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How President Obama Can Turn Climate Speech Into Action

Many were surprised to hear President Barack Obama take up climate change at today鈥檚 inaugural address. Here are a few ways the president can seize the moment and transform our approach to climate action.

Sarah van Gelder | Jan 22, 2013

Sustainable food and farming

Book Review: Inside Will Allen鈥檚 Good Food Revolution

Like growing vegetables from seed to harvest, overhauling the country's food system takes time.

Laura Kaliebe | Jan 17, 2013

Local power | Climate

Why Post-Sandy America Needs State Banks More than Ever

If we the people want the sort of security in emergencies that is available to the owners of Wall Street banks, we need to own some banks ourselves.

Ellen Brown | Jan 8, 2013

Sustainable food and farming

Want Sustainable Fish? Barn-Raised

Aquaponics takes advantage of nature鈥檚 processes to fill Americans鈥� growing appetite for fish鈥攚ithout overfishing or destructive farming.

Katherine Gustafson | Jan 4, 2013

A Living Sewage Treatment Plant? These People Grew One

Every flush of a standard toilet creates a several-gallon problem. Instead of wasting water, plants and animals can transform human waste into water rated pure enough to drink.

Claudia Rowe | Jan 4, 2013

Sustainable food and farming

Invasive Species: If You Can鈥檛 Beat 鈥檈m, Eat 鈥檈m

Species like green crabs, feral pigs, snakeheads, and zebra mussels cost $120 billion a year in damage. For a cheaper alternative, try eating them instead.

Joe Roman | Jan 4, 2013

Citizens United

Remembering Rebecca Tarbotton

A tribute to the beloved environmentalist, human right activist, and executive director of the Rainforest Action Network.

Tina Gerhardt | Jan 3, 2013

From Soap to Cities, Designing From Nature Could Solve Our Biggest Challenges

Can a boat be designed to clean the water? How does a spider manufacture resilient fiber? We need products that don鈥檛 harm us or the environment, and nature鈥檚 already done the research.

Sven Eberlein | Nov 20, 2012

Renewable energy

To Save Our Ecosystems, Stop Overloading Them

Left alone, natural systems keep nitrogen, carbon, and other key ingredients of life balanced.

Doug Pibel, Madeline Ostrander | Nov 20, 2012

Activism | Water | Health care

Your Body is a Body of Water

A storyteller asks what you'd do if you knew your body was part of the water web.

Jourdan Keith | Nov 14, 2012

Native rights | Sustainable food and farming | Health care

Traditional Foods Help Remind Us Who We Are

Tribes are pursuing a hands-on approach to finding and preparing Native foods that give spiritual sustenance, too.

Kim Eckart | Oct 30, 2012

Sustainable food and farming

大象传媒 Recommends: Nourish

Nourish is an education initiative that celebrates food and community. Its food curriculum and lesson plans, short films and discussion guides, and powerful action ideas will help young people and their families, schools, and communities think about the food they eat and what they can do to make healthy choices for themselves and planet Earth.

| Oct 16, 2012

Sustainable food and farming | Health care

Detroit鈥檚 Good Food Cure

What happens when the Motor City transforms itself into the capital of grow-your-own food?

Larry Gabriel | Sep 6, 2012

5 Tools (and 1 Animal) for Quieter, Healthier Yard Work

Tending your yard doesn鈥檛 have to be noisy, irritating, or fuel-intensive. Here鈥檚 how you can unplug.

Lauren Hardy, Samantha Herndon | Sep 6, 2012

How to Save Bats in Your Own Backyard

Bats are mammals, shy creatures of the night, and fascinating to watch. They鈥檙e also endangered by loss of habitat, disease, and pesticide poisoning. You can help by providing protection.

Heidi Bruce, Shannan Lenke Stoll | Jul 17, 2012