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.

Slave and Slaveholder Descendants Break Free of History’s Trauma—Together Responding to past traumas like slavery and acts of terrorism can heal us—and future generations.

“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.

Poverty is Not Inevitable: What We Can Do Now to Turn Things Around Having poor people in the richest country in the world is a choice. We have the money to solve this. But do we have the will?

Renewable energy isn’t just a green business venture; it’s a way to support tribal self-determination and economic development.

Since California’s program launched in 2013, questions have swirled about whether cap and trade has helped or hurt people living in the shadow of the state’s largest emitters.

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 ...

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In 1931, the philosopher John Dewey lamented that “politics is the shadow cast on society by big business.” Government “in general is an echo,” and at times a direct “accomplice, of the interests of ...

The West End Food Co-op exterior. Photo by Susanna Redekop. Complementary currencies are currencies that circulate alongside official legal tender. While national currencies are bound up in the ...

Through the rest of August and into fall, we struggled with planting and accepted our only option—do what we could with the soil we had. We’d never get rid of the glacial till deep down, but we could ...

White Allies, Let’s Be Honest About Decolonization I want to experience the solidarity of allied actions that refuse fantastical narratives of commonality and hope.