For Cookbook Author, Food Is an Ally Against Dementia
She can’t remember recipes, and food doesn’t taste the same, but Paula Wolfert believes that what she eats is key to helping her slow her cognitive decline.
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Standing Rock’s Surprising Legacy: A Push for Public Banks
The effort to divest from Wall Street—and stop environment-killing projects gained momentum after the historic pipeline protest. Here’s what a city needs, and could gain, from municipal banking.
The Surprising Links Between Family Dinner and Good Health
Adults who prepare quality meals for children are offering something more important than a nutrition lesson.
Our Ladies of Perpetual Activism: Nuns for Social Justice
These spirited sisters act to change the world in specific ways.
How Native and White Communities Make Alliances to Protect the Earth
Tribal nations have always been on the front lines of environmental protection. Now their neighbors are catching up.
Why Rituals Are Good for Your Health
Research shows rituals reduce anxiety, improve performance and confidence—and even work on people who don’t believe in them.
Wealth and inequality | Local power | Sustainable food and farming | Indigenous lands | Native rights
10 Podcasts That Every Social Justice Nerd Should Listen To
These shows inspire, teach, advocate, and provoke.
Why Universal Basic Income Is Not the Solution We Think It Is
The racial wealth gap is real. But a guaranteed income is not going to fix it.
The Co-op That’s Keeping Community Money Out of Big Banks
How marginalized groups are working to counteract historical wealth inequality.
Foundations Have a Not-So-Charitable Secret
Philanthropic organizations invest about 93 percent of their money in Wall Street. But they are starting to make better choices.
This Is the Only Plant That Can Save Monarch Butterflies
Monarchs lay their eggs on this perennial wildflower along their migratory path to Canada. Plant it now and be nature’s ultimate wingman.
One Way to Skip Wall Street and Invest in Your Community
Take it from someone who gave away his inheritance 35 years ago: The act of distributing your wealth will propel you forward.
Here’s Enough Money to Pay Off All Millennials’ Student Debt
The largest intergenerational wealth transfer ever is on its way.
This Kind of Wealth Really Can Solve Our Problems
A life devoted to frugality taught me about “natural wealth” and the value of investing in community.
Why Co-ops and Community Farms Can’t Close the Racial Wealth Gap
Circulating local dollars can’t create wealth when there’s not enough to begin with.
Telling the Truth as a Means of Healing
A new documentary shows how one state is confronting Native American child removal.
The Midterms Are More Than a Vote Against the President
Here’s what’s on the line.
5 Easy Steps to Taking a Tech Break
How to turn off your devices and party like it’s 1982.
Climate Change and Its Staggering Refugee Crisis
Research confirms that massive migration, into the millions, will be an inevitable consequence of global warming.
What It Means to Be a Nation of Immigrants
Pramila Jayapal writes about the Night of 1,000 Conversations, in which more than 2,500 strangers in 28 states gathered to discuss the role of immigration in the country’s past, present, and future.
To Love and Worship Freely: Young Muslim LGBTQ Activists Stand Up
These people are fighting the good fight because LGBTQ+ Muslims shouldn’t have to sacrifice one identity at the expense of the other.
How to Get Carbon-Free in 10 Years
Meet the Joneses. They are your average U.S. energy consumers, and they decided to do their part. Watch how they go carbon-neutral in a decade, and then try it yourself.
Science Says Happiness Can Change Your Brain
After 2,000 years of practice, Buddhist monks know that one secret to bliss is to put your mind to it.
What the Maps of Hate Groups Reveal
New research offers clues to stop the spread of organized hate groups in the U.S.
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