Featured · Environment
The Ushindi Energy Cooperative in Kisumu County now powers clinics, shops, and night study halls from a community microgrid. Women hold a majority of the board seats, and the lights stay on after dusk.
Amara Okonkwo · East Africa correspondent · 12 September 2026 · 3 min read
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Ghana, Nigeria, and Burkina Faso have crossed a once-unthinkable threshold in routine childhood immunization. Hospital wards that used to fill after the rains are quieter — not empty, quieter.
Priya Raman · 11 September 2026
Selectively bred coral fragments on a Philippine reef survived a marine heatwave at rates that stunned even the scientists who planted them. The work is slow, wet, and newly convincing.
Elena Voss · 9 September 2026
NeighborHour started as a school project. It now logs thousands of visits in three cities, with teenagers earning service hours and older neighbors getting a knock on the door that is not a scam.
Jordan Hale · 8 September 2026
A rare all-hands city council vote funds trees, misting stations, and night-time cooling centers on former parking lots. The first sites are already taking root in the neighborhoods that bake first.
Naomi Brooks · 6 September 2026
The old Ridgeway Spinning Mill in Calderdale reopened as a community land trust: affordable workrooms, a Saturday market, and a town that got its Saturday back.
Mateo Alvarez · 4 September 2026
The Table of Abraham in Minneapolis is not a metaphor. It is a production line of soup, bread, and dignity, staffed by people who pray in different rooms and clock in to the same steam.
Lila Haddad · 2 September 2026
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Greenleaf Market, a 31-store Pacific Northwest grocer, converted to 100 percent employee ownership in 2021. Five years on, wages are up, turnover is down, and the books — published in the break room — look like a dare to the industry.
David Chen · 28 August 2026 · 3 min read