Category:Briefs
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The following 200 pages are in this category, out of 288 total.
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- Brief:1,3-Dichloropropene: The Dangerous, Sweet-Smelling Pesticide You’ve Never Heard Of
- Brief:8 Billion Humans? Population Is a Difficult Conversation, but We Need to Start Getting Real
- Brief:10 Reasons Why Hydropower Dams Are a False Climate Solution
- Brief:21 Days of Divesting from the War Economy: Active Practice
- Brief:600 Million Metric Tons of Plastic May Fill Oceans by 2036 If We Don’t Act Now
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- Brief:A Climate Change Solution No One’s Talking About: Better Land Use
- Brief:A Critique of Obscene Wealth
- Brief:A Lesson of Coronavirus: Hunting Wildlife Can Be Deadly
- Brief:A Minimum Wage? A Fake Debate
- Brief:A National Asbestos-Exposure Registry of Veterans Could Combat Misdiagnosis in Mesothelioma Cases Nationwide
- Brief:Across Africa, Water Conflict Threatens Security, Health, and the Environment
- Brief:Agrivoltaics: The Farm-to-Solar Trend That Can Help Accelerate the Renewable Energy Transition
- Brief:Air Pollution Is Killing Millions and Rising Exponentially—A Shift in Agriculture Can Solve It
- Brief:Alternatives to Policing
- Brief:An Ancient Recipe for Social Success
- Brief:Animal-Free Agriculture Is Key to Restoring Biodiversity
- Brief:Archaeology Is Flipping the Script on What We Know About Ancient Mesoamerica
- Brief:Are Community Schools the Last, Best Shot at Addressing Education Inequity?
- Brief:Are Plant-Eaters Smarter and More Empathetic Than Meat-Eaters?
- Brief:Are Western Oligarchies a Long Detour of Civilization?
- Brief:Artist Group’s ‘Remember the Future’ Podcast Shines a Light on the Solidarity Economy
- Brief:As a Growing Social Movement and Self-Care Practice, Death Literacy Is Fostering Positive Conversations About the End
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- Brief:Can We Abandon Pollutive Fossil Fuels and Avoid an Energy Crisis?
- Brief:Can We Reach 100 Percent Renewable Energy in Time to Avert Climate Catastrophe?
- Brief:Can You Reset Your Biological Age to Live a Longer, Healthier Life?
- Brief:Canada’s ‘Liberals’ Have a Disturbing Imperial Streak
- Brief:Captive Elephants: The Harsh Reality
- Brief:Carbon Capture Is a Potential Weapon Against Climate Change, but Will It Come Soon Enough?
- Brief:Carbon Farming: A Sustainable Agriculture Technique That Keeps Soil Healthy and Combats Climate Change
- Brief:Chickens Deserve Our Respect
- Brief:Chickens Lack the Most Basic Legal Protection: The Right to Humane Slaughter
- Brief:Cities Around the World Are Fixing Our Broken Food System
- Brief:Climate Change Is Boosting Plant Pollen Production, Which Means More Seasonal Allergies
- Brief:Climate Crises Can Lead to Improved Social Cooperation and Economy
- Brief:Coins and Temples in the Ancient World
- Brief:Community Schools Can Revitalize the Neighborhoods Around Them
- Brief:Community Schools Were Working in Oakland, But the District Is Shutting Them Down Anyway
- Brief:Connecting With Nature Is a Path to Finding Joy in Life
- Brief:Corporations Are Turning Public Schools Into Their Workforce Training ‘Pipelines’
- Brief:Cruelty-Free Fashion: Growing Leather Without Animals
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- Brief:Eating Locally and in Season: Is It Really Better for the Environment?
- Brief:Eight Themes in Mesopotamia’s Evolving Labor-Shaped Economies
- Brief:Europe Is Perversely Causing the Destruction of U.S. Forests in the Name of Fighting Climate Change
- Brief:Explaining 21st-Century Capitalism in a Way Everyone Can Understand
- Brief:Exploring Community Care Systems in Boston Inspired by bell hooks
- Brief:Exposing the Massive Climate Hypocrisy of International Insurance Companies
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- Brief:Factory Farm Conditions Are Terrible for Animals—and Humans, Too
- Brief:Feeling Defeated by the Supreme Court’s EPA Ruling? There’s Still a Lot We Can Do
- Brief:Financial Fraud, Malfeasance, and Ineptitude Plague Federal Government Charter Schools Program
- Brief:Food Companies Intentionally Make Their Products Addictive, and It’s Leading to Chronic Diseases
- Brief:Forests Thrive When Indigenous People Have Legal Stewardship of Their Land
- Brief:Free Market Ideology Compared to the Principles of Near Eastern Rulership
- Brief:From COVID-19 to Climate Change, Human Overpopulation Is the Big White Elephant in the Room
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- Brief:Greene Street Artists Coop Is a Haven for Philadelphia Creatives
- Brief:Guide to Climate Action in Your Local Community
- Brief:Guide to Factory-Farmed Chickens: Animal Cruelty on a Massive Scale
- Brief:Guide to Preserving Sacred Land Near You
- Brief:Guide to Sustainable, Eco-Friendly, Organic and Vegan Wine
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- Brief:Have Nonprofits Misled Supporters by Hiding Unsustainable Growth Policies?
- Brief:Here’s How We Can Localize Our Increasingly Fragile Food Systems
- Brief:Here’s What More Public Schools Need to Look Like After the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Brief:How a 20th-Century Family Planning Agenda Fueled the Climate Crisis
- Brief:How Artificial Intelligence Challenges the Concept of Authorship
- Brief:How Artists Have Been on the Front Lines of Political Resistance for the Past 50 Years
- Brief:How Banks and Investors Are Fueling a Global Biodiversity Crisis
- Brief:How Big Banks Fail Their Climate Commitments by Propping Up Big Meat
- Brief:How Billionaire Charter School Funders Corrupted the School Leadership Pipeline
- Brief:How Bioenergy Causes Air Pollution: The Dark Side of Renewable Energy
- Brief:How Capitalism’s Dogged Defenders and Propagandists Defend It From Criticism
- Brief:How Community Schools Can Transform Parent Involvement for the Better
- Brief:How Community Solar Can Liberate You From Fossil Fuels
- Brief:How Decades of Local Activism Led to the Biggest Dam Removal Deal In U.S. History
- Brief:How Elite Infighting Made the Magna Carta
- Brief:How Factory Farms Pollute the Environment and Poison Drinking Water
- Brief:How Greek Coinage Democratized the Character of Money
- Brief:How Human Experience Makes Science Possible
- Brief:How Indigenous Land Management Practices Are a Blueprint for Climate Resilient Agriculture
- Brief:How Long Has Humanity Been at War With Itself?
- Brief:How Making Space for Grief Can Promote Community Healing
- Brief:How Media Companies Can Meet Their Climate Commitments—and How Readers Can Help
- Brief:How Our Coffee Addiction Is Destroying the Environment
- Brief:How People Are Fighting the World’s Reliance on the War Economy
- Brief:How Racism Is an Essential Tool for Maintaining the Capitalist Order
- Brief:How Science Fiction Can Inspire Environmentalism and Climate Action
- Brief:How Sustainable Next-Gen Materials Can Create a More Ethical Consumer Market
- Brief:How Teachers and Organizers Challenged the First U.S. Education Savings Account Voucher Program
- Brief:How the Acequia Ancient Irrigation Method Makes Sustainable Life Possible in the U.S. Southwest
- Brief:How the Built Environment Is Damaging Children’s Connection to Nature
- Brief:How the Camp Lejeune Justice Act 2022 Can Help Veterans Impacted by Toxic Exposure
- Brief:How the Constitution Fails to Protect the Environment
- Brief:How the Crusades Shaped Finance in the West
- Brief:How the Food Industry Uses Big Tobacco’s Playbook
- Brief:How the Psychology of Oppression Perpetuates Harm to Animals and the Environment
- Brief:How the Rights of Nature Movement Is Reshaping Law and Culture
- Brief:How the World Hides Liability for Climate Deaths
- Brief:How to Decode Humane Food Labels at the Supermarket
- Brief:How to Decolonize Our Battle Against Climate Change
- Brief:How to Make Recyclable Plastics Out of CO2 to Slow Climate Change
- Brief:How to Make Your Home and Yard Safe for Hummingbirds
- Brief:How to Solve the Big Problems That Small Family Farms Are Facing
- Brief:How to Talk to Your Kids About Climate Change (and Have Fun, Too)
- Brief:How Tourism Could Actually Help African Wildlife in One of Kenya’s Important National Reserves
- Brief:How Trophic Cascades Can Devastate Ecosystems and Endanger Human Health
- Brief:How U.S. States Can Protect the Environment From Federal Rollbacks and Intervention
- Brief:How Workers Can Win the Class War Being Waged Upon Them
- Brief:How Zoos Are Danger Zones for Deadly Disease Transmission Between Humans and Animals
- Brief:Humanitarian Intervention
- Brief:Humanity Is Getting Increasingly Serious About Enforcing Animal Rights Protections All Over the Planet
- Brief:Humanity’s Main Environmental Problem Is Consumption—Climate Change Is Just One of the Byproducts
- Brief:Hummingbirds Are in Rapid Decline
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- Brief:If You Believe in Social Justice, You Believe in Veganism
- Brief:Inside the Chaotic Charter Schools Run by a For-Profit Company
- Brief:Investigation Exposes Animal Abuse at US Supplier to World's Largest Meat Company
- Brief:Is the Food Industry Concealing Its Destruction of the Tropics From the Public?
- Brief:Is the Food Industry Concealing Possible Destruction of the Tropics From the Public?
- Brief:Is Wastewater an Answer for Adapting to Climate Change?
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- Brief:Mainstream Ideology Defends Creditor Claims Over the Indebted Economy
- Brief:Malawi’s Farmers Face a Precarious Future From Climate Change-Related Storms
- Brief:Many Terms That Are Frequently Used to Describe Capitalism Simply Don’t Hold Up Under Scrutiny
- Brief:Medicine Residue Is Everywhere in Our Rivers and Lakes—and Fish Are Behaving Strangely
- Brief:Meet Alexander von Humboldt, the First Person to Understand Climate Change — More Than Two Centuries Ago
- Brief:Methane: The Forgotten Climate Change Driver That’s Poisoning Frontline Communities
- Brief:Missing From the Climate Solution: Fixing the Broken Food System
- Brief:Modern (Mis)interpretations of Clean Slates
- Brief:Monkeys Infected With Transmissible Diseases Are Trucked Across U.S.—Where’s the Transportation Department?
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- Brief:Nanoplastics Are Entering Our Bodies
- Brief:Navigating the Energy Transition: Renewables Abound, but Grid Challenges Loom
- Brief:Nestlé, PepsiCo, Unilever Are Among 10 of the Leading Consumer Brands Driving Global Deforestation
- Brief:Ninety-Nine Percent of Seabirds Will Have Plastic in Their Guts Within Decades
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- Brief:On Primate Research, the U.S. Is ‘Out of Step’ With the Rest of the World
- Brief:Our Ancient Relationship With Red Ocher and the Color of Cognition
- Brief:Our Food System Is Broken and Inhumane, but It Can Be Fixed
- Brief:Our Planet Versus Plastic Bags—A Tale of Two Cities
- Brief:Our Times Call for Managing Complexities, Not Solving Problems
- Brief:Our World Is in a Multifront Crisis—It’s Time to Cultivate a Local Peace Economy
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- Brief:Palm Oil in Common Household Products Is Destroying the World’s ‘Orangutan Capital’
- Brief:Palm Oil: The Ingredient Behind Human Rights Abuses and Eco-Destruction That’s Probably in Your Home Right Now
- Brief:Parallels Between Archaic Entrepots and Modern Offshore Banking Centers
- Brief:Perceptions of Social Dominance and How to Change Them
- Brief:Pets and the Pet Industry Are Major Contributors to the Global Extinction Crisis
- Brief:Philadelphia Homeless Residents’ Unprecedented Grassroots Housing Victory
- Brief:Planet of Refugees: Children Make Up More Than Half of the Displaced
- Brief:Plastic Pollution Is a Crime Against People and the Planet
- Brief:Plastics Impact on Human Health
- Brief:Populist Climate Action Requires Thinking About Freedom From Specific Oppressors—Not Just Species Survival
- Brief:PPE May Save Human Lives, but It’s Deadly for Wildlife
- Brief:Private Enterprise Originated in Public Institutions
- Brief:Procter & Gamble, Mondelēz and Nestlé Are Among 10 of the Leading Consumer Brands Driving Global Deforestation
- Brief:Profit Trumps People and Planet in Brazil’s Eucalyptus Industry
- Brief:Property and Debt in Ancient Rome
- Brief:Public Libraries Remain Public Despite Defunding and Privatization Attacks
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- Brief:Red Earth Farms Is Proof That Intentional Communities Can Succeed
- Brief:Removing Hydropower Dams Can Restore Ecosystems, Build Climate Resilience, and Restore Tribal Lands
- Brief:Rivers Are Key to Restoring the World’s Biodiversity
- Brief:Roman Oligarchs Avoidance of Tax Liability and Restrictions on Land Size
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- Brief:Sanitation in Namibia Is a Catastrophe for Its People and Environment
- Brief:Saving the Bumblebee Starts With Changing Our Farming Practices
- Brief:Seven Features of Ancient Enterprise
- Brief:Should Harming Mother Earth Be a Crime? The Case for Ecocide
- Brief:Should Humans Try to Modify the Amount of Sunlight the Earth Receives?
- Brief:Socialist or Capitalist—What Is China’s Model, Exactly?
- Brief:Some Myths Regarding the Genesis of Enterprise
- Brief:Sperm Whales Have Culture Too: Strong Evidence That Clans, Culture, and Dialects Are Not Unique to Humans
- Brief:Spontaneous Revolutions: Darwin’s Diagrams of Plant Movement
- Brief:States Are Doing a Terrible Job Enforcing Laws Meant to Protect Farmed Animals
- Brief:Sustainability Is Not as New an Idea as You Might Think — It’s More Than 300 Years Old
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- Brief:Tasty Bacon or Fellow Being? The Paradox of How We Relate to the Intelligence and Emotions of Pigs
- Brief:Ten Grim Climate Scenarios When Global Temperatures Rise Above 1.5 Degrees Celsius
- Brief:The ‘Blue Economy’ Myth: We Have to Stop Thinking Like the Ocean Can Be Run Like a Business
- Brief:The Ancient Patterns of Migration
- Brief:The Case for Protecting the Tongass National Forest, America’s ‘Last Climate Sanctuary’
- Brief:The Centers of Global Capitalism Are Migrating Away From the U.S., Europe and Japan
- Brief:The Commercial Fishing Industry Is Destroying Vital Marine Ecosystems
- Brief:The Community Schools Model
- Brief:The Complex and Frustrating Reality of Recycling Plastic
- Brief:The Dairy Industry Is Determined to Pour Itself Down Our Throats
- Brief:The Damaging Legacy of Betsy DeVos' Education Crusades
- Brief:The Danger of Releasing Genetically Modified Trees Into the Wild
- Brief:The Different Ways That the U.S. and Chinese Governments Use Their Power to Regulate Capitalism
- Brief:The Forgotten 10 Billion Lives: A Tale of Suffering, Survival, and the Fight to See Farmed Animals
- Brief:The Function of the University in a Time of Crisis
- Brief:The Gilded Age of Animal Advocacy: A Transformative Era for America’s Moral Compass
- Brief:The Global Push for Population Growth Shows We’re Not Grappling With the Climate Crisis
