-- evidence that the human brain is hardwired to reward caring, cooperation, and service;
-- at a time of agribusiness dominance and rising prices, urban farms have become an important resource for providing cheap, local amounts of food for growing numbers of people;
-- these gardens have proliferated in Cuba, an idea that could become a world model for "localized food sovereignty and sustainability;"
-- communities are making food a matter of local interest;
-- grassroots efforts are achieving good food policies in America;
-- community stewardship of water is reclaiming a tradition of local control;
-- Bangladesh's successful model of fair water governance;
-- the US Conference of Mayors voting to encourage municipal water use over high-cost corporate-controlled sources;
-- sustainability efforts by a central Appalachian Network for a low-carbon regional economy;
-- successful holistic range management methods for more productive ranches, healthy ecosystems, biodiversity, healthy water, mineral cycles and land;
-- Canadian native communities gaining power over regional resources;
-- Congress approving a massive public lands bill to protect two million acres of wilderness in nine states and 1,000 miles of rivers;
-- Ireland and British Columbia, Canada banning uranium mining;
-- Brazil pledging to reduce deforestation by 70% over the next decade;
-- the first US Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) requiring that Northeast power plants buy permits for carbon emissions;
-- soil being used to reduce CO2;
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