Land/Environment

As the importance of affordable, secure housing rises to the top of our minds and discussion, we have the opportunity to more carefully consider housing systems rooted in community control and centered on people. This fourth article in NPQ’s...

In this podcast produced by Remember the Future, we learn the story of a group of actors in Maine who decided to repair historic wrongs in their own community through returning land while also working to be in meaningful,...

When neighbors are at the center of generating ideas and creating their visions, local resources, gifts and talents can be tapped and built upon rather than extracted or ignored. This story from the city of Ft. Wayne, IN illustrates...

This article from Nonprofit Quarterly offers us a glimpse into time-tested traditions we can learn from the Bolivian people for practicing interdependence, mutuality, and self-governance to meet community needs.   Here in the Cochabamba Valley, days after Día de los Muertos (Day of...

As more and more communities and individuals become aware of the need to shift our energy sources to lessen the impacts of climate change, neighbor-driven action is key -- as is the energy, commitment and creativity of young people....

What does an economy that works for all people and the planet look like? And what are the policies that can support and protect such an economy? We are living through an historic moment where a number of crises– climate...

This article is part of Profiles in Living Connected to Place, a new series by Matt Biggar, Ph.D., that portrays individuals living connected to place with intention and the support of systems that make it possible. Living connected to...

Most people, in thinking about the most dramatic impacts of climate change, imagine the damage that will be wrought on rural and coastal areas. In drought-stricken regions susceptible to crop failure, and in riverside communities prone to flooding, the...

The Common Good podcast is a conversation about the significance of place, eliminating economic isolation and the structure of belonging.  For this week's episode we partner with April Doner and the Abundant Community to speak with Tim Vogt about an article...

Building a "next system" to supplant the current systemic drivers of our economic and political crises should include the wisdom of Indigenous cultures rooted in non-capitalist social and economic forms that center life and nature. This panel discussion hosted...