Cities For All: An Interview with Angela Glover Blackwell
Angela Glover Blackwell is founder and CEO of PolicyLink, a national organization working for economic and social equity. Her work has centered on revitalizing low-income communities and communities of color and public-interest law. She recently co-authored Searching for the Uncommon Common Ground: New Dimensions on Race in America (2002, WW Norton & Co).
Sarah van Gelder    |   May 10, 2005
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Bill Moyers – On Journalism
Some journalists are stubbornly pursuing the truth despite growing media monopolies, government secrecy, ideology, and public relations spin doctors—but it’s getting tougher
Bill Moyers    |   Feb 17, 2005
Mental health
Spare the Rod
It's not coincidental that throughout history the most violently despotic and warlike societies have been those in which violence, or the threat of violence, is used to maintain domination of parent over child and man over woman.
Riane Eisler    |   Nov 12, 2004
A Phoenix from the Ashes
Our youth, our natural world, our neighbors—all are treated as expendables. What we need is a joining of movements based on valuing all life.
Van Jones    |   Nov 9, 2004
12 Steps: the cascading maths
The maths starts with the US consumption of 118 billion gallons of oil a year for travel in cars and light trucks. Step 1: Stay Home 5 percent. Fuel
Guy Dauncey    |   Aug 17, 2004
Renewable energy
Making it Last
Hunter Lovins helped found and manage the Rocky Mountain Institute, famous for turning conventional wisdom about energy on its head. She’s still changing minds in the worlds of business, nonprofits, and government, showing a more sustainable path to prosperity.
Hunter Lovins    |   Aug 11, 2004
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The End of Ancient Sunlight
There are good reasons to move away from dependence on oil — war and climate change are among them. Then there’s the fact that oil extraction is about to peak, and we don’t have a plan for a world of diminishing oil supplies.
Thom Hartmann    |   Aug 11, 2004
Street-corner Revolution
The Village Building Convergence. A sunflower painted across an intersection. A solar-powered fountain. A corner tea kiosk. Portlanders are taking over their streets and teaching city officials to love “city repair.”
Stephen Silha    |   Jul 21, 2004
Mother of Exiles
In the U.S. today, immigrants are taking the blame for everything from environmental stresses to terrorism to the poor job market. What’s at stake for all of us in this debate?
Pramila Jayapal    |   Jul 21, 2004
Carry Me Away
Yet this is a sort of knowledge that generations before us have already held, a way of appreciating the world that we might share without trauma, without hard lessons, if we but remember how our ancestors used to live.
Rachel Attituq Qitsualik    |   Jul 14, 2004
The Secret to Happiness
Americans are far more affluent, on average, than we were in the 1960s, but no happier. What do research data tell us is the real source of joy and contentment?
David Myers    |   Jun 19, 2004
Detroit Renaissance
the story of a grassroots effort to renew a post-industrial city. AC3T, Boggs Center, Detroit summer, Adamah, Grace Boggs, Cass Corridor Food Cooperative, Romanowski Park.
Shawn Rhea    |   May 21, 2004

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