Changing ownership and wealth distribution, even at a small scale, presents a model for how to ultimately address the climate crisis.
A Louisiana nonprofit is working to turn empty bottles into free sandbags for residents to protect their homes from floods and, eventually, to mitigate coastal erosion.
Hardin-Nieri believes scripture can help religious communities better comprehend the unfolding environmental catastrophes happening around them—and do something about it.
“We must move funds to frontline communities for clean energy projects and stop fossil fuel developers from perpetuating conventional investments in dirty energy and injustice.”
For Indigenous people threatened by climate change, the choice is not an easy one: Move away from a place to which families have been tied for centuries, or stay and remain at risk.
With income from sequestering carbon in its forests, the tribe has supported youth programming, housing, road improvement, and businesses development.
To the statement that prisons provide safety, we should ask, “Safety for whom? And from what?”
Affrilachian artistry and identity allows Appalachia to be fully seen as the diverse and culturally rich region that it is.
Can this New Mexico community get green space without the gentrification that usually follows?
No more reforms. It’s time for true transformation.
The United States has done more to fuel climate migration than any other country on Earth, but it does not always welcome climate migrants equally.
After a year of school striking for Fridays for Future outside the White House, Jerome Foster has been ushered in to help advise the president.
“Minimum Viable Planet” is a weeklyish commentary about climateish stuff, and how to keep it together in a world gone mad. This week, I can see clearly now the vague is gone.
And White supremacy does not require a White person to perpetuate it.
Biden’s infrastructure plans promise not just to boost the economy, but to fundamentally redefine the role of government.
A look back at inter-racial solidarity between Black Americans and Asian Americans, from Nobuko Miyamoto in “Not Yo’ Butterfly.”
If the state extends Medi-Cal to all undocumented immigrants, they would be eligible to receive potentially life-saving health care.
We shouldn’t reach out to the other side just for the sake of talk or “unity.” We need to build a safe and just society for all of us.
Our April puzzle is out of this world.
Organization, outreach, money, and meeting people where they are is the key to changing political winds.
“Tradition and culture are really at the core of who we are… It’s how we heal.”
Send us your leads and pitches by April 30.
When a winter storm knocked out water service to tens of thousands of Mississippi residents, it was Black families that were hit hardest—and who organized their own relief efforts.
An attempt by thousands of mostly Black workers to unionize at a fulfillment center gives new life to the labor movement.
In the face of rising anti-immigrant sentiment, an organization has worked to integrate new arrivals to Copenhagen by taking care of honeybees.
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