Minimum Viable Planet is a weeklyish newsletter about climateish stuff, and how to keep it together in a world gone mad. This week, we look into sharing the climate crisis panic without having it backfire on you.
The climate activist doesn’t mince words in holding world leaders accountable to the urgent demands of young organizers.
We can’t talk about corruption and tax dodging around the world when we’re encouraging it at home.
“We all have a story to share, and I believe knowing someone’s story creates connection.”
A court seen as becoming increasingly politicized in ways unpopular to the majority of Americans risks decades of reputational damage.
A graphic edition of “On Tyranny” draws democracy lessons from the 20th century.
T-shirt entrepreneurs-turned-farmers are turning an abandoned elementary school into a community hub.
If done right, they should be prompting uncomfortable conversations, not self-congratulations.
Oriel María Siu’s new children’s book explodes the myth of Christopher Columbus as a celebrated explorer and re-centers Indigenous narratives of how the Americas were colonized.
The first Native-owned and Native-led land trust is working to empower and equip young Natives to successfully farm kelp.
Native Americans were put into a status of guardianship due to a system of federal and local policies developed in the early 1900s. A lawyer explains this sordid history in light of the recent case of pop star Brittney Spears' conservatorship.
Children with chronic medical conditions often suffer multiple blows to their mental well-being. A state program in California aims to provide appropriate treatment for these children and their families.
And how tax havens—including in the U.S.—are used to hide money from tax authorities.
Minimum Viable Planet is a weeklyish newsletter about climateish stuff, and how to keep it together in a world gone mad. This week, we look into the restless mind, kept awake by the climate crisis.
The Bush administration used the attacks to label dissent and protests against international trade agreements as terrorism. Now movements have recovered their lost momentum.
Native women and women of color are the ones doing the work of surviving, recovering, and building resilience.
Talks of work-life balance often exclude low-wage women workers of color. Including them means investing in basic policies like equal pay and paid time off.
Research shows that polarized political discourse is actually addictive. We need a mass movement to break the cycle.
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October’s puzzle marks the reckoning we’re now facing after more than 500 years of colonization.
In adrienne maree brown’s new work of speculative fiction, grief is a pandemic that devastates Detroit.
For vulnerable communities, libraries are increasingly becoming a refuge in times of disaster.
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Minimum Viable Planet is a weeklyish newsletter about climateish stuff, and how to keep it together in a world gone mad. This week, the short-attention span sampler edition of MVP, featuring a few little and big things on my broken mind.
Politicians are redrawing electoral maps to reflect new census data. Activists are trying to make sure they do it fairly.
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