Sustainability

Scientific American

A century-old concept, Flettner rotors, gets a fresh shot as shippers cut back fuel

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Bloomberg BusinessWeek
Rustic American farm buildings, scouted out by Heritage Restorations, are rebuilt far away as showplace homes and event spaces.

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YES Magazine
Green burials go beyond not polluting or wasting, returning our bodies to the earth in life-affirming ways.

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YES Magazine
The Practical Farmers of Iowa waste no time on partisan politics as they face the challenges of extreme weather and depleted soils together.

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Modern Farmer
Suzanne Kelly’s day job as a farmer informs her side gig: advocating for the grassroots green-burial movement.

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CFO Magazine
Unlike traditional insurance, parametric insurance pays out after a triggering event, regardless of actual losses.

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The Christian Science Monitor  
Activists never gave up on their polluted river—and now the cleaned-up water is one of Buffalo’s biggest attractions.

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CityLab   In the 20th century, porches couldn’t compete with TV and AC. Now this American classic is coming back as more stylish, sustainable, and image-conscious than ever. Read it here.

CityLab   How much can an alley add to U.S. cities? Showplace projects like in Miami’s Design District and the Washington, D.C., waterfront are working to prove their potential.. Read it here.

Civil Eats   In hyper-fertile Central Illinois, sustainable farmers seek local support but end up trekking their food to Chicago. Read it here.

Sierra Magazine   Citizen-driven urbanism projects turn gray zones into community space. Read it here.

CityLab   Elon Musk and Gov. Andrew Cuomo are the faces of a $750 million plan to revitalize Buffalo’s economy with a SolarCity factory. Read it here.

The Atlantic’s CityLab In the Rust Belt, vacant urban land could help shield residents from global warming’s worst effects. Read it here.

The New York Times  [October 2016] The back alleys of most cities are ugly, but in Montreal they’ve been growing into surprisingly lovely neighborhood hubs. Read it here.  

Modern Farmer  In the last six years, the number of U.S. farms and ranches offering overnight adventures jumped from 300 to more than 800. Download PDF.

Travel + Leisure   Find pop-up restaurants, public art, and some of the tiniest bars anywhere. Read it here.

Modern Farmer   A farmer in tiny Forrest, Illinois, sculpts wool into amazing animals for New York art galleries and even Japanese royals. Download PDF.

Modern Farmer   American yak farmers are supplying more and more restaurants, co-ops, and butcher shops with a grass-fed bovine meat as lean as bison. Read it here.

Islands   From the Caribbean to the Great Lakes to the Indian Ocean, here are the islands where cars are almost nonexistent. You can walk, but to really fit in you pedal from place to place. Download PDF.