Can community potlucks provide a solution to America's loneliness epidemic?

In a catastrophe, the most important thing is social relations. Anything that builds resilient social relations is a step towards having agency in a catastrophe.

As climate change brings more extreme floods, droughts and heatwaves, a growing number of cities are exploring a different path: adapting to water's rhythms rather than trying to dominate them.

Remember, these industry leaders are doing what they do for money—and lots of it. They are choosing to endanger the property and lives of others for personal profit. If they mess up, they should be forced to pay a very high price.

Honestly, it was also very difficult to create a climate movement in Germany. We worked for five years with hardly any attention. Then the Paris summit happened, and we exploded.

We love our fish. We love our natural resources. We love our culture. And we’re not shy about showing it. That’s what Blue Creek means to us. That’s who we are.

Unlike previous technological revolutions, AI has the potential to reshape economies, education, science, healthcare, communication, and political decision-making.

Although rewilding is often thought of as keeping humans “away”, people must be integrated into much of the rewilding process, living alongside and allowing space for wildness.

There’s a crucial difference between places where people thrive and a thriving community. That distinction is the critical ingredient that enables some communities to flourish while others do not.

Historically, the Red Sea and the Bab el-Mandeb Strait have been a strategic region for trade and political dominance; today, we are still shaped by their influence as we remain fragilely interconnected.

The climate movement needs the kind of leverage that comes from shutting down the economy — and it can only get there through deep organizing with workers.

Honestly, in this strange world of ours, what is there to write about except, of course, Donald Trump?

Without Prop. 40 revenues, Californians could face hospital closures, job losses, increased food insecurity, and state budget cuts to public schools, yet tech billionaires are pouring millions into opposing the wealth tax.

Shortly after Richard passed, I started to draw a 32-page, all-ages coloring book that turns his advice into a practical journey.

The EU Commission launched a livestock strategy and an action plan for the “protein system” in July. Predictably, reactions have varied.

What if collapse isn't the end of the story but part of a larger cycle?

What helps communities thrive? Could one key be respected, benevolent women who lead without dominating?

Bioregional learning opens up the design pathways for systemic change to emerge. And it does so with life at the center of every major decision that needs to be made.

Almost everything we’re doing to cause climate change involves technology. So, predictably, we’re looking to alternative technologies to solve what is arguably the biggest dilemma humanity has ever created for itself. What if more technology will actually worsen the problem in the long run? In this article we will see why trees, soil, and biodiversity are our real lifelines.

From DDT and pesticide exposure to collapsing insect populations and habitat disruption, birds are warning us about the growing environmental pressures reshaping ecosystems worldwide.

Nate reflects on a week spent with friends and peers who share his understanding of the world's converging crises and what it revealed about the deeply human need to be fully seen.

AI risk represents the apex of growth mania, where a few tech elites gamble with humanity’s future.

My intention was to write about simple self-sufficiency, especially when it comes to growing food. But then this summer was challenging in a way I thought I was prepared for... but wasn't.

The veneration of solar has taken up the oxygen in the climate conversation. While we have a modest array ourselves, I'm worried solar has been presented to the climate-worried public as a panacea, as if a wholesale switch to solar would stabilize the climate.

Deepening fragmentation reflects an urgent challenge: our growing difficulty in identifying what truly matters, and therefore in designing policies that promote our collective well-being.

In this keynote address, Indigenous activist Sammy Gensaw shares his experiences working for ecological and cultural revival along the Klamath River, central to his people’s identity and livelihood.

It’s referred to as Unit 346 in the Twin Mountain II timber sale. On the ground, it’s some of the most spectacular old-growth we’ve ever witnessed, and it’s marked for clearcutting.

The catastrophic flood that killed hundreds of people in Nepal in August shows the ways rising temperatures, thawing permafrost and melting ice are increasing the risk of destructive floods in the Himalayas and other regions around the world.

With age, I’ve become more aware of the world’s complexity but also better equipped to come to simple, albeit painful, conclusions: We need to replace fantasies of endless growth with ideas about managing the contraction.

My family has feared water, depended on it, and moved uphill from it for four generations. The watching was never the point. What we did with what we saw was the point.

With the tenacity of salmon swimming home, Un-dam the Klamath is liberating their river before our eyes.

In the face of climate change, these small changes can support the recovery of declining populations of birds, insects, and other pollinators.

Humanity has dug itself into a hole. The first step to digging ourselves out is to acknowledge the depth of our civilizational failure.

For all our flaws, we evolved toward community and cooperation. Toward enough. Yet somehow, we got Egypt. What happened between ten and five thousand years ago that made this possible?

Frequent exposure to roadkill prompts my wife to say that this is why we should all live in cities. Leave the hinterlands to wild creatures.

Humanity is faced with the greatest failure in its long existence. What can we do about it?

Eight years ago, the Ecosystem Restoration Communities movement began with a simple but powerful belief: that everyday people everywhere could restore the land and, in doing so, restore hope for our shared future.

Why people migrate, who profits from division, and how working people can build power together.

In this Q&A, Sammy Gensaw III discusses the intricacies of the Klamath River, the challenges posed by dam infrastructure, and the transformative power of grassroots activism. 

Nigel and Veronica traded conventional careers for a years-long voyage from the UK to New Zealand, using their journey to connect with coastal communities facing increasingly severe climate risks.

If we want to fail more beautifully, to make our predicament less ugly, we need to learn what it means to face it together.

Moving toward plant-based diets will not, by itself, solve the climate problem, but it is necessary for solving it.

It’s been days, now weeks, of smoke blowing in from the inland fires. The air is heavy, damp. Before green things burn, they steam. In the bay the heron look especially vulnerable. I worry about them more than I usually do, as I worry about everything that depends on these tidal waters, and what they ... Read more

What if the story we tell ourselves about progress is wrong?

How pronatalist misinformation fuels low-fertility alarmism.

After centuries of dam building, a nationwide movement to dismantle these aging barriers is showing how free-flowing rivers can restore ecosystems, improve safety, and reconnect people with nature.

In an age of brutal philosophies, shrieking media, cold arts, lying politicians, and devouring institutions, Wendell Berry was a hero of an entirely human way of being.

Imagine being able to compost almost everything and keep the majority of the biomass. Imagine, finally, that it only takes a matter of weeks, not months.

Labor activists take steps to preserve the documents and strategies they use today, so future organizers will have a practical guide.