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Oakland Youth Swap Fast Food for Fresh Food

Video: A group of young people in West Oakland are taking control of what they eat and using pedal power to bring local groceries to produce-strapped communities.

| Feb 13, 2013

Renewable energy

Can Carbon-Mopping “Artificial Trees” Slow Climate Crisis?

Two scientists at Columbia University believe that carbon-mopping machines modeled after trees could sequester enough carbon from the atmosphere to slow global warming. But can we produce them quickly (and cheaply) enough for the plan to work?

Richard Schiffman | Feb 9, 2013

People We Love

Designing nonviolent ways for humans and animals to live in harmony—in the city.

Fabien Tepper | Feb 8, 2013

People We Love: Asa Needle

Leading teenagers in the clean-up of their hometown, Worcester, Mass.

Laura Beans | Feb 8, 2013

People We Love: Leia Lewis Henderson

Nurturing African-American culture through gardening.

Laura Beans | Feb 8, 2013

Jobs | Renewable energy | Climate | Local economies

What’s Cheaper than Solar, Slashes Carbon Emissions, and Creates Jobs in Kentucky?

Having an energy-efficient home saves the owners money, but they often procrastinate on improvements. When energy companies in Kansas and Kentucky figured out a way to sweeten the deal, the results brought good news for homeowners, contractors, and for the planet.

Erin L. McCoy | Feb 5, 2013

Permaculture Chickens photo by Paul Dunn

12 Steps to Create a Backyard Permaculture

Author Peter Bane grew more than 150 species on less than 2,000 square feet. Here are 12 steps to get you there.

Doug Pibel | Feb 5, 2013

People We Love: Sarah Bergmann

Creating a pollination pathway for urban bees.

Fabien Tepper | Feb 1, 2013

Film Review: Ken Burns’ Dust Bowl

The new documentary will bring you inside one of the worst manmade disasters of all time in powerful detail.

Valerie Schloredt | Feb 1, 2013

Sustainable food and farming

Care about Your Food? Then Care about Your Farmworkers Too

It’s organic. It’s local. But did the workers who picked it have health insurance?

Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern | Jan 31, 2013

North Carolina Appalachians. Photo by Dave Allen / Shutterstock.

You Are Where You Live

How the sky, rain, geography, and cultures of our place shape us.

Susan Griffin | Jan 31, 2013

Students to Colleges: Take Our Money Out of Dirty Energy

A divestment campaign led by students is changing the national conversation about energy, creating a market for sustainable stocks, and linking up students with communities facing off against the fossil fuel industry.

Sachie Hopkins-Hayakawa | Jan 30, 2013

Sustainable food and farming

Food or Ethanol? Why Farmers Shouldn’t Give in to Monocrops

It’s a good time to be in farming if you like to grow corn. It’s a tough time if you see yourself as a steward of the land. Shannon Hayes on why growers pressured by corn-heavy markets should hold out for crops that nourish the Earth.

Shannon Hayes | Jan 26, 2013

Cooperatives | Local economies | Wealth and inequality | Sustainable food and farming

What India Taught Me About How to End Hunger

Back in the ’60s, Frances Moore Lappé realized that hunger is caused by a scarcity of democracy, not food. Then, a collective of courageous women farmers showed her how to change that.

Frances Moore Lappé | Jan 26, 2013

Renewable energy

How President Obama Can Turn Climate Speech Into Action

Many were surprised to hear President Barack Obama take up climate change at today’s inaugural address. Here are a few ways the president can seize the moment and transform our approach to climate action.

Sarah van Gelder | Jan 22, 2013

Sustainable food and farming

Book Review: Inside Will Allen’s Good Food Revolution

Like growing vegetables from seed to harvest, overhauling the country's food system takes time.

Laura Kaliebe | Jan 17, 2013

Local power | Climate

Why Post-Sandy America Needs State Banks More than Ever

If we the people want the sort of security in emergencies that is available to the owners of Wall Street banks, we need to own some banks ourselves.

Ellen Brown | Jan 8, 2013

Sustainable food and farming

Want Sustainable Fish? Barn-Raised

Aquaponics takes advantage of nature’s processes to fill Americans’ growing appetite for fish—without overfishing or destructive farming.

Katherine Gustafson | Jan 4, 2013

Sustainable food and farming

Invasive Species: If You Can’t Beat ’em, Eat ’em

Species like green crabs, feral pigs, snakeheads, and zebra mussels cost $120 billion a year in damage. For a cheaper alternative, try eating them instead.

Joe Roman | Jan 4, 2013

A Living Sewage Treatment Plant? These People Grew One

Every flush of a standard toilet creates a several-gallon problem. Instead of wasting water, plants and animals can transform human waste into water rated pure enough to drink.

Claudia Rowe | Jan 4, 2013

Citizens United

Remembering Rebecca Tarbotton

A tribute to the beloved environmentalist, human right activist, and executive director of the Rainforest Action Network.

Tina Gerhardt | Jan 3, 2013

Renewable energy

To Save Our Ecosystems, Stop Overloading Them

Left alone, natural systems keep nitrogen, carbon, and other key ingredients of life balanced.

Doug Pibel, Madeline Ostrander | Nov 20, 2012

From Soap to Cities, Designing From Nature Could Solve Our Biggest Challenges

Can a boat be designed to clean the water? How does a spider manufacture resilient fiber? We need products that don’t harm us or the environment, and nature’s already done the research.

Sven Eberlein | Nov 20, 2012

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