Inspired by an article we recently included in transform., “An End to Self Care” by B. Loewe, I started searching for resources on self-care. I found a ton of sites, […]
The Praxis Project | EAT4Health Fellowship Program
Praxis and Community Science have started a new fellowship program for leaders in the food justice community. They aim to strengthen leadership and learning for food policy advocates in order […]
Are People Who Meditate the Top Social Change Agents?
If you meditate, you’re more likely to be for sustainability of communities, the environment, and other similar issues. Do you meditate? A few weeks ago, the New York Times Article “How […]
january 2012
WEST COAST fearlessMeditation I | Practice of the Body CXC | Center for Transformative Change | Berkeley, CA Friday | February 10, 2012 | 7:00-9:30pm Register Food, Justice & […]
Tools for Being the Change
Giving a nod to the people we’ve interviewed over the past year for our agents, allies, and activist section, these resources are related to their organizations and the kind of […]
Occupy Within | Take a Stand, SIT for Change
For four years Transformative Change (XC) has hosted SIT for Change, an event designed to bring inner awareness practices to agents of social change. This year, to support the many […]
Majora Carter | Staying Green, Staying Home
Majora hosts the Peabody Award winning public-radio series: The Promised Land. She has a long list of awards and honorary degrees, including a MacArthur “genius” Fellowship. She founded Sustainable South Bronx […]
Peter Forbes | Start with the Land
Original article posted in Vermont Commons July 31, 2006 and written by Peter Forbes of Center for Whole Communities. Not all that long ago, our ancestors drew their identities from the […]
The Happiness Institute in San Francisco
I met Leah Pearlman at Wednesdays, a meditation sangha, that meets (you guessed it!) every Wednesday in Santa Clara, California. During one of our shares, or maybe even after dinner […]
Howard Rheingold | Who Said Collaboration Wasn’t Sustainable?
As humans–being extremely complex, very intelligent, and oftentimes, narcissistic creatures–we often forget that we are animals. Looking back at a time in which survival of the fittest meant that humans […]
october 2011
Sustainability and Sustenance in the American Agri-food System Author Patricia Allen discusses the efforts of two movements, sustainable agriculture and community food security, in her book Together At The […]
Welcome | october 2011
“In the process of helping the earth to heal, we help ourselves.” ~ Wangari Maathai In India, banyan trees are called trees of knowledge and trees of life, a fitting […]