Fifty Years after the passage of the Clean Water Act, the future of America’s waterways hangs in the balance.
Environment
“We launched our movement to breathe clean air … amid the Movement for Black Lives chanting ‘we can’t breathe’ and a pandemic disproportionately killing Black people.”
“These communities are experts in understanding the solutions for the problems that they face on a daily basis.”
Water | Climate | Racial Justice | Native rights | Sustainable food and farming | Indigenous lands | Pollution
Climate-conscious farmers are a powerful force for growing community and a more resilient future.
Solidarity can go a long way in connecting communities working through similar challenges.
“Once we collectively feel this connection, this relationship, we can then begin to understand the responsibility we have—the responsibility that I feel, and that my ancestors felt.”
Changing course to transform into an ecological civilization will take international cooperation. But the U.S and China are setting a poor example.
Native study of the natural world is exceptionally deep and nuanced at understanding and protecting ecosystems.
If we don’t address our cognitive dissonance, we’ll get stuck where we are, and diminish our capacity for progress.
Cities across the U.S. are looking to citizen science for data on heat waves and other climate impacts.
Native farmers want newcomers to know there’s nothing novel about caring for the land that grows our food.
This crisis is political as much as environmental. Solutions require justice.
By elevating Traditional Ecological Knowledge, a forestry center in Minnesota works to restore ecosystems and Indigenous sovereignty.
Eco-friendly tiny houses offer safety, stability, and savings.
Dennis Hutson wants to recreate a Black farming paradise in California. First he has to adapt to the climate crisis.
The Supreme Court curbed the EPA’s ability to restrict emissions, so states are looking to enshrine rights to “healthful environments” in their constitutions.
Climate-resilient public transportation is crucial to meeting our climate goals and ensuring mobility for vulnerable communities.
The endorsement and buy-in of critical stakeholders, like fishers, can make or break a conservation project. So fishers were invited to the table as the project took shape.
Black and other farmers of color are seeing a restoration of land that was stolen or cheated from them as a key step to strengthening their economic power.
The UN declaration is more than moral posturing. Resolutions like this one have led to effective treaties and national laws.
Repurposing water (with treatment, of course) is a safe way to help communities build water resilience in the face of growth and climate change.
For the author of a new memoir, North Dakota was a place of beauty and danger.
Environmental and labor activists have found success collaborating at the local and state levels. Now they have their eyes on federal policy.
Late summer and fall offer a bounty of berries bursting with flavor—and healing potential.
Home. The thought of it conjures up a tangle of images, of safeness and permanence and comfortable refuge. Home is also tenuous shelter under a busy overpass, in a neighborhood
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