As you get older, I hear, time flies by. Perhaps it’s just that time gets more and more precious as we get older. Either way, we should all put into […]
Todd Paglia | Speaking for the Trees
Todd Paglia started his advocacy career with Ralph Nader in 1995 by taking on some of the largest companies in the US on issues of corporate welfare and consumer protection. He also […]
Forest Ethics | Forests for the Trees
Over the past few years ForestEthics has made huge environmental progress, including protecting the Great Bear Rainforest, Canada’s Boreal Forest, and shifting the practices of the paper industry. They are […]
Mike Edwards | Tools for Unraveling the Emperor’s New Clothes, Pt II
In Part II of our interview with Mike Edwards, he talks about the importance of civil society reclaiming its wisdom and the great potential that lies in movements like Occupy […]
Mike Edwards | Tools for Unraveling the Emperor’s New Clothes, Pt I
Michael Edwards is a writer and activist based in upstate New York who focuses on the links between personal and social transformation. He has spent 35 years in the non-profit sector in […]
YogaVOTES | Voting from the Mat
At first glance it may seem like yoga and voting have absolutely nothing in common. After all, a body-based spiritual practice and political candidates don’t even show up on […]
Mirabai Bush | The Work of Compassionate Action
Mirabai Bush is Senior Fellow and the founding Director of the Center on Contemplative Mind in Society. She has led contemplative trainings for social justice activists, teaches compassion practices at […]
Welcome | august 2012
Dissent, the less popular sister-word of protesting, is not a term we hear often. We hear protesting a lot – maybe because it’s about action. But they’re both important. Dissent […]
Domestic Work Is An Act of Love
When the National Labor Relations Act was passed to protect the rights of workers in the US, “to win votes for the 1938 law from Southern lawmakers, President Franklin D. […]
Ai-Jen Poo | Domestic Workers & Finding Balance Through the Lens of Love
Ai-jen Poo, Director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA), has been organizing immigrant women workers since 1996. In 2000 she co-founded Domestic Workers United, the New York based organization […]
On Spiritual Retreat
Like we do every summer, this past July XC hosted our Inner Justice Intensive retreat (IJI), one of our signature offerings for agents of change. It’s a retreat that’s meant […]
Welcome | july 2012
Every year around this time, the staff of XC goes on spiritual retreat. Our July issue reflects this by including reprints of some of our favorite stories from the past. […]