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Depaving Cities for a Greener Future

Minimum Viable Planet is a weeklyish newsletter about climateish stuff, and how to keep it together in a world gone mad. This week, Montreal鈥檚 depaving efforts make this Toronto-dweller green with envy (and inspiration).

Sarah Lazarovic | Aug 2, 2021

Water | Pollution

How Replanted Seagrass Is Restoring the Ocean

Two decades in to the world鈥檚 largest seagrass restoration project, Virginia's coastal waters are once again vibrant and healthy ecosystems.

Laura Paddison | Aug 2, 2021

An illustration by Sarah Lazarovic, with title text reading "Pep Sketches: An Ongoing Series." A woman wearing a green shirt and holding a small animal speaks to a man in an orange shirt, saying "Behold this baby marsupial eating a cookie!"

Minimum Viable Planet

Sketches to Make You Smile

鈥淢inimum Viable Planet鈥� is a weeklyish commentary about climateish stuff, and how to keep it together in a world gone mad. This week, comics to help you stay positive and take action.

Sarah Lazarovic | Jul 28, 2021

Native rights | Pipeline resistance | Indigenous lands | Women

How the Women of Standing Rock Inspired the World

鈥淎 nation isn鈥檛 defeated until the hearts of the women are on the ground.鈥�

Breanna Draxler | Jul 26, 2021

Climate

Suffering the Heat of Climate Change, Cities Seek Retribution

Baltimore is suing major oil and gas companies for spurring the climate crisis and the rising temperatures that have an outsized impact on low-income, urban areas.

Sushma Subramanian | Jul 22, 2021

Racial Justice | Sustainable food and farming

The Unsung Caribbean Roots of the Vegan Food Movement

While eating a plant-based diet is often presented as a White, millennial fad that accompanies gentrification, Black people have a long and rich tradition of plant-based eating.

Paige Curtis | Jul 21, 2021

Pipeline resistance | Indigenous lands | Native rights

Settlers Have an Obligation to Defend Treaty Rights, Too

鈥淭he treaties are not just a concern for Indigenous people. They were entered into by the U.S. government, and as citizens, we have a responsibility to ensure our government honors that law.鈥�

Alec Connon, Erika Lundahl | Jul 20, 2021

Racial Justice

Cities Use Public Transit to Make Nature More Accessible

Seattle is one of several major cities implementing a 鈥渢ransit to trails鈥� program to help more people access local wilderness.

Gregory Scruggs | Jul 16, 2021

Indigenous lands

Tribes Are Leading the Way to Remove Dams and Restore Ecosystems

When the Elwha River dams fell, it was the culmination of many decades of successful partnerships to support the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe in righting historic wrongs.

Lindsay VanSomeren | Jul 14, 2021

Sustainable food and farming | Pollution | Climate

Cooler, Cleaner Megacities, One Rooftop Garden at a Time

Growing greens can be a powerful tool for change.

Marianne Dhenin | Jul 8, 2021

Climate | Minimum Viable Planet

Heat: A Comic

鈥淢inimum Viable Planet鈥� is a weeklyish commentary about climateish stuff, and how to keep it together in a world gone mad. This week, hot and bothered and insulted by my children.

Sarah Lazarovic | Jul 7, 2021

Climate

The Beauty of Beasts (and How to Save Them From Us)

In grappling with the complicated history of environmental conservation, Michelle Nijhuis eschews blind hope in favor of pragmatic possibility.

Breanna Draxler | Jul 6, 2021

Rights for Rivers: Fighting for the Legal Rights of Nature

Arguing for the legal standing of nature was greeted as ridiculous in the 1970s. But now the idea is catching on.

Michelle Nijhuis | Jul 6, 2021

Minimum Viable Planet | Climate

Why the Shift from 鈥淐limate Change鈥� to 鈥淐limate Emergency鈥� Matters

鈥淢inimum Viable Planet鈥� is a weeklyish commentary about climateish stuff, and how to keep it together in a world gone mad. This week, emergence through emergency.

Sarah Lazarovic | Jul 5, 2021

Local economies | Sustainable food and farming

Rethinking the Farming Economy

A Vermont nonprofit is connecting independent farms with buyers and distributors, reducing food surplus and working to eliminate food insecurity.

Natalie Peart | Jun 29, 2021

Mental health | Climate

Don鈥檛 Tell Me to Despair About the Climate: Hope Is a Right We Must Protect

There is no point at which we can no longer strive to make the future better than it otherwise would be.

Morgan Florsheim | Jun 15, 2021

Climate | Minimum Viable Planet

Do You Talk About Your Climate Concern?

鈥淢inimum Viable Planet鈥� is a weeklyish commentary about climateish stuff, and how to keep it together in a world gone mad.

Sarah Lazarovic | Jun 8, 2021

Sustainable food and farming | Indigenous lands

Toward Food Sovereignty in Alaska Native Communities

A grassroots project to build biomass-heated greenhouses aims to alleviate food insecurity in the communities most affected by it.

Max Graham | Jun 8, 2021

Coronavirus | Indigenous lands | Climate

The Ever-Clearer Link Between Deforestation and Public Health

Efforts to decolonize forest protection have been stalling for years. COVID-19 might give the movement the urgency it needs.

Sarah Sax | Jun 2, 2021

Climate | Minimum Viable Planet

One Simple Way to Stop Climate Gloom

鈥淢inimum Viable Planet鈥� is a weeklyish commentary about climateish stuff, and how to keep it together in a world gone mad.

Sarah Lazarovic | May 28, 2021

Water | Climate

In California鈥檚 Drier Future, What鈥檚 the Best Investment for Securing Water?

Experts agree that cities need diverse water supplies, but desalination plants remain controversial.

Kate Wheeling | May 26, 2021

Activism | Climate

Greta Thunberg Talks Science, Self-Care, and What鈥檚 Next for Her

She says the pandemic has shown how quickly we can develop a vaccine once we really put our resources behind it; it's time to do the same for climate solutions.

Marianne Dhenin | May 20, 2021