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.

Visit ‘an amazing place’ that swaps consumerism for creative joy while keeping textiles out of landfills.

By: Pippa Norman

Meet hardy harvesters in Alaska and BC working to make a regenerative seaweed industry flourish.

By: Tim Lydon

Loop Resource gathers what grocers are ready to toss out, providing a more ecological source of animal feed.

By: Pippa Norman

The Comox Valley Organic Co-operative connects growers to customers small and large.

By: Larry Pynn

Coastal livelihoods as well as our climate depend on the undersea fronds. Even a small buoy can play protector.

By: Pippa Norman

Meet people reinventing construction by pushing ‘mass timber’ bigger and higher. It’s good for the planet too.

By: Christopher Cheung

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

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