
Vandana Shiva: Reciprocal Care Will Give Us a Future
Vandana Shiva holds on to hope that we can collectively bring Earth back into our imagination.
Electric Solutions to Decarbonize Your Life
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 we look at how you can electrify your life for the planet.
In Search of Sustainable Spirits
An alcohol aficionado on how spirits like bourbon fit into our food system.
25 Years of 大象传媒: Hope, Progress, and Setbacks
A robust conversation with 大象传媒 co-founders Sarah van Gelder and David Korten, as well as longtime contributing editor Vandana Shiva.
Can a Major City Go Car-Free? Berlin Might Know Soon Enough
A group of activists in the German capital are pushing an ambitious plan to eliminate private vehicles in the city center, an area twice as big as Manhattan.
Community Efforts to Clean Up Contaminated Water in One California Town
鈥淟awmakers need to figure out better ways to balance the interests of industry with protecting people鈥檚 health.鈥�
How an Inefficient but Resilient Food System Fed a Hospital鈥攁nd a Community
鈥淲hen we started our farm-to-hospital concept, we never could have anticipated a global pandemic, but the pandemic provided proof of concept.鈥�
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