Activism Stories
As we make a transition to renewable sources of energy, let’s not renew the same old mistakes.
Shawn Hayes leads a life of devotion. For him, falconry is more than a deep partnership with raptors: it’s his life’s work.
Was It Worth It? captures the essence of a life committed to the wild and challenges readers to make certain that their answer to this universal question is yes.
First-generation Vietnamese American Mai Nguyen follows in the footsteps of their agrarian ancestors with a farm that grows numerous types of grains with a no-till, anti-fertilizer regenerative approach.
Why a logging protest has become Canada’s largest act of civil disobedience.
The communities of Cajón del Maipo, in Chile, are seeing their environment be threatened by an unnecessary hydroelectric project.
An Italian town began emptying out. Then its inhabitants turned to renewable energy to save it.
Trail runner and activist Felipe Cancino takes us on a 120 km run through the Maipo River Valley—revealing along the way the impacts of the Alto Maipo hydropower project on the local ecosystem, its communities and traditions; and the threat it poses to the water supply of Santiago’s 7.1 million residents.
This marine sanctuary in the Gulf of Mexico is one of many biodiversity hotspots in the US that need more federal protection.
An excerpt from Toxic: The Rotting Underbelly of the Tasmanian Salmon Industry.
An interview with Gabo Benoit, trail advocate and mountain-bike mayor of Coyhaique, Chile.
Campaigning for clean air might be a marathon, but progress is finally being made for communities in UK city centers.
Childhood friends, Hayley Talbot and Dan Ross, are determined to save a mighty river.
As the old-growth logging crisis heats up in Canada, a photographer goes searching for trees to save them.
Not totally relating to some forms of climate activism, Josh Wharton found his own way to contribute.
Nearly every Wednesday, Courtney Reynolds can be found elbow-deep in a bin of someone else’s castoffs, searching for scraps of fabric and colorful quilts to deconstruct and sew into original clothing items for her three preschool-age kids, or to sell in her online shop, Napkin Apocalypse.
We’re entering Earth’s sixth mass extinction, but clues about this climate crisis could be right under our feet.
John Murray’s lifelong work to permanently protect the Badger-Two Medicine from oil and gas drilling.
An unlikely community, in the most unlikely location, has become an even more unlikely force for public lands conservation.
The next nine years will be a time of resilience, rebuilding and reinvention.