U.S. Cities Serve as Test Beds for Sustainability Initiatives

The FiveCities group from The George Washington University's Urban Sustainability class found that American cities are implementing sustainable practices in a variety of ways...here are just a few.

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An area between a building and a field that is filled with landscaped plants, trees, and bushes that dips down to collect rainwater.

A bioswale is an aesthetically pleasing green infrastructure option that captures rainwater and runoff that can also be used to create habitats for native species, birds, or other plants; they can also filter out pollutants as they capture water. (Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 4.0)

Mia Rosenblatt

George Washington University

This is my food justice

Shirley Chen

SUNY Environmental Science and Forestry

Indigenous plant sovereignty and Cherokee culture

A wide expanse of mountains behind a line of trees and a grassy meadow.

Cherokee, North Carolina is part of the Blue Ridge Parkway and is home to the Great Smoky Mountains. This place is also known as the ancestral homelands of the ᎠᏂᎩᏚᏩᎩ, or Cherokee people. (Raylen Bark)

Raylen Bark

Indigenous Correspondents Program | Dartmouth College

Antarctica is collapsing – what can we do?