Fall 2012
Table of Contents
The Body Issue
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Taking Charge of Our Bodies
It’s more than buying stuff. It means reckoning with the intersection between our humanity and the political and environmental decisions our society makes.
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You Can鈥檛 Be Healthy in a Sick Ecosystem
New findings explain how politics, economics, and ecology can help or hurt our bodies.
Claudia Rowe
Detroit鈥檚 Good Food Cure
What happens when the Motor City transforms itself into the capital of grow-your-own food?
Larry Gabriel
6 Ways Communities Put Health First
From play space for kids to AIDS activism: the fight against disease goes grassroots.
Stuart Glascock
Traditional Foods Help Remind Us Who We Are
Tribes are pursuing a hands-on approach to finding and preparing Native foods that give spiritual sustenance, too.
Kim Eckart
A Graceful Exit: Taking Charge at the End of Life
How can we break the silence about what happens when we鈥檙e dying?
Claudia Rowe
Your Body is a Body of Water
A storyteller asks what you'd do if you knew your body was part of the water web.
Jourdan Keith
The Hazards of Manhood
Am I man enough? Am I powerful enough? Men put their bodies at risk to cover up pain, fear, and vulnerability.
Michael Schwalbe
Online Tools Help Doctors Listen Up
Does your doctor understand what you need? These simple tools are helping practitioners slow down and communicate better with patients.
Sarah Kuck
Eve Ensler: Freedom Starts With a 鈥淰鈥�
The 鈥淰agina Monologues鈥� author on why knowing your body can shake up the world.
Madeline Ostrander
Notes from the Frontlines of Bringing Up Girls
What I really want to tell my daughters about autonomy and sex, in the midst of a war on women.
Tomas Moniz
9 Simple Steps to Improve Your Health (Without Joining a Gym)
Laughter, the arts, touch, sleep. What you can do in your everyday life to get healthier.
Sven Eberlein
Solutions We Love
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Alice Walker: 鈥淕o to the Places That Scare You鈥�
The acclaimed novelist on why a life worth living is a life worth fighting for.
Valerie Schloredt
How Voter Suppression Could Swing the Election
It won鈥檛 be easy to protect our votes from being sidelined and stolen this year, but here are a few simple things we can do.
Greg Palast
Culture Shift
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Yes! But How?
5 Tools (and 1 Animal) for Quieter, Healthier Yard Work
Tending your yard doesn鈥檛 have to be noisy, irritating, or fuel-intensive. Here鈥檚 how you can unplug.
Lauren Hardy & Samantha Herndon
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