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Sustainable Happiness
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What makes us happy? It’s a question we could leave to philosophers and poets, except for this: the pursuit of happiness, as now defined, is running our world into the ground. So the question that may be key to rebuilding after the crash is this: How can we have happy people and a happy planet? Winter 2009.
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Sustainable Sex
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What is the difference between love and desire? Featuring Naomi Wolf, Alan Durning, and Sam Keen. Also, Donella Meadows on urban farming and Kevin Fong on gay parenting in a cohousing community. Winter 1998.
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Sustaining Watersheds
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Sustaining watersheds of the Pacific Northwest. Rural communities that live within nature's limits. Fall 1997.
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Technology: Who Chooses?
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Who's in charge of technology? Richard Sclove on citizens reclaiming the right to choose, Jill Bamburg on radical technologies, and Janine Benyus on nature's designs. Prospects for a hydrogen economy and a solar future. Fall 2001.
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The New Economy
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This downturn marks the end of an unsustainable economy. There is an alternative…
Meet the activists, visionaries, and upstarts building something new: an economy that puts people first and works within the carrying capacity of the Earth. Summer 2009.
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What Does It Mean to Be an American Now?
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The Soul of America by Jacob Needleman, American Women by Sally Roesch Wagner, A Place for Dignity by Carol Estes, and an interview with Harry Belafonte. Spring 2002.
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What Is The Good Life?
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Is the American Dream really the good life? Is there a way to live the good life that both brings happiness and requires far less of the earth? Can the quest for the good life be a completely private matter? Summer 2004.
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What Makes a Great Place?
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Imagine a city where music, theater, and festivals celebrate the rainbow of cultures, where creeks run through and fresh produce comes in daily from nearby farms, where young and old gather in the great places of their community. Summer 2005.
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What Would Democracy Look Like?
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Vandan Shiva on Earth Democracy and clean elections. Lani Guinier on redefining power, citizenship, and the end of poverty. Winter 2003.
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Whose Water?
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Whose water? The answer may be one that is both simple and full of implications—water belongs to everyone and to no one. It is fundamentally a commons, which we all must care for, but which none of us can own. Winter 2004.
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