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Anwar F. Accawi, From The Sun
Crisis Among the Palms
By Jeff Conant
How to be a Cool Dad
By Chris Kornelis
The Sacred Cow: Fighting Desertification
By Christopher Ketcham, From Sierra
Utne Reader Bookshelf: Arts
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Reunited and It Feels Like Hell
By Tim White
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Crisis Among the Palms
By Jeff Conant
How to be a Cool Dad
Learn to integrate your child into your life instead of sacrificing your life for the sake of fatherhood.
The Sacred Cow: Fighting Desertification
Allan Savory's Holistic Management Theory of fighting desertification by running more cattle on pasture land falls short on science.
Utne Reader Bookshelf: Arts
A selection of books that pique our interest.
Wabi-Sabi: The Art Of Imperfection
By Robyn Griggs Lawrence, From Natural Home
Fish To Eat Always, Never, and Sometimes
An ethical guide to seafood.
The Stigma of Fast Food Work
When a young father starts working nights in the fast-food industry while his wife finishes school, he recieves stigmatic reactions and wonders why someone should be shamed for trying to make an honest living.
The Haunting of Loon Lake Cemetery
Assessing the collateral damage when people and places are attached to ghostly legends.
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Wabi-Sabi: The Art Of Imperfection
By Robyn Griggs Lawrence, From Natural Home
Fish To Eat Always, Never, and Sometimes
By Taras Grescoe, From Bottomfeeder
The Stigma of Fast Food Work
By Joey Franklin
The Haunting of Loon Lake Cemetery
By Dennis Waskul And Michele Waskul, From Ghostly Encounters
Arts
Safe is the New Dangerous
Art is about arriving with nothing and connecting to everything that it means to be alive. Art is something that happens inside us.
Film Review: Spent – Looking For Change
New doc takes a closer look at the people who fall outside the traditional banking system and use services like payday lenders and title loans.
Women Writers and the Creative Drive
Women writers explore different facets of their creative drive and the writing process.
Photographing the Standard of Perfection
Reaching the Standard of Perfection is hard for a chicken, and no matter how hard you try to get them there, they just don’t care.
Community
Saying Goodbye to Our Friend Bill Coperthwaite
Sometimes saying goodbye can be a journey of its own.
Toxic Twitter Wars: Intersectionality and Online Feminism
In the Twitter world, online feminism can result in endless finger-pointing, but it's important to remain steadfast and convicted when discussing women's rights and instersectionality.
The Three Goodbyes of a Service Dog
Experience the 3 different good-byes experienced with service-animals and a lesson on remaining positive.
Prison Madness
Looking to Finland for a lesson in humane imprisonment.
Mind And Body
Temper-Temper, Temp
Tim White advises a woman on how to deal with an office rivalry that has escalated to physical threats.
Kung Fu Nuns
Martial art becomes a means of spiritual empowerment for the Buddhist nuns of Druk Gawa Khilwa nunnery in Nepal.
Do Babies Dream?
As a father watches his newborn baby sleep, he wonders one thing: Do babies dream?
The Positive Power of Walking
National summit showcases health, economic, and social justice benefits of walkable communities.
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