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Lately, I’ve been thinking about the general moral sensibilities of our American public. You often hear of Americans being somewhat repressed when it comes to sexuality and the like–certainly as compared to European mindsets. What strikes me as odd, though, is that while nudity, sex, and matters of our physical human bodies make so many [...]

Some time ago, I became more aware of how my choices as a consumer have a real impact on the world around me, so Chris and I have set out to make some changes. We’ve been making relatively small, painless changes in our daily shopping habits, but yesterday we made a big change. We dumped [...]

I recently started following “The Natural Life Magazine” Twitter stream and this came to me–a video clip of Julia “Butterfly” Hill talking about the importance of not letting what we are against define us. If you don’t remember Hill, she is an American environmentalist who spent over 700 days–from December 1997 to December 1999–sitting and [...]