Cob, also known as earthen building or natural building, is a mixture of sand, clay, straw and water. It is mixed by hand (and often by foot) and is applied by hand. That makes it sculptable...
Empowerment at Work
Worker co-operatives provide refuge for a workforce ailing from unstable temporary contract work and the continual threat of outsourcing. Frustrated by unjust management policies,...
Choosing to Listen
If there’s one thing I noticed while raising children, it was that the surest way to create a desire for something was to make it “off limits.” The TV show that I deemed to be...
The Power of Writing, Finding and harnessing your inspiration
Have you ever sat down in front of a blank page and wondered, “Okay, what do I do now?” Or, even more frightening, been convinced that the emptiness was taunting you, as if daring...
Rivers Run Free
Rivers are the lifeblood of our natural world, bringing water and nutrients down from the mountains to feed our forests, salmon, bears and our communities. They are iconic symbols of...
Deconstructing Dinner – The Age of Inequality
Celebrated Indian journalist Palagummi Sainath shares his understanding of how our consumption habits here in North America affect India’s rural poor. It’s rare for a newspaper...
Good Intentions
We all have good intentions. We want to live more simply, be more environmentally conscious, be more in tune with nature, and be good to ourselves – but these things can take a lot...
The Human Non Renewable Resource
In many ways we strive to live more intimately with our planet. We work, play and live in her forests; we swim, dive, row, fish, motor, sail in and on her waters; we fly, fall through...
Naked Angel
He’s very tall and handsome, with a velvety baritone that gracefully rounds out his light Dutch accent. A big smile and large coppery-hazel eyes are topped by soft brown hair. His...
Selfynergy = Self-Synergy
Selfynergy = Self-Synergy…The map to InPax, or Inner Peace a.k.a. Youtopia. The human soul is not a lone pearl, solitary and single. It is a jigsaw, a magic eye picture, a collection...
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