Your Community and the Law
Earthaven Ecovillage learns the hard way that it’s important for a community to choose its legal entities carefully, and to consult and listen to lawyers. A member shares some lessons from their ordeal.
How We Came to Inherit a Salmon Stream
The residents of Sahale Learning Center and EcoVillage welcome the salmon who swim from the Hood Canal up the Tahuya River each year to spawn.
Cross-Class Cooperation and Land Access
It is important to not only talk about the role class privilege plays in our movement, but also celebrate the ways that cross-class cooperation can be a form of much-needed solidarity.
The Dilemmas of Being a Benefactor: Creating a Community Land Trust
CommonSpace CLT fulfills its founder’s dream of using her inheritance to create an affordable, not-for-profit example of diverse community on protected land in perpetuity.
Land Speaking through the People: The Great Work of Our Times
Through Community Land Trusts, we can reimagine and experience anew our relationship with the land as communities of place-based people.
Black Land Matters: An Interview with Leah Penniman of Soul Fire Farm
Headquartered on a community farm, a nonprofit, people-of-color-led organization works to dismantle racism in the food system by increasing farmland stewardship by people of color, promoting equity in food access, and training the next generation of activist farmers.