April 22, 2020
As the issue of climate change has become increasingly salient, colleges and universities have come under increasing pressure to withdraw their investments wrapped up in different...
Nathan Carpenter, Editor-in-Chief
April 22, 2020
For the better part of a decade, Oberlin residents, City officials, and College students have been involved in a battle against NEXUS Gas Transmission, a 256-mile pipeline...
Nathan Carpenter, Editor-in-Chief
April 22, 2020
Mary Annaïse Heglar, OC ’06, is a writer who focuses primarily on personal essays about the intersections of climate and justice. She also serves as director of publications...
Dan Kennedy, Features Editor
April 22, 2020
Appalachia has been a hub of fossil fuel extraction for over a century, and the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition has been leading anti-pollution efforts in the region since...
Anisa Curry Vietze, Editor-in-Chief
April 22, 2020
Water levels in Lake Erie — and the Great Lake system overall — are higher this year than they’ve been in over a century, and for people who live and work next to the...
Nathan Carpenter and Ananya Gupta
April 22, 2020
Sonia Shah, OC ’90, is an investigative journalist and award-winning author. She has written several notable books, including The Next Great Migration: The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move, set...
April 22, 2020
After a mass transition away from industrial monoculture to organic agriculture in the 1990s, Cuba has rapidly become a model for organic agriculture research. The island remained largely inaccessible...
April 22, 2020
When Jordanian General Mansour Abu Rashid was a soldier in the Arab-Israeli wars, he never thought that one day he would help bring peace to the valley between Jordan and Israel. General Mansour, who was...
April 22, 2020
One of the most challenging aspects of working as an activist is that of mobilization — developing ways to inspire people to do work that they do not have to do. A precious few people get out of bed...
April 22, 2020
Editor’s note: The passage by Shen Congwen is translated from the original Chinese by the writer. For me, Hunan, China is not only a place of memories — it is where my maternal family lives and where...
Editor’s note: On Sept. 20, 2019, the Global Climate Strike took place in thousands of communities around the world, as millions of people...
When this Editorial Board first met to discuss possible directions for our work in this issue, the possibilities seemed limitless. After all,...
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By now, it is clear that the world has until 2030 to limit the catastrophic effects of climate change by keeping global average temperatures...
This past February, the United Church of Christ published a report on polluting facilities located in or near residential communities across...
After staunchly opposing the construction of a pipeline through their community, some people will agree to settle and concede the fight while...