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This mural, in North Portland's Village Market, was painted by neighbors and community organizers who collaborated on the plans and vision for a vibrant small-scale grocery store offering healthy foods to an underserved neighborhood. It sits above a vegetable case full of fresh produce. The image shows three flowers in bloom.

Say good-bye to “food deserts”

Edible Portland questions the use of the term food deserts among food system advocates.

Lola Milholland
January 14, 2014 01 October 2014

Committing to home, in South Africa’s Eastern Cape

6 March 1963. At the rising dawn that rainy Wednesday, I was born in a farm on the banks of the Fish River. My parents were uneducated farm labourers. They worked in that farm from dawn to dusk for …

Spencer B. Beebe
January 6, 2014 01 October 2014

View through window of a person walking toward Natural Capital Center surrounded by green foliage

At the Natural Capital Center: What can ecovillages teach us

Taylor Hesselgrave
January 3, 2014 01 October 2014

A road transects a plot dark green forest in northern British Columbia

Announcing Commonplace magazine

Announcing the first issue of Commonplace, a chaotic and impassioned celebration of home.

Astrid Scholz
August 27, 2013 01 October 2014

Beyond Bankruptcy: The resilience of Detroit

On Thursday, July 18th, 2013, the City of Detroit made U.S. history with the largest municipal bankruptcy in the country to date. Approximately $18 billion in size, it dwarfed the second-largest, Jefferson County, Alabama, by a factor of four. “There …

Noah Enelow
August 19, 2013 03 May 2016

Beavers: Nature’s first river restoration engineers

By Lauren Senkyr Once numbering up to 400 million in North America, beavers were hunted to near extinction in the 19th century. While it has long been known that their fur makes excellent clothing and top hats, the role of …

guest
May 24, 2013 29 July 2016

Building a worldwide indigenous knowledge network

guest
May 23, 2013 02 December 2019

Antone Minthorn and others paddling a canoe with forested beach in background.

Antone Minthorn: A portrait of Native resilience and leadership

Shaunna McCovey
April 30, 2013 02 December 2019

Lanscape picture of rural industry

Ecotrust to put $45 million in New Markets Tax Credits toward jobs, innovation

Just days after the public launch of a successful New Markets Tax Credit-supported project, Ecotrust has learned that its subsidiary, Ecotrust CDE, was awarded $45 million of additional New Markets Tax Credit allocation. Ecotrust will put the new federal financing …

Oakley Brooks
April 26, 2013 01 October 2014