Taking on the rich is possible. Our Illinois coalition won a tax on tech giants
Our campaign won a digital advertising revenue tax that may generate over $1.1 billion annually for the state’s budget.
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After record-breaking heatwaves, can Britain’s new Prime Minister deliver on climate adaptation?
As the UK emerges from an unprecedented three heatwaves, one of them a record-breaking heatstorm, with public concern rising along with temperatures, the new Prime Minister must put climate breakdown firmly on his agenda.
It’s time to phase out PFAS ‘forever chemicals’
As PFAS “forever chemicals” poison water, food, and air worldwide, progress on regulating their use has been significantly delayed – but things are changing.
‘Industrial memories’: What the history of the Anthropocene can tell us about where we’re headed
Industrial landscapes are living reminders of how centuries of fossil-fuel development reshaped Earth’s systems. As the Anthropocene unfolds, that legacy continues to shape our future. Historian Sabine Höhler argues that bridging the divide between human and Earth history is essential to understanding where we are and at what cost.
Crazy Town: Episode 129. Finding Crazy Town Part 1: The Strait of Everything
What happens when the global economy depends on fish traveling 10,000 miles, oil flowing through a single strait, and enough cheap fossil fuel energy to build civilizations that previous generations couldn’t even imagine?
How US renewable-energy growth persists despite federal policy uncertainty
Despite recent shifts in federal energy policies, a Carbon Brief analysis shows that the US transition to renewable energy is continuing.
Why building inspiring alternatives is necessary to counter authoritarianism
Vulnerable communities face growing threats: the climate crisis is outpacing scientists’ worst predictions and authoritarianism is no longer a distant possibility. So what can we do? We build. We shift away from reform and instead direct our energy toward creating entirely new systems.
Food waste isn’t just about what we throw away, it’s a systems problem
Across discussions on policy, technology, supply chains, and community partnerships at a food waste summit earlier this year, a different pattern emerged: food waste rarely appeared as an isolated issue. Instead, it surfaced as a signal of deeper system failures.
Growth mania is fueling dangerous advances in AI – and its existential risks
AI risk represents the apex of growth mania, where a few tech elites gamble with humanity’s future. They take these risks without our consent and without our interests in mind. The result could be humanity being replaced as Earth’s most intelligent species by a silicon-based successor.
Human Nature Odyssey, Episode 24. Stories That Create or Destroy: Myth, Death, and Animism with Sophie Strand
Poet and author Sophie Strand joins Human Nature Odyssey for a wide-ranging conversation about stories, illness, ecology, and transformation. Drawing from her own experience living with chronic illness, Sophie explores how the stories we inherit shape our relationship to the living world.
The war fever gripping the world’s leaders is also a war on the planet
War has become a fever that world leaders cannot seem to break. As militarism spreads, its costs extend far beyond the battlefield, accelerating climate change while consuming the resources needed to confront it.
As America turns 250, its attention to continued survival fades and fractures
While the U.S. celebrates its 250th anniversary, political attention is drifting away from climate change just as warming accelerates and Earth’s life-support systems approach collapse. From disappearing federal climate data to record-breaking heat, denial is giving way to something more dangerous: collective delusion.
