The tenants come from diverse generations and cultures — and commit to socializing with each other at least two hours a week.

Along a rocky stretch of the British coast, a modest yet highly replicable low-tech solution to ocean cleanup is setting sail.

While federal laws require people to sleep on the street before they can get housing assistance, Washington State is more realistic about what homelessness looks like today.

Custom-designed museum programs are alleviating depression, fostering connection and even lowering cortisol levels in people with dementia.

In Tunisia, where education is underfunded, one school is flush with cash after covering itself in solar panels and selling the energy back to the grid.

In Jakarta, a building for evicted slum-dwellers has alcoves for hawking goods, stairs designed for cross-floor conversation and gardens to grow your own food.