Critics warn that cryptocurrency networks, whose computers use enormous amounts of electricity to verify transactions, could be a factor in warming the planet. The industry is working to change that.
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How Parents Can Support Their Trans Kids
October 11, 2021Research shows that family acceptance and affirmation can have a life-saving impact on transgender youth.
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Measuring Equity Through City Trees
October 11, 2021Planting trees is a way to build community and bolster benefits to human and environmental health.
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Can’t Let the Taps Run Dry: Managing Water in an Unpredictable Climate – YES! Magazine
July 12, 2021Water is an inherently local issue, and the poorest communities are often the most vulnerable.
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Cities Across Europe Are Making Space for Nature
July 12, 2021Through the process of rewilding, cities can improve both human and environmental health.
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Alternative lighting solution
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How regular people have stopped coups
January 28, 2021The legacy of their resistance provides a toolkit for people seeking to defend democracy today.
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The Radical Power of Your Sourdough Starter
January 28, 2021For fermentation revivalist Sandor Katz, making sourdough, kimchi, and kombucha is about more than eating well at home. It’s a metaphor for creative systemic change, bubbling away from the ground…
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Not only was August 2020 the 2nd-warmest August on record, but the Northern Hemisphere had its warmest ever summer on record and the globe as a whole had its 3rd-hottest…
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Analysis | Can We Undo Trump’s Environmental Damage?
January 28, 2021American climate policy can be salvaged, but environmentalists say action has to be swift and sweeping.