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- 1,3-Dichloropropene: The Dangerous, Sweet-Smelling Pesticide You’ve Never Heard Of
- 8 Billion Humans? Population Is a Difficult Conversation, But Let's Have One
- 10 Reasons Why Hydropower Isn’t a Climate Solution
- 21 Ways to Divest from the War Economy
- 600 Million Metric Tons of Plastic May Fill Oceans by 2036
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- Circular Economy: How the Tanda System Helps Latinos in Southern California with Mutual Financial Support
- How Land Use Is a Tool for Solving Climate Change
- Hyperprosociality: A Compelling Theory to Explain a Key Trait of Modern Humans
- Obscene Wealth Is a Social Problem
- A Historical Case for Why the EU Could Endure for More Than 1,000 Years
- 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 Government Funding to Switch From Public to Private School
- A Voice from the South
- Water Conflicts Across Africa Threaten Security, Health, and the Environment
- 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
- Alternatives to Policing
- An Ancient Recipe for Social Success
- Animal-Free Agriculture Is Key to Restoring Biodiversity
- Archaeology Is Flipping the Script on What We Know About Ancient Mesoamerica
- 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?
- How One Podcast Provides a Platform for Those Putting the Planet and People Over Profit
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- Cakes, Cookies and Confections
- Can Humanity Repair Its Relationship With Nature? Weaving Earth Education Center Offers a Promising Path
- Can Teething Predict How Fast You Will Grow?
- Can Humanity Make a Shift to a Less Pollutive Energy System?
- Is 100 Percent Renewable Energy Attainable?
- Can You Reset Your Biological Age to Live a Longer, Healthier Life?
- Capitalism’s Unequal Distribution Deprives You of True Freedom
- Carbon Capture Is a Potential Weapon Against Climate Change
- Carbon Farming: A Sustainable Agriculture Technique That Keeps Soil Healthy and Combats Climate Change
- Chickens Are Smarter Than You Think
- Why Chickens Deserve Our Respect
- Chickens Lack the Most Basic Legal Protection: The Right to Humane Slaughter
- How Cities Around the World Are Adapting to Better Food Systems
- Cities Made Differently: Try Imagining Another Urban Existence
- Climate Change Is Boosting Plant Pollens and Human Seasonal Allergies
- Climate Crises Can Lead to Improved Social Cooperation and Economy
- Coins and Temples in the Ancient World
- Ways to Commit to the Changes We Want to See in the World
- Community in Motion
- ‘Public Trust’—A Key Legal Tool for People to Protect the Planet
- Community Schools Can Revitalize the Neighborhoods Around Them
- 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’
- Costa Rica: The New Grand Tour
- Cruelty-Free Fashion: Growing Leather Without Animals
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- Damming Rivers Is Terrible for Human Rights, Ecosystems and Food Security
- Debt Forgiveness in the Bronze Age
- Debt in Ancient Greece
- How Transforming the Ways We Relate Can Build Peace
- 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
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- Is Eating Locally and in Season Actually Better for the Environment?
- Eight Themes in Mesopotamia’s Evolving Labor-Shaped Economies
- 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
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- Facing a Surge in Wildfires, the U.S. Government Turned to Native Wisdom and Advanced Archaeology
- What Factory Farm Conditions Do to Animals—Including Humans
- How We Can Protect the Air Despite the Supreme Court’s West Virginia v. EPA Decision
- 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
- For-Profit Charter Schools Provide an Entryway for Private Investors to Exploit Public Education
- Forests Thrive When Indigenous People Have Legal Stewardship of Their Land
- Free Market Ideology Compared to the Principles of Near Eastern Rulership
- Human Overpopulation Is a Key Driver Behind Some of Humanity’s Biggest Challenges
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- Georgia SOS Raffensperger Flirts With Trump Propagandists in Reelection Campaign
- Greene Street Artists Coop Is a Haven for Philadelphia Creatives
- Ways to Transform and Heal the Ways We Work Together in Groups
- Guide to Climate Action in Your Local Community
- Guide to Factory-Farmed Chickens: Animal Cruelty on a Massive Scale
- Guide to Sustainable, Eco-Friendly, Organic and Vegan Wine
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- 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
- Highlander Research and Education Center Brings Old-School Expertise to Present-Day Issues
- Home Improvement Through Community Land Trusts
- How a 20th-Century Family Planning Agenda Fueled the Climate Crisis
- How a Neighborhood Co-op Started by Teens Helped Communities Around the U.S. Adopt Solar Power
- How Animal Agriculture Drains Our Freshwater Supplies
- How Artificial Intelligence Challenges the Concept of Authorship
- How Artists Stand on the Front Lines of Political Resistance in America
- 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
- How California’s Farmers and Ranchers Could Lead the Way to Climate Resilience
- 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
- How Community Solar Can Liberate You From Fossil Fuels
- The Activist Success Story Behind the Biggest Dam Removal Deal In U.S. History
- How Elite Infighting Made the Magna Carta
- How Factory Farms Pollute the Environment and Poison Drinking Water
- How Greek Coinage Democratized the Character of Money
- Indigenous Land Management Practices Are a Blueprint for Climate-Resilient Agriculture
- 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
- Our Coffee Addiction Is Destroying the Environment
- How People Are Fighting the World’s Reliance on the War Economy
- How Practices of Care Can Support Activists to Endure
- How Prehistoric Humans Discovered Fire Making
- How Racism Is an Essential Tool for Maintaining the Capitalist Order
- 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 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 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 Three New Museums Are Teaching the World About a Paradigm Shift in Our Understanding of Human Origins
- How to Decode Humane Food Labels at the Supermarket
- How to Decolonize Our Battle Against Climate Change
- How to Make Recyclable Plastics Out of CO2 to Slow Climate Change
- 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
- Hummingbirds Are in Rapid Decline
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- Inside the Chaotic Charter Schools Run by a For-Profit Company
- Investigation Exposes Animal Abuse at U.S. Supplier to World’s Largest Meat Company
- Is Politics All in the Mind?
- Is the Food Industry Concealing Possible Destruction of the Tropics From the Public?
- Is Wastewater an Answer for Adapting to Climate Change?
- It’s Not Just Ideology: Why the U.S. Is Hard-Wired to Be Hostile to Autocratic Regimes
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- Mainstream Ideology Defends Creditor Claims Over the Indebted Economy
- Malawi’s Farmers Face a Precarious Future From Climate Change-Related Storms
- Terms That Are Frequently Used to Describe Capitalism Simply Don’t Hold Up Under Scrutiny
- Mapping the Solidarity Economy
- 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
- Meet the Collective Offering an Alternative to the ‘Mental Health Industrial Complex’ for Underserved Communities
- 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
- Modern (Mis)interpretations of Clean Slates
- Montana’s First Worker Cooperative Is In It for the Long Haul
- Practices that Actually Affect Change
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- On Primate Research, the U.S. Is ‘Out of Step’ With the Rest of the World
- Organic Farming Increases Soil Carbon and Helps Counter Climate Change
- Our Ancient Relationship With Red Ocher and the Color of Cognition
- How to Fix Our Food System
- Our Planet Versus Plastic Bags—A Tale of Two Cities
- 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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- Palm Oil in Common Household Products Is Destroying the World’s ‘Orangutan Capital’
- Palm Oil: The Ingredient Behind Human Rights Abuses and Eco-Destruction That’s Probably in Your Home Right Now
- Parallels Between Archaic Entrepots and Modern Offshore Banking Centers
- Perceptions of Social Dominance and How to Change Them
- Global Pet Craze Is Becoming a Major Contributor to the Extinction Crisis
- Philadelphia Homeless Residents’ Unprecedented Grassroots Housing Victory
- Plastic Pollution Is a Crime Against People and the Planet
- 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
- Prepared Learning: What Are Humans Hard-Wired for at Birth?
- Private Enterprise Originated in Public Institutions
- Procter & Gamble, Mondelēz and Nestlé Are Among 10 of the Leading Consumer Brands Driving Global Deforestation
- Profit Trumps People and Planet in Brazil’s Eucalyptus Industry
- Property and Debt in Ancient Rome
