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US YouTube star Chrissy Chambers made history last year, when she won a landmark revenge porn civil case. She explains where she found the courage to fight back

Although the world may benefit from more positive film-making, films that expose problems have a valuable place too. Here are three documentaries that changed the world (...and one t

Without knowing what a more fulfilling relationship with the natural world could look like, we won’t be able to reach it, writes Richard Louv. It’s time for a new, positive ecological vision

The number of Zika transmissions in the Americas has dropped dramatically in the past year

It’s half a century since the summer of love changed San Francisco forever. Today, big tech has moved in, while artists have moved out in search of cheaper cities. James Stewart visited to take [...]

Aaron Millar talks to some of the summer of love’s big characters about the 60s utopian dream and why it matters in current political times

Lori Lakin Hutcherson was shocked when she was unable to find a website dedicated to positive news about black people. So she started one

Despite a seemingly gloomy present, the future of the US looks bright, believes Mike Males. Research suggests that young Americans are turning away from crime and drugs and towards tolerance and [...]

Los Angeles-based ‘gangsta gardener’ and community leader Ron Finley is determined to redefine ‘gangsta’ as being about building thriving communities, not machismo

A community microgrid is helping New Yorkers exchange renewable power

New technology and community engagement strategies have helped the city's police force cut gun crime

Refugees are not a common sight in out-of-the-way Montana, but Missoula resident Mary Poole and her book club decided to make a change by welcoming fleeing families into their homes

Brenda Berkman was among a group of women who sued New York City’s fire department for sex discrimination in 1982. They won and she became one of the city’s first female firefighters

Sierra Leonean-American Michaela DePrince was orphaned at the age of three. She went on to join the Dutch National Ballet. DePrince features in a book, The Female Lead, which is designed to [...]

The O’Neill sisters did not expect the tornado that hit their town in Massachusetts or that recovering from the disaster would change their lives, writes Doyle Rice for USA Today

Residents can now identify as X on state-issued documents

While Trump’s administration grapples with its position on climate change, it’s worth stepping back to see the wider picture in the US, believes Lance Pierce, North America president of CDP. In [...]

The first 100 days of Donald Trump’s US presidency have been controversial to say the least. But his administration’s most anti-progressive policies have been met with a wall of creative [...]

Though the US didn’t see a woman elected to the highest office this week, other women running on platforms of equality and progressive reform did win

Berkeley in California is believed to be the first US city to give preference to co-operatives after passing a new resolution that favours worker-owned organisations in contracting and procurement