Magazine Articles

We need to move to a less toxic future—if we are to have a future worth having.read more

Lacking ExxonMobil’s bank account, we’re relying on people’s spirit and creativities and bodies.read more

They have the money and the power, and there is only one way to beat them: with an unprecedented grassroots movement.read more

To take a swipe at Isaiah, the plow has destroyed more options for future generations than the sword.read more

The honorable choice I see is to power-down: stop taking airplane jaunts, repair old things, get out the clothespins, grow food, walk.read more

Margaret Atwood is a novelist, essayist, and poet.

Q: Your latest book, The Year of the Flood, concerns the environment. Why have you taken up this issue?read more

There’s a battle on right now for the soul of this country: Are we a generous and welcoming nation, or a fearful and bigoted and parsimonious one?read more

The same debate that shakes the Palestinian movement in general reverberates in the halls of hip-hop.read more

Stewart Udall urged us all to "have a love affair with the wonder and beauty of the Earth.”read more

Jim Hightower discovers one minority the GOP likes.read more

In almost all countries of the North, the red light halts the circulation of many dangerous herbicides, pesticides, and chemical fertilizers. Yet in almost all of the countries of the South, the green light is on for these same agrotoxins, poisonous to humans but sold by the North.read more

Access to healthy food is a social justice issue, as well as one of decency and sustainability. Let’s boost the school lunch budget.read more

Cities most impacted have higher concentrations of black and Latino residents, and the Obama Administration’s plan to assist people facing foreclosure is not working.read more

The BP blowout and the Iraq and Afghanistan wars are the same story. The plot is oil, and the arc of the story moves from our complicity to our complacency.read more

Terry Tempest Williams offers an equation: “People plus place equals politics.”read more