Extreme Makeover: Neighbourhood Edition

You can grow a great community—anywhere. It doesn’t take TV producers. It just takes
some neighbors
I vividly remember when a blizzard-caused power outage silenced the TVs and computers in the suburban home where I lived with my wife and two children. When the lights went out, we got creative, sharing stories by candlelight and popping [...]

Just, Green and Beautiful Cities

For the better part of the last century, the conservation movement and its offspring, the environmental movement, have had a negative view of cities.
It started with John Muir’s celebration of nature in reaction to the ugliness of industrial development, urban pollution, congestion, and noise. But this bias against cities is changing. Environmental groups now acknowledge [...]

The New City Beautiful

It can happen in your town: Streetscapes blooming with wildflowers, industrial waterfronts transformed into parks, and creeks once again dancing with salmon. A green urban renaissance is growing

On a brilliant blue sky day in May, a shining silver fish jumps the rapids of Whatcom Creek past the old marble city hall building in Bellingham, Washington, [...]