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Posted inOctober 2, 2023: The Dark Side of the Sheepherding Industry
A Hxstory of Renting
Using art to preserve what gets lost when a community gentrifies.
Posted inOctober 2, 2023: The Dark Side of the Sheepherding Industry
The dark side of America’s sheep industry
Sheepherders face wage theft, isolation, hunger and alleged abuse.
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Myth and mending in the true West
People in the region are willing to take time for self-reflection, support and tolerance of differences.
Posted inSeptember 1, 2023: Food Justice
Seattle’s Black Farmers Collective nurtures communities and crops
At Small Axe Farm, producers learn how to tend vegetables and grow their businesses.
Posted inSeptember 1, 2023: Food Justice
The twin crises of climate and addiction
Extreme temperatures and natural disasters push harm reduction workers to find new ways to keep communities safe.
Posted inSeptember 1, 2023: Food Justice
Revisiting the Rock Springs Massacre
In 1885, white coal miners in Wyoming Territory, murdered at least 28 Chinese men and ran the rest of the Chinese out of town at gunpoint. These artworks bring that history back to the present.
Posted inSeptember 1, 2023: Food Justice
‘I want people to know me for the good that I do in my life’
#iamthewest: Giving voice to the people that make up communities in the region.
Posted inSeptember 1, 2023: Food Justice
We don’t need utopias
What if Eden is chilling out in your neighborhood?
Posted inSeptember 1, 2023: Food Justice
The long tail of toxic emissions on the Navajo Nation
Communities contend with ongoing air quality issues tied to gas and oil wells.
Posted inSeptember 1, 2023: Food Justice
Who owns the West?
Increasingly, land is shifting into the hands of billionaires.
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What downwinders inherited at Trinity
In the days of ’Oppenheimer,’ an exhibition advocates expansion of the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act.
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More than 200 wildfires require state of emergency, evacuations in Canada’s Northwest Territories
’It’s all just really terrifying.’
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Q&A: Sacramento Homeless Union fights to end encampment sweeps during extreme heat
Activists are invoking emergency legal measures to protect unhoused communities.
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How a mobile-home park saved its community from a corporate buyout
In southwest Colorado, a cooperative and a land trust partnered to preserve affordable housing.
Posted inAugust 1, 2023: In the Line of Fire
The Tractor Princess
Memories from California’s Pajaro Valley.
Posted inAugust 1, 2023: In the Line of Fire
The abundance of subsistence
Losing salmon means losing more than just food.
Posted inAugust 1, 2023: In the Line of Fire
In the Utah desert, can golf justify itself?
The struggle for water is straining St. George, Utah, where golf – and grass – are sacred cows.
Posted inAugust 1, 2023: In the Line of Fire
Finding a fix for ‘forever chemicals’
Tests found PFAS in nearly all the public drinking water in Vancouver, Washington. The city is testing a solution that could take years — and more than $170 million — to build.
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Building queer visibility in rural Utah
A Q&A with barber and filmmaker, Kylee Howell.