Friday, November 18, 2011 - 2:38pm
The latest from Annie Leonard and the folks that brought us the now legendary "The Story of Stuff":
[Read More]Shocker: Do Vitamin and Mineral Supplements Increase Mortality?
18 November
Friday, November 18, 2011 - 2:23pm
Detroit area integrative MD, Dr. David Brownstein, has offered some much-needed perspective on a recent study that garnered heavy media coverage.
[Read More]You Can Huff and You Can Puff...
2 November
Wednesday, November 2, 2011 - 9:59pm
...but you can not blow the strawbale house down. A conversation with baler-in-chief Deanne Bednar of Oakland County's Strawbale Studio.
Says Bednar:
[Read More]Back to the Future
2 November
Wednesday, November 2, 2011 - 7:56pm
A conversation with Clair Maitre of Chrysalis Transitions in Ann Arbor about finding our voices in this time of The Great Turning. From the Chrysalis web site:
[Read More]Time for a "Do It Ourselves Economy"
20 December
Tuesday, December 20, 2011 - 2:21pm
I had the opportunity to speak with Gar Alperovitz of the Democracy Collaborative, at the excellent Reimagining Work conference held at Focus:HOPE over the weekend, and I jumped at it.
[Read More]Grace Lee Boggs' Message to Occupy Wall Street
3 November
Thursday, November 3, 2011 - 7:15pm
Wanted to post this on the day Occupy Detroit sets up camp in Grand Circus Park. This is an amazing flash of both gratitude and insight from 96 year old movement veteran Grace Lee Boggs. The abuses of Wall Street are only a starting point to examine the culture that enables this system to operate and dominate.
[Read More]Great Mobile Food Vendors Gather at Eastern Market Truck Stop
10 October
Monday, October 10, 2011 - 1:06pm
Vassilis Jacobs chats with Chris from Detroit GT at the recent Eastern Market Truck Stop event which featured 14 food venders now sellling out of trucks in the city.
Got Raw Milk?
10 October
Monday, October 10, 2011 - 12:08pm
My former colleague at Dragonfly Media's Common Ground magazine, Gar Smith, has a powerful new review in the Berkley Daily Planet of the film Farmageddon.
[Read More]What Detroit Can Learn from a Visionary Post-Apocalyptic Sci Fi Author
4 March
Sunday, March 4, 2012 - 3:05pm
A conversation with one of Detroit's most brilliant thinkers and doers, Adrienne Maree Brown. She shares her summer reading of Octavia Butler, George R.R. Martin and N.K.
[Read More]Ruin Hope: Green Jobs Out of the Debris
16 October
Sunday, October 16, 2011 - 11:05am
If Mayor Bing and Council are looking for viable solutions to this city's problems, I suggest they do a better job putting their heads to the ground. This video lays out the potential for job creation, greening the city and addressing our ongoing issues with abandoned housing. The needs are urgent and solutions like this one are proven.
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