Focusing on your own happiness can prove self-defeating. Finding your “ikigai” offers an alternative perspective on well-being.
“I wanted to bring these projects to the community, so people can see renewable energy working.”
As American capitalism continues to shovel wealth at the very rich by taking resources away from the struggling rest, it’s easy to feel defeated, especially with Donald Trump at the
Imagination, as Hawaiian Native rights advocate Poka Laenui describes it, is more than an antidote to hopelessness. It is a source of power.
Without access to routine care, those who lose coverage will make more expensive trips to emergency rooms.
Time-banking is a model for trading skills, goods, and labor instead of money. There are close to 500 such banks across the country.
When I lost hope in this world, you offered me a plethora of fully formed universes to learn from.
Trump’s power is limited. Here’s how people can use their own power to support or oppose his actions.
How to move beyond “awareness” toward better understanding.
New research offers some simple advice to boost your happiness: Put down your phone and go do something—just about anything—else.
It’s one of the most concrete representations of love that we have, yet it’s extremely undervalued.
PHOTO ESSAY: Everywhere, walking shoes, water bottles, and thousands of people with a lot to say.
For the well-being of most everyone—including the rich—equality is more important than growth.
If we don’t make the decisions about what to keep or discard—whether actual or online—then ultimately it’s up to others.
They were forced out of their homes by Burmese military violence. Now they’re rebuilding their lives in North Carolina.
The city creates a “social equity” tier of applications who will receive priority for marijuana business permits.
The region is often written off as a “national sacrifice zone.” But can it find new and more robust legal remedies for limiting harmful extraction?
With the letter delivered to my house, ICE has officially made the leap from a law enforcement agency to a political repression agency.
Revitalizing cities requires organizers, workers, and people of color to have leadership roles.
At work behind almost any great social movement is an engine of counter-economy.
The change we need comes from the daily actions of many, many people.
More than 30 writers send messages of hope to loved ones in the time of Trump.
In social justice cartography, the technology is being harnessed for activism as it becomes more accessible.
Perhaps the president will grind his base down to the smallest nubbin of a demographic. Polls show his numbers are dropping.
Last year was record-breaking.
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