Culture

The Driftless — an unglaciated area that runs through Wisconsin and a few other states — lured Tamara Dean and her partner, David, to escape their life indoors two decades ago. “We had spent our days in offices, staring at screens most of the time. And we thought, we just want to try something that […]

In 2018, devastating rains hit Mike Tidwell’s community of Takoma Park, Maryland, leading to a loss of tree canopy the following year unparalleled in the city’s history. After the torrential rainfall, Tidwell went on a kind of detective’s quest to find out what was killing the trees of Willow Avenue and elsewhere in Takoma Park, […]

In Panama, forest cover on Indigenous lands has remained stable at almost double the rate of protected areas — including government parks — due in great part to deeply-ingrained cultural values, a new study led by researchers from McGill University has found. The findings challenge a longstanding assumption about conservation: that in order to protect […]

Water For Life began its journey when filmmaker Will Parrinello and his team followed environmental activist Francisco Pineda more than 14 years ago. Pineda was a winner of the Goldman Environmental Prize who was working to stop the development of a gold mine in his home country of El Salvador.  “He doesn’t say this in […]

The Herds, a public art initiative of life-sized animal puppets that aims to raise awareness about the climate crisis, has set off on a 12,400-mile journey starting in central Africa and traveling through 20 cities in four months to the Arctic Circle. The mobile art piece of hundreds of intricately crafted puppets began on April […]

In 2018, China made global headlines when it banned the importation of foreign plastic and electronic waste. This fleeting news item exposed one of the dirty secrets of the Western world’s trash – that much of our garbage is, in reality, shipped elsewhere, many times under the shield of “recycling,” a little-known fact until China’s […]

Alt. Leather, a startup based in Melbourne, Australia, has designed an entirely eco-based leather alternative made from natural fibers and agricultural waste that provides an animal-free option using zero plastics. The new material looks and feels like leather and is meant to replace conventional leather products used in the footwear, fashion, upholstery and automotive industries, […]

In the not-too-distant past, the American Southwest was a place that fed the imagination of non-residents. The sun, the desert, expansive canyons and gorgeous vistas have drawn visitors and retirees for decades. The Southwest is generally defined as Arizona, New Mexico and parts of Nevada, California and Texas, and the attraction is predictable – warm […]