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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.

Akaya Windwood | May 23, 2008

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.”

Jason Rutledge | Feb 7, 2008

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.

Joanna Macy | Feb 2, 2008

Commentary: An Honorable Exit from Iraq

Poka Laenui outlines the 7 steps the U.S. should take to achieve an honorable exit from Iraq.

Poka Laenui | Jul 30, 2007

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.

David Korten | Jul 30, 2007

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.

Sarah van Gelder | May 12, 2007

Local economies

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.

Carol Estes | Feb 7, 2007

Jobs

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.'

Ben Wyskida, Van Jones | Nov 7, 2006

Local economies

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.

Frances Moore Lappé | Nov 7, 2006

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.

Joanna Macy | May 11, 2006

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.

Holly Dressel | Feb 20, 2006

Sustainable food and farming

Food Revolution: Americans Lose their Appetite for Anonymous Food

Why are farmers’ markets, community supported agriculture, direct farm-to-household marketing, organics, and humanely raised meats all on the increase?

Brian Halweil | Feb 20, 2006

Cooperatives

Java Justice

A Jewish Ugandan coffee farmer partners with Christian and Muslim neighbors to produce jobs, understanding, and a great coffee. Thanksgivingcoffee.com

Dee Axelrod | Nov 9, 2005

A Stranger at the Door

Although Las Posadas is a beautiful ritual, the reality it addresses is a painful one: the reality of human need and exclusion.

Anna Maria Pineda | Nov 8, 2005

95 Theses or Articles of Faith for a Christianity for the Third Millennium

Like Luther, I present 95 theses or in my case, 95 faith observations drawn from my 64 years of living and practicing religion and spirituality. I trust I am not alone in recognizing these truths. For me they represent a return to our origins, a return to the spirit and the teaching of Jesus and his prophetic ancestors, and of the Christ which was a spirit that Jesus’ presence and teaching unleashed.

Matthew Fox | Nov 7, 2005

Joseph and His Brethren Welcomed by Pharaoh

The Prophets Versus Empire

Is it time for Americans to build a culture that rejects empire and adopts the principles of the Jubilee?

Richard Lang | Nov 1, 2005

Just, Green & Beautiful Cities

Carl Anthony on the regional equity movement, and making cities work.

Carl Anthony | Jun 4, 2005

Jobs

Two Crises, One Solution

We face devastation of the natural world and violence in human communities. There's a way to solve both these crises. A reverence movement would anchor a different economics, a restorative economics. Working with nature, we can create wealth sustainably and spread it more equitably. Solution-based, investment-driven environmentalism.

Van Jones | May 25, 2005

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