Does Your City Need a ‘Youth Council’ for Climate Change?
In June, with representatives from Montreal to Guadalajara in attendance, the city of San Antonio, Texas officially opened its new North American Friendship Garden. A thriving green space to celebrate...
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Through Online Platforms, Thousands Open Their Homes to Ukraine’s Refugees
#Ukraine We want to help!! Where? A small city in Germany. When? From now for as long as you need. What? Free guestroom in our house with garden. Also food, clothing, medical care and more if needed....
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Democracy Comes to Michigan
The following Q&A is the product of two separate interviews that have been edited and condensed. This year, Michigan is preparing to hold the most competitive election the state has seen in...
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Meet the ‘Future Generations’ Commissioner of Wales
Sophie Howe has a uniquely forward-looking job. Since 2016, the Future Generations Commissioner for Wales has been tasked with ensuring her country’s public institutions are taking into consideration...
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A New Bipartisan Act Aims to Make America Get Along
Towards the end of last year, a string of faith-related attacks took place in the Tacoma, Washington area, sparking widespread shock and condemnation. In Tacoma itself they included an arson attack at...
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The Nature Lover’s App That Became a Catalog of Earth’s Biodiversity
When Tom Doubleday walks in the Vermont woods, he turns over rocks looking for salamanders. He listens for birdsong. He notices many of the plant species around him. So in July 2021, when the retired...
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Australia’s ‘Teal Independents’ Are a Conservative Force for Climate Action
When Australia’s new parliament sat for the first time in late July, the familiar faces of the center-left Labor party and the center-right Coalition took their seats as usual on either side of the...
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How America’s First ‘Heat Officers’ Are Cooling Miami and Los Angeles
Marta Segura has seen firsthand how heat can harm a person. She grew up in Northern California, where her mother worked in the steamy canneries of San José, and her father in the fields. “Both were...
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Remote Work Is a Chance to Do Something Meaningful
Kay Bromley hadn’t done any volunteering since she worked in her local thrift store after high school. But when the IT specialist, now 34 and with two children, came across an opportunity to work...
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Japan’s ‘Zero Waste’ Village Is a Model for Small-Town Sustainability
The Zero Waste Center in Kamikatsu, Japan, looks like a peculiar kind of flea market: everything from metal ring pulls to plastic bottle lids, mirrors and thermometers are neatly stored in a row of...
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