What Do Dreams Want?

SLOW IS BEAUTIFUL (AND DELICIOUS) | By Tenaya Darlington, Isthmus
In response to the blanding of world cuisine, Italy's Slow Food movement is now sweeping the United States. Behind it all is a new breed of food activists, determined to help us rediscover the meaning of the phrase live to eat.

ORGANIC VS. LOCAL | By Karen Lehman and Julie Ristau

How food is grown isn't the only health consideration; where that food comes from is important, too.

THE FUTURE OF FOOD | By Hal Hamilton, Yes! A Journal of Positive Futures
Industrialized mega-farms or healthy local farms? This is the choice we face.

AGRICULTURE?S NEXT FRONTIER | By Michael Ableman, Earth Island Journal
A tree grows in Brooklyn . . . and so does a tomato, and a cucumber, and an onion. How urban gardeners could feed the world.

HAVANA?S HOMEGROWN REVOLUTION | By Jade Saunders, The New Internationalist
Half of Cuba's vegetables come from urban organic gardens.

FIVE SIGNS OF THE COMING REVOLUTION |
No matter who's running Washington, here are five reasons
to be hopeful about the future of America:
Paul Hawken on the new citizens' movements
Gay Gaer Luce on the graying of America
David Korten on anticorporate uprisings
James Redfield on the promise of the spiritual
Margaret Wheatley on the potential of the next generation

THE Best Wing: CABINET PICKS | By Jay Walljasper
Ralph Nader, Andrew Weil, Robert Redford, Ann Landers,
and the rest of our political dream team.

POETRY IN BRICK AND MUD | By Adam Hochschild, Mother Jones
According to one free-thinking architect in India, the best materials
for building energy-efficient, beautiful homes are, literally, right
under our noses.