BY: RHIANN MOORE Animal abuse can be a complex issue, particularly for those who have had little experience as an animal owner. While the idea of reporting abuse is intimidating, it’s crucial to take …
This small Scottish Island runs entirely on renewable energy
BY: SHAWNTAE HARRIS The Island of Eigg is the first community in the world to create clean electricity for the whole island all day long. Eigg creates energy from three different sources: the sun, th…
Solar electricity: New Brooklyn Microgrid will create community energy sharing
BY: SHAWNTAE HARRIS Solar power can help with the financial burden of living in a big city. With high rent eating up most of your paycheque, once the bills start to come in, finances can become stress…
How Lush plans to use regeneration to save the planet
BY: RHIANN MOORE Lush recently launched the Spring Prize 2017 in their endless effort to save the environment from humankind’s relentless and destructive tendencies. Much like the Lush Prize bef…
75-year-long study finds the key to health and happiness
BY BROOKLYN PINHEIRO Like many young enthusiastic individuals George Bailey was eager to head out of his small town and see the world. See the Coliseum, build bridges, make money. But as you witness i…
This American city is providing free food to its residents as the country’s first urban ‘Agrihood’
BY: MIROSLAV TOMOSKI Once the home of Motown legends like Aretha Franklin, Detroit’s North End has had a rough ride since the days when the city was known as “the Paris of the West”. As the auto indus…
Apparently, a quaint English village for the learning disabled is being bullied by a charity
BY: JESSICA BEUKER In North Yorkshire, England there is a unique village—a community built on the principle of a level playing field for a group of people who are largely marginalized by society. This…
Squatting communities are putting experience above objects on the fringes of London (Photos)
BY: TYLER FYFE While glossy advertisements on home decorating magazines might tell you different, home isn’t defined by space, it’s defined by the people who inhabit it. Photographer, Corinna Kern fou…
Sustainability programs in prisons are helping the environment while preparing inmates for life outside of bars
BY: MATTHEW CHIN When given a prison sentence lasting for more than a decade, finding ways to spend the time effectively can be difficult. Not to mention the time spent thinking of ways to be properl…
Welcome To Cannabis County: The secret community of marijuana growers (Photos)
BY: H. LEE Drive a few hours north of San Francisco and you will find an untouched landscape. As the morning light breaches a thick layer of fog, the winding rivers and towering redwoods of the iconic…
The Toronto condo boom that killed community
by RYAN BOLTON I was in a CBC documentary about condos last fall. A film crew followed my lady and me around asking questions about condo life for some eight hours. They filmed us in our local dog par…