Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Facing habitat loss, climate change, and shifting livelihoods, Maasai women are leading a transformative program that links sustainable dairy farming with the preservation of the Serengeti’s iconic migrations and the resilience of local communities.
The In-Home Suite version of shared housing is elegant and intelligent: separate and complete living spaces all under one roof, sharing only the envelope and services of the house.
Industrial-scale renewable energy does not offer an alternative to the capitalist order and its exploitative relationships to earth.
Peak oil calls on us to imagine a lower-energy future and to start adapting now. It’s a game-changer, and a life-changer.
The Rural Resilience project brings together a small but highly committed team working to connect the dots – between farmers and funders, researchers and regional leaders. In the face of centralised decision-making and extractive business models, our work aims to ensure local realities inform European decisions.
Journalism at its best doesn’t demand credit. It demands results. And it earns them by doing the mundane things that make democracies and markets less blind: showing up, listening, checking, publishing, and then following up until the record itself begins to do the work.
The late Stone Age is not commonly associated with socially stratified societies, yet archaeologist Mehmet Özdoğan argues social and political elites were already shaping communities when humans began farming.
If a theoretical economy relies on the exchange of intended things, a profitable economy relies on the waste produced by the production, distribution and sale of those things.
Yes, care work does include crafting our energy systems. But that’s just one part of caring — and, really, it’s not as important as many of the other things.
Frustrated environmental advocates sometimes in frustration think that only a dictator can solve our environmental problems. They should think again.
The 42 known species of the genus Rafflesia are under threat due to deforestation and habitat destruction.
A Wisconsin appeals court has ruled that the state’s Department of Natural Resources has the authority to regulate large-scale animal farms, a blow to big farm groups amid their decades-long fight to scale back environmental oversight.
