Rediscovering the Family Wisdom of Yoga
As a stressed young adult, I reconnected with my family's yoga practices to help with healing and sleep.
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Manchin’s Pipeline Loss Shows Frontline and Green Groups Are Gaining Steam
“We launched our movement to breathe clean air … amid the Movement for Black Lives chanting ‘we can’t breathe’ and a pandemic disproportionately killing Black people.”
Murmurations: Accountable to Our Ancestors
adrienne maree brown ponders how (and whether) we should be accountable to ancestors who held beliefs vastly different from our own.
Reclaiming Abundance Under Capitalism
Is there a way we can be critical of our cultures of consumption, while also preserving the spirit of abundance?
When Mental Health Crisis Responders Reach Rural Residents
Rural communities from Iowa to South Dakota to Colorado are rethinking who they send as first responders to help those in a mental health crisis.
Going Beyond Charity: How Businesses Can Achieve Permanent Sustainability
A shift away from maximizing profits and to employee ownership can yield a more positive impact.
A Partnership With the Philippines Brings Composting to Detroit
“These communities are experts in understanding the solutions for the problems that they face on a daily basis.”
We Need to Replace White Feminism With Inclusive Feminism
By centering feminism on gender alone and conveniently sidelining the impact of whiteness, class, culture, imperialism, and religion on gender parity, white women have co-opted the feminist space. It’s time to change this.
On the Other Side of Reparations, a New World Awaits
Inspiring stories about our past can open portals to the world that awaits us and help us dream what a world with reparations looks like.
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—and Solutions—Shared by Puerto Rico and Jackson, Mississippi
Solidarity can go a long way in connecting communities working through similar challenges.
An Unprecedented Halving of Child Poverty … Twice!
A historic drop in the child poverty rate over the past 25 years showed us exactly what to do when the pandemic hit.
An Indigenous Perspective on Reconnecting With the Land
“Once we collectively feel this connection, this relationship, we can then begin to understand the responsibility we have—the responsibility that I feel, and that my ancestors felt.”
Intersectional Activism in a Post-Roe World
Abortion bans tend to disproportionately impact vulnerable populations in low-income, rural communities. Here’s how young people of color are fighting back.
What My Green Card Love Story Taught Me About Immigration
Insecurity and powerlessness are the norm for immigrants navigating the U.S.’s immigration system—even when they are married to a U.S. citizen.
Getting Voters the Truth in a Whirlwind of Lies
In Arizona, voter groups reach out to Latino citizens to combat misinformation spread by election-denier candidates.
A Tiny Home Village Gets a Big Helping Hand
Through a growing master-planned community, a faith-based nonprofit in East Austin is working to make a dent in chronic homelessness.
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.
Insults May Not Lead to Votes After All
Name-calling in politics grabs headlines, but voters don’t like it—and it could backfire in the 2022 midterm elections.
What if We Believed Anything Was Possible?
If we don’t address our cognitive dissonance, we’ll get stuck where we are, and diminish our capacity for progress.
An Abolitionist Makes a Case for “No More Police”
The demand to “defund the police” asks politicians to go beyond platitudes and actually end the violence of policing, shifting resources in ways that promote the redistribution of wealth.
Residents Are a City’s 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.
How Migrants Sent to Massachusetts Found Aid and Community
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis sent nearly 50 migrants from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard with no warning. Instead of being shunned, the migrants were welcomed and supported.
Consider the Banana
A new book of poetry by Paul Hlava Ceballos digs up the history of the ubiquitous fruit.
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