Can a plant “know” its world? Can it adapt, remember, or even make choices? These questions may sound surprising, but they have captured...
For more than five decades, Shirley C. Strum has lived alongside baboons in the wilds of Kenya. What she discovered overturned long-held scientific...
In Washington, Rollbacks. On Rooftops, Revolutions. The clean energy story is unfolding on two fronts. In the U.S., the Trump administration has...
On September 21, communities across the United States will gather for Sun Day — a coordinated day of action calling for more solar, wind, and...
When chimpanzees fall ill, they don’t have the option of pharmacies or prescriptions. Instead, they draw on an inherited knowledge...
The U.S. is at a crossroads. A handful of opportunistic, megalomaniacal billionaires and corporate power have flooded politics with unprecedented...
In the November 2024 elections, 70% of U.S. elected offices went uncontested—a sobering sign of a democracy in crisis. Systemic barriers,...
Author, broadcaster and scholar Thom Hartmann warns of the existential threat of a virulent new oligarchy: the third frontal assault by the...
Twenty years ago, Hurricane Katrina exposed the fault lines of American society: racial injustice, environmental neglect, economic abandonment, and...
Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin grew up in extreme poverty in the northern rainforest of Guatemala during Guatemala’s brutal decades-long civil war....
Photo by Jason Halley, California State University, Chico by Cynthia Daley, Ph.D. Cynthia Daley, and co-founder and Director of the...
The beloved Buddhist teacher and intellectual Joanna Macy died on July 19, 2025. A profound teacher, author, and activist, Joanna was a scholar of...