community Stories
Running Up For Air is not a race. It’s a community, a gathering of friends and a fundraiser for clean-air advocacy.
All dams are dirty. Efforts to make them better only make things worse.
Louisiana community organizer Roishetta Ozane on her fight to stop the biggest fossil fuel expansion on earth and how mutual aid can play a part.
Our next fight against Big Oil is for basic human rights.
Architect and climber Dylan Johnson joins up with Yvon Chouinard and a hardworking crew to construct two houses using straw bales.
Climate and sustainability journalist Yessenia Funes writes to her future child—the one she hopes to have and has been afraid of bringing into our world.
Península Mitre is now protected, thanks to the work of a committed community.
In a small British Columbia mountain town, one woman is using trails to help heal wounds and bridge two communities.
A Patagonia employee celebrates a huge environmental win for his beloved home waters.
A road trip through California’s worst drought in 1,200 years, and the folks working to restore broken ecosystems and rewild lost landscapes.
This story was supposed to be about a thriving, women-led organic farm in Maine. Then came news of the ”forever chemicals.”
Women make up less than five percent of US carpenters by trade. Some tradeswomen are changing the narrative, one dovetail joint at a time.
A Bosnian war refugee’s journey to a lifetime of community activism.
Teresa Baker, Pattie Gonia, José González and Gabaccia Moreno bring a new initiative to the outdoor community.
The joy, meditation and quiet rebellion of fixing your clothes by hand.
In Western Apacheria, a tradition of cooking in the ground endures.
Learning to coexist with the wild in Montana’s Tom Miner Basin.
In San Luis Obispo, California, a team of bakers is building community by “pedaling” their wares.
How can an organic farmer with no successor make sure the farm will end up in good hands? Paul Bickford started his search in an unexpected place.
As the proprietor of Cold Antler Farm, a 6.5-acre span of land in Washington County, New York, Jenna Woginrich spends her days with red-tailed hawks.
Only 4 percent of US farm owners are Hispanic. Mexican immigrant and organic farmer Javier Zamora is working to change the narrative.
Sheep (and their poop) could help California’s climate-driven wildfires. One couple is ushering in this idea with a small flock and some supportive fire departments.
Nicholas Herrera brings new life to old things on his ancestral homestead in El Rito, New Mexico.
On a small farm outside Minneapolis, Minnesota, a farmer takes a regenerative approach to keeping his community fed.