The storm forced us to make the heart-wrenching decision to leave our homes, businesses, and families, uncertain if we would return again.
Questioning the Corporation
Corporations can be created in minutes almost anywhere, yet all share a core identity as legal entities with rights and responsibilities.
Corporations can be created in minutes almost anywhere, yet all share a core identity as legal entities with rights and responsibilities.
Is It Strategic to Refocus Towards Climate Adaptation?
Many climate advocates have been resistant to talk about adaptation because, as the report recognizes, it appears to encourage giving up on mitigation.
Many climate advocates have been resistant to talk about adaptation because, as the report recognizes, it appears to encourage giving up on mitigation.
Roots on the Roof: How Rooftop Farming Is Reinventing Farming in Delhi
These laws state that although the government claimed that the Minimum Support Price (MSP) procurement would continue, the laws did not legally guarantee MSPs.
These laws state that although the government claimed that the Minimum Support Price (MSP) procurement would continue, the laws did not legally guarantee MSPs.
The Hidden Cost of Integrity: Environmental Commitment in the Global South
In the Global South — where ecological stress is severe and institutional support is often fragile — the issue is rarely ignorance.
In the Global South — where ecological stress is severe and institutional support is often fragile — the issue is rarely ignorance.
Adapting to Climate Decline
When you think about dangerous climate change, what do you picture?
When you think about dangerous climate change, what do you picture?
Why It’s Time for a New Climate Movement: Strategic Adaptation for Emergency Resilience
From Extinction Rebellion and Greta onwards, protest shook us awake. It widened the conversation and demanded we look at what’s coming.
From Extinction Rebellion and Greta onwards, protest shook us awake. It widened the conversation and demanded we look at what’s coming.
Who Heals the Earth’s Healers? Ways to Avert Burnout for Environmental Advocates
This is burnout, a very serious psychological state that you must attend to. It is not to be ignored.
This is burnout, a very serious psychological state that you must attend to. It is not to be ignored.
A Dead World, Plastic-Wrapped to Preserve Freshness
World plastics production exploded over the intervening decades, from about 25 million metric tons in 1967 to roughly 450 million in 2024.
World plastics production exploded over the intervening decades, from about 25 million metric tons in 1967 to roughly 450 million in 2024.
Urban Legend: The Harebrained Myth of Urban Sustainability and Why You Should Bet on the Country Tortoise
This childhood love put me on the path to get both a BS and PhD in biology, and my studies have since turned towards how humans can live in ways that support the broader community of life and propagate a culture that may endure.
This childhood love put me on the path to get both a BS and PhD in biology, and my studies have since turned towards how humans can live in ways that support the broader community of life and propagate a culture that may endure.
The End of Big Solutions
Since many modern nations are larger, wealthier, and far more technologically capable than any previous ones, it stands to reason that they should direct some of their formidable resources toward staving off disaster.
Since many modern nations are larger, wealthier, and far more technologically capable than any previous ones, it stands to reason that they should direct some of their formidable resources toward staving off disaster.
The Homeless Garden Project Is Opening New Doors to Helping the Unhoused
A 12-month program called the Homeless Garden Project (HGP) is helping remedy this situation by providing unsheltered Santa Cruz residents with transitional employment, job training, and housing resources.
A 12-month program called the Homeless Garden Project (HGP) is helping remedy this situation by providing unsheltered Santa Cruz residents with transitional employment, job training, and housing resources.
Rethinking Rank and Privilege in Human Societies
For two centuries, archaeologists, historians, and social scientists studied human societies in search of the origins of hierarchy—a layered structure where power and privilege are concentrated in the top layer.
For two centuries, archaeologists, historians, and social scientists studied human societies in search of the origins of hierarchy—a layered structure where power and privilege are concentrated in the top layer.
“Cursed Be the Ground.”
Almost as long as humans have known that agriculture can hurt the land, many cultures, at different places and times, have learned to farm in a way that avoids the curse of fertility loss and biodiversity destruction.
Almost as long as humans have known that agriculture can hurt the land, many cultures, at different places and times, have learned to farm in a way that avoids the curse of fertility loss and biodiversity destruction.
How We Distribute Power Will Influence Our Future
Power in human societies is often viewed as hierarchical, meaning that it’s tiered and ranked.
Power in human societies is often viewed as hierarchical, meaning that it’s tiered and ranked.
Putting Nature at the Center
Life may be unique to Earth. Even if single-celled organisms can readily evolve in conditions that exist on millions or billions of other planets.
Life may be unique to Earth. Even if single-celled organisms can readily evolve in conditions that exist on millions or billions of other planets.