Humanity’s rapacious consumption is more than Earth and its climate can handle, which is driving an ecological crisis. Australians are the worst offenders per person due to our excessive resource use.

There are many ways for a business to be self-sufficient. An energy self-sufficient business generates enough power to fuel its own operations and a business that is self-sufficient in its personnel ...

Making things more efficient is not enough; we have to ask ourselves what we really need. There is lots of talk about efficiency, but nobody talks much about sufficiency. But in a discussion of the ...

Addressing the climate crisis and transitioning to eco-friendly energy are critical tasks our generation must undertake. Moving away from fossil fuel-based power generation and securing stable ...

The Trump administration has opened the door for states to require that able-bodied Medicaid recipients work to keep their coverage. The Heartland Institute, a conservative think tank, thinks that’s a ...

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

A few months ago, I wrote about slighting – about why human beings are so vulnerable to feeling disrespected, and how perceived disrespect can cause severe psychological pain and even lead to violence ...

Sow True Seed had to post a bouncer at the door. The garden supplier’s small storefront in Asheville, North Carolina, was so swamped in early March that staff began to let only six customers in at a ...