Three schools in rural and remote Canadian communities are using hydroponics to provide students with fresh vegetables. The projects connect school meals with hands-on learning in areas where access to fresh food is difficult.
A Chicago resident turned her home’s yards into a refueling stop for migrating monarch butterflies and expanded her work to schools and community spaces. The effort to restore their habitats offers a practical response to the steep decline in their populations.
Teenagers are researching, designing and campaigning for changes to New York City's school meals, showing that young people's participation brings real results — from renovated cafeterias to increased lunch participation.
Agronomist Panagiotis Manikis studied under Masanobu Fukuoka, has practised natural farming on a farm in Edessa since the late 1980s, and argues that chemical agriculture has failed environmentally and economically, while nature can regenerate if we provide it with seeds without human intervention.
The American political scientist won the prize in 2009 for showing through field research that communities can manage shared resources sustainably, without necessarily requiring state intervention or privatization.
After a fallen silver maple left Gilbert Kirk's home exposed, local residents turned up with a tarp, lumber and fans, giving the 71-year-old and his dog a dry place again.
Adams County, Colorado, is now home to the first public “nature library” in the US, with 40,000 items and hundreds of kits for birdwatching, hiking, gardening and camping. Early visitors say free access helps them get to know and protect the natural world.
An organic farming organization in Vermont is funding neighborhood dinners with local food to combat loneliness and build networks of care among people who often do not even know one another.
At Reteti, Africa’s first Indigenous-owned elephant sanctuary, Samburu women are combining local knowledge and grassroots leadership to protect elephants while strengthening community livelihoods.
After repeated hurricane power outages, religious and community groups in Louisiana created hubs with solar power and batteries that keep lights, air conditioning and medical devices running; similar neighborhood internet and emergency medical networks show the broader strength of local resilience.
A community arts programme in Gateshead in northeast England created six activities to help residents think about their area's future and actively become good ancestors.
Nate Hagens presents a series of small, specific and slightly unusual actions to address the metacrisis; the aim is not simply to weather the storm, but to change the initial conditions from which the future will emerge.
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