As far as taxes go, what will nonprofits face in the new year? Patrick Rooney, Steven MacLaughlin, and Holly Hall, answer questions you may have about your organization’s financial future. Nonprofits enter […]
The Case for a 21-Hour Work Week
To save the world–or really to even just make our personal lives better–we will need to work less. Time, like work, has become commodified, a recent legacy of industrial capitalism, […]
september 2012
WEST COAST fearlessMeditation I | Practice of the Body CXC | Center for Transformative Change | Berkeley, CA Friday | September 14, 2012 | 7:00-9:30pm Register Peace Team […]
The Poor Are Expendable So Reporters Should Not Talk About Them
Wisconsin Senator Eric Hovde (R) believes the press should stop focusing on the way people are struggling through the recession and instead focus on more general things like the country’s […]
Mortgaging the Future | Portraits of Underwater America
Today 11 million Americans own homes that are “underwater,” or worth less than their mortgages. Strangled by the same big banks who caused the housing crisis, many homeowners now find […]
Ellen MacArthur Foundation | A Circular Economy
“There’s a world of opportunity to re-think and re-design the way we make stuff. ‘Re-Thinking Progress’ explores how through a change in perspective we can re-design the way our economy […]
Milk Not Jails
To help solve an economic crisis, an organization in Upstate New York proposed a combination of dairy products and ex-cons. What’s plentiful in upstate New York? Cows and prison inmates, […]
Rebuilding Our Dreams | America the Possible
“It’s not too late to build an American Dream that lives up to our highest ideals.” (from “America the Possible: A Manifesto” by Gus Speth) But in order to save ourselves, our country, […]
No Public Education, No Democracy!
Written & Contributed by Simone Harris I teach English at Montgomery High School in Santa Rosa, California. I love my school, my amazing colleagues, and the kids who enter my […]
december 2011
Your Brain on Computers Follow five neuroscientists on a remote river trip to learn how the brain responds to an absence of technology. Representing various backgrounds, the researchers all, unsuprisingly, […]
Less Work, More Living
Working fewer hours could save our economy, save our sanity, and help save our planet. Millions of Americans have lost control over the basic rhythm of their daily lives. They […]