
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.
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.

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

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

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

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

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

Searching for a meat substitute, this Vancouver company found one in the rootlike structure of mushrooms.

How the Klahoose converted a closed BC fishing lodge into a place to immerse in nature and culture.

Robert Humble of Hybrid Architecture started making homes from upcycled shipping containers in the early 2000s, a milestone in eco-design.

How non-profits, trusts and cities are converting manicured greens into places where wildlife, plants and people flourish.

In a first in North America, wastewater is being harnessed for energy in Vancouver’s Olympic Village.