What Works

From Alaska to California, people are creating successful enterprises that are low carbon, attuned to the ecology, locally rooted. They’re employing, training, producing, sustaining. Here you’ll find regular reports on what works for the economy we need.

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

By: Josh Kozelj

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

By: Andrew Engelson

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

By: Ryan Stuart

Watch Erick Serpas Ventura explain his planet-friendly method of house ‘deconstruction.’

By: Josh Kozelj and Quinn Kelly

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

By: Josh Kozelj

Brayden and Angela Rogers figured out which plastic waste can be made into home goods, and how.

By: Marissa Tiel

Colonization harmed Indigenous trade, commerce, and wealth. Jacqueline Jennings’ Fireweed Institute is reversing those impacts.

By: Andrea Smith

How Moment Energy harvests and puts to work batteries from worn-out electric cars.

By: Josh Kozelj

Grab a paddle. It’s time to work together.

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