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Jon Waterhouse paddling a canoe.

From Alaska with love: Aid helps African clinic recover from fire

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January 25, 2013 02 December 2019

Reflection on glass building with multicolor painting behind

A quantum leap in green building

By Dennis Hayes Sometimes, incremental innovations can’t produce quantum change. You can tinker with carbon paper forever without producing a photocopier. The quill pen did not lead to a typewriter, and not a single typewriter company evolved to personal computers. …

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January 18, 2013 29 July 2016

Past Indigenous Leadership Awards honorees

A rich sense of honor: Learning from tribal leaders

In this world of broken economies, climates, and institutions, it’s an opportune time to ask: what if Native people were in charge?

Spencer B. Beebe
December 6, 2012 02 December 2019

Landry Mayigane giving a talk at Ecotrust.

Living resilience in Rwanda

It would be perfectly alright for Landry Ndriko Mayigane to celebrate normalcy. He could clock in and out at his government job monitoring diseases and expansion in the Rwandan poultry industry. He could sit back and marvel at how Rwanda’s …

Spencer B. Beebe
November 8, 2012 29 July 2016

ioby inspires backyard environmentalism through online community

How does one person change the world? Global issues like resource depletion, air pollution, and climate change can feel daunting and even paralyzing to an average citizen wanting to somehow help the environment. To address this feeling of disenfranchisement, three …

Emma Deans
November 2, 2012 01 October 2014

Restoration=Jobs

Investments in restoration have created jobs, increased demand for local businesses, and benefited the economy.

Oakley Brooks
August 31, 2012 14 January 2020

Man standing in front of graffiti wall in Detroit

Resilience on the Brightmoor Farmway

In Spencer Beebe’s recent post “Confluence,” he mentioned Earthworks Urban Farm as an example of the regeneration of Detroit. It’s far from the only example. Ten miles away on the other side of the city, Sam and I saw urban …

Noah Enelow
August 23, 2012 01 October 2014

A close-up of a salmon

Tribal fishermen go high tech — at Intel lunch

Bon Appetit Management Company serves regional fish to diners while exploring the rich culture of Northwest tribes.

Rick George
June 25, 2012 10 February 2020

Spencer Beebe stands in a Northwest forest

Rio: Let’s unleash the power of people back home

I recently stopped by an old stage coach stop on the Paradise Bench in northeastern Oregon, with my son Sam and our editor, Gary Miranda. We were surrounded by old buildings: a crumbling hotel given way to swallow nests, a …

Spencer B. Beebe
June 22, 2012 01 October 2014

A view of Portland, Oregon from the Broadway Bridge

A walking tour of resilience in Portland

By Tim Gibbins In the past twenty years, geologists have determined that the Cascadia Subduction Zone, a 600-mile-long fault off the Northwest coast, is overdue for a major earthquake. The last major quake was on January 26th, 1700 on the …

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June 11, 2012 01 October 2014