How a Local Food System Builds Health and Community Wealth
Many communities in the U.S. ship food out—and ship the same food back in. What's the value of keeping it at home?
Environment
The Great Turning as Compass and Lens
The Great Turning invites us to lift our eyes from the cramped closet of short-term thinking and see the larger historical landscape.
Food Revolution: Americans Lose their Appetite for Anonymous Food
Why are farmers’ markets, community supported agriculture, direct farm-to-household marketing, organics, and humanely raised meats all on the increase?
Making it Last
Hunter Lovins helped found and manage the Rocky Mountain Institute, famous for turning conventional wisdom about energy on its head. She’s still changing minds in the worlds of business, nonprofits, and government, showing a more sustainable path to prosperity.
Getting There on Less
How might we get around with less oil? Here’s a 12-step program to kick our addiction to gas guzzling.
Cheese, Bread, and Thou
A small cheese shop in Berkeley has become a
community hub and a thriving model of worker
ownership.
The Lake And the ‘hood
Mono Lake activists fought a 16-year David-versus-Goliath battle against the city's Department of Water and Power (DWP) to stop water diversions to Los Angeles. Yet the rural community and the city have emerged from the fray as watershed partners.
A Watershed Runs Through You
The struggle to bring back endangered salmon draws one community into a new commitment to the well-being of its watershed
Thinking Outside the House: Draught-proof Gardens
Your lawn and garden can be both beautiful and water efficient. Xeriscaping is the creative use of native plants that are beautiful, drought-tolerant, and sustainable.
The Battle For Water
Waste, pollution, population growth, global
trade rules, and now privatization are threatening billions of
people with water scarcity. How can we reclaim water for all
life?
Bringing Back Desert Springs
The Hopi people of the Black Mesa region know how to farm and thrive in the desert Southwest. But a giant coal company is draining the aquifer that feeds their sacred springs and makes their livelihood possible.
Surviving the Great Dying
As an era of extinctions unfolds, the dawning
understanding of its links to our own health could energize a
movement to save us all
Keeping the Balance
An indigenous people at the tip of South
America reclaims health, culture, and the vitality of the
land.
Health Hunger And Hunting
a story of a vegetarian who learned how to hunt
on his land. He developed his own personal ecology, which
included eating locally and responsible
hunting.
From the Earth, Up
Appalachian Sustainable Development, ASD, sustainable forestry and wood products program, sustainable farms.
Pieces of the Puzzle
How Burlington became one of America's most sustainable communities.
What Is Real Security
what is real security? The answer may be found
by basing engineering on nature. Natural systems are efficient,
diverse, dispersed, and renewable, hence, inherently
resilient.
A Sustainable Energy Plan For the US
Examines the policies, technologies, and
strategies that could lead the US and the world to a
sustainable energy future.
Where There’s a Way
Where there's a way, by Michael M’Gonigle.
Global Trade Agreements are just the latest way local
communities are losing control over the surrounding forests and
the watersheds. If there was a way to reclaim the commons,
might there also be a political will?
A Tribute to Donella Meadows
A Tribute to Donella Meadows, by Fran Korten.
Donnella Meadows is remembered as a woman dedicated to helping
us learn to live within the limits to growth.
Thirst For Justice
Thirst for Justice, by Maude Barlow.
Privatization of Bolivia's water supply fails in the face of
protest, and a local coallition takes on water
distribution.
Right Livelihood
Is the work we are doing good for the Earth and its inhabitants now and for seven generations into the future?
Song of the Land
Mohave Creation Song cycle describes relation
of the Mohave to their land and helps prevent Ward Valley from
becoming a nuclear waste dump.
Wendell Berry’s Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front
Plant sequoias. Say that your main crop is the forest that you did not plant, that you will not live to harvest.
Wild Rice Moon
The ancient, wild rice-centered culture of Minnesota's Anishinaabeg people confronts cultivated "wild" rice.
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