Imagine a World Without Borders
Walls and fences at national borders enforce inequality, racial divides, and climate catastrophe. But most of them began as invisible lines in the sand.
Environment
A Denver Neighborhood Creates Green Space to Improve Community Health
Once a dumping ground for trash and industrial pollution, Platte Farm Open Space now has gardens, trails, and play areas enjoyed by the whole community.
To Decarbonize the Economy Equitably, Start With Schools
When schools achieve environmental justice, the whole climate benefits.
What Solar Energy Policies Can Do for Low-Income Households
Two words: energy justice.
The Positive Climate Tipping Point We Don鈥檛 Talk About
Typically, we read about tipping points with dread. But they鈥檙e not all negative.
Life Is Abundant, Even as the Climate Is Changing
Climate change is dangerous and disorienting. But building new relationships with the landscapes around us will allow us to survive鈥攁nd give the other species we still share this planet with the chance to thrive.
10 Examples of Environmental Racism and How It Works
Here鈥檚 what to know about the unexpected effects of discriminatory environmental policies.
The Queer-Led Groups Modeling a New Form of Land Access
Changing ownership and wealth distribution, even at a small scale, presents a model for how to ultimately address the climate crisis.
How Recycled Glass Could Help Restore Louisiana鈥檚 Eroding Coastline
A Louisiana nonprofit is working to turn empty bottles into free sandbags for residents to protect their homes from floods and, eventually, to mitigate coastal erosion.
How a North Carolina Pastor Uses Faith to Mobilize Climate Action
Hardin-Nieri believes scripture can help religious communities better comprehend the unfolding environmental catastrophes happening around them鈥攁nd do something about it.
Replacing Fossil Fuels with Community-Led Clean Energy
鈥淲e must move funds to frontline communities for clean energy projects and stop fossil fuel developers from perpetuating conventional investments in dirty energy and injustice.鈥�
How Native Communities on the Front Line of Climate Change Are Feeling the Heat
For Indigenous people threatened by climate change, the choice is not an easy one: Move away from a place to which families have been tied for centuries, or stay and remain at risk.
The Yurok Tribe Is Using California鈥檚 Carbon Offset Program to Buy Back Its Land
With income from sequestering carbon in its forests, the tribe has supported youth programming, housing, road improvement, and businesses development.
The Wildlife Refuge Helping a Community Fight for Environmental Justice
Can this New Mexico community get green space without the gentrification that usually follows?
Two Climate Migrants Recount Radically Different Experiences Seeking Sanctuary in the US
The United States has done more to fuel climate migration than any other country on Earth, but it does not always welcome climate migrants equally.
The 18-Year-Old Climate Protester Now Advising Biden on Climate Policy
After a year of school striking for Fridays for Future outside the White House, Jerome Foster has been ushered in to help advise the president.
Climate Visualizations That Really Stick
鈥淢inimum Viable Planet鈥� is a weeklyish commentary about climateish stuff, and how to keep it together in a world gone mad. This week, I can see clearly now the vague is gone.
Mississippi Failed its Residents During a Crisis, So They Helped Themselves
When a winter storm knocked out water service to tens of thousands of Mississippi residents, it was Black families that were hit hardest鈥攁nd who organized their own relief efforts.
How These Danish Bees Give Hope to Refugees
In the face of rising anti-immigrant sentiment, an organization has worked to integrate new arrivals to Copenhagen by taking care of honeybees.
How (and Why) to Welcome Insects Into Your Yard
Gardening isn't just about plants. It鈥檚 about the entire ecosystem those plants can support.
Body Cues for Climate Blues
鈥淢inimum Viable Planet鈥� is a weeklyish commentary about climateish stuff, and how to keep it together in a world gone mad. This week, am I sad or did I just eat some bad cheese?
The Power of Bike Education to Transform Lives and Communities
Amid a pandemic biking boom, cycling education organizations are working to make sure access is equitable and inclusive.
How One Woman Convinced a Community to Love a Bad Omen
An Indian biologist went door-to-door, listening and helping people develop livelihoods, to ultimately save an endangered species.
Going Circular: 7 European Cities鈥� Quest to Become Fully Sustainable
Construction waste is a huge polluter. An international experiment is hoping to reduce that waste to nothing.
The Grizzly in the Driveway
Grizzly bears are legendary creatures of human fear and awe. But we find this endangered species hard to live with.
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