Author: Adam Lee

At dinner, Rae and her friends reminisce about the past and muse on why the world is so broken.

Religion has always been a handy excuse people give for why they should disregard the best evidence we have.

Beneath the metropolis of New York, Rae and her coworkers labor to keep the trains running.

As unfair as it is, if we manage to save the world, it seems likely that we’ll have to drag the denialists kicking and screaming to their own rescue.

In which we meet our hero, on a hot, snowy night, in a future New York City changed beyond imagining…

We have kids because we believe that, whatever struggles or setbacks they face along the way, their lives will be better than ours.

I came across Vienna Teng while reading up on hopepunk for the article I published today, and I immediately knew I’d found something special. Most of her five studio albums are heavy on piano ballads, melancholy and contemplative. But her most recent, Aims, is more up-tempo. This album is from 2013, but it’s astonishing how…

Especially in dark times, stories of hope and utopia show us how the world could be better than it is, and thereby give us a blueprint for creating that better world.

The strange and curious sect of EnlightenNext, a cult that peacefully dissolved when its founder realized he had become a monster.

Much will be lost, and it’s right to grieve for that loss, but giving in to despair is a self-fulfilling prophecy. The fight against climate change has a bigger prize than the preservation of what we already have; if we win, we can create a better world.