When Sean Tevlin discovered The Group School (TGS) in the 1970s, he found “a much needed safe space.” A struggling teen who had dropped out of public school and battled math anxiety, he arrived at the ...

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It’s a clear winter morning in the village of Armeniș, deep in the southern Carpathian Mountains of southwestern Romania. Fluffy clouds sit atop the mountain peaks as a chill breeze carries a hint of ...

Even at a young age, Jonathan Schreiber found that harnessing the power of wind was something of a breeze. Encouraged by his DIY-loving grandfather, the Austrian teenager was always playing around ...

Wild European bison are roaming the Carpathian Mountains for the first time in 100 years — and bringing the land back to life.

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 ...

Once synonymous with mining, this northern French town has become a model for how to sustainably transition away from fossil ...

This article was originally published in the February edition of Rotary magazine. It’s 9 o’clock on a Sunday morning and the temperature is soaring toward the 90s as hundreds of children make their ...

Saja Khuder was set to return to her job with a pharmaceutical firm after maternity leave. At the last minute, her child care plans fell through. Chase Mateusiak, a bioinformatician, was using a ...

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Anabel Peterman is Next City and CivicLex's joint Equitable Cities Reporting Fellow for Rural-Urban Issues. Born and raised in eastern Kentucky, she holds a degree in traditional music performance ...

This story was originally published by Next City, a nonprofit newsroom reporting on solutions for equitable and just cities, and The CivicLex Weekly, a newsroom covering local government in Lexington, ...