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Eat & Drink

From App Design to Farming: Training the Next Generation of American Farmers

The new Mendocino, California-based Grange Farm School offers an affordable, 3-month training program for aspiring farmers (ahem, sodbusters).

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Eat & Drink

Searching for Food You Can Believe in? New Eat Well Guide App Has You Covered

Latest update to Eat Well Guide has mobile-friendly listings for more than 25,000 restaurants, markets, and farms with a focus on sustainability.

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Change

Bringing Back the Light: Restoring the Life to Canada’s Temperate Rainforests

This film explores the practice, the methods and the need for habitat restoration. We see a clear connection between healthy landscapes and healthy communities.

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Change

Seattle’s Kayaktivists Finally Get Government’s Attention

Greenpeace’s “kayaktivists” finally draw the government’s attention to Arctic drilling.

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Eat & Drink

DIY Pickling (and Probiotics)

A simple way to stretch seasonal yields into an entire year.

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Eat & Drink

5 Medicinal Herbs You Can Grow in Your Backyard

These herbs aren’t just for cooking—here’s how you can use them to treat ailments from asthma to anxiety.

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Change

Teaching Old Buildings New Tricks

It’s alive!

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Change

Dear Humanity, We Have a Systems Problem: New Project Aims to Promote Deep Solutions, Radical Transformation

It’s time for us to think boldly about what is required to deal with the systemic difficulties facing the world, to explore genuine alternatives and new models—the next system.

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Change

Cutting Edge: Tool Libraries

Up and down the Left Coast, cities and communities are creating lending libraries—for kitchen tools, construction, landscaping, and more.

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Good Civic Planning Begins with Listening to People

San Francisco partnered with StoryCorps to record the history of the people in Bay View as a first step in the civic planning process.