At the Karma Kitchen, people enjoy a meal that’s already paid for—and are invited to continue the chain of generosity. In the process, organizers and participants alike learn the transformative power of gratitude.
These dishes will take hours to make and hours to eat—perfect for a weekend celebrating a fall bounty and sharing with friends.
Don’t think rituals celebrating costumes and candy can make you happier and healthier? Science says they can.
“Dandelion Hunter” is an education about the food that grows along our city streets, and the deep history author Rebecca Lerner discovered along the way.
As it turns out, they were leading a workshop on how to move billions of dollars in public and nonprofit funds to sustainable investments.
A presidential block of Keystone XL could help reset the international negotiations that Obama allowed to go aground at Copenhagen.
Philadelphia restauranteur and local economies movement leader Judy Wicks on making good and doing good.
Movies have long helped us understand what it means to live on earth and contribute to an ecologically sustainable planet. Here are ten of our favorites.
Not all of these young people focus directly on climate change in their work. But it tends to take a prominent position in their worldview, which sees issues of race, class, labor, and environment as inextricably connected.
Despite behemoths like Starbucks and Amazon, the number of independent bookstores, coffeeshops, and other businesses is growing.
The public reaction to a documentary about captive orca whales showed an empathy we don't usually associate with TV audiences.
New generations of singers continue to adapt the song to talk about how injustice plays out in cases like those of Trayvon Martin and Rachel Corrie.
When members of the Elsipogtog First Nation attempted to prevent seismic testing on their land that could lead to fracking, armed police appeared and violence ensued. Here, indigenous writer and academic Leanne Simpson puts the issue into context.
Students in Columbia's Native American Council think the University could do more to acknowledge indigenous history, and they're helping to make it happen.
We must call for what we really need—an end to all new fossil fuel infrastructure and extraction.
In this TED Talk, 2013 TED Prize Winner Sugata Mitra believes that a child-driven education is the best way for kids to learn. Mitra shares his findings from his Granny Cloud and Hole in the Wall projects.
Governments usually use eminent domain powers to displace people. But one hardscrabble Bay Area city is going to the mat to do just the opposite—stabilize its economy and keep residents where they are.
Are we starting to see a cultural shift in how our society thinks about rape? The huge online response to a Slate columnist who told women to avoid rape by not drinking suggests that it's starting to happen.
This week, the Nobel Prize for economics may have gone to three academics, but the real work of fixing our local economies was happening on the ground—as part of New Economy Week.
In case you were distracted by Tea Party antics this week, here's a rundown of important developments in GMOs, sustainable farming, and other food news.
The Trans Pacific Partnership is likely to be a setback for efforts to regulate and label GMO foods.
The best measure of the value of a thing may be this: “How many ways can I use this? How many other things will I not have to buy?”
Self-reliant farmer types may not think they need help from the government. But they need affordable health insurance at least as much as the rest of us.
Three states have already dropped Columbus Day, while a movement begins to celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day instead.
Two sections that essentially told kids that coal was safe and good for the environment disappeared today from the website of a state agency in Illinois.
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