How to Save Bats in Your Own Backyard
Bats are mammals, shy creatures of the night, and fascinating to watch. They’re also endangered by loss of habitat, disease, and pesticide poisoning. You can help by providing protection.
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Life Is Easier With Friends Next Door
Feeling a need for community? Cohousing can provide affordable space and neighbors to share it with.
How I Learned to Love My Hometown
A sense of history and community tugged at the heart of Mindy Fullilove and pulled her back to the Jersey home she’d forsaken.
Foreclosure Aftermath: What We Leave Behind
Our homes tell the story of where we come from and who we are. What happens when we lose them?
How I Found Bliss in a Creaky Old Rental
Corbyn Hightower and her family moved from affluence to poverty—and into a "funky, junky" house that's been the happiest move of their lives.
Cheaper Together: How Neighbors Invest in Community
Cooperative financing and community land trusts keep rents affordable and homeownership within reach.
Dear Bank of America, We’re Not Leaving Our Homes
The fight against unjust evictions just got fiercer as the national Occupy movement joins forces with community anti-foreclosure groups.
Why the Military Can’t Deny Climate Change
Big Oil is a big risk for national security. Can our military—the world's No. 1 oil guzzler—change the politics of climate change?
How to Build Green on a Budget
The challenge: build the greenest houses on earth—and make them affordable.
We’ve Got Some Big Houses—That We Could Share
Just 60 years ago, the average American had 291 square feet of living space. Now it’s close to 1,000 square feet. Have we changed our needs that much? Or just our wants?
Real Homes: Small, Frugal, and Green
With 5 million houses in foreclosure, we are rediscovering that living sustainably includes living affordably.
Same-Sex Marriage Brings Healing to Me—and My Tribe
Heather Purser set out to win gay marriage rights within the Suquamish Tribe and found herself on a personal journey toward self-acceptance.
6 Ideas for Sensible Homes
Small, supportive, affordable, recycled—and you can build your own.
Is Owning or Renting Better For You?
How to know when it's smart to rent.
6 Tips for Sustainable Pet Care
Low-cost and natural ways to care for your critters.
Free Your (Eco)Mind
This Earth Day, think like an ecosystem—and you just might save the world.
Can There Be “Good” Corporations?
When companies are owned by workers and the community—instead of Wall Street financiers—everything changes.
8 Ways to De-Corporatize Your Money
Debit or credit? Keep your dollars out of corporate clutches.
4 Ways to Flex Our Electoral Muscles
What we can do right now to strengthen our democracy.
Boulder Votes to Free Its Electric Company
Running their own utility means sun and wind energy instead of coal.
“Social Security is Broke”—and Other Corporate Scare Tactics
For years, corporations have been peddling myths to rally us behind their interests. Here are three things everyone “knows,” and why they're wrong.
Special Weapons for Fighting Corporate Giants
Revoke their charters, and other legal tools to hold corporations accountable to our laws.
Now, Let’s Occupy the Ballot
During election season, all eyes turn to politics. How do we ensure that the interests of the 99 percent are represented in the halls of power?
Change Now, Vote Later
Political answers will come when we build a network of solidarity and action that pushes on all fronts for a true democracy.
By the Numbers: The Myth of the Overtaxed Corporation
For corporations, paying for tax breaks is still the best investment around.
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