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Local economies | Sustainable food and farming

Food Stamps Are Worth Double at These Michigan Farmers Markets—Helping Families and Local Businesses

The USDA is putting $31 million behind a program that helps low-income families take home twice the veggies, and local farmers make twice the money.

Araz Hachadourian | Apr 22, 2015

Bill McKibben: How a Lawyer From the Jim Crow South Shaped the Fight Against Climate Change

In his memoir, James Gustave Speth talks about his work to end climate change and why it's time for a new environmental movement.

Bill McKibben | Apr 20, 2015

Local economies

Big City Living May Help You Slow Down, Stress Less, and Be Happy‏. Really!

From New York City to Barcelona, cities across the world are turning to “slow living” to make their communities happier and healthier in the face of increasing urbanization.

Zanna McKay | Apr 17, 2015

Citizens United

A Trade Rule that Makes It Illegal to Favor Local Business? Newest Leak Shows TPP Would Do That And More

The leaked text is full of dense legal jargon. But a close reading makes its corporate agenda crystal clear.

David Korten | Apr 16, 2015

How I Learned to Ask For Handouts (No Matter How Weird It Feels)

Farming and writing don't bring home the bacon—why I'm no longer ashamed to ask my community to help.

Shannon Hayes | Apr 14, 2015

We Aren’t Alone in Our Cities: 12 Ways Animals Have Adapted to Urban Life

City living is changing animals in surprising ways. But they’re also transforming the cities they share with us.

Matt Soniak | Apr 14, 2015

Sustainable food and farming

Beyond Compost: 5 Ways to Get Your Soil Ready This Spring

The key to a great garden? Good dirt. Here’s how you can grow your own.

Miles Schneiderman, Peter D'Auria | Apr 13, 2015

Cooperatives

What If Uber Were a Unionized, Worker-Owned Co-Op? These Denver Cabbies Are Making It Happen

Workers at app-driven companies like Uber don’t have the rights of full employees. But with the help of traditional unions, some are banding together into worker-owned cooperatives.

Mary Hansen | Apr 10, 2015

When It’s Time to Hand the Farm to the Next Generation, the Simple Life Is Anything But

This year’s muddy spring presents my family with the chance to pull together more closely than ever.

Shannon Hayes | Apr 9, 2015

Renewable energy | Water

Drink Your Way to Sustainability With These Climate-Conscious Microbrews

It’s the weekend! Plan your happy hour with our interactive map of forward-thinking breweries.

Kayla Schultz | Apr 3, 2015

Cindy Rank addresses The People's Foot. Photo by Vivian Stockman / OVEC.

Renewable energy

In a Win for Opponents of Mountaintop Removal, W.Va. Govt Decides to Study Health Impacts

The state's shift in approach is also good news for environmentalists worldwide, who want to see more urgency in transitioning away from fossil fuels.

Laura Michele Diener | Apr 1, 2015

Local economies

What Your Town Can Learn From America’s Most Walkable Suburb

It's got great transit, plenty of sidewalks, and values people more than cars.

Jay Walljasper | Mar 31, 2015

Nature Needs a New Pronoun: To Stop the Age of Extinction, Let’s Start by Ditching “It”

Calling the natural world “it” absolves us of moral responsibility and opens the door to exploitation. Here's what we can say instead.http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/02/housing-first-solution-to-homelessness-utah

Robin Wall Kimmerer | Mar 30, 2015

Call for Submissions: Debt, Power, and Life After Loans

Rolling Jubilee, debtors unions, underwater mortgages, and more: We're about to dive deep into debt. Send us your pitches by April 13!

| Mar 27, 2015

This Activist Went to Prison for the Climate. Now He Wants Churches To Take Moral Leadership

The movements that persevere are those that find a form of hope, even in dark times.

Tim DeChristopher | Mar 27, 2015

Monica Lewinsky Was the Internet’s First Shaming Victim. Here’s How She Overcame It

“Shame cannot survive empathy,” Lewinsky reminds us. The growing trend of online public shaming can only be curbed by compassion.

Lindsey Weedston | Mar 24, 2015

Wendell Berry on Climate Change: To Save the Future, Live in the Present

In this selection from his new book, the poet and farmer Wendell Berry connects the dangers of the future to a failure to live fully in the here and now.

Wendell Berry | Mar 24, 2015

Jobs

A March Madness Makeover: 5 Ways to Bring Fairness Into College Basketball

March Madness is now a bigger cash cow than the Super Bowl, but in college sports the only people not getting a piece of the billion-dollar pie are the players.

Leigh Finke | Mar 20, 2015

Wealth and inequality

Why “Broad City” Is the Perfect Comedy for the Student Debt Generation

The Comedy Central show allows millennials of a specific demographic—and even those outside of it—to laugh at the situation the 1 percent has handed them.

Kate Aronoff | Mar 18, 2015