AWA is pleased to announce a call for proposal for its 2014-2105 Good Husbandry Grants program.

In April, Rep. Jim Moran, D-Va., introduced the Humane Cosmetics Act, a landmark bill to ban the testing of cosmetics on animals.

An eater voting with Monsanto is like a chicken voting for Colonel Sanders...

The Koda Fund was established by internationally known psychic medium, John Holland to provide lifesaving care for animals in need...

If communities want to enjoy the benefits of a robust economy, each municipality must become a high performing, self-reliant economic engine operating on four cylinders...

One in five children will go to sleep hungry tonight in the United States. Most of us respond to hearing facts like these by turning away, closing off, thinking our training inadequate, our power too small...

In January of this year, Governor Patrick announced that the state will pour millions of dollars into “demand response systems” that will advance a mandate to install wireless so-called “smart meters” in Massachusetts...

Times have never been tougher for indigenous people living in traditional ways. Yet 2013 saw them winning land rights, fighting misrepresentation in the media, and winning solidarity from unexpected allies...

Canada’s attempt to stamp out Aboriginal cultures failed, but the legacy of that long-standing effort remains...

The age-old merchant model of doing business with your neighbors and banking with an institution that actually keeps your money in the community is making a comeback.

Through four decades of expansion and change, including the addition of Sano natural foods café and a second story of health practitioner offices upstairs, Living Earth has dedicated itself to providing healthy shopping choices...

Educating Americans about the historical inequities and atrocities inflicted on African Americans entrusts everyone, especially those in the medical profession, with the responsibility to afford dignity and respect to every individual, regardless of race.

From now on, the global mantra for filling market gaps and new demands, according to Eric DeLuca of the National Cooperative Business Association, is going to be, "There's a co-op for that."

Small business owners value your business. They go the extra mile in providing personalized customer service because local sales are their life-blood. They give back to the community by sponsoring your town's soccer and Little League teams and town charity events...

McDonald’s idea to help workers create a household budget seems to have backfired...

Defense contractor Brandon Toy resigns in protest of arming US-led wars...

Dutch artist duo Front404 decorated surveillance cameras in the city of Utrecht with shiny party hats to celebrate George Orwell's 110th birthday...

The legal right to refuse a smart meter is “fundamentally an issue of the principle of choice,” testified Rep. Tom Conroy (D) Wayland at the Telecommunications Committee hearing...

Snowden's articulate rendering of the facts, including the truth about covert government intelligence operations against the American people carried out with corporate complicity, makes for a chilling transcript read...

A short story about drones over Pakistan excerpted from an interview with pastor Jim Wallis by Sarah van Gelder, co-founder of Yes! Magazine...

A number of proposed bills are attempting to restrict the use of conscientious or philosophical, religious and medical exemptions to mandatory vaccination laws...

A number of proposed bills are attempting to restrict the use of conscientious or philosophical, religious and medical exemptions to mandatory vaccination laws...