In the Learn-n-Serve Environmental Anthropology Field School (LEAF), at Edmonds Community College, Washington, we study a little-known society: our own. As we help the Stillaguamish Tribe document Coho salmon escapement, my students learn about tribal fishing rights and the Puget Sound ecosystem. While helping a landowner restore the riparian zone near a water source, students learn to identify native species while planting them and invasive species while removing them. My students learn that we have lots of problems—but at the same time, every project in which they participate is part of a solution. They give each other hope and begin to believe that we can change the world.