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.

The Radical Work of Healing: Fania and Angela Davis on a New Kind of Civil Rights Activism "Self-care and healing and attention to the body and the spiritual dimension—all of this is now a part of ...

Studies show that investments in public art can improve street safety, provide tourism and new jobs, and combat social isolation and anxiety.

The Green Belt Movement, and the Story of Wangari Maathai Wangari Maathai’s Nobel Peace Prize brings trees, women, democracy, and the continent of Africa into the center of global discussions of peace ...

Relationship violence threatens not only students’ physical safety and emotional well-being, but also their academic prospects. Some campuses are finding solutions to help keep survivors in school.

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 Native Hawaiian Culture Can Teach Us About Gender Identity As the documentary Kumu Hina reveals, living between both genders is the more powerful “mahu" way.

Would You Put a Tiny House for a Homeless Person in Your Backyard? Because two Seattle homeowners were willing to make space, a 75-year-old man who’s been homeless for years now has a house and a ...

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.

On a late summer morning in Athens, Georgia, Shannon Foley Martinez sits barefoot on her back patio, still in her pajamas, and clicks “follow” on the Twitter profile of a White nationalist named ...

Indigenous scientists are hurrying to learn what they can about intact old-growth forests before they are gone.

The writer and activist Robert Jensen does a close reading of Ijeoma Oluo’s latest book, and considers what we need to dismantle for our mutual survival.