Back Issues

Official PayPal SealBack issues of HopeDance are available for purchase online through our secure PayPal shopping cart. Price, including shipping, is $3 each, unless marked otherwise due to short supply.

You may also still order by mail:

HopeDance Magazine
P.O. Box 15609
San Luis Obispo, CA 93406

Please specify issue #(s), quantity, and total $ enclosed. Be sure to include your name and mailing address.


Click on the issue title to view the on-line version.
Click View Cart to see your shopping cart or to check out.

Issue 57 - Sexuality
The Holy Whore: A Woman’s Gateway to Power; Lustful and Orgasmic Farming; Sacred Sexuality & Relationships; The Dirty Little Secret of a Generation; Liberating the Caged Female Human Animal’s Sexuality; Beyond Right & Wrong: An Inquiry into Pornography; Reverse Fantasy; Public Masturbator Blues; Sex and the Geezerette; Disorder Made to Order: Female Sexual Dysfunction?; Pornography Statistics; Saving the South Central Farm in LA?; Solutions to the Al Gore film?; The Clitoris as Bridge to the Vagina; Elderhood: Change in Sex, Change in Life
Issue 56
“Green” Means “Black”; Does Your Career Have a Future?; Beyond Socially Responsible Investing (SRI) - Where Do We Go From Here?; How to Use Our Dollars to Change the World; Interview with Jeff Milchen, American Independent Business Alliance; Permaculture Credit Union; Honoring Creative Pioneers in Our Communities; Eight Things you Need to Know about the Shaky U.S. Economy; Green Technology to Make Sewage a Less Dirty Word; Solutions for Local Communities and The Politics of Money - There are Alternatives Out There!; What Happened to SLO HOURS?; From Farmers to Restaurants: A fine relationship; Octavia Butler Dies; Money Cannot and Will Not Fix This Dying Planet; Wake-up, Wake-up!; Time for a Constitution Convention; Money & HopeDance; GLOCAL: We are NOT a local paper; Adventures in the Smut Trade; The Imposition of Poverty; Using Film as a Community Activist Tool; Spring Cleaning: Using Diet and Yoga; My Personal Relationship with Money
Issue 55
Gimme Shelter: What’s a proletarian gotta do to own the roof over her head?; The Right to Live Here; “Sustainable Development” Dennis Allen’s Intelligent Designs; Little House — A Book for a New Movement; In Praise of Little Old Houses; Conservation Building: Accessible Green for Everyone; Building Community Naturally...One House at a Time; Strawbale Housing Construction in Baja?; Affordable Housing in SLO County?; Ancient Housing and the Ancient Worldview; Good Things Come in Small Packages; Shirley Jackson Comes to Los Osos; Creating the Modern EcoHood; An Organic Farm at the Dalidio Ranch in SLO; Creating Centers for Urban Sustainability - Brad Johnson interviews Scott Kellogg; Film: "Inside Iraq: The Untold Stories"
Issue 54
An Energy Future that is Bright – Not Glowing; Solarponics, Inc. – Solutions for the Long Term; Why Bike to Work?; Bioremediation in New Orleans; Mad Max Meets American Gothic; A Microscopically Local and Personal Article on Energy; Local CodePink Goes to Bakersfield; Going Local: Creating Self Reliant Communities Now, An Interview with Michael Shuman; A Community Solution to Peak Oil: An Interview with Megan Quinn; Conserve Energy; Be Idle: Tom Hodgekinson on living rich while working less; Hybrid Hype or Hope; QUIZ: Can You Tell Your Methanol from your Biomass?; Why We Should Pray that the Peak Be Soon; $3-a-Gallon Gasoline? Time to Consider the Alternative: The Garage Filling Station (GFS); Vandenberg AFB: Danger to International Peace; Vermont Passes Resolution to Secede from the US; How do we sustain our energy in times of difficulty?; One Man's Trash is another Man's Treasure: Sustainable Energy & Sustainable Development in the South Bronx
Issue 53
Fields of Plenty Speech at Bioneers; Diet for a Peak-Oil America; Chocolate and Child Slavery: the Heat is On; What do Farms Have to Do with Schools, Anyway?; A Tea Party with Mark Bryan; Grassroots Film Distribution Delivers New Wal-Mart Exposé; An Enlightened Mayor in California?; A Noble Experiment: A Community Farm; Cookin' Local; EcoNest —Creating Sustainable Sanctuaries of Clay, Straw and Timber; BIONEERS Offer Eco-Education to Thousands; Food Activism and more at Santa Barbara City College; SPECIAL INSERT: BEYOND THE HURRICANE TRAGEDIES
Issue 52
Time to Apprehend Bush and the Gang; Counter-Recruiting Efforts in SLO County; The Tribunal Movement; The Games Recruiters Play: War is Fun as Hell; Fascism Anyone? The 14 Identifying Characteristics; Santa Maria’s Counter Recruitment Campaign; A Report on the 7th International Permaculture Convergence; BUSH Finally Arrested!; Letter to the Community about Homelessness; Car-Free Cities Conference in Hungary; Cars; Peek Beyond the Peak: Heinberg in Venice; Network of Spiritual Progressives Launched; Hope; Celebrating Cindy Sheehan while Looking Beyond...; Why Indict Bush?; Willits, CA comes to terms with Peak Oil; Latte Da! Rushing the Barista?; The War Garden Victorious
Issue 51
Another World is Possible Because it has already begun in Portland, A Different Kind of Intersection Brought to you by City Repair, Party: Celebrating 50 Issues of HopeDance, Starting a Successful Urban EcoVillage, Creating a Sustainable Future, Taking Back Your Time, Changing Everything about How We Live, What's Up with For The Future?
Issue 50
Celebrating the 50th Issue with Hope & Positive Solutions. ODAC Warns of Global Shortage of Oil after 2007; Interview with Reverend Billy; LIFEWORK: Meaningful Careers in the Emerging Sustainable Society; Interview with The Yes Men; No brakes? No problem, There's more than one way to slow down; It's in the Bag—How a Central American community's making Books out of Trash; Nuclear Power is NOT the way out of the Global Climate Crisis! ; Living Wages, No Sweat Shops and Unions in Indonesia?; Some truths about the tsunami clean-up; David Holmgren on Energy Descent; The Independent Media Film Festival and Panel Discussion; Not dead yet—Local environmentalists respond to 'death rhetoric'
Issue 49
Abandoning single-issue, complaint-based Activism. Beyond Peak Oil; Is Environmentalism Dead?; Bad Boys, Bad Boys; Past, Present, and Future of Biodiesel and Alcohol; The Story Behind Bringing Democracy Now! to KCBX; Medea Benjamin, Code Pink and Activism; A Tribute to John Mack, M.D.; Experiencing the Eco-Farm Conference; Chicken Little was Right; Permaculture, Eco-Urbanism, and theFuture of Sustainability; Street Orchards for Community Security; Bo Lozoff and Biodiesel; Report on For The Future; Katie Donovan: A Tribute
Issue 48
Transitioning from Cheap Oil to a Post-Carbon World. City Repair: Synchronicity in Action, Turning My Back on Bush, Demand the Answer, Interview with "For the Future", A Nation of Junk Junkies, Preparing for the End of Oil?, Economy and Jobs in a Post Peak-Oil World, Cohousing at EarthHaven Ecovillage, Loreto Baja - A New Place for Expatriots?
Issue 47
Peak Oil and Depopulating Asia?; Peak Oil and the Big Picture; Interviews about Peak Oil & Solutions; What Kind of Livelihoods will be Vital?; Inventing the 'Hood: Our Need for Neighbors; A Luscious Exploration of 3 Fair-Trade-Certified Cocoa Cooperatives; City Repair: An Intersection of Paradigm Change; Alternatives to Oil Products Directory; The C.A.N. Car: A Vehicle for Change
Issue 46
Has the Global Fiscal Train Wreck Begun under the Bushies?; Why the Democrats don't Talk about Ms. Heinz Kerry?; Why do People Change or Not? Part 2; Activism from a Personal Perspective; Taking Back the Food System; Becoming More Efficient for Our Soul's Purpose; Reverential Ecology at Zaca Lake
Issue 45
Super Size Me: A Film of Epic Proportions; The Greening of America, 2005: Sex, Drugs, and Guns Collide with Twenty-First Century Environmentalism; 2004 State of the Universe Address; Impeachment 2004 ~ Citizens' Action Guide; Dubya is Actually a Leftist Radical
Issue 44
Interview with Chalmers Johnson; Students working for Sustainability; GreenEarth Festival Workshops!; How People Change (or Don’t Change) An Ongoing Series; Stop the "Pharming" in SLO County!; Robina McCurdy, Planetary Permaculturalist; The Psychology of Dysfunctional Culture; Creating a Sustainable Future: One Block at a Time, Is This What "Supporting Our Troops" Really Looks Like?; The Draft: The War Waged Upon Our Children
Issue 43
Strike! Grocery Clerks vs Wal-Martization, First Annual GreenEarth Festival in SLO, Real Security Begins with Healthy Farms, EcoVillage Design at Crystal Waters, How I stopped Bombing Iraq, Forget the Mainstream & Pursue Independent Media, Seeing Too Deeply, Telecommunications vs. The Environment 
Issue 42
Biodiesel Pump Opens in San Luis Obispo, Women and Solar Energy, What’s Our Oil Doing Under Your Sand?, BIONEERS as a Remedy for the 21st Century Blues, Honk if you Love the IRS!, Putting the NRC on Notice, Wisdom and Action, More M:OME Updates, Eliminating Corporate Control

Issue 41
Interview with Julia Butterfly Hill; Collapse of the WTO in Cancun; Green Festivals Lay the Roots for a Just and Sustainable Economy; Orinary Citizens Challenge Corporate Power; Take Back Your State Capitol; Incendiary Bombs and Inflammatory Lies; Discovering Fair Trade Chocolate in Ghana; Update on the M:OME project; Arcata's Revolution: Makeing the Globalization Justice Movement Local

Issue 40
Affordable AND Sustainable Housing in San Luis Obispo: The M:OME / Bridge Street Project; “The Reality”; Homeless and Hungry; Hot and Holy Dancing; The Hope for a Health Care Solution: SB 921; Governing the Corporations; Denial is a Disaster; The Bush Resumé

Activism (#39)
Cultivating Hope at Earth Activist Training; Working with your friendly local media; The Next Stage of the Peace Movement; Activism and Apathy; Zero Tolerance for Denied Shelter; Can we Do it Again, Only More So; The Independent Media is Growing, But Do We Know About It?; Earth Building in Thailand; Reflections on a Compassionate Communications Workshop; Solar PV; Hearst Ranch; Instant Runoff Voting (IRV); Supporting Local Farmers

Practicing Democracy in Time of War (#38)
From Her 93rd Birthday Speech; Advice for Peacemakers; Tim Robbins Speech; Erasing Personal History: Issues of Electronic Surveillance; Facing Fears of Fascism: A Workshop on our Civil Liberties; A Bone From Rafah; Medieval Peasants Worked Less Than You Do; These Powers will become permanent unless we act; Summary of the War on Iraq; The New Threat to Our Precious Votes

Vision (#37)
The Barriers to Sustainability; Green Building Solutions: Remaining Outlaws or Education?; Ecoliteracy and the Green Campus Movement; Saying "No to War" is a no-brainer; A Vision of Social Responsibility: The Global Village School

Radical Solutions Inspiring Hope (#36)
Remembering Philip Berrigan; Urban Runoff; Turning Green; Integrative Activism: A Work-in-Progress; Who Wants to Help Build a Stronger Sustainability Movement?; Practicing Democracy in Times of War: Knowing and Using Our Civil Rights

Premiere National Edition (#35)
Activist Grannies; Permaculture Convergence; Cell Phone Dangers; Integrative Activism; Boomeritis; Comfortable with Uncertainty; Many book reviews including Stupid White Men and 9/11

Watersheds
Santa Barbara Runoff Revolution; The Life History of a Watershed; The Matilija Dam: A Bad Idea; Agriculture: Finding Common Ground; What's the Story on Watersheds?; 9-11 Special Insert

Premeire Local Edition
Introducing the new Local Edition; Become the Media; Seed Lady Gardens in East LA; Justice for Mushroom Workers; Green Houses for People; Transition to non-Methyl Bromide Strawberry Farming

Voices of Restraint, Peaceful Resolve and Compassion (#34a)
Special suplement on the Israeli-Palestinian horror. Letter from Israeli soldiers refusing to occupy settlements. Israelis and Palestinians by Gene Knudsen Hoffman; Desmund Tutu, Sarah Shields, etc.

Food #2 and Peace (#34)
Asserting Democratic Control of Food and Agriculture; Peace - Some Thoughts and Actions; War Prevention Works; Sustainability in a War-Torn Nation

Food (#33)
CSAs, Frankenfoods, Food as Medicine, Food Forestry, to the Plight of Small Farms. With John Robbins, Michael Abelman, Jenny Kurzweil.
plus poetry to awaken and engage...

The Necessarily Political Special Issue (#32)
all about the "war on terrorism" and using the moment to instruct people on U.S. foreign policy ads well as the necessity to include the issue of sustainability in our dialogues; Bill Moyers, Wendell Berry, Ralph Nader, 1984 Revisited, Civil Liberties being threatened and numerous cartoons

Permaculture: A Quiet Revolution (#31)
Interviews with Bill Mollison, patch Adams as well as responses from various Perm teachers throughout the country, the Permaculture Credit Union, many resources, a few left $7

Voices of Restraint, Intelligence and Compassion (special)
(a special supplement) about the 9-11 tragedy with Dalai Lama, John Pilger, Noam Chomsky, Michael Moore, Susan Sontag, Robert Fisk....
Return to Top

Activism (#30)
with Derrick Jenson, Eve Ensler, Starhawk, Paul Loeb, Local Activists speak about their activism, Santa Barbara protests.

Sustainable Living Arrangements (#29)
LA Ecovillage, affordable cohousing, communal living, Squatting, Permaculture houses and more...

Affordable and Sustainable Housing (#28)
with Dean Disandro, Jim Merkel, Nader Khalili, Shay Salomon, Alison Pernell, David Eisenberg... earthships, straw, papercrete, mud, sand, cob, hemp.. and plenty of letters and book&video reviews. $6

Energy (#27)
with Don Boatman, John Perlin, Dan Rademacher, Bill Seavey, Richard Grossman, Dennis Keim... packs a timely punch with what is happening in California. a few left $6

Working with Conflict (#26)
with Gene Knudsen Hoffman, Joanna Macy, Toni Flynn, Leah Greene, Patti Gourley, Michael Henderson and Roberta Codera... a few left $10
Return to Top

Water (#25)
with John Todd, Maude Barlow, Decommissioning Dams, Emptying Aquifers, Edward Abbey, Vicki Robin on Sustainability, Natural Building, Advanced Integrated Pond Systems...

Sprawl, SOAR and Sustainable Communities (#24)
with Medea Benjamin and Jeff Gersh (interviews), Donella Meadows, Gil Garcia, Building sustainable cohousing, sharpshooters and spraying pesticides. Sustaining Ourselves with Joanna Macy, Sustainability That Works by Carla Grindle...

Summer Reading (#23)
with Fair Trade Coffee, Our local Community Supported Agriculture Farm!, The Ecstasy File, Cut-rate cohousing, Iraq Sanctions, Green Restaurants. Dangers of Cellphones....

The Media (#22)
with Robert McChesney, Ron Bast, Karma Dorji, Frances Lappe on the American News Service (UPI and AP move over!), Donella Meadows, Project Censored's Top Ten, Normon Solomon, Tom Tomorrow, Meredith Bates, Bill Hicks, micropowered radio... a few left $10

Sexuality (#21)
Truth Telling as an Aphrodisiac, the Women's Shelter, Disabled Sexuality, White Boy's Journey from Pornography to Heartfelt Sex, A "Holy Whore's" Memoirs, Jack Kornfield, Damaged Sexuality, Kalle Lasn on Advertising & Sexual Identities...
Return to Top

WTO/Sprawl/Globalization (#20)
with Bob Banner attending the WTO protest in Seattle... David Korten, Richard Krejsa, Kelly Ampulski, Bob Harris, Richard Krandzdorf, World Bank Dam Fantasies, IFG report, Interview with Jerry Mander, a report on Cuba......a few left (one of the first periodicals after Seattle '99...$10

Death (#19)
with Doug Bing, Doris Lessing, Bill McKibben, Rumi, Pico Iyer, William Kotke, Near Death Experiences, The WTO and the Environment, Dave Congalton on Grief of animal loss...

The New Economy (#18)
with Herman Daly, Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, the Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI), Pedestrian Malls in Curitiba, Local Economy, Ecological Economics, Subscription Farming, Interview with Herman Daly...

Sustainability (#17)
with Ken Haggard William McDonough, Larry Santoyo, Ray Anderson on the Sustainable Interface Company, Water Harvesting, Microradio, Socially Responsible Investing by Sandi Brockway, Dumpster Diving, SLO Hours (local currency)... FEW LEFT! $10

Questioning Technology (#16)
David Orr on Technological Fundamentalism, Ralph Nader on Alternative Energy and Corporations, Langdon Winner on the Real Millenium Bug, Barbara Stanford, Pat Veesart, Donella Meadows, Sarah Christie.... 
Return to Top

Practical Solutions for Y2K (#15)
Practical Solutions Water, Food Storage, Barn-Raisings, interview with Bill Denneen, Larry Santoyo on Creating a Sustainable Home, Barn-Raising, Gardening the Heavy Clays of San Luis, Margaret Wheatley, Food Storage... FEW LEFT $10

Y2K (#14)
From Denial to Social Action, Organizing Neighborhoods, Y2K Directory, Interviews with Kim Jeanes and David Braun, Solar Cooking... and much more, Advice for Difficult Times by Pema Chodron...

Right Livelihood (#13)
Local Currency, Community Banking, Right Livelihood Awards, "Take Your Country Back!" by Helen Caldicott, I am Terminating My Employment!, Working with Activist Burnout, Investigating the Progress-Virus...

Diversity (#12)
Stories of Cuba, Interivew with permaculture Designer, Latinas, gary Paul Nabhan, Vandana Shiva, Scott London, the Chiapas Rebellion, SOA and photos by Phil Borges... a few left $10

Healing (#11)
Ecological Bereavement, Pesticides, Perfume as Chemical Weapon, Local Healers Speak Out, Expanding Our Perception of Healing, Sludge Refused, Theodore Roszak on Eco Bereavement...
Return to Top

Animals (#10)
Vegetarians, Animal Rights, Interview with Peggy Koteen, Eating Meat Consciously, Animals at Cal Poly, Hunting by Jean Hegland, Companion Animal Loss... 

Growing Food (#9)
Bill Mollison, John Jeavons, Daniel Quinn, Growing Organic, Bioneers, Cut-rate cohousing, Permaculture, What is Sustainable Farming by Wendell Berry, Growing Worms, Becoming Hopeful by Bill McKibben... $6

Communities (#8)
Staying Put by Scott Russell Sanders, CoHousing, Wendell Berry, Elisabet Sahtouris, Ithaca Hours, The HopeStreet Gang by Carol Pimentel, Right Livelihood Award goes to Cindy Duehring...

Spirituality (#7)
Radical Catholics, Sufi Stories, Killing the Buddha, Rumi, Hungry Ghosts... Daniel Quinn, Andrew Harvey, Robert Mueller. a few left $10

Education (#6)
Ishmael on Education, Unschooling/Homeschooling, Why I Quit School, John Taylor Gatto, Losing Our Children, Why Don't We Teach Sustainability?, Restorative Agriculture... 
Return to Top

Relationships (#5)
Good Marriage, Co-Housing, Mediation, Interview with Doug Bing, Launderette Story by Toni Flynn, Critique of the Enviro movement by Bob Banner, Chemical Sensitivities by Selene Anema... 

Epiphanies (#4)
Stories in Nature, Local Currency and CSA's, Eco-Psychology Challenges the Statu Quo by Carol Pimentel with Bob Banner, Interview with Pilulaw, Living in a Tipi by Joan Carter...

Taking Action (#3)
Joanna Macy, Development Pressures on SLO, Green Buddhism, Touring SLO's Toxic Landmarks, Mothers for Peace, Kathy Diperi, Food & Politics, TV Turn off Week... 

PREMIERE ISSUE (#1)
about Simplicity and Mindfulness and emphasizing the importance of local economies as well as deemphasizing our over consumptive life style; and Positive news $10

Return to Top