The secret ingredient in Boston's prize winning tap water? Forest conservation.
Filling a void left by big city newspapers, online projects combine community news, journalism, and conversations with our neighbors.
When You Live in the Local Economy, Musicians Are Just People (And Cyndi Lauper Is Coming to Dinner)
After getting mad at her daughter for handing hard earned money to a street performer, "Radical Homemaker" Shannon Hayes considers what musicians bring to the local economy.
Low-power FM radio stations bring a much-needed focus on local issues and culture.
With the owner of the team vowing "NEVER" to change its name, Native American tribes around the country launch a national campaign to do just that.
These high school students created a series of podcasts to tell the stories of inspiring people in their community.
Earlier this year, a 7-year-old girl urged the toy company to 鈥渕ake more Lego girl people and let them go on adventures and have fun ok!?!鈥� Here鈥檚 what they did.
For the movement to succeed, it must be led by the dispossessed鈥攖hose for whom the mainstream economy has never worked.
They're not always optimistic about the future of Camden, N.J. But they're committed to it anyway, and they've created one of the nation's fastest growing networks of urban farms.
They call themselves "nerdfighters"鈥攁nd they're unlike any movement you've seen before.
Artists from Seattle's hip hop scene鈥攊ncluding Macklemore and Ryan Lewis鈥攕peak about music's healing power.
Las Cafeteras uses acoustic instruments and punk attitude to spread their message of social justice and equality.
From Oakland to Brooklyn, practitioners of holistic health care are working to make their services affordable for all.
Ana Ju谩rez started her first job at the age of fifteen, as a sewing operator鈥檚 assistant in Mexico. She was working at a local contracting company of global brands like Levi Strauss & Co. when senior workers began to organize.
When people tell their own stories, history is written from the bottom up.
The viral success of "The Meatrix" shows how a good story trumps a mountain of facts.
On Sunday, there is a break in the rain. There is a lot we could be doing in that break: painting beehives, knocking back the weeds around the grapes and
In Southern states, small-town courts have outsourced probation management to for-profit companies charging fees out of reach to the country's poorest residents. Many people end up in jail for nonpayment. These judges want private companies out of their courts.
If you lack words for a phenomenon, an emotion, a situation, you can鈥檛 talk about it鈥攚hich means that you can鈥檛 come together to change it.
Activists built support for the ordinance by demonstrating that it would reduce poverty in the city.
Coal-fired power plants are responsible for about 40 percent of United States' carbon emissions. That pollution would be regulated for the first time under the new proposed rules.
A program called the Walking School Bus provides kids an easy way to get regular exercise while getting to know their neighborhood.
While manufacturing circuit boards for Samsung, Hye-kyeong Han was diagnosed with a brain tumor, leading her to undergo a number of surgeries and radiation treatments. She was just 26 years old.
Clive Porabou was born on the Pacific island of Bougainville. Transnational mining company Rio Tinto was beginning to dig the world鈥檚 largest open-pit copper mine, displacing native residents. Armed conflict started even before excavation began.
After dozens of interviews, the guiding question of this oral history project shifted from, 鈥淲ho are the people in the factories?鈥� to, 鈥淗ow are workers and communities putting their futures at risk when they demand something better?鈥�
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