The Family Guide to a Mostly Screen-Free Summer
Concerned about screen-time taking over your free-time? Download our simple, step-by-step, sanity-saving guide and reclaim summer for your family. Unplug, recharge and connect with more of what matters.
The Future of Wind Turbines? No Blades
The Vortex, a radical new way to generate wind energy, is a bladeless wind turbine that looks like a giant rolled joint shooting into the sky.
The Genre of Post-Genre
William Brittelle has drawn from classical music, punk rock, and electronica to produce music that is at once free-ranging and a thrill to experience.
The Gift of Ecological Humility
These Afro-Indigenous practices challenge ideas of human supremacy.
The Hopeful Work of Turning Appalachia’s Mountaintop Coal Mines Into Farms
In the post-coal economy, life-skills training helps employ people and restore the savaged land.
The Human Cost of McDonald’s French Fries
Potato fields cover the landscape in central and northern Minnesota, stretching for miles in all directions.
The Hydrogen Economy Is Coming To Town With New Electric Vehicles
After years of playing second fiddle to battery-powered electric vehicles, hydrogen electric fuel cell vehicles are steamrolling into the zero emission transportation spotlight.
The Importance of Awe
Can Kids today still experience the “11th emotion,” the key to loving astronomy?
The internet empowered Charlottesville white supremacists. It still has the power to destroy them.
“Life sucks as a racist,” Arno Michaelis told Mic. “Life sucks when you’re afraid of everyone else on Earth, and it’s completely unnecessary. It’s just absolute concocted nonsense that doesn’t have to happen and will literally make every single thing you try to do go to shit.” Michaelis should know: He used to be a leader…
The Isolation is Just Momentous When You’ve Spoken Truth to Power
The 2002 Enron scandal drew global attention and Sherron Watkins became forever known as the Enron whistleblower.
