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A Phoenix from the Ashes
Our youth, our natural world, our neighbors—all are treated as expendables. What we need is a joining of movements based on valuing all life.
12 Steps: the cascading maths
The maths starts with the US consumption of 118 billion gallons of oil a year for travel in cars and light trucks.
Step 1: Stay Home 5 percent. Fuel
The Climate-friendly Northwest
Despite dire warnings, Northwest businesses, farmers, and cities are finding climate-friendly policies bring prosperity.
Making it Last
Hunter Lovins helped found and manage the Rocky Mountain Institute, famous for turning conventional wisdom about energy on its head. She’s still changing minds in the worlds of business, nonprofits, and government, showing a more sustainable path to prosperity.
The Hour Before the Dawn
Ten good reasons for hope.
Getting There on Less
How might we get around with less oil? Here’s a 12-step program to kick our addiction to gas guzzling.
The End of Ancient Sunlight
There are good reasons to move away from dependence on oil — war and climate change are among them. Then there’s the fact that oil extraction is about to peak, and we don’t have a plan for a world of diminishing oil supplies.
Street-corner Revolution
The Village Building Convergence. A sunflower
painted across an intersection. A solar-powered fountain. A
corner tea kiosk. Portlanders are taking over their streets and
teaching city officials to love “city
repair.”
Mother of Exiles
In the U.S. today, immigrants are taking the blame for everything from environmental stresses to terrorism to the poor job market. What’s at stake for all of us in this debate?
Walking Through Fear
An interview with Frances Moore Lappé by Sarah Ruth van Gelder
Cheese, Bread, and Thou
A small cheese shop in Berkeley has become a
community hub and a thriving model of worker
ownership.
Carry Me Away
Yet this is a sort of knowledge that
generations before us have already held, a way of appreciating
the world that we might share without trauma, without hard
lessons, if we but remember how our ancestors used to
live.
The Demand for the Common Good
What happens when economic growth produces more “illth” than wealth? What happens when it gobbles up the foundation of the good life—the commons?
The Secret to Happiness
Americans are far more affluent, on average,
than we were in the 1960s, but no happier. What do research
data tell us is the real source of joy and
contentment?
The Time For Nonviolence Has Come
International Solidarity Movement and the power of nonviolence
Fearlessness: Finding Peace in Activism
I do not feel particularly brave when I speak. I am simply propelled by the force of what I want to say.
Detroit Renaissance
the story of a grassroots effort to renew a
post-industrial city. AC3T, Boggs Center, Detroit summer,
Adamah, Grace Boggs, Cass Corridor Food Cooperative, Romanowski
Park.
Dismantling the Fortresses of Fear
Rachel Corrie. A story about Israeli Committee
Against House Demolitions.
Eight Steps To Teach Kids Peace
8 practical steps to teaching peace in your community.
Time To Be, Time To Love
Time to Be, Time to Love by Rabbi Arthur
Waskow, shabbat shabbaton,
Fighting For the Soul of the Democratic Party
fighting for the soul of the democratic party
by John Dittmer
A Pilgrimage to Syria
The Damascus peace mission: pilgrims to Syria find that the healing of wounds begins with listening, learning, and praying together in many languages.
A Conspiracy of Hope
Many thought the global movement against unfair trade started in Seattle 1999. But going back over 200 years, people have reached across borders to end the slave trade, shame a brutal colonial regime, and bring respite to laborers of the industrial revolution.
The beloved community of Martin Luther King
Reflections on Martin Luther King, Jr.'s revolutionary ideas and what they might mean for us today.
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