This Chicago pollinator garden keeps on giving, and not just to bees and butterflies
“If you told me at the beginning that this pollinator garden would be the best thing I’d ever do as a teacher, I would have said you were crazy.” Jessica Read more
How kids in Arizona learn to love greens with Sow It Forward
At Fuerza Local Community Kitchen – located at El Rancho del Sol affordable housing development in Mesa, Arizona – there is a bustling world of culinary activity. At first, you’ll Read more
The Community Fridge in El Mirage wants to make sure healthy nutrition is not a question of income
El Mirage opened a full-time Community Fridge this week at the Dysart Community Center, a place where surplus food is made easily and freely accessible to people in a community Read more
The City of Chicago built a community garden no one used, so Pearl Ramsey took over and brought it to life.
How many problems can a community garden solve? Pearl Ramsey’s garden in her neighborhood on Chicago’s Southside is a solution generator. Since she first stepped into the small patch in Read more
Vera was tired of seeing plastic everywhere. Now she leads her own plastic-free movement in Chicago.
Vera Dorzhinova explains why she joined the Chicago Sustainability Challenge and “The Last Plastic Straw” movement in one simple sentence: “I want to be useful, and I’m worried about the Read more
What difference does Street Feast make in building resilient communities in Ireland?
Once a year, on one hopefully sunny day, people across Ireland get together with their neighbours to celebrate Street Feast. They put up a table in the front garden or Read more
