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Renewable energy isn’t just a green business venture; it’s a way to support tribal self-determination and economic development.
Since California’s program launched in 2013, questions have swirled about whether cap and trade has helped or hurt people living in the shadow of the state’s largest emitters.
How I Can Offer Reparations in Direct Proportion to My White Privilege What it looks like to pay for the unearned advantages my whiteness has afforded me.
In 1992, a Canadian ecologist named William Rees coined the term “ ecological footprint,” a measurement of how much any entity was impacting the planet’s ecology. A decade later, British Petroleum ...
In 1931, the philosopher John Dewey lamented that “politics is the shadow cast on society by big business.” Government “in general is an echo,” and at times a direct “accomplice, of the interests of ...
In 1986, Carlo Petrini and a group of friends threw a big pasta feed in Rome’s storied Piazza di Spagna (the Spanish Steps). The event was a protest against the opening of the first McDonald’s in ...
Through the rest of August and into fall, we struggled with planting and accepted our only option—do what we could with the soil we had. We’d never get rid of the glacial till deep down, but we could ...
Opinion How Do We Teach “To Kill a Mockingbird” and Honestly Confront Racism? Harper Lee’s novel is the closest thing America’s had to required reading. But the book’s failings in confronting racism ...
In her new book, A Kick in the Belly, Afrocentric British historian Stella Dadzie describes how her research into slavery-era documents reveals the lives of enslaved Black women in the Caribbean ...
Book Review: No Logo Walden Bello reviews Klein's book on the culture of brand capitalism and the rise of the anti-corporate globalization movement.
As members of the Alliance for Boys and Men of Color, Gustavo Lopez, Jordan Thierry, and Eric Morrsion-Smith are working to bring the Call for Change helpline to California.
White Allies, Let’s Be Honest About Decolonization I want to experience the solidarity of allied actions that refuse fantastical narratives of commonality and hope.