Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Lakota youth pipeline fighter and climate justice advocate Tokata Iron Eyes stars in “My Name Is Future,” a new independent feature documentary that fuses her worldview with the art of Los Angeles-based activist Andrea Bowers.
The trillion-dollar pandemic relief bills demonstrate the federal government’s power to create money, upending the question that often stymies progressive policies: how will you pay for it? However, there are still limits to money creation that activists aiming to create a sustainable economy should consider.
Without at least some bipartisan backing, the on-again/off-again climate policy cycle will continue. Absent collaboration today, the future transition to a low-carbon economy will be desperate rather than measured.
What is the nub of my case for how we can tackle this? We need to become parents of the future. How do we do that? By taking the metaphor literally.
Whether the transition to a low-carbon economy is a legal or political question, the answer is what it has always been—the working together of legislative and executive branches of governments.
And this simple principle proves true in nature in a broader sense. Rest is necessary. The dying leaves in autumn, the cutting back of branches, the ushering peace of winter, the times of restfulness: all of these are necessary to eventually come back to life again.
After months of ignoring a grassroots protest movement opposing plans to allow open-pit coal mining in Alberta’s Rockies, Energy Minister Sonya Savage said today the provincial government made a mistake and is now prepared to fix it.
Despite promises to fix unjust land governance, a new study shows that digital technologies can further land grabbing and inequality.
A book that inspires reading is a good book. A book that inspires thought is a better book. A book that inspires action is the best book of all. The Good Ancestor is the best book of all.
When did something as simple as soap get so complicated? How did we get suckered into thinking we needed 17 different substances just to clean stuff?
When President Biden rescinded a crucial permit for the Keystone XL pipeline last week, it marked the culmination of one of the longest, highest-profile campaigns in the North American climate movement.
Why is it that the peoples that hold the least responsibility for the problems inflicted upon our living planet, are the ones who always seem to suffer the most?
