The maths starts with the US consumption of 118 billion gallons of oil a year for travel in cars and light trucks.
Step 1: Stay Home 5 percent. Fuel
Despite dire warnings, Northwest businesses, farmers, and cities are finding climate-friendly policies bring prosperity.
Hunter Lovins helped found and manage the Rocky Mountain Institute, famous for turning conventional wisdom about energy on its head. She鈥檚 still changing minds in the worlds of business, nonprofits, and government, showing a more sustainable path to prosperity.
Ten good reasons for hope.
How might we get around with less oil? Here鈥檚 a 12-step program to kick our addiction to gas guzzling.
There are good reasons to move away from dependence on oil 鈥� war and climate change are among them. Then there鈥檚 the fact that oil extraction is about to peak, and we don鈥檛 have a plan for a world of diminishing oil supplies.
The Village Building Convergence. A sunflower
painted across an intersection. A solar-powered fountain. A
corner tea kiosk. Portlanders are taking over their streets and
teaching city officials to love 鈥渃ity
repair.鈥�
In the U.S. today, immigrants are taking the blame for everything from environmental stresses to terrorism to the poor job market. What鈥檚 at stake for all of us in this debate?
An interview with Frances Moore Lapp茅 by Sarah Ruth van Gelder
A small cheese shop in Berkeley has become a
community hub and a thriving model of worker
ownership.
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.
What happens when economic growth produces more 鈥渋llth鈥� than wealth? What happens when it gobbles up the foundation of the good life鈥攖he commons?
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?
International Solidarity Movement and the power of nonviolence
I do not feel particularly brave when I speak. I am simply propelled by the force of what I want to say.
the story of a grassroots effort to renew a
post-industrial city. AC3T, Boggs Center, Detroit summer,
Adamah, Grace Boggs, Cass Corridor Food Cooperative, Romanowski
Park.
Rachel Corrie. A story about Israeli Committee
Against House Demolitions.
8 practical steps to teaching peace in your community.
Time to Be, Time to Love by Rabbi Arthur
Waskow, shabbat shabbaton,
fighting for the soul of the democratic party
by John Dittmer
The Damascus peace mission: pilgrims to Syria find that the healing of wounds begins with listening, learning, and praying together in many languages.
Many thought the global movement against unfair trade started in Seattle 1999. But going back over 200 years, people have reached across borders to end the slave trade, shame a brutal colonial regime, and bring respite to laborers of the industrial revolution.
Reflections on Martin Luther King, Jr.'s revolutionary ideas and what they might mean for us today.
Why do so many attempts to build coalitions across race and culture result in hurt and division? These seasoned activists offer tips on what makes the difference between success and disaster.
Fleeing the violence of Burma's military rulers, Shan women create a sanctuary and a power base by working together.
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