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Photo Essay: At a Half-Mile-Long Table, Chefs, Farmers, and Volunteers Feed a Neighborhood for Free

In St. Paul, Minnesota, artist Seitu Jones wanted to start a community-wide conversation about food access and food justice—and where better to talk than over a good meal?

Valerie Schloredt | Nov 26, 2014

7 Ways to Get Happy—Without Costing the Planet

The starting point is to realize we have choices—like meaningful work, authentic relationships, and gratitude.

Sarah van Gelder | Nov 15, 2014

An Introvert Cooks Dinner for 80—and Learns Something About Community

I love my solitude. I also love my community. But my independent nature has never been unusual in this town.

Shannon Hayes | Nov 14, 2014

When My Husband Was Fired, I Felt Shame—Then Gratitude

I had grown up identifying joblessness with shame and failure. But here we were, on the other side of the employment equation, and for the first moment in my grown-up life, everything felt … right.

Shannon Hayes | Nov 8, 2014

Empathy Heroes: 5 People Who Changed the World By Taking Compassion to the Extreme

Want to learn to change the world with empathy? Get ready to learn from the masters.

Roman Krznaric | Nov 7, 2014

Health care

What I Learned About Living From Dying of Cancer

Many more patients are now living for years with the diagnosis of terminal illness. The author describes her journey to what she calls “livingly dying”—facing her death by living in the moment with grace and mindfulness.

Marcy Westerling | Oct 24, 2014

Denmark Becomes Second Country to Let Citizens Choose Their Gender Without Having Surgery

A new law allows transgender citizens to decide their own gender—and all it takes is a piece of paper.

Tom Lawson | Oct 22, 2014

Sustainable food and farming | Health care

How to Pickle Almost Anything

Why ferment? It’s practical magic. Here are a few basics to get you started.

Doug Pibel | Oct 16, 2014

The Radical Homemaker’s Guide to Finding Peace When Your Kids Are Eating You Alive

Rather than feeling guilty for not giving each child everything they deserve, I will feel gratitude for the grace with which they accept my limits.

Shannon Hayes | Oct 16, 2014

Photo by Brittni Gee Photography / Flickr.

Why I’m Staying In My Hometown (Even Though Everybody Knows What I Was Like as a Kid)

Brought on by the sound of a screaming child, I reflect on my past, my community, and how we can become our true selves without fleeing our roots.

Oct 8, 2014

Mental health

Three Projects that Block Violence Against Women By Bringing Communities Together

These projects show how everyday people can address violence in our own communities by breaking through the silence to interrupt abuse.

Victoria Law | Oct 1, 2014

Tayla and Strawberry. Photo by the author.

My Chicken Became a Cat—And Taught Me to Imagine a Happier, Healthier World

If there is one key to making it in a family farm—or in any business that thwarts the trend toward relentless greed and destruction of the planet—it is the ability to believe.

Shannon Hayes | Sep 23, 2014

Beyond the CSA: Four Ways Communities Support Everything From Books to Beer

You know the model: Consumers purchase a share of the season’s harvest upfront and get a box of fresh produce each week from the farm. Now you can get your medicine that way too.

Dana Drugmand | Sep 6, 2014

The Radical Homemaker’s Guide to Friendship and Chocolate Cake

Sure, life goes on even if it is devoid of buttercream. But when it is there, life just seems so perfect—even if you only get to eat buttercream once or twice in a year.

Shannon Hayes | Sep 4, 2014

6 Ways to Bring More Empathy to the Internet

We asked psychologists, user experience designers, and writers what web users could to do to promote more empathic interaction in online places. Here's what they said.

Jim McGowan, Liz Pleasant | Sep 3, 2014