Recycling and Up Cycling: Rethinking How We Get Rid of Plastic

Miranda Wang and Jeanny Yao met at a school recycling meeting when they were in the eighth grade. It was then that they realized just how bad our plastic proble... Read More

Cancer, Children and The Environmental Crisis

A Look from Sandra Steingraber’s “Raising Elijah” By Michael Galvis More than 40 percent of Americans will contract cancer in their lifetime. It is the se... Read More

Snuffing the Red Light: Urban Light’s Mission

by Derek Hockenbrough Two qualities immediately struck me about her the moment that I met Alezandra Russell: an immensely empathetic wisdom and an unstoppable ... Read More

Liberation Ecology in Haiti

by Angela Malson Dr. Sasha Kramer is a liberation ecologist working in Haiti to transform what some view as merely waste into a useful component of our natural... Read More

New York City: The Concrete Jungle Turns Green

by Brittany Farmer Inhaling gyro in Rockefeller Center, you stare out at the yellow cabs honking, gassing, crawling bumper to bumper, wrenched in tight by ... Read More

Miami Living: It’s Not All You Think

by Kamla-Kay McKenzie With collages of bikini bodies sprawled on sparkling beaches, nightclubs hyped by the presence of a jet-setting celebrity, and notabl... Read More

Gadget and Strategy of the Electric Vehicle War

by Derek Hockenbrough In a society whose heart beats thick with obsidian oil, a man stands on the front line carrying the flailing banner of the electric army.... Read More

Living What Feels Right

by Brenda Nieves Imagine having no rent or mortgage to pay. Imagine traveling at will wherever the spirit moves you to — spending the day with your childre... Read More

Seeing Through Deke’s Eyes

Ohio Teenager Follows a Different Path in Exploring the World by J.R. Plate We frequently hear about people who are a product of their environment. Most often... Read More

Something for Nothing: America’s Roads to Nowhere

“The American people must realize we are going to have to pay to fix this system.” – Robert Puentes, Senior Fellow, Metropolitan Policy Program, Brookings Ins... Read More