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Manchin’s Pipeline Loss Shows Frontline and Green Groups Are Gaining Steam
When the pandemic hit in 2020, I was living far from home, working as a special assistant at a nonprofit organization in Boston after graduating college. Like many 25-year-olds at the time, I decided...
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I Paddle Boston’s Mystic River as Sackett v. EPA Threatens to Roll Back...
The double-decker Tobin Bridge—the largest in New England—looms overhead as I bob on the waves of the Mystic River in my 10-foot Tucktec folding kayak. I am paddling the length of one of the most...
View ArticleHopeful Signs of Climate Culture Shift at COP27
This month, the United Nations hosted its annual “Conference of the Parties” (COP) in Egypt to discuss how to move the global community forward in the face of climate change. Now in its 27th year, the...
View ArticleCommunity Land Trusts Build Climate-Resilient Affordable Housing
In late September, Hurricane Ian, one of the most powerful and costly storms to make landfall in the U.S., tore through southwest Florida and caused an estimated $67 billion in property damage. But on...
View ArticleOvercoming Colonial Thinking to Connect With Life
As a technology ethicist researching and teaching at a technical university, I often hear big ideas about how to solve the world’s crises and build a brighter future. I attend well-intentioned...
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Resurrecting Climate-Resilient Rice in India
Until as recently as 1970, India was a land with more than 100,000 distinct varieties of rice. Across a diversity of landscapes, soils, and climates, native rice varieties, also called “landraces,”...
View ArticleSocial Connections Save Lives During Climate Emergencies
When Winter Storm Uri hit Texas in February 2021, bringing single-digit temperatures and sheets of snow to Dallas, Susana Edith and a group of volunteers distributed lentil soup and winter gear to...
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Could Breadfruit Help Trinidad and Tobago Brace for Climate Change?
It’s early on a Saturday morning, but already, the scorching November sun—a rarity following five months of unusually torrential rains—has thinned the crowd at Trinidad’s Chaguanas farmers market....
View ArticleHow Mobile Home Communities Are Adapting for Climate Change
Charlotte Bishop was standing at her kitchen window in January 2019 when she saw water streaming into her yard. A block of ice had clogged the brook that snakes around the mobile home park where she...
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Canada’s First Nations Protect Millions of Acres of Their Lands
This article was originally published by Yale Environment 360. Read the original story here. On yet another unusually warm subarctic day last August, members of the Łı́ı́dlı̨ı̨ Kų́ę́ First Nation in...
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Nature’s Tools Help Clean Up Urban Rivers
This article was originally published by Yale Environment 360. Read the original story here. On a recent summer morning near Camden, New Jersey, two divers from the U.S. Environmental Protection...
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Healing the Land and Themselves
The land above California’s Russian River is pristine with its redwoods and swaths of old-growth forests, where northern spotted owls breed and Coho salmon swim in the creeks. And yet, when...
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The Indigenous Winter Pantry: Recipes for Today’s Kitchen
The main ingredients in the foods Indigenous people put up for winter are caring, sharing, and a big dollop of joy. Communities that work together to preserve the bounty of prairie, desert, forest,...
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The Indigenous Food Cafés Transforming Local Cuisine
On a warm afternoon in March, Plantina Mujai busily cooks up a meal in the kitchen of her café in Khweng village, in the Indian state of Meghalaya. She’s dressed in a crisp white and green jain...
View ArticleCan We Game Our Way Out of the Climate Crisis?
Europe is planting trees to offset its emissions but is swiftly hit with massive wildfires. The United States is investing in mining operations abroad to wean off its dependence on fossil fuels but...
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Welcome to Blockadia!
We are members of Peaceful Uprising and Utah Tar Sands Resistance, groups that are working to stop tar sands mining from beginning in Utah. As tar sands mining is scheduled to begin in Utah in 2013,...
View ArticleWill the Tropical Island of Kauai Be the Next Front in GMO Fight?
This article originally appeared in Earth Island Journal. Following the recent demise of Washington State’s GMO labeling initiative, Bill 2491 has turned Kauai into the latest battleground in the...
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How President Obama Can Turn Climate Speech Into Action
This article originally appeared at The Guardian. President Barack Obama included a call to action on climate change in his inaugural speech on 21 January, surprising those who believed gun violence...
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Students to Colleges: Take Our Money Out of Dirty Energy
The author is an organizer with Swarthmore Mountain Justice. Over the last six months, students in the United States have launched a new strategy to change the national conversation on climate change...
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A World without Landfills? It’s Closer than You Think
There is a growing global movement to significantly reduce the amount of trash we produce as communities, cities, countries and even regions. It’s called the zero-waste movement, and it received a...
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