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The Re-humbling of America
It felt like the human race had been too successful. You don’t lasso, brand, and market a wild-spirited planet without tenacity, greed, cunning, and of

WHERE DO THESE MUDDY FOOTPRINTS LEAD?
(A few excerpts from my research for Simple Prosperity, Tickling the Bear, and The New Normal) An ecological footprint is the total acreage of

To Save Nature, We Need to Get a Life
“Of course we do!” Too often, we respond to urgent reports about natural decline with a powerless shrug. Since many impacts are embedded

Changing the Symbols of Success: the pathway to a new way of living
Renowned physicist and systems thinker, the late Donella Meadows, believed that brand-new paradigms (dominant ways of thinking) can pop up in an instant,

Interview With the American Pioneers of Cohousing, Kathryn McCamant and Charles Durrett
From the book Reinventing Community, Stories from the Walkways of Cohousing, Edited by David Wann David Wann: What

THE POWER OF NEIGHBORHOODS Part 2
Adapted from material In Reinventing Community, Edited by David Wann Our neighborhood seems to get better over the years, but you know what? Like