In a practice that dates back centuries, communities are creating their own currencies to keep local economies strong and resilient.

In a practice that dates back centuries, communities are creating their own currencies to keep local economies strong and resilient.

When an early learning center in Houston rewilded its grounds to withstand heat and floods, it gained a whole new sprawling outdoor classroom.

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Since 2015, Magdas Hotel has helped refugees access jobs — while proving that a social business doesn’t have to sacrifice its bottom line. Companies across the region have vowed to find a use for the ...

When the 2018 Woolsey fire reduced Carla and Kevin Fern’s modest house in the Malibu hills to ash, they knew they wanted to rebuild. “Where else would we go?” Carla Fern asks, having grown up in ...

When Stockholm’s Traffic Office conducted a general assessment of street traffic in the Swedish capital in 2001, it came to the shocking conclusion that two-thirds of all trees in the city center were ...

Peter Yeung is a Contributing Editor at Reasons to be Cheerful. A Paris-based journalist, he also writes for publications including the Guardian, the LA Times and the BBC. He’s filed stories from ...

This story was originally published by Montana Free Press at montanafreepress.org. In 2023, Andrea Savage warned Great Falls Public Schools officials of high rates of depression and anxiety among ...

This is part two of a two-part series on ways that coal infrastructure is being repurposed to meet the needs of renewable energy. Read part one here. For four decades, the Oklaunion Power Plant has ...