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How a BC Couple Saved Their Farm on ‘Drought Hill’

The Gunners saw their dream evaporating. Until they turned a water crisis into a model for climate resilience.

By: Shauna MacKinnon

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‘One of the Strongest Marine Protected Areas In the World’

Six First Nations, BC and Canada will preserve and steward a large chunk of the Central Coast. That means no pipelines.

By: Michelle Gamage

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Inspired by Land Back, First Nations Aim for ‘Lake Back’

How a lake in British Columbia, Canada, once drained for settlement, is being considered for reflooding as an act of transboundary restoration by First Nations.

By: Cameron Fenton

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Would You Eat a Salmon Fillet Grown in a Lab?

Wildtype, a San Francisco startup, recently secured FDA approval to bring ‘cultivated’ seafood to the market.

By: Josh Kozelj

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Fighting Climate Change, One Sprout at a Time

How an entrepreneur invented seaweed pots to help gardeners grow healthier plants and sequester carbon.

By: Andrew Engelson

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Finding Food in the Forest

These Vancouver Island foragers make everything from mushroom powders to pickled spruce tips. Thank you, wild places.

By: Ryan Stuart

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Bioneers Offer Transformative Hope Rooted in Action 

Magic Canoe was on the ground for one of the largest ecocultural events of the year in Salmon Nation, which brought thousands of changemakers and creatives together last month in Berkeley, California. Here’s what we found.

By: Soraya Matos, Words and Photography

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He Dreamed of the Endless Shirt. Welcome to Looptworks.

After years of upcycling scraps into sports gear in Oregon, Scott Hamlin chose a different route into the circular economy.

By: Josh Kozelj

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Nesting Condors Spark Hope of an Egg in Northern California

Two condors from the Northern California Condor Restoration Program, run by the Yurok Tribe and Redwood National and State Parks, are believed to have laid an egg in February. If it hatches, it will be the first wild born condor in the region in more than 100 years.

By: Nika Bartoo-Smith via Underscore Native News

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Seattle’s Only River Comes Alive Again

How one of the largest cities in Salmon Nation has restored the Duwamish River over the past three decades — community-first and one mucky step at a time.

By: Kathleen Tarrant. Photography by Kirk Hostetter.

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