COP31 marks a critical juncture in the global effort to translate diplomatic pledges into tangible climate action. 

At the start of the Iran conflict, the price of sulfur was about $500 per metric ton for sulfur originating from the Middle East. It now sits above $800.

The economizing individual knows how to relish what one has, delight in the savvy of frugality, and thrive while doing so.

From Gaza to Indigenous dispossession, cultural erasure, and the failures of mainstream climate politics, de Ploeg exposes how power disguises destruction as progress, security, or sustainability.

Years of extraction-industry propaganda are weeks from paying off, thanks to two powerful Senate Democrats.

New research shows that seagrass depends on the bacteria around it—and that the antibiotics entering our oceans could disrupt that relationship.

I took a really long walk this summer. Along the way, I learned lessons that seemed applicable to how we can cultivate personal and community resilience during the Great Unraveling.

Moments of rupture arrive the way storms do, not as isolated events, but as expressions of deeper atmospheric conditions.

Whether to grow your own food or simply lessen your impact on the world, we can take initial steps toward self-sufficiency. I began by planting a tree.

AI offers far fewer benefits than the industry touts, leaning on what AI supposedly will do rather than what it can do now.

Dubbed the "implementation COP," COP31 will center on moving the global climate agenda from pledges to real-world progress. But will it become just another hollow chapter in global climate diplomacy?

A constitution for the Earth doesn't require an entirely new institutional principle; we already know the decisive building blocks.

At the forefront of a bioregional approach to sustainability, which can be traced back to the '70s, are Regenerate Whatcom and its parent network, Regenerate Cascadia.

Rather than viewing human beings primarily through categories such as gender, race, appearance, or social status, human ecology begins with the shared needs and experiences that unite us all.

Climate resilience and adaptation remain largely neglected in UK politics, a glaring omission our proposal aims to address.

On 23 July 2025, the International Court of Justice said what scientists had been saying for forty years: states are legally obliged to protect the climate system.

I'm writing this post from the Isle of Iona, a small island with a rich history.

Earlier this month, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments on whether a lawsuit seeking damages for climate-change-related harm to Boulder County can proceed.

Social hierarchies based on gender, race, appearance, and status are often learned rather than inevitable. Human ecology education offers one framework for helping people recognize these patterns and build more equitable relationships and communities.

What's now widely called the male loneliness epidemic is, on closer inspection, less about loneliness itself than about having nowhere to take it. Why shouldn't combating climate change do the job?

"For the Long Haul" diagnoses the roots of burnout among organizers and offers lessons from movement elders to combat it.

A new feeder bill for the Steady State Economy Act, the Sustainable Capital Markets Act (SCMA), is a launchpad for capital-markets reform.

Environmental struggles were still on Butler's mind as she brainstormed in the last years of her life for what would have been her last novel, Spiritus.

Workers across the US are demanding divestment from firms that profit from weapons and surveillance. I'm one of them.

Food system change was a tool of colonization. If changing what people eat can change everything, then food system change can also be a tool of liberation.

We do not need to bear witness to and grieve the loss of our tree kin, or other losses we might suffer, by ourselves. Trees, who have shown extraordinary resilience in the face of extensive injury, are companions well suited to our journey through sorrow to healing.

We dug through hundreds of organizational filings to find out who wanted one of America's most important forest protections eliminated.

Montreal's Darlington Ecological Corridor began as a tool to help urban foxes survive. Now, it's become so much more.

Jason, Rob, and Asher gather in the studio for the first time since Richard's passing to commiserate, reflect on his legacy, and talk about how to keep his work and ethos alive.

As opposition grows, disinformation campaigns threaten to divide local movements. Here's how communities can keep their campaigns against AI data centers focused on facts and shared concerns.

This year's COP summit focuses on protecting, restoring, and sustainably managing nature as the world falls short of most 2030 targets under the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework.

In America, almost all of the infrastructure we've built since the mid-century is disconnected.

How an Australian grassroots project led by one determined resident is boosting habitat for native plants and wildlife one roadside garden at a time.

Efforts to restore lost forests often fail, but Ethiopians are betting big: planting billions of saplings to revive habitat, regenerate soil, and stabilize the land.

How a small Vermont town built a thriving local food system that keeps $50,000 annually in the community while creating social connection.

A movement to reshape the structure of taxation in the U.S. is gaining steam.

Trump clearly represents an unmitigated disaster for the steady state, with consequences that include rolling back decades of progress in gender equality, contraceptive access, and the lower birth rates that result.

Walkable cities are places that do best what cities are meant to do: contain and display human life with all of its variety, tension, diversity, struggle and beauty.

Americans used the products for twenty years without trusting the companies. A data center is the first thing they could vote on.

In recent years, Agadir, Morocco, has become a focal point for discussions on climate resilience and adaptation. In a recent episode of The Stories on the Edge podcast, hosts Veronica and Nigel spoke with Zach Oulad, an urban data expert and local official, who discussed the urgent need for community adaptation and innovative policies.

Defending the upcoming election from authoritarian capture will require massive turnout, and we all have roles to play.

The centrality of property to political economy is a metaphysical error, institutionalized forgetting, spawning violence and uncountable injury. 

The danger AI poses can be understood as an extrapolation of the disruptions we're already experiencing from Big Tech's stranglehold over our lives.

How the authors organized a "frolic", reviving a tradition of shared labor that builds the trust and resilience communities need.

Internal company documents obtained by a Canadian labor board show how Amazon is tracking workers' every move.

There is a new energy among our younger citizens to seek a more meaningful life in the country. Now is the time to take advantage of their new-found passion to live and work in a rural community.

Alexandria Shaner spoke with Paul Loeb about hope, organizing, and building power in dark times.

Humanity is outsourcing its executive control of nearly every key sector—finance, warfare, medicine, agriculture—to algorithms with no moral capacity. If you are wondering what could go wrong, the answer is plenty.

Inspired by author Daniel Quinn's Ishmael, I compare modernity to a prison whose bars few inmates can even detect. Academia is its own sort of prison.

In areas around the world, growing opposition to climate action signals a new disruptive wave that researchers call an "urban greenlash," a backlash against climate plans and policies in cities.