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An interview with Citizens4Community executive director Kellen Klein explores their solidarity work in central Oregon, building community durability through relationships.

By: Sheraz Sadiq

Billions of disposable diapers end up in North American landfills yearly. Carrie Pollak’s firm is trying better ways.

By: Andrew Engelson

A new program at Chico State University demonstrates the restorative power of connecting with the environment to turn loss into community strength. Does it work?

By: Syris Valentine

A photographic essay captured during a sailing expedition along British Columbia’s central coast, a journey into one of the world’s last great coastal temperate rainforests.

By: Owen Perry

“Salmon Wars” is a six-part podcast series that tells the story of salmon in the Northwest through the voices of one Yakama Nation family who have been fighting for salmon for generations.
The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde is learning new ways to grow native plants for public and private lands.

By: Jamie Hale, The Oregonian / OregonLive

Ocean Legacy recycles “ghost gear” and other trash into deck chairs, picnic tables, and more.

By: Katie Hyslop

For members of the Klamath basin tribes who had fought for the river dams’ removal and organized the historic first descent of the newly free-flowing waters, the signing of an international accord brought into sharp focus the worldwide implications of their local triumph.

By: Jarrette Werk

Artificial Intelligence, cryptocurrency, and other emergent technologies are known for their disruptive potential. In her new book, Indigenous Currencies, Ashley Cordes (Kōkwel/Coquille) insists they can also be systems of abundance.

By: Astra Lincoln

See how the Vancouver landmark is getting a dramatic retrofit to cut emissions. A Tyee short video.

By: Inder Nirwan and Josh Kozelj

After decades of discord, Canada and First Nations are working together to build a network of marine protected areas stretching from Vancouver Island to Alaska.

By: Serena Renner

The Coquille could return Chinook fishing to the Coquille River this fall.

By: Lyric Aquino, Underscore Native News + Report for America, Underscore Native News

Sechelt imports almost all its food. This Indigenous-led effort wants to show a better approach can take root.

By: Hilary Angus

We've distilled research into a pattern of interconnected principles that underlie systemic health to represent the eight pillars of regenerative economic vitality.

By: Capital Institute

How Skipper Otto and other community-supported fisheries are increasing transparency and providing quality seafood to members.

By: Josh Kozelj

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

By: Josh Kozelj

A photo essay from Spencer B. Beebe as he travels to southeast Alaska to experience the herring roe harvest.
Small Gods’ Saanich Peninsula-only lager shows what can be done in one small 33-kilometer stretch.

By: Katie Hyslop

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

By: Nika Bartoo-Smith

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

By: Syris Valentine

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

By: Katie Hyslop

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

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