What a “Green Amendment” Can Do for Environmental Justice
The Supreme Court curbed the EPA’s ability to restrict emissions, so states are looking to enshrine rights to “healthful environments” in their constitutions.
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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.
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.
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.
How Wildfires Impact California’s Housing Crisis
Wildfires and the destruction they cause have become a societal problem. Addressing this issue comprehensively should include both short-term and long-term solutions.
Baby Boomers Mobilize Around Climate Change
The generation’s organizing experience, voter turnout, and spending power make them a powerful force for change.
Planting for the Planet
“Minimum Viable Planet” is a weeklyish commentary about climateish stuff, and how to keep it together in a world gone mad. This week, ecological architecture and depaving as climate justice.
Deconstructing the Farm
Rewilding a farm to bring back threatened species.
On Navajo Nation, Activists Use Citizen Science to Fight Pollution
Methane pollution is poorly tracked, so Diné activists are monitoring it themselves.
Putting the Commune in Community
“Minimum Viable Planet” is a weeklyish commentary about climateish stuff, and how to keep it together in a world gone mad. This week, community fundraising and climate.
Could This Ancient Farming Technique Be a Climate Solution?
Terracing has been used for centuries to help prevent fire, moderate temperatures, and make farming possible even when water is scarce.
The Indigenous Food Cafés Transforming Local Cuisine
The modern food system has a huge carbon footprint. These Indian cafés want to change that.
Building Community for the Climate Movement
“Minimum Viable Planet” is a weeklyish commentary about climateish stuff, and how to keep it together in a world gone mad. This week, joining, organizing, and building a climate community.
How Indigenous Traditions Are Saving Zimbabwe’s Endangered Wildlife
Local communities’ traditional methods of conservation reduce conflict and can offer strong protection for threatened animals.
The Tree That Saved My Father’s Life
As an Indigenous child soldier caught in El Salvador’s civil war, my father found safety in a deep, reciprocal relationship with nature.
Decolonizing California’s Wildfire Zone
Verbena Fields in Northern California is an emerging model of what decolonizing land via Traditional Ecological Knowledge can look like, supported by partnerships between Native and non-Native communities.
How to Relax in a Climate Crisis
“Minimum Viable Planet” is a weeklyish commentary about climateish stuff, and how to keep it together in a world gone mad. This week, music camp memories, preconditioned anxiety, and slow work.
Making Space for Wildlife
Four essential reads offer insights into how wild animals view humans and how our presence affects nearby animals and birds.
An Experiment in Central Park Offers a View of Cities’ Climate Future
Urban parks are many people’s main access to nature as well as a critical protection against warming.
A Growing Movement to Reclaim Water Rights for Indigenous People
Native tribes are reliant on their local water sources, which have been continuously exploited and contaminated by the U.S. government and non-Native people. Indigenous groups are finding new ways to demand justice.
Combining Old and New: Aquaponics Opens the Door to Indigenous Food Security
Indigenous communities and partners are combining ancient knowledge with modern technology to revitalize food systems and self-determined economies in the face of ever-increasing climate pressures.
The Language of the Climate Movement
“Minimum Viable Planet” is a weeklyish commentary about climateish stuff, and how to keep it together in a world gone mad. This week, climate words, communication and the words we cannot say.
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