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鈥檚 been homeless for years now has a house and a community.
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Capitalism Is Not the Only Choice
We have opportunities every day to build economies that lift each other up and spread joy.
The Trump Effect, One Year Later: Thousands of Women Running for Office
After Trump鈥檚 victory over Clinton, women realized how much the country needs them in politics.
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.
No More White Saviors: Let People Lead Their Own Movements
Activists who come to command without listening to those they鈥檙e ostensibly helping produce a devastation that makes the project of systemic oppression that much easier.
American Workers Let 662 Million Vacation Days Go Unused Last Year
And 24 other facts you should probably know.
Fed Up With How Women Are Portrayed in Media, These Girls Started Their Own Radio Station
A Boston radio station trains teens, helps them find their voice, and gives them a chance to be heard.
The Hopeful Work of Turning Appalachia鈥檚 Mountaintop Coal Mines Into Farms
In the post-coal economy, life-skills training helps employ people and restore the savaged land.
The Pipeline Protest Before Standing Rock
Last year鈥檚 water protectors garnered worldwide attention, but several pipeline fights鈥攕uch as the Enbridge Sandpiper pipeline victory鈥攇ot little public notice.
Meet the Playwrights Bringing 精东影业 to the Stage
These women are helping audiences empathize with issues in a way that a book or an article can鈥檛.
A Surprisingly Simple Solution to a Transportation Mess in India
Electric rickshaws have become an economic and environmental lifeline for both drivers and passengers.
Who Owns the Future of California鈥檚 Energy? Its Residents
Despite all the money in politics, the future of cleaner energy is in the hands of local communities.
Love Little Free Libraries? These People Didn鈥檛 Stop at Books
From seed banks to free food pantries, the little library movement is taking off in neighborhoods across the country.
4 Reasons Trump Can鈥檛 Stop the Renewables Revolution
For starters, it鈥檚 way cheaper.
What Cuba Can Teach Us About Health Care
Even Trump supporters agree we can learn something from the country鈥檚 universal, low-cost health care system. It鈥檚 that good.
鈥淐arpe Diem Politics鈥�: How to Do More Than Just Resist
Today鈥檚 social justice movements must seize opportunities, mobilize quickly, and, finally, embrace a carnival spirit.
What Legal Personhood for U.S. Rivers Would Do
Indian Country could finally see an end to nonconsented infrastructure projects if they follow New Zealand鈥檚 Maori in achieving legal protection for natural entities.
How to Feed Ourselves in a Time of Climate Crisis
Here are 13 of the best ideas for a just and sustainable food system, from saving seeds to curbing food waste.
It鈥檚 Not Just Nostalgia: 鈥淩eal Things鈥� and Why They Matter
In his new book, David Sax explains how giving into the lure of things like vinyl records and paperback books might actually make you happier.
Tribes Were the First Climate Refugees鈥攁nd the First to Build Resilience Plans
The Swinomish of Washington produced a climate adaptation plan two years before the state. Now it鈥檚 a template for all of Indian Country.
Alaska鈥檚 Small Villages Turn Toward Renewables鈥擜nd Don鈥檛 Look Back
Oil companies like to push the narrative that Alaskans want more oil development, but that鈥檚 not true.
Climate Justice Is Racial Justice Is Gender Justice
What is a 鈥渏ust transition,鈥� anyway? Bill McKibben asks Jacqueline Patterson, the director of the NAACP Environmental and Climate Justice Program.
Who Has the Skills to Build Community? We All Do
An online platform might be just the thing to spread around our grassroots genius.
Can Portland Build a System Like the Underground Railroad for Immigrants?
As ICE increases its arrests, 30 Portland-area churches have pledged to offer sanctuary to undocumented immigrants. Anyone thinking of joining them must be ready to answer these hard questions.
What the Insanity of Mass Incarceration Has Done To Us
We have lived with mass incarceration for so long that we do not see that it鈥檚 making even those who are supposed to be free less human鈥攁nd less humane.
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