Many of us don’t look up from our smartphones long enough to notice what’s around us.
The idea of stewardship is too small. It’s not that we need to take care of Earth—it’s Earth that takes care of us.
“While not every traditional variety tastes great or looks great, its genetics may be invaluable 50 or 100 years from now when the climate is different.”
The world under the waves is under attack from climate change, overfishing, and pollution. But major marine sanctuaries are making a difference.
For the sages of ancient India, sex and romance were just the first few steps in a more expansive process of learning to love.
Psychologists recently conducted a study that found that meditation may make you more liberal, at least in the short-term. Richard Schiffman argues that the politics of true spirituality are more about balance than support for any one side.
Two scientists at Columbia University believe that carbon-mopping machines modeled after trees could sequester enough carbon from the atmosphere to slow global warming. But can we produce them quickly (and cheaply) enough for the plan to work?