A vibrant, fair, and regenerative future is possible — not when thousands of people do climate justice activism perfectly but when millions of people do the best they can . - Xiye Bastida   The first organized Earth Day was April 22, 1970.  Since then, the  Earth Day Network  has mobilized environmental awareness and activism to protect our planet. This Earth Day, people of all backgrounds and generations are called in solidarity, kindness and action to show their care for Planet Earth. When...

At times, through bouts of gloom, existential overwhelm or bearing the weight of global injustices and daily stressors, we may question—how anyone could find joy these days? With a shift of perspective on the meaning of joy, we might actually realize it’s been with us all along.  Poet, essayist and educator Ross Gay  offers: “joy is the mostly invisible, the underground union between us, you and me, which is, among other things, the great fact of our life and the lives of everyone and thing...