The City That Dances With Death
In New Orleans, colorful street festivals celebrating death grew out of necessity, incorporating West African rhythms and syncretized dance.
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Return to Nature
Green burials go beyond not polluting or wasting. It’s about people needing and caring for land, conducting life-affirming activities there—including death.
How Capitalism Exploits Our Fear of Old Age
Getting older isn’t all loss and no gain—we may actually become happier and more emotionally resilient.
A Climate Action for Every Type of Activist
No matter your age, gender, race, or political ideology, there are ways to fight climate change that fit your life and values.
How to Travel at Home: Finding New Routes Through Our Daily Lives
Many of us don’t look up from our smartphones long enough to notice what’s around us.
How Do We Teach “To Kill a Mockingbird” and Honestly Confront Racism?
Harper Lee’s novel is the closest thing America’s had to required reading. But the book’s failings in confronting racism are more apparent than ever to White educators—and Black ones wonder what took so long.
Why Economic Equality Won’t Fix Mental Health Care
Mental illness doesn’t discriminate based on your bank account, but treatment is much more difficult to access when you’re living in poverty.
12 Tips for More Equitable Travel
How to match your vacation to your social justice values.
That All-Inclusive Vacation Is Actually a Terrible Deal
Especially for the people who live and work in the places you’re traveling.
Beyond Airbnb: Your Vacation Rental Options Just Got More Equitable
Co-op alternatives to Airbnb strive to offer short-term rentals that respect local communities.
The Reverse Selfie: A Tiny Act of Decolonization?
I will likely never see how I am used in those images. But I was glad to relinquish power in those moments.
Traveling While Brown: Journeys in Privilege, Guilt, and Connection
Visiting other countries connects me to experiences outside my own and shows me how Brownness is both window and mirror.
Why Young Jews Are Detouring From Israel to Palestine
Some are using Birthright trips to draw attention to the Israeli occupation, its policy of oppression, and the call for a two-state solution.
How New Yorkers Stood Up to Amazon and Won
Queens activists, unions, and political leaders worried about gentrification and opposed the $1.2 billion in tax breaks offered to the retail giant.
A Graceful Exit: Taking Charge at the End of Life
How can we break the silence about what happens when we’re dying?
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Are We Doing Vacations Wrong?
Radicalize your travel by being a better guest in someone else’s homeland.
The Woman Who Desegregated a School
Yvonne Odom was one of thousands of students who quietly did the civil rights work at schools across the country.
A Route 66 Road Trip Through Indigenous Homelands
I’m seeking out the histories and communities that existed before Route 66 and that survive still today.
Vandana Shiva: Everything I Need to Know I Learned in the Forest
We need to value nature’s biodiversity, clean water, and seeds. For this, nature is the best teacher.
Rising Sea Levels: The View from a Canoe
Decades ago, the legendary journey of the open-ocean canoe Hokule‘a revealed secrets of Hawai‘i’s past and sparked pride in native culture. Now, a voyage around the world offers a new generation lessons about Earth’s uncertain future.
The Gift of Soil: How Composting Builds Community
The perfect soil mixture can do more than grow food.
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.
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