Nature Is Everything You Love
“Minimum Viable Planet” is a weeklyish commentary about climateish stuff, and how to keep it together in a world gone mad. This week, we find love in nature.
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Environment
A Chicago Neighborhood Is Redefining Toxicity in Pursuit of Environmental Justice
Since 2000, toxic tours in this community have evolved from talking about pollution, to now include systemic racism, policing, and mass incarceration.
What if Legal Personhood Included Plants, Rivers, and the Planet?
A new podcast explores the rights of nature movement and its potential to shift Western legal doctrine around environmental protection.
Drawing a Path to Action
Finding your place in the fight against the climate crisis doesn’t have to be rocket science.
Why Every Job Is a Climate Job
“Minimum Viable Planet” is a weeklyish commentary about climateish stuff, and how to keep it together in a world gone mad. This week, how to be a climate ally where you are.
Growing Community in Vacant Chicago Lots
Most community gardens don’t last more than 10 years. But the Harambee Garden—at 12 years and running—has lessons to share.
Individuals Are Not to Blame for the Climate Crisis
The fossil fuel industry uses greenwashing and woke-washing to shirk their own responsibility.
The Race to Zero Emissions
“Minimum Viable Planet” is a weeklyish commentary about climateish stuff, and how to keep it together in a world gone mad. This week, we get ready for a climate marathon.
Environmental Education Is Falling Short. Activism Can Help
“We can’t afford to let our education systems get in sustainability’s way.”
What They Knew: The U.S. Government and the Climate Crisis
In a new book, Gus Speth charts 50 years of the U.S. government’s role in causing global warming.
Why Children’s Stories Are a Powerful Tool to Fight Climate Change
Stories are the most diverse, innovative, and dynamic technology for social transformation.
17 Months Later, Dixie Fire Survivors Are Experiencing a New Kind of Disaster
Getting the mail used to take 5 minutes. Now it's a 50-mile round trip that can take up to 4 hours due to the constant removal of hazardous trees.
Climate Justice Through Divestment
“We are on the edge of a fundamental reshaping of finance.”
Electric Solutions to Decarbonize Your Life
“Minimum Viable Planet” is a weeklyish commentary about climateish stuff, and how to keep it together in a world gone mad. This week we look at how you can electrify your life for the planet.
In Search of Sustainable Spirits
An alcohol aficionado on how spirits like bourbon fit into our food system.
Community Efforts to Clean Up Contaminated Water in One California Town
“Lawmakers need to figure out better ways to balance the interests of industry with protecting people’s health.”
How an Inefficient but Resilient Food System Fed a Hospital—and a Community
“When we started our farm-to-hospital concept, we never could have anticipated a global pandemic, but the pandemic provided proof of concept.”
Talking (and Not Talking) About the Climate Emergency With My Kids
“Minimum Viable Planet” is a weeklyish commentary about climateish stuff, and how to keep it together in a world gone mad. This week, how to talk to kids about climate change.
The Rights of Rivers
Indigenous communities and conservationists around the world are challenging the long-held view of water as a human commodity. Can the same approach work in the United States’ arid Southwest?
A Guide to Climate Reparations
Reparations, debt cancellation, and climate justice are all regular features in climate solutions—but what do they mean in practice?
Does the Climate Crisis Inspire Anger?
“Minimum Viable Planet” is a weeklyish commentary about climateish stuff, and how to keep it together in a world gone mad. This week, we contemplate anger, heart, and action.
Why Do Men Get to Make the Climate Decisions?
Minimum Viable Planet is a weeklyish commentary about climateish stuff, and how to keep it together in a world gone mad. This week, we talk about women, art, climate, and guinea pigs.
Queering Climate Activism
“At the end of the day, how does the gender binary and heteronormativity support the extraction and moving of wealth to this handful of global elites?”
Indigenous Leadership for Transformative Climate Action
Native Hawaiian organizer Kaniela Ing on the moral path forward.
At COP26, Indigenous, Black, and Brown Activists Offer Radical Solutions for Climate Change
While elites fixate on technological fixes such as “net zero” emissions, communities of color fear it will disproportionately impact them and instead demand a just phasing out of oil and gas—and a seat at the table.
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