Asserting Democratic Control of Food and Agriculture
Social activist Dave Henson goes to the root of our many social ills and instructs us on effective strategies on how we can challenge corporate control of our Food... and win.

Peace: Some Thoughts and Actions
Stacey Warde challenges us to love rather than hate our enemy. "Let's glory in the acts of those who choose love," he writes as he also writes about the recent heroic deed of José Bové.

War Prevention Works
Dr. Scilla Elworthy has compiled material on how Conflict Resolution and minimal amounts of money given to the right organizations can stop war, can slow down the escalating violence in numerous situations. This is what we need to hear. It works!!!

Sustainability in a War-Torn Nation
In our ongoing series of "Global Sustainability Reports," Rosemary Morrow, a permaculture project trainer and an avid practitioner of "Alternatives to Violence" writes about her work in war-torn Cambodia.

Homeless deaths spur tent city
Following the deaths of two homeless people during an unusually cold winter, a bold group of homeless advocates took the law into their own hands and set up a tent city in Isla Vista to awaken the public conscience about the need to create a legal campground.

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We are definitely exhilarated to know that our special issue on Food was a decisive factor for a farmer to buy land and to start building an organic farm as well as a CSA (see letter on p.5). This is why we do what we do!

Some people were offended by a poem we published last issue. I just want to be very clear that we have no intention on hurting anyone. Our focus is not only reporting on sustainability issues but positive solutions. Even though we go up against the huge corporatized media from time to time, some people will be a bit disturbed at what we decide to publish, especially since we root for the disenfranchised, the oppressed and the marginalized. Of course, those who were once marginalized have and can become oppressors and hopefully our truth-seeking antennas fall on the appropriate mark...

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Fatal Harvest: The Tragedy of Industrial Agriculture, Path Without Destination, Spirit Matters, The American Soul and Empire, The Powers That Be, Silent Night: The Story of World War I Christmas Truce, Food Politics, Global Uprising, Crashing the Party, Dinner at the New Gene Café, Avant Gardening.