Returning Grandpa’s Love
A family economy that doesn't outsource care—at either end of life.
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How To Have An Open Relationship
Three simple tips for making it work
“In the Face of This Truth”
It’s time to talk honestly about collapse–no matter how others may respond.
Why Power Is Not a Dirty Word
Frances Moore Lappé looks at redefining power and taking it back.
What White People Fear
A white guy confesses his fears and tells why he seeks out settings beyond his comfort zone.
Generation Mixed: Breaking the Race Barrier
How the under-35 set is breaking the race barrier.
United by Hard Times: Workers Organize Across Race Lines
A tough economy makes cross-race organizing more important than ever.
Weapons of Mass Democracy
Here’s evidence that nonviolence is the most powerful tool to promote democracy and overthrow tyranny.
Money from Nothing
Supplying money should be a public service, not a cash cow for banks.
Why This Crisis May Be Our Best Chance to Build a New Economy
Wall Street is bankrupt. Instead of trying to save it, we can build a new economy that puts money and business in the service of people and the planet—not the other way around.
The New Deal Happened Because the Grassroots Made it Happen
Roosevelt didn’t come up with all those progressive programs on his own.
Food Rebellions: 7 Steps to Solving the Food Crisis
Resistance to the trade and “aid” policies that displace farmers and increase hunger.
Blessings Revealed
Puanani Burgess tells the story of one student with a gift—a gift our schools are not cultivating.
Christmas with No Presents?
"No Impact Man" suspected the holidays would be just as merry without all the stuff.
Why My Dad’s Going Green
Kate Sheppard recounts how she found common ground with her father, a conservative farmer. Environmental policies work for all.
Commentary :: Don’t Be Nice—Be Kind
Niceness is often filled with falseness—it is a way to not tell the truth, or to obscure it. “Be nice!” is something many of us heard as children as a way of avoiding upsetting someone… it’s not effective in the long run as a way to come together to solve the myriad difficulties facing our communities, both local and global.
Sustainable Appalachia: The Healing Harvest Forest Foundation
Over the past decade, a growing network of practitioners across Appalachia have chosen to live with horses in a utilitarian way. They are using horse power to practice “restorative forestry.”
The Fierce Urgency of Now
A call for beloved communities from Grace Lee Boggs: "We are living in a time of great peril and possibility."
The Greatest Danger
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.
On Critical Mass and the First Amendment
Do you need a permit to ride bicycles in New York? Critical Mass bicyclists say the First Amendment is their permit.
Commentary: An Honorable Exit from Iraq
Poka Laenui outlines the 7 steps the U.S. should take to achieve an honorable exit from Iraq.
Living Wealth: Better Than Money
If there is to be a human future, we must bring ourselves into balanced relationship with one another and the Earth. This requires building economies with heart.
Cuba’s Cure
By investing in health care that is holistic and focuses on prevention, Cuba has created one of the most effective systems in the world. Cuban doctors are engaged in missions throughout poor parts of the world, exchanging medical know-how for positive diplomatic relations.
Evo Morales: Indigenous Power
Evo Morales, Bolivia's first indigenous
president, is forwarding a socially just agenda that promotes
the country's sovereignty and
multiculturalism.
Who’s Afraid of Economic Rights?
Invisible Rights: We'll protect your right to vote. But not to eat. Economic human rights are in the Universal Declaration, but not in the U.S.
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