A group called Birth Control Watch is suggesting that we ask the following questions to the candidates: 1. Do you support couples having access to safe and effective birth control options, including emergency contraception? 2. Do you agree that for women to achieve equality, they must have access to family…
Why grow grass when you can eat your front yard? Grass is no longer cool, according to this article in Time: The problem, as [architect and founder Fritz] Haeg sees it, is that the "hyper-manicured lawn" is looking increasingly out of date. In the 1950s, when suburbia first began to…
How can your average item of food travel 1,500 miles to your plate? Cheap oil, that's how. But be careful how you count the carbon generated by the delivery of your food. The amount of "oil in our food" suggests that we will be eating a lot more local food,…
A good friend of mine once told me to "lead with the body" when you are struggling with anxiety or depression. Talking things out has it's limits, he said, as do drugs. It was my friend's belief that exercising the body will often allow the mind to clear itself up. …
Last night, I was flying from St. Louis to Minneapolis to participate in the 2008 National Conference for Media Reform. I was flying in a small jet (the kind that holds about 60 passengers). As we approached the Minneapolis airport, we started going through storm clouds. Undeterred, the pilot started…