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Pages in category "Pages with short description"
The following 185 pages are in this category, out of 185 total.
0–9
A
- How Land Use Is a Tool for Solving Climate Change
- Obscene Wealth Is a Social Problem
- A Lesson of Coronavirus: Hunting Wildlife Can Be Deadly
- Don’t Fall for the Fake Minimum Wage Debate
- The Pitfalls of 'School Choice' for Families Getting Govt. Funding to Switch From Public to Private School
- Water Conflicts Across Africa Threaten Security, Health, and the Environment
- Agrivoltaics: The Farm-to-Solar Trend That Can Help Accelerate the Renewable Energy Transition
- Alternatives to Policing
- An Ancient Recipe for Social Success
- Archaeology Is Flipping the Script on What We Know About Ancient Mesoamerica
- Are Plant-Eaters Smarter and More Empathetic Than Meat-Eaters?
- How One Podcast Provides a Platform for Those Putting the Planet and People over Profit
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C
- Can Humanity Make a Shift to a Less Pollutive Energy System?
- Is 100 Percent Renewable Energy Attainable?
- Carbon Capture Is a Potential Weapon Against Climate Change
- Why Chickens Deserve Our Respect
- How Cities Around the World Are Adapting to Better Food Systems
- Climate Change Is Boosting Plant Pollens and Human Seasonal Allergies
- Climate Crises Can Lead to Improved Social Cooperation and Economy
- Ways to Commit to the Changes We Want to See in the World
- ‘Public Trust’—A Key Legal Tool for People to Protect the Planet
- Community Schools Were Succeeding in Oakland, But the District Shut Them Down Anyway
- Connecting With Nature Is a Path to Finding Joy in Life
- Corporations Are Turning Public Schools Into Their Workforce Training ‘Pipelines’
- Cruelty-Free Fashion: Growing Leather Without Animals
D
E
- Is Eating Locally and in Season Actually Better for the Environment?
- How Europe Is Depleting U.S. Forests in the Name of Fighting Climate Change
- 21st Century Capitalism Explainer
- Community Care Systems in Boston Inspired by bell hooks
- Exposing the Climate Hypocrisy of International Insurance Companies
- Extinction Illness
F
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H
- Have Nonprofits Misled Supporters by Hiding Unsustainable Growth Policies?
- How to Localize Our Food Systems
- Why COVID-19 Proved Children Need Physical Schools, Not Virtual Education
- How Artists Stand on the Front Lines of Political Resistance in America
- How Billionaire Charter School Funders Corrupted the School Leadership Pipeline
- How Bioenergy Causes Air Pollution
- How Can We Understand the Passage of Time?
- How Capitalism’s Defenders and Propagandists Defend It From Criticism
- How Collectives Empower People to Understand the Financial Side of Life
- How Community Schools Can Transform Parent Involvement for the Better
- The Activist Success Story Behind the Biggest Dam Removal Deal In U.S. History
- How Factory Farms Pollute the Environment and Poison Drinking Water
- Indigenous Land Management Practices Are a Blueprint for Climate-Resilient Agriculture
- How Making Space for Grief Can Promote Community Healing
- Our Coffee Addiction Is Destroying the Environment
- How People Are Fighting the World’s Reliance on the War Economy
- How Racism Is an Essential Tool for Maintaining the Capitalist Order
- 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 Camp Lejeune Justice Act 2022 Can Help Veterans Impacted by Toxic Exposure
- How to Decode Humane Food Labels at the Supermarket
- 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 Workers Can Win the Class War Being Waged Upon Them
- Zoos Are Danger Zones for Deadly Disease Transmission Between Humans and Animals
- Is ‘Humanitarian Intervention’ Possible?
- Guide to Animal Rights Protections Around the World
- Humanity’s Main Environmental Problem Is Consumption—Climate Change Is a Byproduct
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- Terms That Are Frequently Used to Describe Capitalism Simply Don’t Hold Up Under Scrutiny
- Medicine Residue Is Everywhere in Our Rivers and Lakes—and Fish Are Behaving Strangely
- Meet Alexander von Humboldt, the First Person to Understand Climate Change—More Than Two Centuries Ago
- Methane: The Forgotten Climate Change Driver That’s Poisoning Frontline Communities
- Millions of People Freecycle Instead of Buying New
- Our Food System Is the Bullseye for Solving the World’s Climate Challenges
- Practices that Actually Affect Change
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- Palm Oil: The Ingredient Behind Human Rights Abuses and Eco-Destruction That’s Probably in Your Home Right Now
- Pets and the Pet Industry Are Major Contributors to the Global Extinction Crisis
- Philadelphia Homeless Residents’ Unprecedented Grassroots Housing Victory
- The Impact of Plastic on Human Health
- Populist Climate Action Requires Thinking About Freedom From Specific Oppressors—Not Just Species Survival
- PPE May Save Human Lives, but It’s Deadly for Wildlife
- Public Libraries Remain Essential Despite Defunding and Privatization
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S
T
- Ten Theses on Marxism and Decolonization
- The Ancient Patterns of Migration
- The Centers of Global Capitalism Are Migrating Away From the U.S., Europe and Japan
- The Community Schools Model
- Why Recycling Plastic Is Not Easy
- The Dairy Industry Is Determined to Pour Itself Down Our Throats
- The Legacy of Betsy DeVos on Public Education
- The Danger of Releasing Genetically Modified Trees Into the Wild
- The Different Ways That the U.S. and Chinese Governments Use Their Power to Regulate Capitalism
- The Function of the University in a Time of Crisis
- The Global Push for Population Growth Shows We’re Not Grappling With the Climate Crisis
- How Indian Farmers Defend the Rights of Farmers Everywhere
- The Internet Is a Major Environmental Problem
- The Meat Industry Has Created a False Dichotomy That Pits People Against Animals
- The Moneyless Economy in the USA
- 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 Promises Posed by Community Schools
- The Renewable Energy Transition Is Failing
- The Southwest Offers Blueprints for the Future of Wastewater Reuse
- The Terrible True Cost of Milk, Cheese, Butter, and Ice Cream
- The Truth About Markets, Pillar of Capitalist Ideology
- The U.S. Is Borrowing Its Way to Fascism
- The World’s Coffee Shops Have Emerged as Plant Milk’s Front Line
- There Are Better Ways for Societies to Address Inflation Than by Hiking Interest Rates
- These U.S. Banks Are Financing Climate Chaos Through Fossil Fuel Expansion
- Three Major Threats to Life on Earth That We Must Address
- We Can Prevent Pandemics by Shutting Down Live Animal Markets
- Tool Lending Libraries Allow Us to Rethink What We Are Willing to Share
- Toxic Chemicals in Food Packaging Weaken the Immune System Response
U
- How Unclear Federal Law Allows Logging, Farming, and Mining to Threaten U.S. Ecosystems
- Understanding the Basics of 21st-Century Democracy, Autocracy, and Capitalism
- The Potential Impact of Wireless Technology on Wildlife
- Understanding the Solidarity Economy and Just Transition
- Unlike a Globalized Food System, Local Food Won’t Destroy the Environment
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W
- 7 Ways You Can Address the Plastic Crisis without Relying on Recycling
- War Is Not Inevitable—A More Peaceful Future Is Possible
- We Did Not Evolve to Be Selfish—and Humans Are Increasingly Aware We Can Choose How Our Cultures Can Evolve
- We Ignore Thousands of Threatened Plant Species at Our Peril
- What China Learned From U.S. Capitalism’s Development
- What Google Street View Can Say About the Quality of Life in Your Neighborhood
- What Is the Common Good?
- What Was Humanity’s First Cultural Revolution?
- Whole Foods and McDonald’s Are Fueling the Massive Dead Zone in the Gulf of Mexico
- Why Are Archaeologists Unable to Find Evidence of a Ruling Class for the Indus Civilization?
- Why Are Wild Horses Brutally Uprooted From Public Lands While Private Livestock Can Stay?
- Why Capitalism Is in Constant Conflict With Democracy
- Why Defending Indigenous Rights Is Integral to Fighting Climate Change
- Why Does Everything the GOP Touches Cause Poverty, Disease and Death?
- Why Does Our Skin Wrinkle in Water?
- Why Government Mostly Helps People Who Need It the Least—Even During a Crisis
- Why Healthy Forests Mean Fewer Pandemics
- Why Humanity Should Look to Its Roots as We Revillage Our Towns and Cities
- Why Las Vegas Is at the Heart of Western States’ Water Conundrums
- Why Support for Artists Is Key to a Just Society
- Why the Neoliberal Agenda Is a Failure at Fighting Coronavirus
- Why the U.S. Culture of Colonial Extraction Is Making People Sick and Destroying the Planet
- Why There Is a Growing Student Absentee Rate—and How Community Schools Can Fix It
- The U.S. Capitalist Model Breeds Selfishness and Resentment
- Why We Should Change How We Talk About Nonhuman Animals
- Why Women Are More Likely to Be Environmentalists Than Men
- Why Yoga Teachers Say the Practice Is Essential for Challenging Times
- Wildfires Aren’t Just a Threat to People—They’re Killing Off Earth’s Biodiversity
- Would Dogs Be Better Off Without Us?
