Stew of the Earth

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Besides the leaves that a bag gathers, all you need for a cup of tea is hot water, and in the town of Furnas the earth boils it directly. I ...

I Still Do a Lot of Good

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5 minutes

Economic thinking permeates our modern societies. It is so pervasive that we do not reflect on the fact that it rules much of what we do. But we might...

Crude Encounters

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3 minutes

Encountering crude oil out of place: Wind your way through the forest, grasses skimming against your legs, the chatter of squirrel monkeys above your ...

Ecological Civilization

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19 minutes

Capitalism and communism have been fighting each other for more than a century and a half, until now the fight seems to have exhausted itself. A third...

Why I Sleep Outside

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7 minutes

I can’t quite remember when I first pulled a camping mat and sleeping bag under my covered back deck and hunkered down for the night. That makeshift a...