This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The forest fire stopped just before arriving at Nieves Fernández Vidueira’s farm, but it burned all day in the area surrounding Quintela do Pando in Galicia, northwestern Spain. “I will…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Just before sunset on Oct. 22, 2015, 53-year-old Stephen Brock was walking up and down the narrow gravel road near his trailer home, yelling, cursing and praying. Neighbors later told…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Earlier this year, the Vermont Solidarity Investing Club hosted its fifth annual meeting to take stock of its assets, including investments in a Vermont-based grocer, a pickling company in Massachusetts, and a…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As instructional leaders craft professional development in any format, it is important to assess the flow and structure of what you are creating. Like all endeavors, practice fuels improvement. Just as…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In February of 2021, I wrote about why we need to move from a state of fear to being fearless as we navigate through the Covid-19 pandemic and into a new reality.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. For people who received the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine, the past few months have been a bit of a bumpy ride with news of side effects, pauses and restarts…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The General Assembly of the International Union for Conservation of Nature, or IUCN, will gather next week to shape a collective strategy to protect the world’s increasingly at-risk flora and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Pembroke Township, population less than 2,000, is the last historic Black farming community left in Illinois. And at one time, it was the largest such community in the northern United States. Founded in the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. This op-ed by Bianca Casanova Anderson was previously published on July 16, 2021 in the Chronicle of Philanthropy. Reprinted with permission. As a Black woman who serves as co-executive director of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In recent decades the cost of wind and solar power generation has dropped dramatically. This is one reason that the U.S. Department of Energy projects that renewable energy will be…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Even before the 100&Change deadline for applications had passed, the Bernard van Leer Foundation launched a response to the Syrian crisis with grants to the International Rescue Committee (IRC) and Sesame Workshop. Foundation…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Educational technology is so woven into curriculum today, it’s almost impossible to imagine teaching children without it. Would educators pull pencils and erasers from classrooms? Of course not. And nor…