HAPPINESS

The good life doesn't have to cost the planet.

White on Black, Black on White

by Carol Estes, Robert Jeffrey

posted Sep 30, 2000

Two perspectives on a talking circle about racism held following the WTO protests in Seattle.

Youth Court: Jury of Their Peers

by Edgar S. Cahn

posted Sep 30, 2000

The Time Dollar Youth Court in Washington, D.C. for first time juvenile offenders aims to keep first offenders from becoming hardened criminals.

Book Review - Graceful Simplicity by Jerome Segal, Living Lightly by Walter and Dorothy Schwarz

by John de Graaf

posted Jun 30, 2000

Segal shows that now, perhaps for the first time in history, it is possible to create a society where all people can live simply but gracefully, with time for the things that really matter – deep friendships and relationships, a beautiful and clean environment, and freedom from fear and insecurity. All that is needed is the political will.

Simplicity Double-Speak

by Vicki Robin

posted Jun 30, 2000

When big media attempts to horn in on the simplicity movement, author and voluntary simplicity spokeperson Vicki Robin draws a line in the sand

New Life At the Roots

by Carol Estes

posted Jun 30, 2000

Farmers and consumers bypass industrial agriculture and work together to create a new American agriculture

Hog Heaven

by Brian DeVore

posted Jun 30, 2000

combining some old-fashioned animal husbandry with new, low-tech facility design and sophisticated ideas about the relationships between livestock and the land.

Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front

by Wendell Berry

posted Jun 30, 2000

Manifesto: the mad farmer liberation front, by Wendell Berry

Twenty Acres And a Hen

by Rachel Bagby

posted Jun 30, 2000

Rachel Bagby rediscovers her roots (in the soil) and learns about the creatures she shares it with

Cyber Consciousness

by Jean Houston

posted Mar 31, 2000

Jean Houston, sees the internet as a place where a new species intelligence is being born.

Moments of Grace

by Thomas Berry

posted Mar 31, 2000

new stories, moments of grace, by thomas berry

Tree People

by Tracy Rysavy

posted Oct 29, 1999

A story about Tree People, a Los Angeles organization that is fighting global climate change by planting trees. by Tracy Rysavy

Notes From a Pilgrimage

by Fran Korten

posted Oct 29, 1999

Fran Korten makes a pilgramage to see the Dalai Lama

Episcopal Power And Light

by Tracy Rysavy

posted Oct 29, 1999

An interview with Sally Bingham

Find Your Strength

by Kevin Fong

posted Sep 30, 1999

Working in the Hyphen combines the East Asian theory of the Five Elements with Western concepts of leadership.

Curitiba: Story of a City

by Bill McKibben

posted Jun 30, 1999

Curitiba, Brazil, is drawing attention around the world not for its beauty or cultural amenities but for its solutions to ecological and human problems that have left other cities in despair.