The Good Life

Finding fulfillment in the things that matter.

This Is My Family

posted Nov 15, 2010

8 personal essays on what family is today.

Humanity, in Photos

posted Nov 15, 2010

Photo Essay: A celebration of friendship, family, love, and laughter.

How To Have An Open Relationship

by Jen Angel

posted Nov 14, 2010

Three simple tips for making it work

Reducing Our Speed

posted Nov 10, 2010

Video: Why do we call life a journey and rush through it like it’s a race with a prize at the end?

Cycle Chic Around the Globe

posted Oct 25, 2010

Video: What does fashion have to do with transforming biking from a recreational pastime to a way of life?

51 Ways to Spark a Commons Revolution

by Jay Walljasper

posted Oct 21, 2010

What you can do, alone and with others, to share life.

8 Food Rules from My 10-Mile Diet

by Vicki Robin

posted Oct 19, 2010

After a month of hyperlocavore eating, Vicki Robin developed her own food rules for a lifetime.

A History of Happiness

by Darrin M. McMahon, Ph.D.

posted Oct 01, 2010

We can learn a lot from older traditions that focused on being good rather than feeling good and measured happiness in lifetimes, not moments.

How to Make Biking Mainstream: Lessons from the Dutch

by Jay Walljasper

posted Sep 29, 2010

The Dutch have spent 35 years perfecting the country's bicycling infrastructure. We, too, can transform biking from a recreational pastime to an integral part of our transportation system.

Resilient Ideas: A Hand-Built Home

by Sven Eberlein

posted Sep 11, 2010

No fortune? No skills? No problem. How a novice builder used mud–and teamwork–to make a house from scratch.

Movies, My Kids, and Me

by Shannon Hayes

posted Sep 08, 2010

Shannon Hayes used movies to give her daughters—and herself—an occasional break. Then they began to take over.

What is Real Wealth?

by John Robbins

posted Aug 31, 2010

In an essay adapted from his new book, The New Good Life, John Robbins points out that we've been measuring happiness in all the wrong ways. How can we find true quality of life?

3 Pillars of a Food Revolution

by Anna Lappé

posted Aug 19, 2010

As marketers learn to fake climate-friendly food, how do we spot the real thing? Anna Lappé says it's a question of values.

A Paradise Built in Hell

by Rebecca Solnit

posted Aug 13, 2010

Rebecca Solnit's latest book explores communities that rise to the challenge of disaster.

Leaving It Up To Them

by Shannon Hayes

posted Jul 28, 2010

What happens when children raised in radical homes choose the straight and narrow?