The Movement to Ban Plastic Production
Frontline communities continue to pay for plastics—from production to pollution. Now advocates are trying to reach consensus on a global plastics treaty before it’s too late.
Progress 2025: Climate and Environment
Project 2025 would vastly expand the extraction and burning of fossil fuels. Progress 2025 calls for putting (clean) power in the hands of frontline communities. Read more about our Progress 2025 vision here.
Opinion | Gentrification | Texas | sustainable development | green gentrification | upzoning | Green Cities | Progress 2025 | Sustainability
Green Cities Are for People, Not Profit
Across the country, activists are battling gentrification and working to build sustainable cities that don’t displace working-class communities of color.
A Cross-State Movement to Hold Railroads Accountable
Facing the ongoing impacts of pollution and derailments, activists in East Palestine, Ohio, and Baltimore are teaming up to pursue justice for their communities.
As Summer Swelters, Can Workers Get Heat Protections?
As temperatures continue to rise, California workers, worker protection groups, and state regulators are making progress on implementing heat regulations.
Soil Builds Prosperity From the Ground Up
Respecting the humanity and history of soil can help us grow a more resilient future for all.
The Vision of a Renewable Rikers Island in NYC
This community-developed plan could serve as a model for how to simultaneously decarcerate and decarbonize.
Jamaica’s Climate-Resilient Coastline
Wetlands and mangrove forests absorb water, waves, and salt to provide economic security for coastal communities.
Taking Back the Power (Literally)
Frontline communities from California to Puerto Rico lead the fight for energy democracy.
Stop Planting Trees
Long touted as an environmental panacea, mass tree planting can actually do more harm than good.
Biodiversity on the Ballot in Ecuador
After a decade of resistance, Ecuadorians will finally vote to preserve Yasuní National Park or allow oil exploitation.
The Young People Reshaping Wildfire Policy
FireGeneration advocates for Indigenous-led, youth-powered approaches to the wildfire crisis
One Climate Disaster, Three Different Responses
When record-setting rain fell in Brazil, responses varied between communities—and so did the number of lives lost.
Sacred Activism
Like water itself, the protection of this vital resource takes many different forms.
From Farmworkers to Land Healers
On most days, Sandra de Leon prunes grapevines in Northern California’s wealthiest vineyards. But today she is dressed head to toe in a yellow fire-resistant suit, helmet, safety goggles, and
Why Intergenerational Thinking Is Essential to Heal the Planet
As humankind grapples with climate change, communities around the world show what’s possible by planning hundreds of years ahead.
Could Breadfruit Help Trinidad and Tobago Brace for Climate Change?
Despite its colonial origins, breadfruit is now the subject of international research to evaluate its potential as a staple crop in a warming world.
Healing the Land and Themselves
Indigenous, Black, and queer farmers are buying land with the aim to restore and nourish nature along with their cultures and communities.
Resurrecting Climate-Resilient Rice in India
Seemingly miraculous varieties that can withstand drought, flood, and saltwater intrusion are the result of centuries of selective breeding by ancient farmers.
Nigerian Climate Action Group Trades Trash for Cash
Youth climate activists create companies to transform waste management and give hope.
Analysis | climate migration | climate displacement | Gulf coast | Louisiana | Hurricane | FEMA | Progress 2025
Louisiana Communities Show the Many Contours of Climate Migration
Organizers are tackling climate displacement from all angles—advocating for climate-displaced people, providing them with resources, and making their communities more climate-resilient.
I Paddle Boston’s Mystic River as Sackett v. EPA Threatens to Roll Back Critical Protections
Fifty Years after the passage of the Clean Water Act, the future of America’s waterways hangs in the balance.
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.”
What a “Green Amendment” Can Do for Environmental Justice
The Supreme Court curbed the EPA’s ability to restrict emissions, so states are looking to enshrine rights to “healthful environments” in their constitutions.
A Conservation Project in Jamaica Puts Community First
The endorsement and buy-in of critical stakeholders, like fishers, can make or break a conservation project. So fishers were invited to the table as the project took shape.
We Now Have a Universal Right to a Healthy and Sustainable Environment
The UN declaration is more than moral posturing. Resolutions like this one have led to effective treaties and national laws.
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