An Animal Chaplain’s Guide to At-Home Pet Burials
Returning your beloved animal companion to the earth can be a sacred practice and a way to honor your connection with them.
Sustainability, slowing down and slow food.
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Cultivate Your Spiritual Sweet Tooth
Munching through the Halloween and Christmas holidays alone, Americans consume over a billion dollars of chocolate each year. Turn your sweet tooth into a delectable sacred practice with a side of mindful advocacy.
My Wooden Bowl: Container of Contentment?
“I was intrigued three decades ago when I learned that Mahatma Ghandi ate all of his food out of one bowl. I decided to emulate him, starting with a medium-sized very plain wooden bowl that someone had already given me as a gift.”
12 Ways of Looking at a Garden
“Here are 12 permaculture principles to begin with, gathered from permaculturists of the land, of the house, and of the mind.”
Coronavirus From the Perspective of Mother Earth
“What if I look at this pandemic from the perspective of Earth? What might our 4.5 billion-year-old planet have to say to the most disruptive of her 8.7 million species right now?”
5 Eco-Friendly and Zero-Waste Gift Ideas
Honor loved ones with mindful and ethical green gifts that won’t break the bank (or the landfill).
Plant a Butterfly Garden, Save the World
New research shows that urban gardeners can help boost dwindling populations of Monarch butterflies by planting milkweed.
3 Ways to Heal the World with Food and Self-Care
Learn why Ayurveda is the healing you, and our planet, need now.
Finding Joy in Simple Things
Two questions to ask yourself for leading a simpler life.
Toward a Healthier Closet
The clothing industry is super wasteful. Here’s how to stop being part of the problem.
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Product Review: Sustainable Feminine Products from GladRags
Take your power back and eliminate waste during your menstrual cycle with a menstrual cup and cloth pantyliners from today’s leader in reusable feminine products.
5 Ways to Streamline Your Finances
Money mess runneth over? Here’s how to get a grip.
The Commons: “Lettuce, Turnip, the Beet!”
Sing the fight song of Community School 55, the happily growing Green Bronx Machine.
Use Your Lawn to Fight Climate Change
Healthier soils “draw down” more carbon and help save the Earth
3 Ways to Reduce Commitment Overload
Some deep fixes for feeling chronically overwhelmed.
7 Ways to Simplify Your Digital Life
Tame the digital overwhelm with a few easy tactics.
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10 Ways to Simplify Your Next Trip
See the world without losing your mind or your way.
Simple is the New Black
"A simple closet didn’t just change my wardrobe, it changed my whole life."
Finding Abundance in Having Less
What happens when we measure riches in terms of relationships, spirituality, and creativity?
A Fast Path to Less Stress
Unwind your system, find rest more easily, and ultimately enjoy and engage in the important parts of your life more fully.
Creating Alternative, Legal, and Sustainable Incomes
A working model from the Peruvian Amazon
Film Review: Chasing Coral
Jeff Orlowski’s suspenseful and heartbreaking documentary focuses on the phenomenon of “coral bleaching”—the process by which dying corals turn white and fall apart—and…
Toolbox: Open Wide
Give your health a boost by fine-tuning your oral and dental hygiene with these picks from S&H.
The Commons: Slowing the Flow of Storm Water
How to be a more conscientious custodian of the water that runs through our lives
Why It’s Better to Eat a Cow than a Hen or a Sow
The “dismal science” of economics looks at reducing cruelty.
Planting for the Future
Sponsored Content from Celebrant Foundation & Institute
6 Ways to Declutter Your Mind
Let go of unnecessary mind baggage
Film Review: Seed: The Untold Story
Seed: The Untold Story Jon Betz and Taggart Siegel Collective Eye Films Documentaries about the environment and food safety are a dime a dozen, but here’s a topic that’s rarely …
The Commons: The Year to Go Zero Waste
Because we all live better when no edible food is trashed
Film Review: Circle of Poison
Circle of PoisonEvan Mascagni and Shannon PostCollective Eye FilmsThe “circle of poison” refers to the process whereby American companies manufacture pesticides that have been bann…
One Simple Trick to Make Life Easier
I don’t always make New Year’s resolutions—I find the darkest coldest months a pretty difficult time to start new things. This year, however, I did make one that not only helped me…Tags:
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5 Food Policy Issues We Wish the Presidential Candidates Were Talking About
Here are five food policy issues that the presidential nominees aren't talking about—even though they should be.
Seeing the Salad in the Sidewalk
Becoming a father who knows what’s tasty in the urban jungle
How To Make Vegetable Broth From Cooking Scraps
Here’s how to try this eco-friendly technique at home.
2016 Is Officially The 'Year Of Pulses'
Why all the international fuss about pulses?
The Commons: How Can I Love You Better?
The wisdom of asking one simple and difficult question
Indigenous Wisdom Illuminates the Path to a Sustainable Future
Scientists agree that climate change is real, that it is caused by human activities, and that it is accelerated by the burning of fossil fuels. In the 2009 Copenhagen Accord, it wa…
What Would You Do for Your Bored Rhinoceros?
Because no species is prepared to deal with an absence of environmental unpredictability
Video: Maui's Farm to Table Magic
Every day, 90% of the food consumed in Hawaii is flown over from the mainland, which creates an undue toll on Hawaii's environment, food security and economy.But for one Maui Resta…
Film Review: Natural Resistance
Natural ResistanceDirected by Jonathan NossiterGOATWORKS FILMSMore than a decade ago, director Jonathan Nossiter released Mondovino, an ambitious, fascinating documentary look at t…
The Food Fight We Might All Agree On
Because no one in their right mind really wants meat from factory farms
So All May Eat
Excerpted from Grow: Stories from the Urban Food Movement
Growing an Urban Eden
Edible forests offer a new approach to food security.
Richard Oppenlander: The Myth of Moderation
The author of Comfortably Unaware and Food Choice and Sustainability on why eating humane and local isn’t enough, and why there’s no such thing as a “sustainable” meat.
How to Get Rid of Stuff
The house is burning. Smoke is curling around everything you have ever owned, ever wanted, ever believed mattered. That picture of the person you love, the dog’s favorite toy. The …
Video: The Growing Solution to Urban Food Deserts
With the near epidemic of type-2 diabetes, breast cancer and other degenerative diseases ravaging people of color as compared to non-hispanic whites, the link between health dispar…Tags:
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Are You the 100th Monkey?
Oh, mankind, you are such a remarkable species. So, bear with me. I have to get this out. I’m gonna chat about the pink elephant in our collective living room. You know, the one th…
Love Can Be the Bottom Line
It’s finally happening, have you heard the whispers? We are seeing the glimmers of the remaking of the way we do business, a way that just might ensure a just and livable future. Q…
A Green Economy to Empower All
Insisting that a green economy can empower everyone, Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins advocates for sustainable jobs that support the clean energy movement.
Extreme Permaculture
From the rainy coast of British Columbia to the Texas desert to the snows of Sweden, these die-hard off-the-gridders test the limits of complete sustainability.
Finding a Green Life, Behind Bars
At San Quentin State Prison, environmental outreach is based on the principle that nothing should be carelessly thrown away—especially a human life.
Finding Joy in Simplicity
Let go of being weighed down by an overly complicated life.
We’re All Related
Picture a biologist wearing a mushroom cap, an exuberant union leader, a defender of the Amazon, and 13 Indigenous Grandmothers sharing a stage―and you can begin to imagine the cro…
Material World September-October 2009
START YOUR DAY WITH PASSIONWho wouldn’t want to enjoy premium gourmet coffee while supporting fair trade, biodiversity, bird habitat, organic agriculture, and indigenous rights? Hi…
Going Out Green
One Man’s Adventure Planning His Own Natural BurialOld Arctic Inuit hunters could supposedly sit for days, harpoon poised and ready to strike, just staring at a hole on an otherwis…
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BLACK PURSE FROM INNER TUBESIn Latin America, tire repair shops (take out the inner tube, patch, etc.) are ubiquitous and carry the lively name of “vulcanizadoras,” for the Greek V…
Living Large in Small Spaces
Several years ago, film student Christopher Smith saw a magazine cover that caught his eye. The auspicious image — a smiling Washingtonian named Dee Williams, relaxing in her 84-sq…
Mindful, Responsible Meat for the Table
When Upton Sinclair wrote The Jungle in 1906, readers were exposed to the horrible abuse of those who worked in the meat-packing industry. The book changed how the country thought …
Real Ways to Impact Climate Change
3 steps to move further toward low-carbon living.
Son of a Farmer, Child of the Earth
A Path to Agriculture's Higher Consciousness by Eric Herm Son of a Farmer, Child of the Earth is a passionate, moving and, at times, frightening insider's look at the destruction…The Ultimate Health Practice
Why is the smartest, most adaptable creature on the planet hardwired to stop talking, lose its sense of self, and feel at one with the world — in a profound state of listening?The …
The New Power Plant in the Backyard?
One day recently my friend Oliver Fix and his colleague Rudy Behrens arrived at my home on the Rogue River in Oregon with a bucket to scoop up some of the bright green film called …
