Los Angeles is one of few U.S. cities where street trade isn’t widely permitted. But for immigrants and low-income people, it’s often the only way to earn a living.
For civil rights lawyers, litigating isn't enough. They need to engage with the struggle of black Americans firsthand.
It will take at least three decades to completely leave behind fossil fuels. But we can do it. And the first step is to start with the easy stuff.
In response to climate change, a growing number of schools are taking kids outside to show them how a warming planet affects their local environment.
Justice Scalia was a thorn in the side of the environmental movement. Now that his seat is up for grabs, the Supreme Court could be in position to make serious gains for the climate.
To create meaningful change, we must look beyond high-profile cases and ask why certain police-civilian encounters occur at all.
We asked this East Londoner how a pop-up garden brought his neighborhood together and made friends out of strangers.
"Self-care and healing and attention to the body and the spiritual dimension—all of this is now a part of radical social justice struggles."
Doomed as it may be, an oil tax is a step toward redefining energy as a public good—for which everyone pays the cost of overuse and abuse.
Irving Allen on creating an inclusive movement. “You’re not organizing unless you’re training up the next generation.”
Common mistakes made in social justice conversations and how to correct them.
In Chicago, low-income kids don’t usually have the opportunity to travel outside their own neighborhoods. My Block, My Hood, My City is changing that.
And 21 other facts you should know.
Life depends on it. Bill McKibben on the big changes we’ve already made in remarkably short order.
The rise of sexual-romantic kissing throughout history has defied cultural norms and put women in charge of romance.
In Sweden, Femtastic gives survivors of sexual violence a voice in a male-dominated music industry.
Having fewer and slower cars on the streets where we live encourages neighborliness, makes us not only feel safer but actually be safer.
A more democratic and equal election system is the first step toward a more democratic and equal economy.
Along the Kenya-Somalia border, people have been displaced for decades. A new book profiles nine Somali refugees to explain the political forces that keep them—and hundreds of thousands more—from getting out.
Despite decaying infrastructure and budget pressures, city water utilities have mostly delivered on their promise of healthy water.
When a climate scientist decided to stop flying to cut his carbon emissions, he caught a glimpse of the post-oil future.
People who’ve done their time and paid their fines still face barriers to employment. Memphis-based Just City helps them start fresh.
Many survivors of domestic violence have had their attempts at work and creativity sabotaged for years. On these 40 acres of rolling farmland, they're being restored.
Thanks to Polaroid and a basement arts center, the kids of Newtowne Court have built a photographic monument to their neighborhood since the 1960s.
At Tulane’s Goldring Center for Culinary Medicine, students are learning to pair nutrition with allopathic care—and other schools are catching on.
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