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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鈥攏ot the other way around.
The New Deal Happened Because the Grassroots Made it Happen
Roosevelt didn鈥檛 come up with all those progressive programs on his own.
Food Rebellions: 7 Steps to Solving the Food Crisis
Resistance to the trade and 鈥渁id鈥� policies that displace farmers and increase hunger.
Blessings Revealed
Puanani Burgess tells the story of one student with a gift鈥攁 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鈥檚 Going Green
Kate Sheppard recounts how she found common ground with her father, a conservative farmer. Environmental policies work for all.
Commentary :: Don鈥檛 Be Nice鈥擝e Kind
Niceness is often filled with falseness鈥攊t is a way to not tell the truth, or to obscure it. 鈥淏e nice!鈥� is something many of us heard as children as a way of avoiding upsetting someone鈥� it鈥檚 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 鈥渞estorative forestry.鈥�
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.
Green-Collar Jobs for Urban America
Oakland discovers that green-collar jobs can revitalize its economy and sets out on the path to becoming a 'global green city.'
Creating Real Prosperity
Poor people are themselves creating the real job growth in much of the Global South through microcredit institutions and people's movements.
Building Protective Walls
Lisa Gale Garrigues offers some rants against
those tempted to cross borders.
The Great Turning as Compass and Lens
The Great Turning invites us to lift our eyes from the cramped closet of short-term thinking and see the larger historical landscape.
Surviving Hard Times: It’s not for sissies
Hopi and Iroquois prophecies draw on long
cultural memories, offering practical approaches to surviving
hard times.
Why the Next 10 Years Will Be Nothing Like the Last 10 Years
On 精东影业 Magazine's 10th anniversary, we look at trends that are changing our culture, our relationship to the earth, and our sense of self.
The Good Life: Consumerism Is So Last Century
In growing numbers, Americans are rediscovering that the real meaning of the good life doesn't come from things they can buy but from things they can feel.
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