Category:Featured
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Pages in category "Featured"
The following 103 pages are in this category, out of 103 total.
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- Activists in Philly Have a Novel Approach to Help De-Oppress Society
- 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
- Air Pollution Is Killing Millions and Rising Exponentially—A Shift in Agriculture Can Solve It
- Are Community Schools the Last, Best Shot at Addressing Education Inequity?
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- Chickens Are Smarter Than You Think
- Chickens Lack the Most Basic Legal Protection: The Right to Humane Slaughter
- Circular Economy: How the Tanda System Helps Latinos in Southern California with Mutual Financial Support
- Cities Made Differently: Try Imagining Another Urban Existence
- Community Schools Can Revitalize the Neighborhoods Around Them
- Community Schools Were Succeeding in Oakland, But the District Shut Them Down Anyway
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- Highlander Research and Education Center Brings Old-School Expertise to Present-Day Issues
- The History of the Standard Oil Company
- 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 Animal Agriculture Drains Our Freshwater Supplies
- How Community Schools Can Transform Parent Involvement for the Better
- How Community Solar Can Liberate You From Fossil Fuels
- How Europe Is Depleting U.S. Forests in the Name of Fighting Climate Change
- How Human Experience Makes Science Possible
- How Pseudo-Archaeology and Phony Alt-History Rose to Popularity in the U.S.
- How Republics Succeed, Falter, and Fail
- How Science Fiction Can Inspire Environmentalism and Climate Action
- How Sustainable Next-Gen Materials Can Create a More Ethical Consumer Market
- 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 Constitution Fails to Protect the Environment
- How the Psychology of Oppression Perpetuates Harm to Animals and the Environment
- How the World Hides Liability for Climate Deaths
- How to Decolonize Our Battle Against Climate Change
- How to Make Your Home and Yard Safe for Hummingbirds
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- Organic Farming Increases Soil Carbon and Helps Counter Climate Change
- Our Times Call for Managing Complexities, Not Solving Problems
- Our World Is in a Multifront Crisis—It’s Time to Cultivate a Local Peace Economy
- Outdated Narratives Have Humanity in a Downward Spiral—It’s Time to Tell ‘Stories for Life’
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- Sanitation in Namibia Is a Catastrophe for Its People and Environment
- Saving the Bumblebee Starts With Changing Our Farming Practices
- The Science of Twins and the Human Fascination With Them
- South Africa: The New Grand Tour
- Sperm Whales Have Culture Too: Strong Evidence That Clans, Culture, and Dialects Are Not Unique to Humans
- States Are Doing a Terrible Job Enforcing Laws Meant to Protect Farmed Animals
- The Surprising Ways Inventions and Ideas Spread in Ancient Prehistory
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- Tasty Bacon or Fellow Being? The Paradox of How We Relate to the Intelligence and Emotions of Pigs
- Ten Days in a Mad-House
- Ten Grim Climate Scenarios When Global Temperatures Rise Above 1.5 Degrees Celsius
- The ‘Blue Economy’ Myth: We Have to Stop Thinking the Ocean Can Be Run Like a Business
- The Adaptive Value of Teenagers: How Peer Learning Contributes to Primate Success
- The Art of Building a Human-Hawk Relationship
- The Commercial Fishing Industry Is Destroying Vital Marine Ecosystems
- The Community Schools Model
- The Compost Co-op Gives Ex-Inmates a Living Wage Through Meaningful Work
- The Controversy Over Cannibalism
- The Globalized, Industrialized Food System Is Destroying the World—We Urgently Need to Support Local Food Economies
- The Humble Carrot’s Colorful History
- The Legacy of Betsy DeVos on Public Education
- The Myth That Meat Is Essential for Human Health Could Harm Us All
- The Palm Oil Industry Is Pushing Critically Endangered Elephants to Extinction
- The Southwest Offers Blueprints for the Future of Wastewater Reuse
- The Sustainability Scam: How Self-Interest Ruins Good Ideas
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- War Is Not Inevitable—A More Peaceful Future Is Possible
- We Can Interpret How Cooperative or Autocratic Mesoamerican Societies Were From Their Systems of Communication
- We Did Not Evolve to Be Selfish—and Humans Are Increasingly Aware We Can Choose How Our Cultures Can Evolve
- We Need a Plan for the Transition to Renewable Energy
- What Are Republics, Exactly? It’s a Good Time to Learn
- What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?
- What Would a Real Renewable Energy Transition Look Like?
- What’s Behind Right-Wing Attacks on Schools for ‘Teaching Critical Race Theory’
- Where Did Vladimir Putin’s Dream Of a ‘Russian World’ Come From?
- Why Are Wild Horses Brutally Uprooted From Public Lands While Private Livestock Can Stay?
- Why COVID-19 Proved Children Need Physical Schools, Not Virtual Education
- Why Do We Sleep and How Can We Sleep Better?
- Why Ecosystems Need Healthy Populations of Apex Predators to Be Restored
- Why Is Prehistory Inspiring So Many Artists?
- Why There Is a Growing Student Absentee Rate—and How Community Schools Can Fix It
