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For Ingram, providing a superb experience to restaurant guests starts with taking care of her employees.

We all need to be involved
in building communities, not focused solely on developing things. — Winona LaDuke

We have an upside-down narrative that seems to allow a few people and institutions to profit from the public spaces we care for.

What communities are capable of doing in a time of democratic crisis and economic rebuilding.

Grant Township in Pennsylvania, a town of 600, was sued three times by an energy company and the state’s department

People emerged from their homes with shocked, confused stares, like deer emerging from forest wildfire.

What we can do better in northern Minnesota — a conversation with four people who see the environmental, political, and community needs.

People in the North are frustrated because they don’t feel like city people are talking about this at all, they don’t see it coming up in the newspapers — they only see the other kind of mining. And it’s pretty important.

“Imagination shared creates collaboration, and collaboration creates community, and community inspires social change.” — Terry Tempest Williams

Founded in 2012 by a league of women invested in collective economic and community development, Sprout connects growers and eaters. After the operation grew too big for one farm, a facility was built with commercial-level amenities to support family-level farmers.

Program recipients pay for the materials at cost, although subsidized beds are available for low-income households and people with disabilities.

Our American culture cultivates a belief that you want to make as much money as fast as possible.