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 ...

“Imagining the impossible is what people have been doing in the struggle for liberation,” says academic and activist Ruthie Wilson Gilmore in a conversation about her latest book.

Would You Put a Tiny House for a Homeless Person in Your Backyard? Because two Seattle homeowners were willing to make space, a 75-year-old man who’s been homeless for years now has a house and a ...

What a Public Bank Can Do for Real People North Dakota has the only state-owned bank in the nation. Advocates say it’s a model for getting state tax money invested in communities.

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 ...

How I Can Offer Reparations in Direct Proportion to My White Privilege What it looks like to pay for the unearned advantages my whiteness has afforded me.

Indigenous, Black, and queer farmers are buying land with the aim to restore and nourish nature along with their cultures and communities.

Historically, Indigenous and Black folks have been turned against each other by colonizers and enslavers. Now, communities are learning from one another and finding solidarity in efforts to reclaim ...

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.

Why Costa Rica Tops the Happiness Index How a focus on peace is helping this Central American country top the Happy Planet Index.

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In 1992, a Canadian ecologist named William Rees coined the term “ecological footprint,” a measurement of how much any entity was impacting the planet’s ecology. A decade later, British Petroleum ...