A Brief Analysis of Letting Go
As a collective, how do we say goodbye to the structures and traditions that no longer serve, protect, and preserve us?
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Chasing Liberty Along the Nez Perce Trail
鈥淔or 16 disquieting days, Sassia and I felt like we were chasing liberty鈥攂ut whose, was the daily question. It never seemed like it was ours, or that of others obstructed from the American Dream. Not the Nez Perce鈥檚, for sure.鈥�
Blowing Up a Few Myths About Inflation
Unchecked inflation can be damaging, but what we鈥檙e seeing in the U.S. is a fundamentally different issue: one in which inflation is being politicized.
Food as a Portal鈥攖o Myself
鈥淚n my blood is a culture that is inextricable from its food. How could I reclaim this after years of denying myself this birthright?鈥�
The Gentrification of Wilderness
鈥淢aybe people are indeed loving places and species to death, but since BIPOC are largely disconnected from the organized outdoors, it鈥檚 white people who are spreading this toxic form of tough love.鈥�
A Road Trip to Explore Race Along the Nez Perce Trail
鈥淚 felt a kinship with the Nez Perce who, like my Japanese American community, were banished to less desirable land.鈥�
The Attractive and the Anonymous: Inequity in Media Coverage for Victims of Violence
The Gabby Petito case illustrated yet again how media outlets disproportionately fixate on missing and murdered White women. Veteran journalist Guillermo Torres analyzes why鈥� and how editors can do better.
Immigrants Like Me Experience Two Ends of the Climate Crisis
While my family lives under existential threat from catastrophic cyclones in Mozambique, immigrant communities in the diaspora, like mine in London, also have to face toxic air quality.
Every Fraction of a Degree of Global Warming Matters
鈥淭he climate crisis is here and with 1.2掳C bringing so much suffering already, fighting for 1.5掳C is already a compromise.鈥�
My Memories of Diwali Celebrations are Antithetical to India鈥檚 Hindu Fundamentalists
鈥淚ndia鈥檚 rightwing Hindu supremacists want to control how we celebrate Diwali, a Hindu-origin tradition that is widely embraced and signifies the universal idea that good will triumph over evil.鈥�
The Hidden Side of Fossil Fuel Investments: Private Equity
These investment firms face fewer disclosure and transparency rules. So their investors鈥攑ublic pension funds鈥攏eed to hold them accountable.
Building a Beautiful Climate Future Starts with Imagination
鈥淚f we鈥檙e going to make the world over, let鈥檚 do it right. Let鈥檚 make a masterpiece.鈥�
What Are the Trees Saying About Us?
Minimum Viable Planet is a weeklyish newsletter about climateish stuff, and how to keep it together in a world gone mad. This week, we listen to what nature has to offer in the conversation around climate solutions.
Can Detroit Return its Brownfields to the Indigenous Sacred Sites They Once Were?
The destruction of burial mounds in Detroit paralleled the displacement and genocide of Indigenous peoples throughout the United States.
The Pursuit of Rest Under Capitalism
鈥淐ould it be that the fragmentation of our relations has been a fundamental cause of our exhaustion?鈥�
10 Years After Occupy Wall Street, Its Legacy Remains Strong
Occupy Wall Street gave the left ideas, skills, and a base in a way no one could have imagined a decade ago. The radicalization of a generation, the ability to easily explain class, the potential for mass nonviolent direct action, and crowbarring politics to let in socialist ideas and elected officials are all invaluable legacies.
Don鈥檛 Let Youth Climate Activists Like Me Burn Out
The COP26 meeting is an opportunity for world leaders to prove me wrong, to show us that they can act boldly on climate change and do more than make empty promises.
The Climate Crisis Is Your Crisis, Too
Minimum Viable Planet is a weeklyish newsletter about climateish stuff, and how to keep it together in a world gone mad. This week, we look into sharing the climate crisis panic without having it backfire on you.
What the Pandora Papers Tell Us About Ourselves
We can鈥檛 talk about corruption and tax dodging around the world when we鈥檙e encouraging it at home.
What I Learned When I Came Out to My Asian Mother
鈥淲e all have a story to share, and I believe knowing someone鈥檚 story creates connection.鈥�
Do Indigenous Land Acknowledgments Do More Harm Than Good?
If done right, they should be prompting uncomfortable conversations, not self-congratulations.
What Does Rest Look Like in a Climate Crisis?
Minimum Viable Planet is a weeklyish newsletter about climateish stuff, and how to keep it together in a world gone mad. This week, we look into the restless mind, kept awake by the climate crisis.
How 9/11 Set Progressive Causes Back鈥攁nd How We Rebounded
The Bush administration used the attacks to label dissent and protests against international trade agreements as terrorism. Now movements have recovered their lost momentum.
For Climate Solutions, Listen to Indigenous Women
Native women and women of color are the ones doing the work of surviving, recovering, and building resilience.
Exhausted by Toxic Politics? There鈥檚 a Way Forward
Research shows that polarized political discourse is actually addictive. We need a mass movement to break the cycle.
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