The Swinomish of Washington produced a climate adaptation plan two years before the state. Now it’s a template for all of Indian Country.
Don’t blame climate change for Houston’s vulnerability. A hurricane need not become a disaster.
Ways to fight white supremacists without helping their cause.
Two huge white nationalist sites were recently kicked off the web. But prohibiting hate groups could fuel paranoia—and more violence.
Gardening here is not a hobby. It comes from the realization within people that there is inherent value in tending a garden and taking time to be a part of nature.
Insufficient support and stigma make Black women the least likely to breastfeed of any group.
Oil companies like to push the narrative that Alaskans want more oil development, but that’s not true.
As a constitutional lawyer, I fully support the First Amendment. But as a black person, I’m conflicted when it comes to defending hate.
At the Trump rally Tuesday, indigenous and Latino rights advocates stood together to protest racial inequality in Arizona’s justice system. For these groups, facing militarized police is nothing new.
Perhaps the most compelling reason to change our ways is that Earth needs our help. In our responsibility to respond, might we unite in common cause?
Community groups throughout the city say land trusts could keep families living affordably in a fast-gentrifying city.
Forget minding your own business. Getting engaged leads to great rewards for both ourselves and others.
Now is the time to push for better health care. Here are three modest, winnable first steps.
A few months after temporarily shutting down 13 Chase branches, Seattle climate activists were at it again with a tar sands petition.
New data on violent deaths show that all people are safest living in places with high diversity—but especially White people.
Even when sensible adults finally take back government, “back to normal” is not what we want.
For the new movement to gain national traction, it will need to draw in poor and working-class Whites.
What is a “just transition,” anyway? Bill McKibben asks Jacqueline Patterson, the director of the NAACP Environmental and Climate Justice Program.
Some of my anger at the recent actions of white supremacists comes from acknowledging my own capacity for ugliness.
White supremacy is not an unfortunate stain on an otherwise clean democracy. It’s terribly, terrifyingly normal.
A few law enforcement agencies have adopted new guidelines to treat trans and gender-nonconforming people more fairly. But it’s just the first step.
Truth-telling needs to come first before we can begin to heal the racial divide and redress past harms.
We’ve been living alongside the Confederacy too long, and white people are finally starting to notice.
Many state governments over the years have reached exactly this point of racial toxicity—and crumbled.
Programs provide easier access to fresh, healthful foods to low-income neighbors.
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