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The New Zealand Way: Another Approach to Health Care
When I ask New Zealanders if they would rather have a system like that in the United States, the response is a unanimous and unequivocal “No!”
The High Cost of Cheap Coal
More and more people are recalculating the true price of coal and deciding it’s simply too high to pay.
No Car, No Problem
Car-free living not only cuts back on your greenhouse gas emissions. It also builds local community, brings families closer together, and helps support local economies.
Healing Body and Heart, Cuban Style
Cuban doctors and artists–on the ground in Haiti even before the earthquake–are helping survivors heal.
Climate Game Changer
Can Cochabamba pick up where Copenhagen failed?
Moving Beyond Ego
How getting to know your inner self can help foster peace, understanding, and happiness.
In America: Getting Beyond the Hate
Race-baiting at recent tea party rallies is the most recent sign that we have a long way to go to move beyond racism in the United States. But there are exciting signs that a move to a post-racial society is possible and may even be underway.
Solidarity as Economic System
In Haiti, sharing communities are proving more shock-proof in the wake of disaster than market-based economies.
Holy Week: A Journey Toward Community
The journey through Holy Week is a journey “out of Egypt,” because it frees us from the practices and stereotypes that keep us from moving toward a more positive future.
In Response to the Health Care Bill
Rather than building a safer ship, the bill packs even more passengers onto the Titanic.
What Haitians Want from Americans (and What They Don't)
We asked Haitians in civil society organizations, on the streets, in buses, “What do you want from the U.S.? What help can Americans give Haiti?” Here are some of their answers.
It's Called Primary Care for a Reason
New Zealand prioritizes primary care, cutting down on the excess expenditures, discontinuity, and lack of access that too often characterize health care in the U.S.
Church in Our Times: Spirit and Security in the Face of Crisis
Churches are rediscovering their role as community centers, helping to relocalize and revitalize struggling communities.
A Second Opinion on Health Care
In medicine, it's a time-honored tactic to obtain a second opinion if the diagnosis is unclear or if the therapy isn't working. Physician Ken Fabert went to New Zealand to experience another possible way of providing health care to America's uninsured.
The Birthday Balloon
Somewhere in our consumer culture, we have confused material items with expressions of love.
Ending the Trance, Answering the Call
Passover invites us to shake off the old stories of limitation, and create new ones of possibility and service.
Haitian Women Mourn the Dead, Recommit to the Living
In Haiti, International Women's Day is a reminder of what women have done and are still doing to keep hope alive.
Living in Borrowed Times
In common security clubs around the country, participants wrestle with the questions: What does it mean to live in these “borrowed times?” How do we prepare ourselves and our communities for the economic transitions ahead?
A Future for Agriculture, A Future for Haiti
Haiti's way forward is tied to food sovereignty and a renewed focus on local agriculture.
Can Money Buy Education?
Radical homemaker Shannon Hayes taught her daughter that their family doesn't buy things they can make or grow at home. She then had to wonder: Does that include higher education?
