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Puget Sound Tribe Plans for Rising Seas

Video: The Swinomish tribe could lose up to 15 percent of their land on low-lying Fidalgo Island to climate-change related sea level rise. They鈥檙e working with planners to make sure they can survive鈥攁nd thrive鈥攊n the region鈥檚 changing climate.

Benjamin Drummond, Sara Steele | Feb 26, 2013

Renewable energy | Sustainable food and farming

Farmer-Philosopher Fred Kirschenmann on Food and the Warming Future

In this wide-ranging interview, Kirschenmann gives 精东影业 the dirt on the future of farming.

Peter Pearsall | Feb 23, 2013

Sustainable food and farming

Instead of Trying to Feed the World, Let鈥檚 Help It Feed Itself

We know about the ecological problems that follow when farmers are asked to 鈥渇eed the world.鈥� What would happen if they just tried to feed their neighbors instead?

Shannon Hayes | Feb 21, 2013

Sustainable food and farming

Edible Insects: Gross-Out or Global Food Solution?

Cultural attitudes toward food tend to change slowly. But as we struggle to feed a growing population, insects present a remarkably plentiful source of nutrition.

Dawn Starin | Feb 20, 2013

Sustainable food and farming

Oakland Youth Swap Fast Food for Fresh Food

Video: A group of young people in West Oakland are taking control of what they eat and using pedal power to bring local groceries to produce-strapped communities.

| Feb 13, 2013

Renewable energy

Can Carbon-Mopping 鈥淎rtificial Trees鈥� Slow Climate Crisis?

Two scientists at Columbia University believe that carbon-mopping machines modeled after trees could sequester enough carbon from the atmosphere to slow global warming. But can we produce them quickly (and cheaply) enough for the plan to work?

Richard Schiffman | Feb 9, 2013

People We Love

Designing nonviolent ways for humans and animals to live in harmony鈥攊n the city.

Fabien Tepper | Feb 8, 2013

People We Love: Asa Needle

Leading teenagers in the clean-up of their hometown, Worcester, Mass.

Laura Beans | Feb 8, 2013

People We Love: Leia Lewis Henderson

Nurturing African-American culture through gardening.

Laura Beans | Feb 8, 2013

Renewable energy | Climate | Local economies | Jobs

What鈥檚 Cheaper than Solar, Slashes Carbon Emissions, and Creates Jobs in Kentucky?

Having an energy-efficient home saves the owners money, but they often procrastinate on improvements. When energy companies in Kansas and Kentucky figured out a way to sweeten the deal, the results brought good news for homeowners, contractors, and for the planet.

Erin L. McCoy | Feb 5, 2013

Permaculture Chickens photo by Paul Dunn

12 Steps to Create a Backyard Permaculture

Author Peter Bane grew more than 150 species on less than 2,000 square feet. Here are 12 steps to get you there.

Doug Pibel | Feb 5, 2013

People We Love: Sarah Bergmann

Creating a pollination pathway for urban bees.

Fabien Tepper | Feb 1, 2013

Film Review: Ken Burns鈥� Dust Bowl

The new documentary will bring you inside one of the worst manmade disasters of all time in powerful detail.

Valerie Schloredt | Feb 1, 2013

Sustainable food and farming

Care about Your Food? Then Care about Your Farmworkers Too

It鈥檚 organic. It鈥檚 local. But did the workers who picked it have health insurance?

Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern | Jan 31, 2013

North Carolina Appalachians. Photo by Dave Allen / Shutterstock.

You Are Where You Live

How the sky, rain, geography, and cultures of our place shape us.

Susan Griffin | Jan 31, 2013

Students to Colleges: Take Our Money Out of Dirty Energy

A divestment campaign led by students is changing the national conversation about energy, creating a market for sustainable stocks, and linking up students with communities facing off against the fossil fuel industry.

Sachie Hopkins-Hayakawa | Jan 30, 2013

Sustainable food and farming

Food or Ethanol? Why Farmers Shouldn鈥檛 Give in to Monocrops

It鈥檚 a good time to be in farming if you like to grow corn. It鈥檚 a tough time if you see yourself as a steward of the land. Shannon Hayes on why growers pressured by corn-heavy markets should hold out for crops that nourish the Earth.

Shannon Hayes | Jan 26, 2013

Cooperatives | Local economies | Wealth and inequality | Sustainable food and farming

What India Taught Me About How to End Hunger

Back in the 鈥�60s, Frances Moore Lapp茅 realized that hunger is caused by a scarcity of democracy, not food. Then, a collective of courageous women farmers showed her how to change that.

Frances Moore Lapp茅 | Jan 26, 2013

Renewable energy

How President Obama Can Turn Climate Speech Into Action

Many were surprised to hear President Barack Obama take up climate change at today鈥檚 inaugural address. Here are a few ways the president can seize the moment and transform our approach to climate action.

Sarah van Gelder | Jan 22, 2013