Animal rights activists are employing a new set of tactics to thwart hunters from taking down wolves, bears, and other game.
Beckie Elgin
Feature Articles
Teflon’s Toxic Legacy
For more than half a century DuPont hid information that a chemical it was using to make Teflon might be making people sick.
Sharon Kelly
Paris and After
Will Paris be a success or a failure? It will be both. The real question is whether it opens the way to a meaningful “ambition ratcheting” mechanism.
Tom Athanasiou
More Than Words
The race to save a Northern Paiute dialect that’s down to a handful of speakers reveals what we stand to lose when a language dies.
Jeremy Miller
Wild at Heart
Scientists and crop breeders are racing to identify the wild ancestors of domesticated plants before they disappear.
Bill Giebler
To Our Readers
Unite and Diversify
I drink water straight from the tap at home. It’s tasty, it’s refreshing, and it’s healthy. At least I assume it’s healthy.
Carla Bartlett assumed the same. For many years she drank “lot...
Maureen Nandini Mitra
Digging Deeper
One Word: Agroecology
The Tweet from global chemical giant Bayer links to a peppy quiz testing your honeybee knowledge. The announcement from Monsanto declares its commitment to a “milkweed” sanctuary near St. Louis fo...
Anna Lappé
Earth Island Reports
Wine Soul Train: Rumbling Past Food System Biases
Oakland Food Policy Council
Esperanza Pallana
People as Medicine, Gathering as Activism
Real Food Real Stories
Pei-Ru Ko
1000 Words
Remnants of the American Dream
Michael Light
Zoe Loftus-Farren
Conversation
Aaron Mair
Aaron Mair came to environmental activism via the social justice pathway. Back in the 1980s, he became embroiled in a fight to shut down a solid waste incinerator in Albany, NY. The incinerator would ...
Maureen Nandini Mitra
In Review
When Radical Action is Moral
What We’re Fighting for Now Is Each Other: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Climate Justice By Wen Stephenson Beacon Press, 2015, 256 pages
Zoe Loftus-Farren
Fighting Famine
The End of Plenty: The Race to Feed a Crowded World By Joel K. Bourne Jr. W.W. Norton & Company, 2015, 408 pages
Mark J Palmer
Voices
Cultivating Meaningful Change
I recently had the opportunity to speak with a climate change organizer whose work deeply inspired me. Throughout our conversation, he lamented activists working to shed light on positive environmenta...
