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.
Progress 2025
Abolishing the Nation’s Largest Jail System
L.A. County activists are working to replace violent jails with mental health facilities, and to reallocate funding from incarceration toward social services.
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.
Overcoming Colonial Thinking to Connect With Life
The pull of solving problems is nearly irresistible, but we should prioritize relationships with our environment.
Nigerian Climate Action Group Trades Trash for Cash
Youth climate activists create companies to transform waste management and give hope.
The Deadly Consequences of Hate
LGBTQ people have always been the ones to keep each other safe. But we shouldn’t have to.
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.
La Lucha Sigue: Lessons From Latin America’s Abortion Victories
Abortion advocates reeling from the end of Roe v. Wade can look to Mexico, Colombia, and Argentina for perspective, strategy, and hope.
Analysis | Progress 2025: Colonialism and Sovereignty | Slavery | Capitalism | colonialism | Land Back
Stolen Lands: A Black and Indigenous History of Land Exploitation
Colonization, through genocide, land theft, and the imposition of private property, has dispossessed Indigenous and Black peoples of their homelands across the continents for generations.
Aboriginal Activists Win Abalone Harvesting Rights
Their success is changing the perception of Aboriginal communities from “fish thieves” to leaders in regional development.
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.
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.
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.
Analysis | Sustainability | regenerative agriculture | climate resilience | Progress 2025: Colonialism and Sovereignty
Decolonizing Regenerative Cattle Ranching
Native farmers want newcomers to know there’s nothing novel about caring for the land that grows our food.
Reimagining Safety and Liberation Without Police
We can work for safety and liberation by investing in community-based alternatives to policing, like mental health programs, public education, restorative justice practices, and economic justice.
How Indigenous Knowledge Reconnects Us All to Fire
By elevating Traditional Ecological Knowledge, a forestry center in Minnesota works to restore ecosystems and Indigenous sovereignty.
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.
Labor and Climate Form a More Perfect Union
Environmental and labor activists have found success collaborating at the local and state levels. Now they have their eyes on federal policy.
To Transform Work, Start With Schools
Centering schools around the well-being of our students (and their teachers) is the most straightforward path to positive change in the workplace.
The Rise of Indigenous Candidates Raises Awareness of Key Issues
Indigenous values helped shape American democracy, and now they’re helping increase Native representation.
Decolonizing California’s Wildfire Zone
Verbena Fields in Northern California is an emerging model of what decolonizing land via Traditional Ecological Knowledge can look like, supported by partnerships between Native and non-Native communities.
A Growing Movement to Reclaim Water Rights for Indigenous People
Native tribes are reliant on their local water sources, which have been continuously exploited and contaminated by the U.S. government and non-Native people. Indigenous groups are finding new ways to demand justice.
Combining Old and New: Aquaponics Opens the Door to Indigenous Food Security
Indigenous communities and partners are combining ancient knowledge with modern technology to revitalize food systems and self-determined economies in the face of ever-increasing climate pressures.
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