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Attainable Housing Spotlight: Jake Ifshin

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Help Shape Monterey Bay's Future — Take the Survey

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From Monterey to the North Bay: Growing a Regenerative Future for California

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Striving for Balance

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From the Farm: Jonny Root on Moving from Summer to Fall

As summer begins to wind down here at Regenerate 68! Farm in Salinas, California, we’re shifting our focus from what we can harvest above the soil to what we can build beneath it. One of our most important fall practices is cover cropping, a simple but powerful regenerative farming practice that helps us protect and improve the soil during the transition between growing seasons.

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Attainable Housing Spotlight: Bill Hayward

Flourishing communities are home to growing families, thriving businesses, and the people whose labor and leadership power the local economy. Housing is essential to making that possible, and its absence can become one of the greatest barriers to a community’s vitality. What happens when young families move away, when businesses can’t hire employees, and when workers must commute from afar?

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Reimagining the Economy: Franziska Raedeker on the Doughnut Economy

If the goal of an economic system is maximizing GDP growth, then its institutions, policies, businesses, and cultural values will organize themselves around that objective. But if success is redefined as human and ecological wellbeing, the entire system begins to behave differently.

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Regenerative Agriculture Spotlight: Kasey Butler

One of California’s best resources for environmental stewardship is itself something of a hidden gem. Resource Conservation Districts, or RCDs, are special districts authorized by the State of California to support natural resource conservation and sustainable agriculture on public and private lands across the Golden State.

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Reimagining the Economy: Deb Nelson on the Just Economy

A just economy supports the well-being of all people and the planet. Our economies should serve life, not the other way around. The world is not lacking in solutions. What is often lacking is the willingness to recognize, support, and invest in the people and communities already creating the best solutions.

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Reimagining the Economy: Jose E. Corona on the Stewardship Economy

What if we measured economic success not only by what we produce or consume, but by what we leave behind? A stewardship economy recognizes that prosperity is not something we simply extract or accumulate; rather, it is something we cultivate and pass forward.

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The Ocean Community vs. Offshore Oil

The Monterey Bay is under threat. Our ocean, which supports one of the most biodiverse marine ecosystems on Earth as well as $3.3 billion in tourism and a $42 million fishing industry, is about to be sold to oil and mining companies.

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Attainable Housing Spotlight: Catherine Stihler

One of the biggest challenges people face today in Santa Cruz and Monterey Counties is affordable housing. For Catherine Stihler, working to create affordable housing as the CEO of Habitat for Humanity Monterey Bay is one of the most simultaneously challenging and rewarding endeavors she’s undertaken in her career.

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Regenerate 68! Farm Spotlight: Jonny Root

How can we grow abundant food while improving the health of the land? This has been the central question driving Regenerate 68! Farm Manager Jonny Root’s study and practice of sustainable farming methods around the world.

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Regenerate 68! Farm Spotlight: Julia Yamasaki

Soil. Water. Food. Community. For Julia Yamasaki, regenerative organic agriculture advisor at the Regenerate 68! Farm, regenerative agriculture is about getting back to basics, connecting people to land and life’s essential resources.