The Gift of Soil: How Composting Builds Community
The perfect soil mixture can do more than grow food.
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How Will Future Generations Remember Our Time?
As the time when climate chaos, peak oil, and an unstable global economy unraveled society, or as the time of a Great Turning?
Mushrooms: “Nature’s Greatest Decomposers”
An Indigenous-led organization in New Mexico is using fungus in an attempt to remove chemicals from soil.
How to Restore a Million Acres of Strip-Mined Land? Bring in the Elk
Central Appalachia reintroduced the species to restore wildlife habitat—and help devastated economies. Here’s what happened next.
Infographic: How Mushrooms Clean Up Toxic Messes
Oil spills don’t stand a chance against the cleansing power of mycelium.
What Is Mud’s Dirty Little Secret?
For thousands of years, it’s been wallowed in and slathered on for both medicine and beauty. Science says it works.
Your New Healthy Habits? They’re Ancient
These early Native traditions spur physical well-being.
How Technology Is Making the World More Accessible
Be My Eyes, ArtLifting, and Crisis Text Line remove barriers for the visually impaired, the unhoused, and people in need of counseling.
Birding Is Booming. So Where Are the Black Birders?
Raising the profile of Black birders could help foster a healthy connection between Black communities and the natural world.
This Is How Borrowing Things From Our Neighbors Strengthens Society
Research shows that small talk and casual connections create happy communities and less-lonely individuals.
The Secret to Swaying the Supreme Court
The court’s gone conservative. But there’s pretty clear evidence that public pressure can make a difference.
The Climate Solution Right Under Our Feet
The ideas behind regenerative farming are simple and ancient.
The Power of Angry Women
Three different books examine how women’s anger is deflected in patriarchal society—and its political might.
How to Turn Dirt Into Soil
Simple steps for cultivating a revolution in your backyard.
How Soil Acts as a Living Witness to Racial Violence
The Equal Justice Initiative is using soil to document the lynchings of more than 4,400 African-descended people between 1877 and 1950.
The New Art of Making Friends and Finding Community
Even as researchers find loneliness is epidemic, people young and old are relearning how to hang out.
22 Race-Related Films That Will Make You Laugh, Cry, and Think Differently
Research has shown that certain movies have caused social justice change, or simply inspired good things to happen.
How Removing Asphalt Is Softening Our Cities
Greening alleys reclaims public space, reconnects urban dwellers to one another, and invites nature deep into cities.
By Reconnecting With Soil, We Heal the Planet and Ourselves
Enslavement and sharecropping cannot erase thousands of years of Black people’s sacred relationship with the land.
How Disaster Movies Reflect Political Extremism—But Now It’s Getting a Little Real
You get to practice looking at the abyss and ask yourself: Would you be one of the good people?
What Indigenous Culture Can Teach Us About a Fair Economy
Rebecca Adamson offers Native American views on scarcity, Wall Street, and how to thrive in hard times.
Restoring the Range: Can Beef Be Earth-Friendly?
Here’s how one cattle ranching family in South Dakota restored a prairie, wildlife habitat, and a creek.
Why Costa Rica Tops the Happiness Index
How a focus on peace is helping this Central American country top the Happy Planet Index.
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