The Rights of Nature Prevail Again in Ecuador
Jose Martín Ovando suddenly halts in his tracks and crouches down along the steep forest path shrouded in mist, pulling out a magnifying glass from…
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Finding Climate Solutions in Fairy Tales
Can traditional tales help us think productively about contemporary environmental issues? We have been exploring how fairy-tale tropes and archetypal characters offer new ways to…
Hopeful signs of climate culture shift at COP27
This month, the United Nations hosted its annual “Conference of the Parties” (COP) in Egypt to discuss how to move the global community forward in…
Combining Old and New: Aquaponics Opens the Door to Indigenous Food Security
All across the United States, Indigenous peoples suffer higher rates of mortality than other ethnic groups, largely due to poorer diets and other colonial stressors…
At COP26, Indigenous, Black, and Brown Activists Offer Radical Solutions for Climate Change
While elites fixate on technological fixes such as “net zero” emissions, communities of color fear it will disproportionately impact them and instead demand a just…
Cooler, Cleaner Megacities, One Rooftop Garden at a Time
Growing greens can be a powerful tool for change. The view of Cairo from the air is one of concrete buildings and tangled overpasses stretching as…
How Cities Can Combat the Dangerous Combination of Extreme Heat and COVID
Heat is deadlier than other climate-related disasters, but the solutions are simpler. Labor Day Weekend usually signals the end of summer, but this year, it seems…
Is 2020 the Opening for a Just Transition?
As the U.S. considers how to reopen, stimulate, and recover its economy post-pandemic, how radically could it be reimagined? As an archipelago, Hawai‘i was necessarily self-reliant…
Carbon Emissions Turned Back 10 Years
Data show coronavirus countermeasures have resulted in a record drop in fossil-fuel demand and created an opening for a clean-energy transition. The early months of 2020…