Stories

Local Economies, What Works

Moving Farming Inside and Up

This BC-based vertical farm is growing fast. One reason: tariff and sovereignty threats to Canada.

Local Economies, What Works

Pouring the Circular Economy into Your Pint Glass

Small Gods’ Saanich Peninsula-only lager shows what can be done in one small 33-kilometer stretch.

Indigenous, Salmon

Yurok Tribe Celebrates Largest Land Back Deal in California History

The over 47,000 acres of ancestral lands double Yurok’s land holdings and includes the Blue Creek Salmon Sanctuary.

From Magic Canoe, Local Economies

Reshaping How to Finance a Viable Future

Seattle hosted the first-ever bioregional finance conference (BioFi), to strategize ways of moving money toward efforts regenerating the environment. Here’s what happened.

Indigenous, What Works

Decolonizing Your Shower, One Soap Bar at a Time

How Sisters Sage brings activism, entrepreneurship, and First Nations plant medicine into the bath.

Coastal Communities/Marine, Indigenous

Standing Together for Wild Salmon

Hundreds gathered at Qualicum Bay, on Vancouver Island, to fight to remove open-net fish farms from the coastal waters of British Columbia.

Collective Learning, Indigenous

Five Must-Watch Films on Indigenous Cultures

With public programming on the chopping block, here are our favorite PBS-supported films about Indigenous communities, situated in Salmon Nation.

Housing, Indigenous, What Works

See Why Rescuing Homes Could Have a Booming Future

An ingenious collaboration by shíshálh Nation and Renewal Development shows what can be done.

Coastal Communities/Marine

The SeaBank Chronicles

Enjoy these 7-minute audio portals to science and mystery in Southeast Alaska.

Indigenous, Salmon

How the Klamath Dams Came Down

Last year, tribal nations in Oregon and California won a decades-long fight for the largest dam removal in U.S. history. This is their story.

Indigenous, Local Economies, What Works

Prince Rupert’s Bread and Butter

Saltwater Bakery, run by the Gitxaała Nation, embodies a holistic approach to economic development and community wellness.

Book, Collective Learning

High Hopes for Hempcrete

Indigenous Habitat Institute founders explain using hemp to build healthier, climate-proof houses.

Collective Learning, Podcasts

The Future is Local: Bioregioning 101

The past century has been marked by the rise of globalization in every sense of the word - through production, culture, agriculture, consumption and more. This trend has brought great wealth and opportunities to many people - but what have we lost and forgotten through this process?

Indigenous

Environmental justice is only the beginning

If the U.S. ever hopes to be in right relationship with the lands and waters it has seized, it must first restore its relationship with Indigenous peoples.