How My Settler Ancestors Set Us Up for Uncontrollable Wildfires
I want us to go humbly to the very people our culture tried to exterminate to listen to what they can teach us.
Environment
Why the Migrant Caravan Story Is a Climate Change Story
Drought, crop failure, storms, and land disputes pit the rich against the poor, and Central America is ground zero for climate change.
A Good-for-Nothing Tree Makes Good
Once upon a time, mesquite got no respect. Now this desert survivor is celebrated as a sustainable food source and a symbol of the borderlands.
This Is the Only Plant That Can Save Monarch Butterflies
Monarchs lay their eggs on this perennial wildflower along their migratory path to Canada. Plant it now and be nature鈥檚 ultimate wingman.
What School Lunches Have to Do With Fixing Wealth Inequality
Dismantling a capitalist food system could begin with schools, which nationwide spend about $3 billion on food contracts.
How to Fight Climate Change in Your Own Garden
A series of videos are educating gardeners and farmers on the benefits of regenerative agriculture.
Nuclear Power Will Not Save Us From Climate Change
How the IPCC鈥檚 solutions for reversing the Earth鈥檚 warming encourage business as usual.
Why I Have Hope in the Face of Human Extinction
Around the world, people are realizing the current path will lead only to disaster, and they鈥檙e beginning to ask the hard questions about what to do next.
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.
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 鈥淎merican Dream鈥�
Liberty, equality, the pursuit of happiness鈥攖hese 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鈥檚 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鈥檛 listen to the cynics. Research shows the little things matter.
Patience Gray鈥檚 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. 鈥淚 had no idea how to use the English language to describe what I was seeing.鈥�
This Chef Is Fighting Gentrification With Hot Chicken
Tunde Wey鈥檚 dinner series-slash-public art project raised $50,000 to address Nashville鈥檚 affordable housing crisis.
Here鈥檚 Why Capitalism Can鈥檛 Fix Climate Change
With all due respect to The Guardian鈥檚 economics editor, our planet will not be saved by capitalism.
First Nations Celebrate Win Against Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion
Here鈥檚 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.
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