Tag Archive: Community
How Making Space for Grief Can Promote Community Healing
Released for Syndication: 02/19/2021
Grief spaces and community listening circles in Ashland, Oregon, model ways for communities to navigate these trying times—from fires to COVID-19 to racist police killings.
Full ArticleHow One Rural Community Creatively Solved Keeping Its Residents Well Fed During a Pandemic
Released for Syndication: 02/12/2021
The people of Comox Valley broke many molds to keep people fed through COVID-19 and got its government’s attention on food security.
Full ArticleBetsy DeVos Is Gone, But Her Education Agenda Is Rolling Out Across the Country
By
Jeff Bryant
Released for Syndication: 02/02/2021
New efforts in state legislatures seek to privatize public education.
Full ArticleExploring Local Solutions to Our Collective Crises That Actually Work—From California to Alaska
Released for Syndication: 02/01/2021
The new Salmon Nation project launches with the ‘Festival of What Works’ to amplify innovations to localize food systems, repair climate destruction and heal.
Full ArticleHow New Solar Power Projects Support the Homeless and Fight Against Fossil Fuels
Released for Syndication: 01/29/2021
New Mexico’s efforts to solarize local venues paint a vision for a future of community energy self-sufficiency.
Full ArticleWe Need a Democratic Approach to Reimagining Schools—Asking People, Not Billionaires and Ideologues, What They Want
By
Jeff Bryant
Released for Syndication: 01/27/2021
In Durham, North Carolina, a fight for an elementary school became a catalyst for positive change.
Full ArticleCOVID-19 Has Exposed the Fragility of Our Food System—Here’s How We Can Localize It
Released for Syndication: 01/25/2021
The pandemic has demonstrated the shortcomings of our mega-food industries and the necessity to localize food production. Farms and mills from Northern California to Canada are creating new small-scale, regional food systems.
Full ArticleHow the Community Helps Sustain Portland’s Ongoing Black Lives Matter Protests
Released for Syndication: 01/22/2021
Portlanders have been protesting everyday since May. Community mutual aid ‘blocs’ support BIPOC activists with everything from groceries to haircuts to tattoos.
Full ArticleIt’s Time to Take America Back From the Brink
By
Tom Conway
Released for Syndication: 01/19/2021
When COVID-19 forced the 66-bed Maryhill Manor into lockdown, a resolute Veronica Dixon and her colleagues realized they had to make a choice: band...
Full ArticleJoe Biden Has a Golden Opportunity to Strengthen Public Education
By
Jeff Bryant
Released for Syndication: 01/14/2021