Small actions add up to benefit ocean habitats and animals
Along with environmental news, we look at how nonprofit organizations can sustainably empower residents in need of affordable housing, and how child laborers can be supported before returning to regular classrooms.
1. United States
In Springfield, Oregon, the nonprofit affordable housing developer SquareOne Villages and architecture firm Cultivate Inc. opened the C Street Co-op to residents last fall. The six-unit apartment complex is a limited-equity cooperative, which means each inhabitant is a partial owner of the building. Members pay $10,000 at the outset for a one-bedroom unit, and then $788 per month, utilities and maintenance included. Increases
