Summer 2013
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Love and the Apocalypse
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Don鈥檛 Let the Apocalypse Get You Down
The climate crisis is spinning out of control, and the gap between the rich and poor continues to grow unabated. It鈥檚 time to let the radical uncertainty of this moment enlarge our sense of possibility.
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What鈥檚 Love Got to Do with the Apocalypse? We Asked This Group of Young Leaders
On life, leadership, and the future in an age of catastrophic change.
Sarah van Gelder
For a Future that Won鈥檛 Destroy Life on Earth, Look to the Global Indigenous Uprising
Idle No More is the latest incarnation of an age-old movement for life that doesn't depend on infinite extraction and growth. Now, armed with Twitter and Facebook, once-isolated groups from Canada to South America are exchanging resources and support like never before.
Kristin Moe
Click Here to Kick Glenn Beck Off the Air: Web Activism’s Big Wins鈥攁nd What to Do Next
It was online campaigning that got Lou Dobbs and Glenn Beck's shows canceled. But the real power of Internet activism is what happens after we step away from the screen.
Mark Engler & Paul Engler
What to Say When People Say 鈥淚t鈥檚 Impossible鈥�
10 smart conversation starters to address some standard defenses of the status quo.
Andrea Brower
Don鈥檛 Wait for the Revolution鈥擫ive It
When pranksters and creative organizers create temporary utopias, the experience leaves us wanting more鈥攁nd ready to work hard to get it.
Andrew Boyd
Peaceful Revolution? Gandhi鈥檚 Four Paths to Get There
The Indian leader saw nonviolence as an active and powerful thing鈥攏ot just the absence of war.
Madhu Suri Prakash
Get Apocalyptic: Why Radical is the New Normal
Feeling anxious about life in a broken economy on a strained planet? Turn despair into action.
Robert Jensen
A Caring Economy Requires Building Bridges鈥擭ot Burning Them
Traditional organizing makes opponents into 鈥渆nemies,鈥� but a new crop of activists is using love and empathy to create new alliances and possibilities.
Sally Kohn
Love and Power: When Are they Generative, Instead of Destructive?
Martin Luther King Jr. said, 鈥淧ower without love is reckless and abusive and love without power is sentimental and anemic.鈥� How to find the balance.
Adam Kahane
Slave and Slaveholder Descendants Break Free of History’s Trauma鈥擳ogether
Responding to past traumas like slavery and acts of terrorism can heal us鈥攁nd future generations.
Lisa Gale Garrigues
Solutions We Love
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Dar Williams: Why the Music of Protest Is Still Worth Defending
We can鈥檛 change the world if we can鈥檛 even sing together鈥攁 star folk singer on what happens if political music dies.
Madeline Ostrander
Meet the Refreshing Evangelical Who鈥檚 Leading a Revival鈥攐f 鈥渢he Common Good鈥�
Pastor Jim Wallis has been arrested for protesting the Keystone XL pipeline, builds bridges between polarized politicians, and pushes Christians to worry less about gay marriage and more about justice. And even better鈥攖here鈥檚 a whole new generation following his lead.
Sarah van Gelder
Why the TransPacific Partnership is a Scary Big (Trade) Deal
A super-sized NAFTA, the TPP gives foreign corporations privileges that can override domestic laws on environmental health and citizens鈥� rights. Here鈥檚 why we shouldn鈥檛 let it pass without a fight.
Kristen Beifus
Georgia Professors Teach Undocumented Students鈥攆or Free
Georgia is one of three states that exclude undocumented students from full access to higher education. "Freedom University" operates on the principle that 鈥測ou can stop me from going to a UGA classroom, but you can鈥檛 stop a UGA professor from teaching me.鈥�
Chris Francis
People We Love
This Guy Moved Into His Parents鈥� House So a Homeless Family Could Live in His
Three extraordinary, everyday people who will make your day better.
Chris Francis & Katrina Rabeler
Marriage Equality Victories Show How Change Happens, One Step at a Time
Before 2004, no state allowed same-sex marriage. Today, it's legal in 12 states and the District of Columbia. If you want to see how political progress is made, look to the local level.
Gar Alperovitz
The Page That Counts
The Page That Counts: Summer 2013
Years it took for the human population to grow from 1 billion to 2 billion: 123. Years it took to grow from 6 billion to 7 billion: 12
Culture Shift
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Yes! But How?
How to See Stars Like Your Ancestors Did
We could all see the sky as our ancestors once saw it just by turning off the lights, according to the International Dark Sky Association.
Chris Francis & Katrina Rabeler
How Two Plant Geeks Grew a Permaculture Oasis in an Ordinary Backyard
In 鈥淧aradise Lot,鈥� two residents of an inner city write about how they transformed less than an acre of their blighted yard into a thriving food forest full of mushrooms, gooseberries, silkworms, and more.
Abby Quillen
A Marathon Runner鈥檚 Lessons for a Saner Civilization
Long-distance running demands that athletes pace themselves and keep the future in mind. Might they have something to teach those who want to create a sustainable society?
Andy Lee Roth
How a Radical Group of American Nuns Shook Up the Vatican to Better the World
鈥淏and of Sisters鈥� shows why a humble group of women fell under Vatican investigation for seeing the causes鈥攏ot just the symptoms鈥攐f injustice.
Valerie Schloredt
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