Returning Yulića: Lessons From Land Rematriation
How funders, sellers, and intermediaries can better support Indigenous “land back” initiatives.
Environment - Articles
Innovations in environmental protection and conserving natural resources (more)
Ending Ocean Plastic Pollution
Researchers have developed plastic-like materials that dissolve in the ocean and could soon come to market.
Building a Climate-Activist Ecosystem
The Kennedy-backed nonprofit Climate Emergency Fund supports disruptive activism to raise awareness of the climate crisis—and is looking to scale. | Open access to this article for non-subscribers is sponsored by an SSIR supporter.
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Grief Is a Gift
An excerpt from Tom Chi’s Climate Capital on building forward for the future we need.
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Food Solidarity Economy
An excerpt from Feeding the Future on civilizational transition to regenerative food systems
Climate Adaptation Means Building Social Infrastructure
Resilience to climate change is less about building walls than cultivating the social capacities for people to navigate uncertainty with agency, solidarity, and security.
Making Behavioral Science Work for Conservation
At its core, conservation is about behavior change. Yet few organizations have put in place the structure, standards, and accountability needed to apply behavioral science effectively.
SSIR’s 2025 Social Innovation Reading List
Highlights of this year’s book reviews and excerpts on topics including gun violence prevention, cash transfers, refugees, regenerative agriculture, adapting to climate change, reinventing solidarity, and more.
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What ‘Good’ Means
An excerpt from Evaluative Inquiry for Systemic Change on embedding value into evaluation
A World of Innovation
A look at the issues and articles that resonated most with SSIR’s local language edition readers in 2025.