6 Simple Ways to Make a Water Revolution at Home
Get tight with your water budget, live large on dishwater, save some rain, and get your activist feet wet (really).
Environment
What to Do When Water Gets Scarce
Dams and drills can鈥檛 create new water. Time to start working with nature.
Water Footprints
How much water do we use? More than any other country, it turns out. And we could save a lot.
Ancient Traditions Keep Desert Waters Flowing
New Mexico's acequias鈥攃ommunal irrigation canals鈥攕till function as a tool to preserve and share scarce desert water.
10 Little and Big Things You Can Do
There is no one simple thing to do to change our consumption patterns, because the set of problems we鈥檙e addressing just isn鈥檛 simple. But everyone can make a difference, and the bigger your action the bigger the difference you鈥檒l make.
How to Build a Tiny House
Dee Williams bought and modified a set of plans from Tumbleweed Tiny House Company and built the house herself using second-use materials. Here's how she did it.
Everybody Eats: How a Community Food System Works
It begins with small farms working with natural cycles and ends with fresh food and stronger communities.
Food Rebellions: 7 Steps to Solving the Food Crisis
Resistance to the trade and 鈥渁id鈥� policies that displace farmers and increase hunger.
Just the Facts: Corporate Food
Hunger. Pollution. Instability. Obesity. The problem with corporate food--by the numbers.
Van Jones: Beyond the Politics of Confrontation
Meet the man who鈥檚 convincing the country, and the new President, that the next economy needs to be green and just. Interview by Sarah van Gelder.
Lessons from My Mother鈥檚 Village Kitchen
Schools, fresh foods, and memories from India. Madhu Suri Prakash reflects on the culinary traditions of her family.
Saying Grace Around the World
Artist Nikki McClure adds her touch to our collection of mealtime prayers from around the world.
The Good Food Revolution
The lush landscape of Hawai鈥榠 once offered abundant food. What can these islands teach us about food and sufficiency?
Food From the Grassroots
The food crisis is only getting worse. The answer involves a deep shift in the way our food comes to us. By making local governments pay attention to hunger, a range of organizations, working on everything from local food purchasing programs to farmers markets, are shaping the future of food.
The Power of Food
Providing food for people in need 鈥� regardless of whether they are 鈥渄eserving鈥� is a central part of Sara Miles' spiritual journey. St Gregory's food pantry in San Francisco.
Why My Dad鈥檚 Going Green
Kate Sheppard recounts how she found common ground with her father, a conservative farmer. Environmental policies work for all.
An Interview with Winona LaDuke
Winona LaDuke on wild rice, wind power, Thunder Beings, self-reliance, and our covenant with the Creator.
Life, Liberty, Water
As climate change and worldwide shortages loom, will people fight over water or join together to protect it? A global water justice movement is demanding a change in international law to ensure the universal right to clean water for all.
Mexico’s Grassroots Answer to NAFTA
NAFTA was sold as a win-win. After 14 years of losing, Mexican farmers are making their own trade rules鈥攆air ones.
13 Best Energy Policy Ideas (And a Couple of Duds)
Investment in energy projects will total $16 trillion in the next two decades. Sarah van Gelder lays out over a dozen sustainable energy policies and technologies that can make our infrastructure more climate friendly.
Communities Take Power
Communities across the country are declaring citizens' right and duty to protect their water, land, local economy, and way of life, even if it means taking on the enormous power of corporations. Here are some of the peaceful revolutionaries who have stepped up.
How a Local Food System Builds Health and Community Wealth
Many communities in the U.S. ship food out鈥攁nd ship the same food back in. What's the value of keeping it at home?
The Great Turning as Compass and Lens
The Great Turning invites us to lift our eyes from the cramped closet of short-term thinking and see the larger historical landscape.
Food Revolution: Americans Lose their Appetite for Anonymous Food
Why are farmers鈥� markets, community supported agriculture, direct farm-to-household marketing, organics, and humanely raised meats all on the increase?
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