The Kitchen as Classroom: How Food Helps Students Learn Leadership
The Detroit Food Academy works with local educators, chefs, and business owners to teach young people entrepreneurial skills.
Environment
Vandana Shiva: Everything I Need to Know I Learned in the Forest
We need to value nature鈥檚 biodiversity, clean water, and seeds. For this, nature is the best teacher.
These Indigenous Women Are Reclaiming Stolen Land in the Bay Area
Through a voluntary land tax and donations from land owners, this organization is working to create an alternative land base for Indigenous people in California鈥檚 East Bay.
Real Wealth Resides Under Our Feet
Soil, not money, is the source of wealth, and our economic system needs to reflect that.
鈥淭he Story of Soil Is the Story of All of Us鈥�
Annie Leonard and Tom Newmark on how they came to see soil as a solution to one of our biggest environmental problems鈥攁nd as a tool to build more resilient communities.
The Gift of Soil: How Composting Builds Community
The perfect soil mixture can do more than grow food.
Notre Dame and the Fight for Sacred Lands
An Indigenous journalist reflects on the 800-year-old cathedral and what 鈥渟acred鈥� means to her.
Could This Ancient Jewish Practice Be a New Tool for Sustainable Agriculture?
The practice of letting the land lie fallow after every six years of farming requires a complete reset in sustainable practices鈥攁nd could gain traction as a way to combat climate change.
Mushrooms: 鈥淣ature鈥檚 Greatest Decomposers鈥�
An Indigenous-led organization in New Mexico is using fungus in an attempt to remove chemicals from soil.
How to Restore a Million Acres of Strip-Mined Land? Bring in the Elk
Central Appalachia reintroduced the species to restore wildlife habitat鈥攁nd help devastated economies. Here鈥檚 what happened next.
Fire Survivors Help Each Other鈥攁nd Find Some Healing in the Process
For wildfire survivors, helping and connecting with others is crucial to their ongoing recovery.
Infographic: How Mushrooms Clean Up Toxic Messes
Oil spills don鈥檛 stand a chance against the cleansing power of mycelium.
What Is Mud鈥檚 Dirty Little Secret?
For thousands of years, it鈥檚 been wallowed in and slathered on for both medicine and beauty. Science says it works.
How Tribes Are Harnessing Cutting-Edge Data to Plan for Climate Change
Climate change is already damaging Indigenous ways of life. But tribes are adapting.
Where Kids Fought Plastic Pollution鈥攁nd Won
It only took a few months for a young environmental scientist from the Bahamas to create a youth movement to ban single-use plastics in her country.
Birding Is Booming. So Where Are the Black Birders?
Raising the profile of Black birders could help foster a healthy connection between Black communities and the natural world.
This Humble Mollusk Can Save Shorelines From Rising Seas
As entire islands disappear in Chesapeake Bay, the oyster is enlisted as a first line of climate defense.
Why Students of Color Are Stepping Up to Lead Climate Strikes
The youth-led movement builds on the momentum of the increasingly Black and Brown leadership behind the Green New Deal.
The Climate Solution Right Under Our Feet
The ideas behind regenerative farming are simple and ancient.
How to Talk to Kids About Climate Change (and Have Fun, Too)
We can empower children to be a part of the solution.
Serotonin and the Garden of Good Eating
The day I joined my community garden marked not just the beginning of my healing, but also the start of my family鈥檚 suburban homesteading journey.
Mushrooms Clean Up Toxic Mess, Including Plastic. So Why Aren鈥檛 They Used More?
Proponents say this natural alternative to wildfire cleanup is potentially cheaper.
How to Turn Dirt Into Soil
Simple steps for cultivating a revolution in your backyard.
Going Dark to Reconnect to the Night Sky
Across the globe, communities are working to preserve existing areas of natural darkness and reduce the spread of light pollution.
Build a Border Wall? Here鈥檚 What Border Communities Say They Want Instead
For many of us who actually live along the U.S.-Mexico border, the 鈥淢esquite Manifesto鈥� addresses economic and climate problems by building up industry around the native tree.
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