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Living Beauty
Sandra Lubarsky, Excerpted From Keeping The Wild: Against The Domestication Of Earth
Rebuild or Retreat
By Ben Goldfarb, Excerpted From Coming Of Age At The End Of Nature
Social Justice: The New American Dream
By Kurt Vonnegut
Letter to a Young Man
By Staff
A Veteran’s Duel with the Death Impulse
By Jessica Cohen, Special To Utne Reader
Take Liturgy to the Street, the Pipeline, and the Tracks
By Jim Antal
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Rebuild or Retreat
By Ben Goldfarb, Excerpted From Coming Of Age At The End Of Nature
Social Justice: The New American Dream
Kurt Vonnegut urges us to rethink the American dream and become a family, taking care of each other as families do, and spend more money on schools, hospitals and Ferris wheels.
Letter to a Young Man
A letter to a young man.
A Veteran’s Duel with the Death Impulse
In 1966, Everett Cox never anticipated that four decades of recurring suicidal thoughts and multiple suicide attempts would stem from what he learned in army boot camp. Nor could he have imagined what would help him.
Holocaust Humor
By Shai Oster, From Moment
The Rich Get Richer, the Poor Go Hungry
Starvation is often the result of inequity and politics, not a shortage of food...
In Praise of Fast Food
We need a culinary ethos that comes to terms with industrialized food...
Burning the Shelter
A simple fire reveals the beginnings of our environmental crisis...
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Holocaust Humor
By Shai Oster, From Moment
The Rich Get Richer, the Poor Go Hungry
By Sharon Astyk And Aaron Newton, From The Book A Nation Of Farmers
In Praise of Fast Food
By Rachel Laudan, From The Book The Gastronomica Reader
Burning the Shelter
By Louis Owens, From Colors Of Nature
Arts
The Slow Death of Creativity in Sound
Without evolving creativity and changes, new music will become a lost art.
The Summer of Dead Birds: A Memoir of Love and Loss
Ali Liebegott’s new book circles death like a buzzard.
Old Hollywood’s Forgotten Filmmaker
Take a closer look at James Stuart Blackton, a revolutionary filmmaker in old Hollywood who has received little credit.
The Nile Project: Bringing the River Basin Together and to the World
Think watershed, act local.
Community
How to Turn Neighborhoods Into Hubs of Resilience
Three places showing how to make the transition from domination and resource extraction to regeneration and interdependence.
An Economy of False Profits
Our national allegiance to the monetary bottom line threatens to negate other measures of personal and communal wealth. What’s being sacrificed to the cult of money?
Can Blockchain be Used to Achieve Racial Equity?
Achieve racial equity through checks and balances a blockchain network provides by connecting everyone as nodes while still providing anonymity.
Stop Trying to Understand Neutrois
Julia Eff talks about the daily struggles of life as someone without a gender.
Mind And Body
Growing Up Hippie
Maybe it was the earnest meditation practices or the homemade cardboard lunch box that caused me to rebel. As the adult daughter of flower children, I crave structure, tidiness, and lots of sugar....
Into the Rafters
Reflections on a football dream cut short.
Football Helmets and Concussions
Take a look at the concussion epidemic plaguing football players.
The Will-to-Live-Until Phenomenon
Sometimes, the human body fends off death for reasons we don’t yet fully understand.
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