Anoa Changa (she/her) is a Southern-based movement journalist. She has a deep history of working within the realms of advocacy and justice. She hosts the podcast The Way with Anoa,
Fall 2021: The “How Much Is Enough?” Issue Our fall issue tackled the existential question that undergirds so many of our current conversations, be they about wealth, food, health, justice, climate, or
Dear Community, As I write this letter, I am still feeling the high of YES! Fest—the two days of virtual celebration and conversation with people who’ve shaped the stories and
Ravi Ravichandran was volunteering at a Mother Earth News Fair eight years ago when he noticed the YES! booth right across the way. After sampling a few stories, he became a
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While elites fixate on technological fixes such as “net zero” emissions, communities of color fear it will disproportionately impact them and instead demand a just phasing out of oil and gas—and a seat at the table.
“I felt a kinship with the Nez Perce who, like my Japanese American community, were banished to less desirable land.”
The pandemic has changed what we mean by “restaurant” to include market hybrids, more takeout, less brick-and-mortar—and more restaurants that want to upend the hierarchy that defines dining out.
The Mountain State is mostly White, but one Black journalist looks to create the first publication for her community since 2006.
To urgently drive down carbon emissions, we need a worldwide, and equitable, fossil fuel nonproliferation treaty.
A conversation about the roots of our current climate crisis and humanity’s prospects for emerging into a livable future.
The Gabby Petito case illustrated yet again how media outlets disproportionately fixate on missing and murdered White women. Veteran journalist Guillermo Torres analyzes why— and how editors can do better.
“It’s not just swapping out oil and gas. It’s about changing the system so that it’s sustainable for everybody.”
The authors, who are taking part in COP26 this week, discuss ways to support Indigenous communities and their allies in healing the planet and moving forward to a post-oil future.
These are dark times, but hope is not lost nor foolish, and change has already begun.
This month’s puzzle will put your reading comprehension to the test.
While my family lives under existential threat from catastrophic cyclones in Mozambique, immigrant communities in the diaspora, like mine in London, also have to face toxic air quality.
“COP26 is looking like one of the most inequitable, White, and segregated COPs to ever occur.”
“The climate crisis is here and with 1.2°C bringing so much suffering already, fighting for 1.5°C is already a compromise.”
“India’s rightwing Hindu supremacists want to control how we celebrate Diwali, a Hindu-origin tradition that is widely embraced and signifies the universal idea that good will triumph over evil.”
Diwali has many origin stories and is celebrated in several faith traditions, but all center the triumph of justice.
A conversation with the Ugandan activist about her new book and how it helped her see climate change differently.
Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate on the necessity of real representation in the climate movement.
These investment firms face fewer disclosure and transparency rules. So their investors—public pension funds—need to hold them accountable.
“If we’re going to make the world over, let’s do it right. Let’s make a masterpiece.”
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