Fall 2023
Table of Contents
Growth
In Depth
Explore SectionFrom the Editors
Grappling With Growth
If the idea of growth itself is neutral, what can we build from the ashes of our individual lives and losses that strengthens the whole?
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A People’s Prosperity
Capitalism’s endless economic growth prioritizes the individual over community and creates extreme inequality. But it doesn’t have to be that way.
Anoa Changa & Ericka Taylor
Terra Affirma: Life Finds A Way—If We Let It
Wolves helped make many beloved places in the West lush.
Sarah Gilman
Landless Workers Fight for Fair Food
Brazil’s MST has organized the largest social movement in Latin America.
Nicole Froio
Free Your Mind(set)
To reject the growth mindset, we must divorce ourselves from careerism.
s.e. smith
Keeping Kids With Kin
Kinship care saves children from state intervention that may alter their future outcomes.
Michele Sharpe
The Growing Pains of a Changing Nation
Our country is multiracial but our democracy isn’t—yet.
Sonali Kolhatkar
Solutions We Love
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Indigenous Foodways
Holding Fast to Kelp
This humble seaweed nourishes and teaches us to move with life’s currents.
Valerie Segrest
Just the Facts
Stop Planting Trees
Long touted as an environmental panacea, mass tree planting can actually do more harm than good.
Tracy Matsue Loeffelholz
People We Love
Black Growing Traditions
Black farmers are reasserting themselves in food cultivation and building on the practices of earlier generations.
Jazmin “Sunny” Murphy
Culture Shift
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Books+Film+Music
Meatless Abundance: The Joy of Plant-Based Eating
Alicia Kennedy’s new book invites readers to see the ecological and culinary possibilities of removing meat from the center of their plates.
Paige Curtis
The Risky Rise of AI
Who controls the reins of artificial intelligence will determine whether it serves us all or the wealthy few.
Greg Ruggiero
