Common Roots offers a fascinating model of environmental justice.

According to Common Roots founder Julie Wilson, “We need to create a regenerative economy, and that can only happen if the economy is rooted in people and specific places.”

Common Roots, in Meadville Pennsylvania, started as an Allegheny College student project. The project: buy and revitalize one big old home and make it livable for people with low income, to give them a path to ownership. That was in 2018. Continue reading →