History was made in 2019 when 17-year-old Swedish activist Greta Thunberg was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts combating climate change. She subsequently won TIME’s 2019 Person…
The following is an article from a Community Grant recipient. In May 2020, I was out for a walk with my dog in lovely Galena, Illinois, listening to one of…
There was a time when lab-grown meat was a far-fetched idea reserved for science fiction novels and future space missions. But rapid advances in technology have begun to bridge the…
The following is an article from a Community Grant recipient. Solar One manages Stuy Cove Park, an architect-designed, sustainably managed, two-acre native food forest on land that was once an…
How much plastic actually gets recycled? How many species go extinct each day? What is the greatest way humans can fight climate change? You will likely find some of these…
If you were to watch the documentary Seaspiracy and contemplate the state of the oceans, you might quickly wonder whether there are any healthy, sustainable seafood alternatives. The good news…
The following is an article from a Community Grant recipient. Protech Eco-Green is a nonprofit registered in Kenya under its parent organization, Urban Green Works. Protech Eco-Green’s mission is to…
Regenerative agriculture, also called regenerative farming, has its roots in practices that indigenous people used to maintain healthy land and support successful harvests.[1] By contrast, today’s conventional food production methods…
The following is an article from a Community Grant recipient. Urban Garden Resources of Worcester (UGROW), established in 1995, is one of the core programs of central Massachusetts’s Regional Environmental…
