In Norway, a high-tech seed vault flooded from melting permafrost. In Montana, locals keep their seeds in the library.

The starting point is to realize we have choices—like meaningful work, authentic relationships, and gratitude. We come into this world naked with nothing to count on but love.

Why has it taken so long to respond? Naomi Klein’s new book, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate , explores that question. Klein points to the “terrible timing” of the climate crisis c...

If you want to understand people, ask for their stories. Listen long enough, and you learn not only the events of their lives, but their sources of meaning, what they value, what they most want.

Lama Tsomo is a Tibetan Buddhist lama, a former homesteader, and an heiress to a family fortune who lives a quiet life in the mountains of Montana. Now she is beginning to teach the practices and insi...

Much happened that was hopeful this year — a new pope focused on inequality, successful minimum wage campaigns spread across the country, and the number of states allowing gay marriage doubled. We loo...

Remember the last time we were told military strikes were needed because a Middle Eastern despot had used weapons of mass destruction? As U.S. political and media leaders prepare for military strikes...