The year’s most thought-provoking, important, or useful nonfiction books on empathy, kindness, and moving the conversation forward.
I fear losing the stillness I gained. But I take comfort in knowing that the abbey is there, that the monks are singing the hours, and that there is silence in between.
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In the years to come, community bills of rights are one strategy to shelter vulnerable populations.
The community we have built here has taught many how to live a large-scale sustainable, decolonized, anticapitalist lifestyle.
The Great Growth Con promises that economic growth—measured by gross domestic product—will benefit everyone, rich and poor alike.
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The election divided the year into “before” and “after.” But there remain signs of hope for 2017.
Three creative ways to strengthen local food economies.
Continuing to shrink our oil consumption is one way to challenge the oil uber alles mentality of the Trump administration.
Nearly 1 in 6 properties across the city faced tax foreclosure last year. Land trusts are one way to keep buildings—whether housing or businesses—permanently affordable.
The Thai Community Development Center has played a part in some of the most notorious human-trafficking cases in the United States. But unlike other groups, it also helps workers post-liberation.
Public and consumer pressure on banks to quit financing the Dakota Access pipeline companies is producing results.
Time is running out for Obama to say no to Big Oil and permanently protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge—and the people who depend on it.
We can’t count on Republicans or Democrats to save us. Instead, we are the ones to build the world we want, starting in our communities.
“We fought you. We took your land. We signed treaties that we broke … But we’ve come to say that we are sorry.”
Three years ago, they started a program to keep salvageable goods from landfills by harnessing the community’s collective skills to fix them.
To protect vital wetlands, the Ojibwe tribe and local scientists and activists pressured industry to abandon plans for what would have harmed thousands of species of plants and animals.
Florida’s Miccosukee is the first tribe allowed to run its own school, where students fully participate in family and cultural activities.
Federal recognition offers financial help, and those tribes without it have “second-class status in Indian Country” and remain vulnerable to local authorities.
There’s an argument to be made that progressives are lucky Bernie Sanders didn’t win the nomination.
The landscape of these indigenous-led kitchens that feed thousands of water protectors is dynamic, much like the ad hoc camps that depend upon them.
As banks begin to respond, environmental movements are learning the importance of speaking clearly about the financial risks of fossil fuel investment.
The proposal will be voted on next month and could have broader implications to ensure the city partners with socially responsible businesses.
In an industry usually focused on medicine and procedures, a Philadelphia-area hospital decided what its patients needed was a farm and advice about food.
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