Why Aren’t Fossil Fuel Companies Held Accountable for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women?
Resource extraction takes a toll on more than just the economy and the environment.
Environment
“No Winners on a Dead Earth”: Why We Need a Climate Leader in 2020
The climate crisis is our common cause, and we’ll need to elect a president that is willing to take it on.
Why Women’s Climate Leadership Is Vital
Women’s leadership won’t be a panacea for the overwhelming whiteness of climate leadership, but it’s a starting place.
My Indigenous Culture Is an Act of Resistance
Two generations saw our Inuit and Dine homelands in Northern Canada nearly destroyed. Now my way of life is one of cultural repair.
Appalachia’s Deep History of Resistance
Protest runs through the region’s veins like coal seams through the mountains.
Does Earth Really Have Too Many People?
A close look at the data reveals a clear path to survival on this crowded planet.
Four Climate Scientists on How to Take On Climate Change Today
“Every single person can make a huge difference, and when we come together to work, anything is possible.”
With a World “On Fire,” We Need More Than Inspiration
Naomi Klein’s new book “On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal” is essential reading, but does it go far enough in confronting the grim realities we truly face?
How Not to Be an Invasive Species
The descendants of settlers and immigrants can’t become Indigenous to the land where we live. But we can follow the models of coexistence.
Why Detroit Could Be the Engine for the Green New Deal
The city exhibits all of the problems the framework is meant to heal.
Where Bill McKibben Finds Hope Amid the Climate Crisis
The environmental activist says surviving an existential threat like climate change requires honesty—and hope.
Why the Planet Needs You to Repair Your Broken Stuff
Overproduction and planned obsolescence are the new normal. But fixing your broken things is a way to resist—and build community.
Beyond Coping: How to Find the Strength to Take on Climate Change
Our emotional energy can be a source of power.
Rent Is Recognition and Restitution for Seattle’s Native Inhabitants
A grassroots movement encourages non-Native city dwellers to pay monthly reparations to the Duwamish, a Native American tribe that’s petitioned for federal recognition for the last 40 years.
Brazil’s Indigenous Peoples Have Long United Against Deforestation
The fires that spread swiftly across the Amazon in recent weeks drew international attention to a problem Indigenous Brazilians have been facing for years.
Bill McKibben: This Climate Strike Is Part of the Disruption We Need
“It can’t just be young people. It needs to be all of us.”
Can We Work Less and Save the Planet, Too?
Building a new world will require first reexamining—and dismantling—the cultural ethos of productivity that creeps into our lives every day.
Could Rights of Nature Laws Help Save Endangered Orcas?
In the face of the climate crisis imperiling endangered species, some activists and governments are turning to a radical, rights-based approach to protect nature.
How the Women of Standing Rock Are Building Sovereign Economies
Food security, traditional agriculture, and local self-reliance are key to regenerative societies of the future, say water protectors taking the movement’s lessons forward.
How to Counter Trump’s Disastrous Attack on Our Public Lands
Fossil fuel leasing on public lands is worsening the climate crisis. But there's hope.
What We Waste When We Flush the Toilet
Composting toilets keep waste out of the water cycle. But have you heard about the phosphorus cycle?
Return to Nature
Green burials go beyond not polluting or wasting. It’s about people needing and caring for land, conducting life-affirming activities there—including death.
For a Greener New Deal and Cooler Climate, Focus on Food and Agriculture
A successful Green New Deal will integrate what we know about carbon, emissions, and pollution into policies related to agriculture and land use.
Mauna Kea Protests Reveal Problems in Construction Processes on Native Lands
Native Hawaiians and other Indigenous peoples need more authority in the federal and state project processes that affect them.
For a Sustainable Climate and Food System, Regenerative Agriculture Is the Key
The recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change shows that agriculture is responsible for 37% of greenhouse gas emissions. There’s hope—and a solution.
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