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Annie Leonard: How to Be More than a Mindful Consumer 23 Aug 2013 | 02:00 am
Stuff activist Annie Leonard: “Consumerism, even when it tries to embrace ‘sustainable’ products, is a set of values that teaches us to define ourselves, communicate our identity, and seek meaning thr...
After Rana Plaza: Let's Bring Humanity Back Into Our Stuff 22 Aug 2013 | 09:58 pm
A tea plucker at the Thiashola tea estate in the Nilgiri Hills, southern India. Photo by Simon Rawles. "If I define my neighbor as the one I must go out to look for, on the highways and byways, in th...
Adam Hochschild: We Can End Slavery—Again 22 Aug 2013 | 09:44 pm
Adam Hochschild at the ruins of a slave hospital, built in 1797, in the back-country of Jamaica. “Plantation owners built facilities like this not out of the goodness of their hearts, but to keep thei...
The Harmonies in This John Denver Cover Will Make You Stop Whatever You're Doing and Just Listen 22 Aug 2013 | 09:25 pm
It's a bit of a shock to revisit the stirring and raw emotionality of "Annie's Song" by John Denver, especially in this plainspoken, stripped-down rendition by Brett Dennen and Milow. If that wasn't ...
Putting My Kids' Art in the Trash: How I Got Past the Guilt 22 Aug 2013 | 08:44 pm
A desk at the author's home, covered with her children's art supplies, drawings, and toys. Photo by Shannon Hayes. A friend of mine once described my home as "a houseful of doers." At any moment in t...
6.5 Percent of All Humans Ever Born Are Still Alive Today 22 Aug 2013 | 12:29 am
Photo by Andrew Malone. Estimated number of humans who have been born in the last 50,000 years (when modern humans appeared): 107 billion Percentage of humans ever born who are alive today: 6.5 Per...
YES! Music Picks: What We've Been Listening to This Summer 22 Aug 2013 | 12:26 am
The Music Is You: A Tribute to John Denver It’s pleasing, if not surprising, to hear Old Crow Medicine Show doing "Back Home Again" and Lucinda Williams on "This Old Guitar." Dave Matthews reimagines...
"Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth" Is as Beautiful Visually as It Is Spiritually 22 Aug 2013 | 12:08 am
Beauty in Truth, Pratibha Parmar's documentary about the life and work of the author Alice Walker, is a deeply moving film that deserved the standing ovations at its premiere screenings this spring. ...
Mountain Grown: Appalachia's New Local Food Economy 21 Aug 2013 | 11:55 pm
Okra, an Appalachian staple, in season at Asheville City Market. Photo by ASAP. Restaurants like Knife and Fork didn't use to exist in places like Spruce Pine, a town of just 2,200 people nestled in ...
"It's Unstoppable": Washington's GMO-Labeling Campaign Picks Up Where California's Left Off 21 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
Photo by MTSOfan / Flickr. After California failed to pass Proposition 37—a bill that would have required labeling of food containing genetically modified organisms, or GMOs—last November, the attitu...
