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- The ‘Blue Economy’ Myth: We Have to Stop Thinking Like the Ocean Can Be Run Like a Business
- Behind the ‘Economic Policy’ Façade, It’s Class War
- ‘POOR Magazine’ Started With a Mother and Daughter Experiencing Homelessness and Grew Into a Movement
- Community Rights and Public Trust
- ‘Sacrifice Zones’: How People of Color Are Targets of Environmental Racism
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- 1,3-Dichloropropene: The Dangerous, Sweet-Smelling Pesticide You’ve Never Heard Of
- Want to Help Stop the Plastic Scourge? Stop Relying on Recycling and Do This Instead
- 8 Billion Humans? Population Is a Difficult Conversation, but We Need to Start Getting Real
- 10 Reasons Why Hydropower Dams Are a False Climate Solution
- 21 Days of Divesting from the War Economy: Active Practice
- Explaining 21st-Century Capitalism in a Way Everyone Can Understand
- 600 Million Metric Tons of Plastic May Fill Oceans by 2036 If We Don’t Act Now
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- A Historical Case for Why the EU Could Endure for More Than 1,000 Years
- A Lesson of Coronavirus: Hunting Wildlife Can Be Deadly
- A National Asbestos-Exposure Registry of Veterans Could Combat Misdiagnosis in Mesothelioma Cases Nationwide
- How Decades of Local Activism Led to the Biggest Dam Removal Deal In U.S. History
- Activists in Philly Have a Novel Approach to Help De-Oppress Society
- The Adaptive Value of Teenagers: How Peer Learning Contributes to Primate Success
- Advances in Archaeology Allow Us to Understand Political Evolution and Social Change in Deep Time
- Agrivoltaics: The Farm-to-Solar Trend That Can Help Accelerate the Renewable Energy Transition
- The AI Power Play: How ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Others Are Shaping the Future of Artificial Intelligence
- Air Pollution Is Killing Millions and Rising Exponentially—A Shift in Agriculture Can Solve It
- Alternatives to Policing
- An Ancient Recipe for Social Success
- The Ancient Patterns of Migration
- The Animal Feed Industry’s Impact on the Planet
- Animal-Free Agriculture Is Key to Restoring Biodiversity
- Anthropology for Kids and Visual Assembly Are Reimagining Work, Education, Money, and More
- Archaeology Can Now Tell Us How People Have Muffled and Challenged Economic Inequality Across History
- Archaeology Is Flipping the Script on What We Know About Ancient Mesoamerica
- Archeologists Join Geologists in the Quest to Define the Age of Humans
- Are Community Schools the Last, Best Shot at Addressing Education Inequity?
- Are Plant-Eaters Smarter and More Empathetic Than Meat-Eaters?
- Are Western Oligarchies a Long Detour of Civilization?
- The Art of Building a Human-Hawk Relationship
- As a Growing Social Movement and Self-Care Practice, Death Literacy Is Fostering Positive Conversations About the End
- As History Erasure Intensifies, Independent Internet Archives Are Helping Fortify the ‘Digital Preservation Infrastructure’
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- Can We Abandon Pollutive Fossil Fuels and Avoid an Energy Crisis?
- Can Humanity Repair Its Relationship With Nature? Weaving Earth Education Center Offers a Promising Path
- Can Teething Predict How Fast You Will Grow?
- Can You Reset Your Biological Age to Live a Longer, Healthier Life?
- Capitalism’s Unequal Distribution Deprives You of True Freedom
- Captive Elephants: The Harsh Reality
- Carbon Capture Is a Potential Weapon Against Climate Change, but Will It Come Soon Enough?
- Carbon Farming: A Sustainable Agriculture Technique That Keeps Soil Healthy and Combats Climate Change
- The Case for Protecting the Tongass National Forest, America’s ‘Last Climate Sanctuary’
- Cats Are Fueling a Global Eco-Crisis, Pushing Birds and Other Species to Extinction
- The Centers of Global Capitalism Are Migrating Away From the U.S., Europe and Japan
- The Central Role of Collaboration and Trust in Human Societies
- Chickens Are Smarter Than You Think
- Chickens Lack the Most Basic Legal Protection: The Right to Humane Slaughter
- A Circular Economy
- Cities Made Differently: Try Imagining Another Urban Existence
- Climate Change Is Boosting Plant Pollen Production, Which Means More Seasonal Allergies
- Climate Crises Can Lead to Improved Social Cooperation and Economy
- Coins and Temples in the Ancient World
- The Commercial Fishing Industry Is Destroying Vital Marine Ecosystems
- Exploring Community Care Systems in Boston Inspired by bell hooks
- Community in Motion
- Community Schools Can Revitalize the Neighborhoods Around Them
- The Community Schools Model
- Community Schools Were Working in Oakland, But the District Is Shutting Them Down Anyway
- Community Support Helps the Orca Book Cooperative Stay Afloat
- Recycling the Discarded
- Connecting With Nature Is a Path to Finding Joy in Life
- The Controversy Over Cannibalism
- Corporations Are Turning Public Schools Into Their Workforce Training ‘Pipelines’
- Costa Rica: The New Grand Tour
- The Courage of Care Coalition Helps Deconstruct Patterns of Domination and Oppression
- The Cradle of Humanity
- Cruelty-Free Fashion: Growing Leather Without Animals
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- The Dairy Industry Is Determined to Pour Itself Down Our Throats
- Damming Rivers Is Terrible for Human Rights, Ecosystems and Food Security
- The Danger of Releasing Genetically Modified Trees Into the Wild
- Debt Forgiveness in the Bronze Age
- Debt in Ancient Greece
- The Different Ways That the U.S. and Chinese Governments Use Their Power to Regulate Capitalism
- Digging Up the Roots of Human Culture
- Discarding Old Theories on the Path to Finding the First Humans Outside Africa
- Do Grandmothers Hold the Key to Understanding Human Evolution?
- Do Other Animals Have Consciousness? Science Could Force Us to Rethink Our Relationships With Them
- A Minimum Wage? A Fake Debate
- The Double Edge Theater’s Project to ‘Rematriate Land’
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- Eight Themes in Mesopotamia’s Evolving Labor-Shaped Economies
- The Emperor’s New Clothes: Fashion, Politics, and Identity in Mughal South Asia
- Enrollment in Nature Schools Soars as Families Rediscover the Benefits of Outdoor Learning
- The Evolution of the Human Pair Bond
- Exploring Ancient Understandings of Meteorites in Archaic Societies
- Exposing the Massive Climate Hypocrisy of International Insurance Companies
- The Extreme Cruelty of Putting Mother Pigs in ‘Gestation Crates’
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- Facing a Surge in Wildfires, the U.S. Government Turned to Native Wisdom and Advanced Archaeology
- Financial Fraud, Malfeasance, and Ineptitude Plague Federal Government Charter Schools Program
- Finding the Roots of Religion in Human Prehistory
- Food Companies Intentionally Make Their Products Addictive, and It’s Leading to Chronic Diseases
- Forests Thrive When Indigenous People Have Legal Stewardship of Their Land
- The Forgotten 10 Billion Lives: A Tale of Suffering, Survival, and the Fight to See Farmed Animals
- Free Market Ideology Compared to the Principles of Near Eastern Rulership
- The Function of the University in a Time of Crisis
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- The Gilded Age of Animal Advocacy: A Transformative Era for America’s Moral Compass
- Pets and the Pet Industry Are Major Contributors to the Global Extinction Crisis
- The Global Push for Population Growth Shows We’re Not Grappling With the Climate Crisis
- The Globalized, Industrialized Food System Is Destroying the World—We Urgently Need to Support Local Food Economies
- The Great Archaeological Discovery of Our Time
- Greene Street Artists Coop Is a Haven for Philadelphia Creatives
- The Growing Inequality Among Countries and the Worsening Climate Crisis
- The Growing Movement to Bring Back Community Grief and Ritual
- The Growth of Malignant and Exclusionary Social Movements
- Humanity Is Getting Increasingly Serious About Enforcing Animal Rights Protections All Over the Planet
- Guide to Becoming an Environmental Leader and Inspiring the Next Generation of Eco-Defenders
- Guide to Climate Action in Your Local Community
- Guide to Factory-Farmed Chickens: Animal Cruelty on a Massive Scale
- Guide to Preserving Sacred Land Near You
- Guide to Sustainable, Eco-Friendly, Organic and Vegan Wine
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- Have Nonprofits Misled Supporters by Hiding Unsustainable Growth Policies?
- Highlander Research and Education Center Brings Old-School Expertise to Present-Day Issues
- Classics:The History of the Standard Oil Company
- Home Improvement
- How a 20th-Century Family Planning Agenda Fueled the Climate Crisis
- How a Community Collaborative in Arkansas Is Pioneering Solutions to Long-Standing Social Problems
- How a Neighborhood Co-op Started by Teens Helped Communities Around the U.S. Adopt Solar Power
- How a Worker Cooperative Is Mitigating the Stray Animal Crisis in Texas
- How Animal Agriculture Drains Our Freshwater Supplies
- How Archaeologists Can Solve the Earth’s ‘Wicked Problems’
- How Artificial Intelligence Challenges the Concept of Authorship
- How Artists Have Been on the Front Lines of Political Resistance for the Past 50 Years
- How Banks and Investors Are Fueling a Global Biodiversity Crisis
- How Billionaire Charter School Funders Corrupted the School Leadership Pipeline
- How Bioenergy Causes Air Pollution: The Dark Side of Renewable Energy
- How California’s Farmers and Ranchers Could Lead the Way to Climate Resilience
- How Can the Study of Hierarchy/Heterarchy Influence the Future?
- How Can We Balance AI’s Potential and Ethical Challenges?
- How Can We Understand the Passage of Time?
- How Capitalism’s Dogged Defenders and Propagandists Defend It From Criticism
- Cities Around the World Are Fixing Our Broken Food System
- How Collectives Are Empowering People to Understand the Tricky Financial Side of Life
- How Community Schools Can Transform Parent Involvement for the Better
- How Community Solar Can Liberate You From Fossil Fuels
- How Decision-Making Is Affected by Social Conformity
- How Elite Infighting Made the Magna Carta
- Europe Is Perversely Causing the Destruction of U.S. Forests in the Name of Fighting Climate Change
- How Factory Farms Pollute the Environment and Poison Drinking Water
- How Greek Coinage Democratized the Character of Money
- How Human Experience Makes Science Possible
- How Lab-Grown Meat Could Bring an End to Needless Animal Cruelty
- A Climate Change Solution No One’s Talking About: Better Land Use
- How Literary Frauds Strike Again… and Again
- How Long Has Humanity Been at War With Itself?
- How Making Space for Grief Can Promote Community Healing
- How Media Companies Can Meet Their Climate Commitments—and How Readers Can Help
- How Mesopotamia’s Urban and Industrial Revolution Started Politics as We Know It Today
- How Local and Federal Institutions Are (and Aren’t) Taking Care of North Carolina’s Hurricane Survivors—and What Mutual Aid Groups Are Doing to Help
- Artist Group’s ‘Remember the Future’ Podcast Shines a Light on the Solidarity Economy
- How People Are Fighting the World’s Reliance on the War Economy
- How Practices of Care Can Support Endurance for Activists
- How Prehistoric Humans Discovered Fire Making
- How Pseudo-Archaeology and Phony Alt-History Rose to Popularity in the US
- How Republics Succeed, Falter, and Fail
- How Science Fiction Can Inspire Environmentalism and Climate Action
- How Some Independent Radio Stations Avoid Sounding Like Corporate Drones
- How Sustainable Next-Gen Materials Can Create a More Ethical Consumer Market
- How Teachers and Organizers Challenged the First U.S. Education Savings Account Voucher Program
- How the Acequia Ancient Irrigation Method Makes Sustainable Life Possible in the U.S. Southwest
- How the American Legislative Exchange Council Turns Disinformation Into Law
- How the Bayh-Dole Act Wrested Public Science From the People’s Hands
- How the Braiding Seeds Fellowship Works to Uproot Racism in the Food System
- How the Built Environment Is Damaging Children’s Connection to Nature
- How the Camp Lejeune Justice Act 2022 Can Help Veterans Impacted by Toxic Exposure
- How the Constitution Fails to Protect the Environment
- How the Crusades Shaped Finance in the West
- How the Food Industry Uses Big Tobacco’s Playbook
- How the Psychology of Oppression Perpetuates Harm to Animals and the Environment
- How the United States Is Failing Elephants—and What You Can Do
- How the World Hides Liability for Climate Deaths
- How Three New Museums Are Teaching the World About a Paradigm Shift in Our Understanding of Human Origins
- How to Catch a Literary Fraud: The Case of James Frey
- How to Decode Humane Food Labels at the Supermarket
- How to Decolonize Our Battle Against Climate Change
- Our Food System Is Broken and Inhumane, but It Can Be Fixed
- How to Help Wild Birds During Their Spring and Fall Migrations
- Here’s How We Can Localize Our Increasingly Fragile Food Systems
- How to Make Recyclable Plastics Out of CO2 to Slow Climate Change
- How to Make Your Home and Yard Safe for Hummingbirds
- How to Solve the Big Problems That Small Family Farms Are Facing
- How to Talk to Your Kids About Climate Change (and Have Fun, Too)
- How Tourism Could Actually Help African Wildlife in One of Kenya’s Important National Reserves
- How Trophic Cascades Can Devastate Ecosystems and Endanger Human Health
- How U.S. States Can Protect the Environment From Federal Rollbacks and Intervention
- Unclear Federal Law Allows Logging, Farming, and Mining to Threaten America’s Biodiverse Ecosystems
- Feeling Defeated by the Supreme Court’s EPA Ruling? There’s Still a Lot We Can Do
- How We Distribute Power Will Influence Our Future
- How Worker-Owned News Outlets Are Changing the Media Industry
- How Workers Can Win the Class War Being Waged Upon Them
- Human Bridges Project: A New Wave of Information for Our Times
- From COVID-19 to Climate Change, Human Overpopulation Is the Big White Elephant in the Room
- Humanity’s Main Environmental Problem Is Consumption—Climate Change Is Just One of the Byproducts
- The Humble Carrot’s Colorful History
- Hummingbirds Are in Rapid Decline
