Nearly 1 in 6 properties across the city faced tax foreclosure last year. Land trusts are one way to keep buildings—whether housing or businesses—permanently affordable.
Happiness
Three years ago, they started a program to keep salvageable goods from landfills by harnessing the community’s collective skills to fix them.
Florida’s Miccosukee is the first tribe allowed to run its own school, where students fully participate in family and cultural activities.
After a Century In Decline, Black Farmers Are Back And On the Rise
These Black farmers don’t stop at healthy food. They’re healing trauma, instilling collective values, and changing the way their communities think about the land.
From Idaho to Georgia, people found ways to offer sanctuary and legal protection.
25-year old Scrap Exchange partners with Durham, North Carolina, residents to build an innovative arts district.
America’s past truth and reconciliation processes show us what works.
Retrofitting Suburbia: Communities Innovate Their Way Out of Sprawl
The future for suburbanites, who now have twice the carbon footprint of city dwellers, seems to be pointing backward to pre-automobile, train-based living.
Cities can offer shelter and protection to their vulnerable citizens and become a place progressives can exert real power.
Four ways to turn election stress into courage and compassion.
Of 194 languages remaining in North America, nearly 63 percent are spoken only by adults or elders. That’s why children's television programming is key.
No Fossil Fuel? No Problem—7 Ways We're Already Living More Locally
From affordable transit to local food for school lunches, many people across America are already on their way to living a life without oil.
Instead of addressing the roots of drug addiction, mental illness, and poverty, we’ve come to accept policing and incarceration as catch-all solutions. It’s time for a change.
What if we defined wise spending in terms of the happiness that it brings? Research shows certain spending can bring us closer to others.
The documentary Occupy the Farm shows the positive impact universities could have if they leveraged their resources to create more farms and farmers.