A tribute to the beloved environmentalist, human right activist, and executive director of the Rainforest Action Network.
2012 was a year of superstorms, mass shootings, debt strikes, and the most spendy election ever. Here’s how last year’s most important stories will shape 2013.
Cities across the U.S. discover that good biking attracts great jobs and top talent to their communities.
Spoons, sardines, telephone charades, and other activities to put a boost in your get-togethers.
In 2003, Iraqi townspeople, having just lost their hospital in U.S. air strikes, saved the lives of three wounded U.S. peacemakers. Seven years later, the Americans returned—to thank them.
Gleaned from letters, essays, and articles, “Pete Seeger: In His Own Words” reveals how the celebrated folk singer has considered, at every turn, what it means to sing out in a world where the din of injustice is deafening.
Each time international law has attempted to censure Israel for its recent violations of human rights, the United States has stepped in to stop the process. If anyone is in a position to do something about this, it’s the U.S. public.
Can a boat be designed to clean the water? How does a spider manufacture resilient fiber? We need products that don’t harm us or the environment, and nature’s already done the research.
Left alone, natural systems keep nitrogen, carbon, and other key ingredients of life balanced.
A storyteller asks what you'd do if you knew your body was part of the water web.
A California proposal would offset the state’s climate-altering emissions by paying for forest conservation in Chiapas. Could there be unintended consequences in a region with a history of human rights abuse and land grabs?
Am I tough enough? Am I powerful enough? Men put their bodies at risk to cover up pain, fear, and vulnerability.
Tribes are pursuing a hands-on approach to finding and preparing Native foods that give spiritual sustenance, too.
Does your doctor understand what you need? These simple tools are helping practitioners slow down and communicate better with patients.
From play space for kids to AIDS activism: the fight against disease goes grassroots.
What I really want to tell my daughters about autonomy and sex, in the midst of a war on women.
Why a life worth living is a life worth fighting for.
A year ago today, the state of Georgia executed a man whose guilt was widely contested. Jen Marlowe, friend and journalist, on what it was like to stand with the Davis family on the last day.
Laughter, the arts, touch, sleep. What you can do in your everyday life to get healthier.
Your favored candidates may be outspent, but if they out-organize, they may be able to prevail.
What happens when the Motor City transforms itself into the capital of grow-your-own food?
Tending your yard doesn’t have to be noisy, irritating, or fuel-intensive. Here’s how you can unplug.
It won’t be easy to protect our votes from being sidelined and stolen this year, but here are a few simple things we can do.
It's more than buying stuff. It means reckoning with the intersection between our humanity and the political and environmental decisions our society makes.
New findings explain how politics, economics, and ecology can help or hurt our bodies.
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