Not Buying It: My Year Without Shopping is a 12-month chronicle of one couple’s struggle to forgo western culture’s consumer luxuries, shopping malls, catalogs, restaurants and bargain bins.
Looking for a place to find all you need to know about poverty and its intersectionality with a myriad of issues? Curious about the projected world population in 2015?
Michael Pollan’s new book, The Omnivore’s Dilemma, examines where our food comes from, how it’s raised and how much it costs, not just financially but in terms of damages to the earth and our
In The Peace Book, Louise Diamond offers scores of suggestions on ways to wage peace in daily life. The wisdom of the first suggestion offers sweet and complete validation of the next 107.
One could easily dismiss Michael Ableman’s latest book, Fields of Plenty, as little more than one man’s account of the classic American experience: the road trip.
“My ancestors have farmed this land generation after generation; and I just about ended the whole thing.” So begins the documentary film “The Real Dirt on Farmer John,” part of the ongoing
In a time when the word “immigrant” conjures up negative images of night-vision border crossings and fear, the The Earth Knows My Name steers the conversation in a more humane direction.
