HAPPINESS

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

Signs of Life :: Health Care

by Noah Grant

posted May 22, 2008

Support Grows for National Plan

Signs of Life :: Iraq War

by Madeline Ostrander

posted May 22, 2008

Virtual Memorials for War Casualties

Signs of Life :: Green Economy

by Jeremy Brecher, Tim Costello, Brendan Smith

posted May 22, 2008

Green Jobs Kindle Economic Hopes

A Potential Ally in Fighting Consumerism

by Dale Jiajun Wen

posted May 22, 2008

A Potential Ally in Fighting Consumerism, by Dale Jiajun Wen shows that China, like the U.S., is discovering the dangers, eco-stresses, and human costs of a consumer-oriented lifestyle—and like in the U.S., some in China are creating alternatives.

Derrick Ashong :: Sweet Mother Tour

posted May 19, 2008

Derrick Ashong, The 32-year-old Hip Hop musician, along with fellow members of the band Soulfège, founded the pop music and multimedia phenomenon Sweet Mother Tour, which has brought positive music, videos, and stories about Africa to 146 million viewers.

Sweet Mother Tour

posted Apr 30, 2008

The Sweet Mother Tour has brought positive music, videos, and stories about Africa to 146 million viewers through television and radio broadcasts in more than 45 countries. The goal: to bring to Africa a sense of empowerment and cultural self-worth as a foundation for cultural progress.

Chris Jordan :: Running the Numbers

by Chris Jordan

posted Apr 14, 2008

Dazzling images make the statistics that describe the huge waste streams of our consumer culture visible. This photo essay shows recent works of Chris Jordan from his Running the Numbers and Intolerable Beauty series.

The First Women Barefoot Solar Engineers of the Gambia

posted Feb 14, 2008

See the solar installation in process, start to finish: follow two rural illiterate women from The Gambia who learn how to become Barefoot Solar Engineers.

The Story of Stuff: The Bigger Picture

posted Feb 04, 2008

Take a look at our YES! articles to support teaching with The Story of Stuff. Use these stories to get your students thinking and talking about the golden arrow of consumption, our identity as consumers, the purpose of an economy, what makes us happy, globalization, and what a just and sustainable world could look like.

The Story of Stuff by Annie Leonard

by Annie Leonard

posted Feb 04, 2008

The Story of Stuff will take you on a provocative tour of our consumer-driven culture—from resourc extraction to iPod incineration—exposing the real costs of our use-it and lose-it approach to stuff.

Pete Seeger: How Can I Keep from Singing?

by Sarah van Gelder

posted Feb 01, 2008

Sarah van Gelder interviews Pete Seeger on a life of music and the power of millions of small changes. "Learning how to do something in your hometown is the most important thing," says Pete Seeger. "If there’s a world here in a hundred years, it’s going to be saved by tens of millions of little things.

The Greatest Danger

by Joanna Macy

posted Feb 01, 2008

In the face of global warming it is hard to escape a sense of outrage, fear, despair. Author, deep-ecologist, and Buddhist scholar Joanna Macy says that speaking the truth of our anguish for the world brings down the walls between us, drawing us into deep solidarity.

Connect and Engage :: Consumption

posted Jan 30, 2008

Resources to accompany the January/February 2008 Education Connection newsletter on The Story of Stuff and Consumption: Facing the Future, The Center for Ecoliteracy, UNESCO, and Redefining Progress.

People Taking Charge :6: Colombia Peace Village

posted Nov 07, 2007

Individual villages in Colombia are resisting by remaining neutral, refusing to participate in the war, not carrying weapons, and saying no to injustice

People Taking Charge :2: Grow Food on Your Roof

posted Nov 07, 2007

at Start Now Farm in Bremerton, WA a couple grows food on their roof, garage, carport . .