3 Things You Can Do to Help Avoid Climate Disaster
Hint: Putting solar panels on your house and walking to work are not on the list.
Environment
How to Get Carbon-Free in 10 Years
Meet the Joneses. They are your average U.S. energy consumers, and they decided to do their part. Watch how they go carbon-neutral in a decade, and then try it yourself.
Indigenous People Invented the So-Called “American Dream”
Liberty, equality, the pursuit of happiness—these values date back to well before Columbus arrived in the Americas or Pilgrims set foot on Plymouth Rock.
How Coal Country Is Cleaning Up Its Act
A program in eastern Kentucky is retraining miners in industries that help mitigate the environmental impacts of mining on communities.
Call for Submissions: The Soil Issue
Send us your leads and pitches by Nov. 1.
Women in Male-Dominated Harvest Industry Help Each Other
HarvestHER establishes a community for women, recognizing stresses and loneliness of life in conventional agriculture.
Indigenous Culture Reasserts Women’s Power Through Dance
Native women revitalize ceremony to resist the legacy of patriarchy that supports a long-entrenched history of abuse.
What Will Climate Change Do to the U.S.-Mexico Border?
Rather than continue on a path to militarize the border, we should consider the alternatives.
Activism | Local economies | Local power | Citizens United | Sustainable food and farming | Pollution
Locals Unite to Stop Hog Farms From Polluting Their Community
More than 40 families in Iowa are fighting to contain the spread of concentrated animal feeding operations.
5 Ways Small Actions Have Huge Power
To those who take the bus or refuse plastic toothbrushes: Don’t listen to the cynics. Research shows the little things matter.
Patience Gray’s Italian Slow Food Education
Foraging for weeds and mushrooms with a visionary of the sustainable food movement.
Searching for Words in Indian Country
A non-Native journalist encounters a tribal-managed forest and an indigenous garden. “I had no idea how to use the English language to describe what I was seeing.”
This Chef Is Fighting Gentrification With Hot Chicken
Tunde Wey’s dinner series-slash-public art project raised $50,000 to address Nashville’s affordable housing crisis.
Here’s Why Capitalism Can’t Fix Climate Change
With all due respect to The Guardian’s economics editor, our planet will not be saved by capitalism.
First Nations Celebrate Win Against Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion
Here’s how indigenous leaders pulled together a grassroots movement to resist the pipeline expansion.
World to Flint Kids: We Still See You
An 11-year-old social media celebrity collects thousands of encouraging letters from around the globe to remind her Flint schoolmates they are not forgotten.
Berry Farmers Break Free From Big Agriculture
These farmworkers created an organic co-op that guarantees fair wages and healthy working conditions while preserving indigenous heritage.
The Shrinking American Dream House
More and more people are looking beyond the ordinary for ways of building that express their creativity and values.
Before You Try to Decolonize Your Diet, Read This
A new book digs into the paradoxes of American Indian diets most people don’t know.
5 Ways Communities Are Coping With Climate Anxiety
From action-oriented toolkits to talk therapy and meditation, these responses facilitate recovery, hope, and activism.
Can a Strict Vegetable Diet Cure Cancer?
A review of the documentary “The Food Cure,” which follows patients undergoing an intensive and controversial nutritional therapy.
Water Protectors Take Action to Keep Pipeline Out of Black and Indigenous Communities
An encampment of protesters in Louisiana is resisting the crude oil industry, whose environmental disasters disproportionately affect the poor and people of color.
What Wildfires Do to Our Minds
A Northern California community offers mental health first aid to survivors of devastating fires.
Tomato Canning as Protest: How a Community Resisted Corporate Farming
A Missouri town’s summer ritual brings much-needed support to small family operations.
The West Coast Electric Highway Enables Zero Emission Road Trips
Thousands of charging stations flank the roadway, which stretches from British Columbia to Mexico. Now, the alternative fuel corridor needs to grow.
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