Craft instruments from easy-to-find materials and invite more music into your family's life.
Is Paul Krugman just advocating temporary growth up to some level of optimality, or a truly ever-growing economy?
It's possible that the Cowboy Indian Alliance offers a glimpse into what a spiritually integrated environmental movement might look like, honoring diversity while resisting cooptation.
Pretending that a rape never happened is a problem—regardless of whether it took place in fiction or reality.
A journey into agriculture, from early irrigation to industrial farms.
Our political process, Robert Jensen reminds us, begins with conversation.
A new law will end the practice of evaluating teachers based on their students' standardized test scores.
A journey into the garment industry, from Elizabethan England to Rana Plaza.
A journey into resource extraction, from colonization to transnational corporations.
A journey into the electronics industry, from transistor radios to semiconductor suicides.
These three young activists found creative ways to tackle issues from climate change to voting rights.
It's easier to be hopeful about our individual futures than our collective ones because we have more control over them. But the two are inextricably linked.
It is good to mourn for what's being lost. But giving up just gives the fossil fuel industry what it wants.
Curtis Acosta's classes in Mexican American Studies gave kids pride in their heritage—until the Arizona Legislature canceled them. That's when his students became activists, and some real-life lessons began.
On issue after issue, women prisoners have learned to be their own strongest advocates.
Meet the urban cousin of a traditional barn raising: community members working together to build DIY greenhouses.
As natives and ranchers work together to oppose the Keystone XL pipeline, they're also learning to understand one another's history, culture, and relationship with the land.
On the frontlines of resistance to the Keystone XL pipeline, ranchers and tribal members join forces in a striking display of solidarity.
“Dollarocracy” examines innovations in other democratic nations to solve our money-in-politics crisis.
Darren Aronofsky talks to the Sierra Club and others about the intersection of religion and environmentalism.
The people behind the project borrowed some tricks from ride-sharing apps like Lyft, but tweaked the details so the rides are free.
Teachers are fighting the privatization wave by connecting with families right where they live.
Preliminary results from the 2012 Census of Agriculture show the increasing role of women in U.S. agriculture—especially on organic and small-scale farms.
A look at the growing influence of undocumented voices in the movement for immigrant rights.
Movements for economic justice and equality are rarely flush with cash. But "cryptocurrencies" like Bitcoin might stand to change the rules in their favor.
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