Sustainability

A person pushes a barricade floating on a flooded street amid a coastal storm on September 29, 2023, in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y..

What Good Is Architecture on a Drowning Planet? What Good Is Architecture on a Drowning Planet?

We need political solutions to climate emergencies, not design solutions.

Oct 6, 2023 / Kate Wagner

New York City Record Rainfall Floods

New York City’s Climate Change Whiplash New York City’s Climate Change Whiplash

NYC had the wettest day on record since 1948 just months after smoke from the Canadian wildfires blanketed the sky. The lesson is clear: The US must take meaningful climate action...

Oct 3, 2023 / StudentNation / Ilana Cohen

Mother Earth’s Sick Bed

Mother Earth’s Sick Bed Mother Earth’s Sick Bed

Actions and inactions that threaten our planet.

Sep 25, 2023 / OppArt / Jos Sances

Shortsighted

Shortsighted Shortsighted

In retrospect.

Sep 22, 2023 / OppArt / Drew Sheneman

Plastic Island

Plastic Island Plastic Island

Nowhere to go. The ocean has more than 170 trillion plastic particles as pollution reaches unprecedented levels.

Sep 18, 2023 / OppArt / Felipe Galindo

The Tipping Point Is Now

The Tipping Point Is Now The Tipping Point Is Now

Inaction is not an option.

Sep 15, 2023 / OppArt / Tjeerd Royaards

Caldor Fire

How Do We Deal With Our Planet’s Unprecedented Decline? How Do We Deal With Our Planet’s Unprecedented Decline?

Across the planet, horrifying “natural” fire, flood, and heat records were set this summer.

Sep 14, 2023 / Tom Engelhardt

- Activists from the

These Activists Have One Simple Goal: Abolish the Cruise Industry These Activists Have One Simple Goal: Abolish the Cruise Industry

A group of environmental activists in France is gaining traction with a bold argument: Cruises shouldn’t exist.

Sep 14, 2023 / Cole Stangler

Los Angeles traffic

A Cooler Future Means a World With Less Pavement A Cooler Future Means a World With Less Pavement

Amid climate-fueled heat waves and floods, cities around the country are rethinking the streetscape.

Aug 31, 2023 / Lucy Sherriff

houses, neighborhood destroyed by lahaina hawaii fires

A Dispatch From the Heart of Lahaina: Relief Is Not Enough A Dispatch From the Heart of Lahaina: Relief Is Not Enough

Justice demands a return of control over public resources like land and water to the people of Hawai'i.

Aug 21, 2023 / Kaniela Ing

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