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Environment
Racial Justice | Native rights | Sustainable food and farming | Indigenous lands | Pollution | Water | Climate
Supporting Young Farmers of Color Can Help the U.S. Meet Its Climate Goals
Climate-conscious farmers are a powerful force for growing community and a more resilient future.
The Climate Injustices鈥攁nd Solutions鈥擲hared by Puerto Rico and Jackson, Mississippi
Solidarity can go a long way in connecting communities working through similar challenges.
An Indigenous Perspective on Reconnecting With the Land
鈥淥nce we collectively feel this connection, this relationship, we can then begin to understand the responsibility we have鈥攖he responsibility that I feel, and that my ancestors felt.鈥�
We the People Are All in This Together
Changing course to transform into an ecological civilization will take international cooperation. But the U.S and China are setting a poor example.
Solving the Climate Crisis Requires Traditional Ecological Knowledge
Native study of the natural world is exceptionally deep and nuanced at understanding and protecting ecosystems.
What if We Believed Anything Was Possible?
If we don鈥檛 address our cognitive dissonance, we鈥檒l get stuck where we are, and diminish our capacity for progress.
Residents Are a City鈥檚 Best Source of Climate Change Data
Cities across the U.S. are looking to citizen science for data on heat waves and other climate impacts.
Decolonizing Regenerative Cattle Ranching
Native farmers want newcomers to know there鈥檚 nothing novel about caring for the land that grows our food.
In the Wake of Yet Another Hurricane, Puerto Rico Needs Real and Equitable Investment
This crisis is political as much as environmental. Solutions require justice.
How Indigenous Knowledge Reconnects Us All to Fire
By elevating Traditional Ecological Knowledge, a forestry center in Minnesota works to restore ecosystems and Indigenous sovereignty.
Building Homes and Community for Arizona Youth
Eco-friendly tiny houses offer safety, stability, and savings.
How a Methodist Preacher Became a Champion for Black-Led Sustainable Agriculture
Dennis Hutson wants to recreate a Black farming paradise in California. First he has to adapt to the climate crisis.
What a 鈥淕reen Amendment鈥� Can Do for Environmental Justice
The Supreme Court curbed the EPA鈥檚 ability to restrict emissions, so states are looking to enshrine rights to 鈥渉ealthful environments鈥� in their constitutions.
As Extreme Weather Worsens, Can Cities Protect Public Transit?
Climate-resilient public transportation is crucial to meeting our climate goals and ensuring mobility for vulnerable communities.
A Conservation Project in Jamaica Puts Community First
The endorsement and buy-in of critical stakeholders, like fishers, can make or break a conservation project. So fishers were invited to the table as the project took shape.
Black Farming Projects Look to Restore Historical Land Losses
Black and other farmers of color are seeing a restoration of land that was stolen or cheated from them as a key step to strengthening their economic power.
We Now Have a Universal Right to a Healthy and Sustainable Environment
The UN declaration is more than moral posturing. Resolutions like this one have led to effective treaties and national laws.
Would You Drink Beer Made From Wastewater?
Repurposing water (with treatment, of course) is a safe way to help communities build water resilience in the face of growth and climate change.
Growing Up Gay in North Dakota
For the author of a new memoir, North Dakota was a place of beauty and danger.
Labor and Climate Form a More Perfect Union
Environmental and labor activists have found success collaborating at the local and state levels. Now they have their eyes on federal policy.
The Benefits of Berries
Late summer and fall offer a bounty of berries bursting with flavor鈥攁nd healing potential.
When the Climate Crisis Hits Home
Home. The thought of it conjures up a tangle of images, of safeness and permanence and comfortable refuge. Home is also tenuous shelter under a busy overpass, in a neighborhood
Taking Action on Climate Change Requires Coming Together
Climate action, racial justice, and economic reform ultimately all have the same end goal. Our movements should unite behind it.
How Salt Marshes Prevented Development but Forever Changed Wetlands in the South Bay
Near San Francisco, an ambitious wetlands restoration project is attempting to balance a return to the ecological past with the realities of a changing future.
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