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Is Local Always Good?
June 09 2010
Reiko Hillyer
There’s an old joke: Did you know that in China they call Chinese food “food?” We could revise this joke to consider our current love affair with “local food.” It would go... More
The Only Blame
June 01 2010
Thorne Anderson
Last month, Sweden-based wikileaks.org published a classified US Army helicopter gun-camera video on youtube, and my inbox immediately filled with friends and acquaintances and... More
Lessons from Manno
May 24 2010
Apricot Irving
When my family moved back to Haiti, I was fourteen, the reluctant daughter of a missionary. When I was six, Haiti had felt like paradise: mangoes fell ripe from trees, kamion... More
The Place I Call Home
April 26 2010
Kimberly Howard
There are some days that roll out like a promise. Other days you turn the corner to unexpected joys. And still others where the people you meet along the way surprise you into... More
Democracy and The Big Sort
April 15 2010
Cara Ungar-Gutierrez
I’m reading Bill Bishop’s The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America is Tearing Us Apart. I’d been meaning to pick this book up for about a year now and, as soon... More
A Quiet Endeavor
April 08 2010
Sam Nerveza
I recently completed the Humanity in Perspective (HIP) course and am proud of the accomplishment. It isn’t merely that I completed the course, received the certificate or the... More
Linguistically Intoxicating
April 01 2010
Aaron Rayburn
I was halfway through my shift on a quiet night at the bar. To be fair, they were all quiet nights at that bar. I might as well have been tending in a dry county. You’d think a... More
The Stuff of Citizenship
March 25 2010
Raina Hassan
I’m sure most of you have heard of Annie Leonard—creator and host of the insanely popular short animated film The Story of Stuff (now at more than 10 million views worldwide).... More
Quiet
March 18 2010
John Frohnmayer
We live in a noisy and intrusive society. Cell phones and electronic devices summon us non-stop. They are addictive. They must be obeyed. But no electronic device I know of can... More
Planting Seeds in Auschwitz
March 11 2010
Jennie Seidewand
My freshman year in college, I stumbled into a class on the Holocaust, and four months later, I stepped off a bus in Auschwitz with a dozen classmates, my professor, and a living,... More
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