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Tiny houses are a trendy way to live minimally and downsize—but for a First Nations community in British Columbia, they’re an act of resistance. Since the fall, indigenous women of the Secwepemc ...
The Radical Work of Healing: Fania and Angela Davis on a New Kind of Civil Rights Activism "Self-care and healing and attention to the body and the spiritual dimension—all of this is now a part of ...
On a late summer morning in Athens, Georgia, Shannon Foley Martinez sits barefoot on her back patio, still in her pajamas, and clicks “follow” on the Twitter profile of a White nationalist named ...
Joel Salatin is no simple farmer. When he speaks, he at times takes on the air of a Southern preacher, philosopher, heretic, businessman, activist, or ecological engineer. Since Michael Pollan’s book ...
The long-term solution to the plastics problem is stopping the flow at its source. But even if we were to magically achieve that today, the world would still be awash in nearly a century’s worth of ...
What Does An Ecological Civilization Look Like? A society based on natural ecology might seem like a far-off utopia—yet communities everywhere are already creating it.
Palestinian refugees are settling in the Philippines, and bringing their cultural foods with them. During the golden hour in Quezon City, Philippines, a special Palestinian food pop-up event wraps up.
Inside a maximum security prison in Argentina, Liberté offers more than education and recreation for incarcerated people—it offers lessons in solidarity.
Children are learning and playing joyfully in nature again, from suburbs in Colorado to the fringes of Chicagoland.
We are singing for water and for the protectors of Earth’s waters. We sing for water. Long-legged birds stand at the edges of lakes and rivers to watch for fish, their nests hidden in the rushes. A ...
You Can’t Bounce Off the Walls If There Are No Walls: Outdoor Schools Make Kids Happier—and Smarter New approaches to kindergarten offer us a glimpse of what childhood used to be, and still could ...
Indigenous scientists are hurrying to learn what they can about intact old-growth forests before they are gone.