Children are learning and playing joyfully in nature again, from suburbs in Colorado to the fringes of Chicagoland.

Indigenous scientists are hurrying to learn what they can about intact old-growth forests before they are gone.

You Can’t Bounce Off the Walls If There Are No Walls: Outdoor Schools Make Kids Happier—and Smarter New approaches to kindergarten offer us a glimpse of what childhood used to be, and still could ...

The long-term solution to the plastics problem is stopping the flow at its source. But even if we were to magically achieve that today, the world would still be awash in nearly a century’s worth of ...

What Does An Ecological Civilization Look Like? A society based on natural ecology might seem like a far-off utopia—yet communities everywhere are already creating it.

Wendell Berry on Climate Change: To Save the Future, Live in the Present In this selection from his new book, the poet and farmer Wendell Berry connects the dangers of the future to a failure to live ...

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 ...

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.

Studies show that investments in public art can improve street safety, provide tourism and new jobs, and combat social isolation and anxiety.

Native tribes are reliant on their local water sources, which have been continuously exploited and contaminated by the U.S. government and non-Native people. Indigenous groups are finding new ways to ...

Don’t Let Consumerism Co-opt the Zero-Waste Concept The movement began as anti-consumerist. Yet now there are marketing ploys, feelings of inadequacy, and misplaced responsibility.

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