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Wisconsin's Wolf River, which flows through the Menominee Indian Reservation, where Indigenous traditions guide sustainable forestry.
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In Wisconsin, the Menominee Tribe's Sustainable Forestry Is Visible From Space

The Menominee Tribe's tradition of doing "what's best for the forest" has become a global model for sustainability.
Fred Pearce September 11, 2023
abandoned

Haunted Stays and Autumn Days in Colorado

There’s so much to love about fall in Colorado, some people never leave.
An asiatic subspecies of cheetah once roamed India. Efforts to reintroduce the animal there threaten the traditional sustainable harvest of salai trees.
forests

India's Cheetah Reintroduction Threatens an Indigenous Tradition

Behind the headlines of the animals' rocky return, a displaced community struggles to access trees they have tended for generations.
Tanvi Dutta Gupta August 3, 2023
Chef John Fleer at Old North Acres
restaurants

How Community Makes Appalachian Cuisine Shine in Asheville

It takes a village—or in this case, a chef and a bevy of passionate farmers and producers.
The interior of the shop is crammed with sustainably sourced chocolates.
Lima, Peru

El Cacaotal

Visit Lima’s one-stop-shop for sustainably sourced and produced Peruvian chocolate.
AGU Building with the planet display beginning on the corner of Florida Ave & 20th St.
Washington, D.C.

American Geophysical Union Sidewalk Planet Display

A brass and marble scale model of the solar system embedded in the concrete.
Hotel WHY is constructed from recycled materials
Kamikatsu, Japan

Zero-Waste Hotel WHY

In a rural Japanese town that has committed to sustainable practices, even the hotel is made from recycled materials.
A lobster caught off Prince Edward Island, where Bait Masters is located.
food

The Race to Make Alternative Lobster Bait

As the fishing industry grapples with declining herring and mackerel, could sausage be their savior?
Moira Donovan December 6, 2022
Jellyfish have been touted as a food source of the future, but finding an appetizing way to prepare them is a challenge—one that some Italian chefs are embracing.
food

The Quest to Make Jellyfish Delicious

Italian chefs are teaming up with scientists to fry, sauté, and pickle the creatures into the food of the future.
Agostino Petroni November 15, 2022
The warm glow of the Sólheimar Bakery/Café in October
Grímsnes og Grafningshreppur, Iceland

Sólheimar Ecovillage

This educational and eco-friendly community is Iceland's "home of the sun."
A palmful of samphire, or sea beans.
food

The Case for Sea Vegetables

These delicious, under-utilized greens are being farmed for the first time.
Diana Hubbell August 22, 2022
Samburu women in Kenya's Kirisia forest.
forests

Women in Northern Kenya Rally to Save a Forest

Just a few years ago, Samburu women were using Kirisia Forest for firewood and charcoal. Now they're protecting it, and managing it sustainably.
Peyton Fleming July 26, 2021
Standard toilets like this one are not usually profitable enterprises for the user, but a new project in South Korea is changing that.
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Students Are Getting Paid to Poop at a South Korean University

The project transforms human waste into biogas, and allows participants to buy everything from bananas to socks.
Jessica Leigh Hester July 23, 2021
The South Pacific atoll of Teti'aroa is about 30 miles north of Tahiti.
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French Polynesia's Teti'aroa Has Been an A-Lister Retreat for Centuries

Research reveals the lush islets have been a setting for royal relaxation, political negotiations, and ritual fattening.
Bridget Alex May 19, 2021
New Gourna Village
Luxor, Egypt

New Gourna Village

There are ongoing efforts to preserve this village, the best known work of Egyptian architect Hasan Fathy.
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Las Marías, Puerto Rico

Termitopia

An artist’s underground sanctuary, 40 years in the making.
Rotterdam, Netherlands

Floating Farm

The world's first floating farm is staffed by one human, three robots, and 35 cows.
Bangkok, Thailand

Haoma

An on-site urban farm and fish pond supply some of the produce for this upscale restaurant.