This is no time to be wasting the talents and wisdom of elders.
Health & Happiness
Japanese families are getting smaller while the ranks of the aged are growing. A co-operative has stepped into this vacuum, connecting thousands of elders who have something to give and something to receive.
It turns out there is a reason humans live decades after our reproductive years end, a reason obscured by reference to "the golden years" and endless products designed to keep us young. The truth is we need our elders to be elders.
It's not coincidental that throughout history the most violently despotic and warlike societies have been those in which violence, or the threat of violence, is used to maintain domination of parent over child and man over woman.
What happens when people refuse to live a lie?
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.
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?
Time to Be, Time to Love by Rabbi Arthur
Waskow, shabbat shabbaton,
Fleeing the violence of Burma's military rulers, Shan women create a sanctuary and a power base by working together.
A Canoe in Singing Waters by Elizabeth
Grossman, dam removal in Wisconsin
As an era of extinctions unfolds, the dawning
understanding of its links to our own health could energize a
movement to save us all
a story of a vegetarian who learned how to hunt
on his land. He developed his own personal ecology, which
included eating locally and responsible
hunting.
A dying man thought he’d spend his last days
cleaning a small creek behind his house. Did he save the creek?
Or was it the creek that saved him?
More than a hundred years after it helped overthrow the Queen of Hawaii, the Congregational Church musters the courage to face its past and apologized for the church's role in “the unprovoked invasion of the Hawaiian nation.”
The Compassionate Listening Project is a reconciliation effort based on the ideas of Gene Knudsen Hoffman, a Quaker peacemaker. Participants are trained to listen respectfully to all sides of the conflict, with a goal to build the international constituency for Mideast peace while offering a practical tool for conflict resolution.
A recent class-action suit by black farmers against the USDA fails to stem the loss of land by African American farmers.
garden of simplicity, by Duane Elgin.
Simplicity is the new mantra for the overworked, over-stressed,
and over-cluttered, and for those who want to lighten their
impact on the Earth. The author of the classic book on
voluntary simplicity says the ways to simplicity are
many.
Mohave Creation Song cycle describes relation
of the Mohave to their land and helps prevent Ward Valley from
becoming a nuclear waste dump.
When big media attempts to horn in on the
simplicity movement, author and voluntary simplicity
spokeperson Vicki Robin draws a line in the
sand
combining some old-fashioned animal husbandry
with new, low-tech facility design and sophisticated ideas
about the relationships between livestock and the
land.
Plant sequoias. Say that your main crop is the forest that you did not plant, that you will not live to harvest.
An interview with Sally Bingham
Making Amends by John Bond - Australian Journey of Healing
Fran Korten makes a pilgramage to see the Dalai
Lama
Although public opinion has turned against the use of landmines, a large number remain active, a lethal reminder of wars long over. One group of Americans and Vietnamese are removing landmines and restoring an indigenous ecosystem ...
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