How College Students Are Resisting the Mental-Illness Stigma
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As We Adapt to Climate Change, Who Gets Left Behind?
A new documentary shows planning options to mitigate a new climate, but questions about the global South are largely ignored.
Only 1 Percent of the Earth’s Oceans Are Environmentally Protected
How the majority of life on Earth lives under the sea, and 22 other facts about our world today.
How to Stop a Pipeline: The People Behind the Unist鈥檕t鈥檈n Encampment
In British Columbia, a clan of the Wet鈥檚uwet鈥檈n First Nation has reoccupied its traditional lands in order to stop several proposed energy pipelines.
Gabor Mat茅: How to Build a Culture of Good Health
Physical well-being depends on more than keeping our bodies fit. Emotions and the people who come into our lives matter just as much.
The Curious Case of the Antidepressant, Anti-Anxiety Backyard Garden
Whether it's microbes in the dirt or fresh air鈥攐r both鈥攔esearchers do know this: Gardening is strong medicine.
How Lentils Started an Underground Food Movement
Renegade farmers in Montana break from a long history of Big Ag and harmful monocrops.
We Asked Our Favorite Illustrators What Debt Means to Them
Here's what they gave us, from comics to collage.
The Color of Food: How Gardens and Farms Can Help Us Heal From a History of Racism
When we work together, share meals together, and laugh together, we鈥檙e repairing relationships with the soil as a community.
Don’t Just Divest, Reinvest鈥擣rom Fossil Fuels to a Healthy Economy
Reinvestment could also unite students organizing for other forms of divestment, like prison divestment and divestment in solidarity with Palestine.
How Creative Finance Launched Worker-Owned Co-ops In Post-Sandy New York
Half of small businesses don鈥檛 make it past the first five years, and owners lose everything trying to pay off the loans. The Working World lets co-ops stabilize before repayment even begins.
Goodbye McMansion, Hello Simple Life: What I Learned From Thoreau
The philosopher鈥檚 lessons include how to let go and find happiness鈥攅ven after crippling debt and a heartbreaking divorce.
I Owed My Parents Everything鈥擝ut My Son Will Owe Me Nothing
Why family debts shouldn鈥檛 be about money or expectations, but about love.
The Interest-Free Lending Circles That Help Friends and Families Do DIY Loans
Who needs banks when you have communities? And organizations like Mission Asset Fund have even figured out how to use the system to raise credit scores.
When Energy Bills Skyrocketed, These Neighbors Banded Together to Keep the Lights On鈥擜nd Won
For nearly 20 years, utility company Central Hudson has operated more or less unchallenged鈥攗ntil Nobody Leaves Mid-Hudson came along.
The Last Gift of Eduardo Galeano: Stories of History for the Sake of the Future
The Uruguayan journalist and historian authored more than 40 books, but his legacy will live on in our cultural imagination.
A Lifelong Search for Real Education
Grace Lee and Jimmy Boggs brought people together to rebuild inner-city Detroit and to teach the things you can鈥檛 learn in a classroom. At 94, Grace is still at it.
Grace Boggs: Reviving the Lost City
The 修车大队 Breakthrough 15: A decades-long revolution to rekindle the soul of urban neighborhoods.
Terry Tempest Williams: 鈥淪urvival Becomes a Spiritual Practice鈥�
The author and activist talks with 修车大队 about millennials, climate change, and how she can't imagine being alive at "a more thrilling, challenging time."
How to Make Your Own Toothpaste, Lip Balm, and Deodorant鈥擶ithout Nasty Chemicals
And 2 other recipes for cleaning up naturally.
For These Borrowers and Lenders, Debt Is a Relationship Based on Love
There could be a different financial system, one where debt allows us to honor our freedom rather than our servitude.
Hero or Coward: Could Skipping My Student Loan Payments Start a Revolution?
A college professor is calling for a massive student-debt strike next year with only one necessity: that as many debtors as possible refuse to pay.
When Gamers and Activists Collide, It’s Not About Winning鈥擨t鈥檚 About Social Change
From computer screens to street play, these three game developers are redefining the medium by revealing a powerful new social potential in games.
Will Government Make Good on Its Promise to Forgive Student Debt?
Up to a quarter of the nation鈥檚 workers have spent 10 years working in public service on a promise of student loan forgiveness.
Infographic: A History of Debt Forgiveness and Relief
As long as there has been lending, there have been times when the people鈥檚 debt becomes a crisis. Here鈥檚 a look at the policy solutions governments have been using, starting in ancient Sumer.
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