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Lifestyle
Would It Cost You $2,500 to Grow Chard in Your Neighborhood?
Oakland urban agriculture hero Novella Carpenter was just busted for growing chard. A new interactive map shows you what's legal in your community.
News
East Bay's JUST FOOD Tackles Food Injustice
Ashoka's Youth Venture and The Earth Island Institute are collaborating on an exciting new program called JUST FOOD.
Education
Use It or Lose It
How schools are forced to spend money. Now that we’ve begun a new fiscal year in school districts throughout the country, the books are being...
Education
What's Right With School Lunch: Oakland and Baltimore
How urban schools are leading the fight against obesity. It’s no secret that our country is struggling with childhood obesity. The growing...
Cities
Saving Money by Cutting Traffic
America is known for its car culture—but we haven't designed our daily commutes from home to work (and back) to be easy. In fact, they're...
Lifestyle
Novella Carpenter, Urban Cowgirl
My parents were back-to-the-land hippies; they were of that generation in the late 1960s that decided to reject cities and move to the country. I...
Design
LOOK: Creative Growth's Summer of Love
In 1967, roughly 100,000 young people from every corner of the country made pilgrimages to San Francisco, traveling, as if summoned by a...
