Joy Shayne Laughter

THE PROBLEM: The Great Lakes of North America hold the largest amount of fresh water on the planet - and they face crises of pollution and climate change affecting wildlife and human life in the water and on the shores. "Residents in communities along the shores of the Great

THE PROBLEM: I'm waiting to hear back from a subject source about permission to use images from their website. WHO'S ALREADY ON IT: Me, and (I presume) them. So, while waiting, here are some resources for further discovery of projects and people to keep you SANE

THE PROBLEM:  Suburban neighborhoods in America have become stereotyped as lonely, sterile places of perfect lawns and people who only meet on the NextDoor app. The chemicals in lawn care have also contributed to pollution of local groundwater, and the streets are all about cars. WHO'S ALREADY ON

THE PROBLEM: Every human poops. And pees. Billions of us. And what do we do with that? Well, for the past 200 years or so, we send it down a pipe with a couple of gallons of perfectly good potable freshwater, and forget about it. Sewers, septic systems, let the

I moved house from the mainland to an island a few days ago, so have needed a few days to recover and get reoriented.   THE PROBLEM: Industrial agriculture, forestry, and urban design have devastated soil quality in urban and rural spaces. Deforestation has limited the amount of carbon that can

Ursula K. Le Guin gave us a calm, wise-voiced quote to call upon in anxious times: "We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable – but then, so did the divine right of kings.' Bam. "Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings," she

THE PROBLEM: Bioregions are vast and difficult to identify, much less organize the scattered people who live there into a coordinated force for practical change. WHO'S ALREADY ON IT: The bioregion stretches from northern California to southern Alaska, united by the native being Salmon, which has fed and

THE PROBLEM: Earth's ecosystems, especially its freshwater rivers and the watersheds that feed and protect those rivers, have been degraded over centuries of large-scale agricultural practices and industrial pollution, to the point of death - as in, drying up, or poisonous to life forms. WHO'S ON