How One Boston Neighborhood Stopped Gentrification in Its Tracks Community land trusts create housing that is permanently affordable. And they also help new city farmers get land.

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 ...

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.

Quannah Chasinghorse is continuing the legacy of Gwich’in women working to protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

You Can’t Bounce Off the Walls If There Are No Walls: Outdoor Schools Make Kids Happier—and Smarter New approaches to kindergarten offer us a glimpse of what childhood used to be, and still could ...

Don’t Let Consumerism Co-opt the Zero-Waste Concept The movement began as anti-consumerist. Yet now there are marketing ploys, feelings of inadequacy, and misplaced responsibility.

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 ...

The Myth Behind Public School Failure In the rush to privatize the country’s schools, corporations and politicians have decimated school budgets, replaced teaching with standardized testing, and ...

What Came Before #MeToo: The Himpathy That Shaped Misogyny Kate Manne’s “Down Girl” describes the origins of a punitive social system that keeps women in their place by rewarding compliance and ...

The science fiction subgenre known for its utopian and liberation themes has become a vehicle for Black women artists.

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.

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