This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) is working to empower the women in India’s informal sector. Today, they organize roughly 3.8 million women workers across the country, providing women farmers with…
Last October, Colorado state Rep. Lesley Smith was in Germany, visiting her husband’s family. While strolling around her sister-in-law’s neighborhood, she glimpsed a solar panel hanging off an apartment building…
Establishing forests can capture carbon and boost biodiversity — but some biomes are a better bet than others, a recent study about afforestation and reforestation finds. Forest restoration has emerged as a…
Behind the Sandy-Hassmiller Climate & Health Initiative are Lewis G. Sandy, M.D. (1982) and Susan Hassmiller, R.N., Ph.D., FAAN, whose decades of experience in leadership and public health inspired their investment…
Asia is at an inflection point. Withdrawal of aid, shifting global priorities, and declining bilateral support have left communities exposed, revealing the risks of external donor reliance. For decades, the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A new YouTube channel from author and researcher Jules Pretty makes the case for stories as a powerful tool for climate action and systems change. Pretty, an Emeritus Professor of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The nation’s public lands and waters are not an abstraction. They are the places where we hunt and hike, where cattle graze and rivers rise, where tribes connect with ancient…
When Russian air strikes knocked out Ukrainian power plants earlier this winter, much of the Black Sea port city of Mykolaiv went dark, and indoor temperatures plummeted. Just 60 kilometers…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Mexico’s sundry landscapes have few parallels. Straddling the northern boundary of the Tropic of Cancer, the country boasts low-lying deserts and humid rainforests, scrubby chaparral and tangled mangroves, with long…
The United States is on the verge of a “home insurability crisis,” according to a report by the Natural Resources Defense Council, as many U.S. homes become uninsurable. Climate-induced natural disasters…
Picture the bucolic little town of a fairy tale. At its core stand medieval buildings, a square where folks hawk their goods and perhaps a well to provide water. Beyond…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Floating solar is a subset of the solar industry in which solar panels are moored on the surface of water. While the practice can add more renewable energy to the…