In 2011, Anchorage resident Michelle Wilber quit her “dream job” doing energy-efficiency
outreach for an organization promoting renewable energy. She got part-time work so she …

George Hunt spent more than fifty years as a community planner and landscape architect.
This included hands-on work in impoverished and low-income areas which helped him …

In light of concerns about food and human health, fraying social ties, economic uncertainty,
and rampant consumerism, some people are foregoing a hurried, distracted existence and …

Alaska Natives are a diverse group of people with different language groups and over 200
tribes. We have a history of colonization and are still a colonized people, but through all this …

In this thesis I discuss the ability of the people of Igiugig to define their strengths and
vulnerabilities as a village, and their ability to create innovative solutions in their conscious …

Most Americans take for granted much of what is materially involved in the daily rituals of
dwelling. In Dwelling in Resistance, Chelsea Schelly examines four alternative US …

To better understand social sustainability in the context of rapid boom growth and decline,
we examine longitudinal social change in the modern boomtown of Colstrip, MT. Using a …

Sustainable Communities takes a narrative, case-study approach to Burlington, Vermont, to
propose that developing a sustainable community depends on a series of actions that align …

Our neighborhoods in North Philadelphia are being torn apart as gentrification from “Temple
Town” expands and forces people out; our long-term residents deserve to age-inplace and …

In cities, towns, and rural areas throughout the Pacific Northwest, there are dozens of
communities that are taking the future into their own hands. They are constructing innovative …