Portland Public Schools First to Put Global Climate Justice in Classroom
Students learn about the front lines of global warming and how to be climate activists.
Environment
No Rural-Urban Divide Here: We All Want Good Jobs and Strong Local Economies
Local control is a foundational conservative principle鈥攂ut progressives also embrace it.
How to Keep Businesses (and Small Towns) Alive When Owners Retire
In Kansas, a new matchmaking service is helping transition small businesses to new hands. Could it be a model for the rest of rural America?
ING Bank Just Divested Their DAPL Financing鈥擶e All Helped to Change Their Mind
Last month, bank officials met face to face with leaders of the Standing Rock Sioux, and this week they announced the bank had sold the loan at the request of tribal leaders.
How Nature Makes Us Healthier and Happier
Over 100 studies have shown that being in nature鈥攐r even watching it in videos鈥攂enefits our brains, bodies, feelings, thought processes, and social interactions.
This Invention Lets Rural Hondurans Clean Their Water鈥擜nd Own the Treatment Plants
What鈥檚 at stake in a world where science is marginalized? Programs like AguaClara, which offer sustainable, low-cost solutions to communities in need.
Water Is Life: The Story of Standing Rock Won鈥檛 Go Away
The Dakota Access pipeline is set and oil will flow. But this is not the only fight about water, and Standing Rock is only one chapter somewhere in the middle of a long story.
As Police Evict Water Protectors, Tribes Vow to Continue the Fight
鈥淭his isn鈥檛 the end by any means. This is the spark. The whole world is waking up now.鈥�
Why the People Who Grow Your Food Are Worried About Scott Pruitt
Pruitt鈥檚 approach to the EPA is likely to threaten farmworkers, who are highly exposed to the effects of climate change, including heat stress and increased pesticide use.
The Student-Built Website That Keeps Government Climate Data Safe
Since Trump鈥檚 election, scientists have been scrambling to save climate change data sets. And one Michigan graduate student thought the more copies, the better.
Pruitt Ignored Cries to Regulate Fracking in Okla. Now Residents Face Big Oil on Their Own
The Senate just confirmed Scott Pruitt to run the EPA. But as residents reported major damage from fracking-related earthquakes, the then-attorney general closed his office鈥檚 environmental enforcement unit.
Call for Submissions: It鈥檚 Time for a Just Transition
Send us your ideas by March 13.
From the Editors: Why Science Can鈥檛 Be Silent
Up against the White House鈥檚 鈥渁lternative facts鈥� and attempts to hide climate data, new allies鈥攃itizens and science鈥攃an prevail against politicians and corporations.
Science Isn鈥檛 Just for Scientists鈥擶e Can All Take Part
The internet and new technology are reviving the role citizens can play in documenting the world around us.
The Carbon Tax Debate Isn鈥檛 Going Away. What Would the Ideal Bill Look Like?
After opposing a Washington state carbon tax in November, climate justice advocates are setting the stage for a more thorough initiative to address both climate change and inequality.
In Defense of Standing Rock Reporter Jenni Monet鈥攁nd All Journalists
If you鈥檝e valued our Standing Rock coverage over the months, tell the Morton County State鈥檚 Attorney to drop all charges against Monet. Journalism is not a crime.
Seattle Just Divested Billions From Wells Fargo Over Dakota Access Pipeline
Minneapolis and others are ready to follow.
3 Creative Solutions to Protect Water, Wildlife, and a Warming City
In the heat zone of Louisville, Kentucky, 170 residents have been trained as 鈥渃itizen foresters.鈥�
University of California Next In Line To Dump Wells Fargo Contracts
The UC system is severing $475 million in contracts with Wells Fargo over, among other things, the bank鈥檚 ties to private prison corporations.
Defund DAPL Spreads Across Indian Country as Tribes Divest
The Navajo Nation is making moves to join a growing number of tribes that have already respectfully, but conclusively, shown Wells Fargo the door.
Winona LaDuke on New Ways to Keep Pipelines Out of the Great Lakes
The surge of formal opposition to tar sands and fracked oil pipelines shows how Standing Rock resistance has emboldened Great Lakes tribes.
Banks Agree to Talk With Tribe (While Handing over Millions for Dakota Access)
Seven banks鈥攊ncluding Wells Fargo, TD Bank, and Citibank鈥攚ill meet with Standing Rock Sioux leaders after months of intense defund-DAPL pressure.
Standing Rock Chairman Demands 鈥淟eader to Leader鈥� Meeting With Trump
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reportedly has been directed to issue the Dakota Access pipeline easement, even though the environmental review is in the middle of a public comment period.
Surviving at Standing Rock After Trump鈥檚 DAPL Order
Original water protector camp resolves to stay鈥攅ven as Sioux tribe says no and Trump orders pipeline construction.
Don鈥檛 Let Trump Distract You: Public Comment on DAPL Is Now Open
Now until Feb. 20 is the public鈥檚 chance to push for a full review of the pipeline鈥檚 climate impacts. Here鈥檚 what to do.
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