6 Ways Communities Put Health First
From play space for kids to AIDS activism: the fight against disease goes grassroots.
Health & Happiness
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.
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.
Detroit鈥檚 Good Food Cure
What happens when the Motor City transforms itself into the capital of grow-your-own food?
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.
You Can鈥檛 Be Healthy in a Sick Ecosystem
New findings explain how politics, economics, and ecology can help or hurt our bodies.
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.
Life Is Easier With Friends Next Door
Feeling a need for community? Cohousing can provide affordable space and neighbors to share it with.
How I Learned to Love My Hometown
A sense of history and community tugged at the heart of Mindy Fullilove and pulled her back to the Jersey home she鈥檇 forsaken.
Foreclosure Aftermath: What We Leave Behind
Our homes tell the story of where we come from and who we are. What happens when we lose them?
How I Found Bliss in a Creaky Old Rental
Corbyn Hightower and her family moved from affluence to poverty鈥攁nd into a "funky, junky" house that's been the happiest move of their lives.
Cheaper Together: How Neighbors Invest in Community
Cooperative financing and community land trusts keep rents affordable and homeownership within reach.
We鈥檝e Got Some Big Houses鈥擳hat We Could Share
Just 60 years ago, the average American had 291 square feet of living space. Now it鈥檚 close to 1,000 square feet. Have we changed our needs that much? Or just our wants?
6 Ideas for Sensible Homes
Small, supportive, affordable, recycled鈥攁nd you can build your own.
Is Owning or Renting Better For You?
How to know when it's smart to rent.
Free Your (Eco)Mind
This Earth Day, think like an ecosystem鈥攁nd you just might save the world.
Farmers Go Wild
Going beyond organic, a new generation of farmers is nurturing nature as well as crops.
Deb Richter: A Cure for Broken Health Care
Meet the doctor who uprooted her life to bring universal health care to Vermont.
6 Recipes for Winter Wellness
From rose hip syrup to 鈥渇ire cider,鈥� natural remedies can help you fight seasonal maladies.
Lily Yeh: Beauty in Broken Places
Healing war-torn, broken, and economically devastated communities through art.
Nipun Mehta: An Economy to Feed Your Soul
How relationships are our real wealth.
Ai-jen Poo: Organizing Labor鈥擶ith Love
Battling for those on the economic bottom rung鈥攄omestic workers.
Poet Laureate W.S. Merwin: Doing the Impossible
The two-time Pulitzer Prize winner accepted an appointment as U.S. poet laureate so he could offer just one simple warning.
Boomers a (Labor) Force for Social Change
Boomers discover ways to apply their skills and life experience to purposeful second careers.
Weathering Walker’s Storm: Staying Positive in Wisconsin
Jean Abreu talks candidly about Wisconsin Governor Walker's legislation, and how her school community in Wisconsin pulled together to protect what they worked so hard to create.
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