Activism / Conservation
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Project Sprout
by Natalie Akers, Sarah Steadman, Sam Levin, and Ben Fish
How to Live in Your Car
by Brian Doyle
Beautiful Ruination
by Ginger Strand
A down-and-out steel town looks for a different future through embracing collapse and decay.
Side with the Living
by Derrick Jensen
Ice ages and asteroids are no excuse for falling out of love with nature.
Forget Shorter Showers
by Derrick Jensen
Why personal change is not a substitute for political change.
Hell Yeah, We Want Windmills
by Erik Reece
In the heart of coal country, activists are championing an energy economy that can save mountains and save lives.
3 Bets
by Sandra Steingraber
A successful environmental human rights movement is worth everything you can possibly wager. AUDIO EXTRA: Interview with Sandra Steingraber.
A License to Be Human
An interview with Van Jones
A Failure to Communicate
by Randy Olson
Activists should speak their minds, but they need to consider speaking for other body parts as well.
Nuclear Caribou
by Mark Dowie
Who and what lies between the mining corporations and the uranium needed to power a nuclear renaissance?
Uranium Mining, Native Resistance, and the Greener Path
by Winona LaDuke
While the world considers an alternative energy future, the future hangs in the balance for many indigenous communities.
Human/Nature Slide Show
A slide show and captions from the exhibit Human/Nature: Artists Respond to a Changing Planet
Human/Nature
by Laurel Braitman
What happens when a museum and a conservation organization join forces to dispatch artists to World Heritage sites? See the article for 9 video interviews with the artists involved.
Climate Revelations
by Auden Schendler
A self-described atheist discovers that he must bring God into the climate conversation.
CSI Oregon Caves
by Alison Goin
48,000 annual visitors cause one heck of a lot of aftermath deep in the Oregon Caves
The Rights of the Land
by Robin Kimmerer
The Onondaga Nation goes to court to fight for the right to heal its ancestral territory.
The Crying Indian
by Ginger Strand
The scandalous story of the aluminum can, brought to you by ad executives masquerading as environmentalists.
The Most Radical Thing You Can Do
by Rebecca Solnit
The word radical comes from the Latin word for root; can deciding to stay home be radical?
Silence Like Scouring Sand
by Kathleen Dean Moore
Defending the pitter-patter, the swish, and other rarely considered natural resources.
The Electronic Activist
by Joan Hamilton
Reaching people is easy these days. But how does one really touch them?
The Art of Dying
by Tom Montgomery-Fate
Can an urban act of resistance against a faraway war make a difference to anyone?
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