Cooler, Cleaner Megacities, One Rooftop Garden at a Time
Growing greens can be a powerful tool for change.
Pollution
How One Woman Convinced a Community to Love a Bad Omen
An Indian biologist went door-to-door, listening and helping people develop livelihoods, to ultimately save an endangered species.
Going Circular: 7 European Cities鈥� Quest to Become Fully Sustainable
Construction waste is a huge polluter. An international experiment is hoping to reduce that waste to nothing.
Measuring Equity Through City Trees
Planting trees is a way to build community and bolster benefits to human and environmental health.
Europe Reduces Waste by Guaranteeing the Right to Repair
Legislation is pushing back against a waste-based economy by requiring companies to help customers fix their appliances and electronics.
Can California鈥檚 Cap and Trade Actually Address Environmental Justice?
Since California鈥檚 program launched in 2013, questions have swirled about whether cap and trade has helped or hurt people living in the shadow of the state鈥檚 largest emitters.
Major Environmental Wins in Louisiana Have Faith Leaders to Thank
Churches and other places of worship helped strike down an industry-backed ballot amendment and delay a massive plastics project.
What Portland鈥檚 Smoky Summer Can Do for Air Quality Equity Across the Country
Environmental advocates in Houston and Detroit are striking a balance between acting fast and making lasting change.
COVID-19 Lockdown Demonstrates How Economy-Wide Transformation Can Halt Climate Change
The blip in emissions will not have a longterm impact unless we invest in sustainable solutions on a grand scale.
How Montana Is Cleaning Up Abandoned Oil Wells
Oil wells pollute even after the drilling and pumping stop, so this work could help prevent thousands of tons of potent greenhouse gases from contaminating air and water.
How a Small North Carolina Community Is Pushing Back on Pollution
A new group of allies is fighting a proposed asphalt plant that threatens their health and their homes.
Between PPE and Takeout, Are Single-Use Plastics Back to Stay?
The pollution caused by manufacturing, transporting, and disposing plastic harms communities who are already at a higher risk for COVID-19.
How Do We Fix America鈥檚 Fertilizer Problem? Look in This Ditch
Indiana farmers have managed to clean up their pollution. Here鈥檚 how they did it.
How to Turn Your Yard Into an Ecological Oasis
Replacing grass with even a few plants native to your region can save insects and the ecosystems that depend on them.
Citizen Scientists Track How Plastic Pollution Impacts Birds
To get a big-picture perspective on the plastics that plague beaches, scientists team up with volunteers along the California Coast.
Big Oil Needs to Pay for the Damage It Caused
This month in a Manhattan courthouse, New York State鈥檚 attorney general Letitia James argued that ExxonMobil should be held accountable for layers of lies about climate change. It鈥檚 a landmark
My Indigenous Culture Is an Act of Resistance
Two generations saw our Inuit and Dine homelands in Northern Canada nearly destroyed. Now my way of life is one of cultural repair.
Appalachia鈥檚 Deep History of Resistance
Protest runs through the region鈥檚 veins like coal seams through the mountains.
Why Detroit Could Be the Engine for the Green New Deal
The city exhibits all of the problems the framework is meant to heal.
Why the Planet Needs You to Repair Your Broken Stuff
Overproduction and planned obsolescence are the new normal. But fixing your broken things is a way to resist鈥攁nd build community.
Why We Can鈥檛 Ignore U.S. Military Emissions
The U.S. military鈥檚 carbon footprint is bigger than 140 countries combined. To seriously address climate catastrophe, we must dismantle its vast infrastructure.
鈥淭he Story of Soil Is the Story of All of Us鈥�
Annie Leonard and Tom Newmark on how they came to see soil as a solution to one of our biggest environmental problems鈥攁nd as a tool to build more resilient communities.
Mushrooms: 鈥淣ature鈥檚 Greatest Decomposers鈥�
An Indigenous-led organization in New Mexico is using fungus in an attempt to remove chemicals from soil.
Infographic: How Mushrooms Clean Up Toxic Messes
Oil spills don鈥檛 stand a chance against the cleansing power of mycelium.
Where Kids Fought Plastic Pollution鈥攁nd Won
It only took a few months for a young environmental scientist from the Bahamas to create a youth movement to ban single-use plastics in her country.
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