Project for Public Spaces works to create places that attract people. What makes these places work?
Vancouver, Seattle, London, and Chicago are getting healthier and more beautiful through "green urbanism."
Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy (LAANE)
developed "community benefits agreements" to specify benefits
to be provided to neighborhoods affected by a particular
development.
Angela Glover Blackwell is founder and CEO of PolicyLink, a national organization working for economic and social equity. Her work has centered on revitalizing low-income communities and communities of color and public-interest law. She recently co-authored Searching for the Uncommon Common Ground: New Dimensions on Race in America (2002, WW Norton & Co).
Wangari Maathai, founder of Kenya's Green Belt Movement, recently won the Nobel Peace Prize. Her message: Peace is founded in healthy ecosystems, access to natural resources, and democracy.
When farmworkers needed a way to reach one another, they invited activists nationwide for a radio barn raising.
Some journalists are stubbornly pursuing the truth despite growing media monopolies, government secrecy, ideology, and public relations spin doctors鈥攂ut it鈥檚 getting tougher
Interview with Amy Goodman, how she created
Democracy Now
It's not coincidental that throughout history the most violently despotic and warlike societies have been those in which violence, or the threat of violence, is used to maintain domination of parent over child and man over woman.
What happens when people refuse to live a lie?
Our youth, our natural world, our neighbors鈥攁ll are treated as expendables. What we need is a joining of movements based on valuing all life.
The maths starts with the US consumption of 118 billion gallons of oil a year for travel in cars and light trucks.
Step 1: Stay Home 5 percent. Fuel
Despite dire warnings, Northwest businesses, farmers, and cities are finding climate-friendly policies bring prosperity.
Hunter Lovins helped found and manage the Rocky Mountain Institute, famous for turning conventional wisdom about energy on its head. She鈥檚 still changing minds in the worlds of business, nonprofits, and government, showing a more sustainable path to prosperity.
Ten good reasons for hope.
How might we get around with less oil? Here鈥檚 a 12-step program to kick our addiction to gas guzzling.
There are good reasons to move away from dependence on oil 鈥� war and climate change are among them. Then there鈥檚 the fact that oil extraction is about to peak, and we don鈥檛 have a plan for a world of diminishing oil supplies.
The Village Building Convergence. A sunflower
painted across an intersection. A solar-powered fountain. A
corner tea kiosk. Portlanders are taking over their streets and
teaching city officials to love 鈥渃ity
repair.鈥�
In the U.S. today, immigrants are taking the blame for everything from environmental stresses to terrorism to the poor job market. What鈥檚 at stake for all of us in this debate?
An interview with Frances Moore Lapp茅 by Sarah Ruth van Gelder
A small cheese shop in Berkeley has become a
community hub and a thriving model of worker
ownership.
Yet this is a sort of knowledge that
generations before us have already held, a way of appreciating
the world that we might share without trauma, without hard
lessons, if we but remember how our ancestors used to
live.
What happens when economic growth produces more 鈥渋llth鈥� than wealth? What happens when it gobbles up the foundation of the good life鈥攖he commons?
Americans are far more affluent, on average,
than we were in the 1960s, but no happier. What do research
data tell us is the real source of joy and
contentment?
Why do so many attempts to build coalitions across race and culture result in hurt and division? These seasoned activists offer tips on what makes the difference between success and disaster.
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