Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
How do we solve the problem of the suburbs? Urbanist Jeff Speck shows how we can free ourselves from dependence on the car — which he calls "a gas-belching, time-wasting, life-threatening prosthetic device" — by making our cities more walkable and more pleasant for more people.
An Arizona community’s plan to reuse an invasive weed to construct low-income housing shows that when we can’t pressure the top, we can rebuild from the bottom.
October 7, 2026
What would it actually mean to live with less? Can we preserve the things we value most—health, human rights, cultural diversity, individual freedom—without preserving the system that created them?
October 7, 2026
The facility calls for 456 small nuclear reactors, nuclear fuel production and nuclear waste storage. On the same day it surfaced, Sen. Ron Wyden introduced legislation that would ban new data centers.
October 6, 2026
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