A GOOD Magazine, Two Shows and a Book in Bad Times

Throughout October, GOOD Magazine has focused on five inspiring, exciting, innovative people, projects or things each day. Obviously on October 20th, they hit 100 of them!  They must have been exhausted after going through all of the service projects and organizations that exist and are currently conspiring to make this planet liveable WELL beyond 2012.
We also [...]

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Guest Post from Curtis White, author of THE BARBARIC HEART

In his new book, The Barbaric Heart:Faith, Money and the Crisis of Nature, author Curtis White proposes a unique, philosophical theory about mainstream environmentalism suggesting that spiritual beauty and the arts will guide us to the solutions we seek.  
It’s a challenging read, heavy on itellectualism but his argument is one we haven’t heard before now. With that in mind, [...]

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Prevention is the Best Medicine: In Defense of Food

As policy makers in Washingon DC squabble over the solution to our nation’s healthcare crisis, private citizens wait and wonder what their future medical costs will be. While many of us feel powerless in this debate, there is more we can do than wait. Leaving aside political affiliations, the truth is we could all be doing [...]

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More Summer Reading: Pres. Obama’s Vacation Stack

It’s all over the web this morning, what is President Obama reading during his 10 days of R&R in Martha’s Vineyard? The New Yorker’s book blog, The Book Bench, shares a list of five titles he plans to (try to) unwind with. 
The mixture of escapism and reality includes Hot, Flat and Crowded: Why We Need [...]

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Good Insight in Bad Times

From a recent edition of the “Daily Insight” newsletter from HarperOne…

The power we hold over the planet is awesome. We have changed the Earth’s natural course of development and affected its health by what we do and how we live our lives. We can just as easily change its course again–for the better.
–From You Are [...]

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More lists of good books

We’ve found more kindred spirits publishing lists of books intended to help us through these trying times. The first one is here in our own backyard! On Sunday the San Francisco Chronicle featured “Good novels for hard times.”
In February the Poughkeepsie Journal published an article called “Libraries offer fun, cheap boost during tough [...]

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It Can Be Easy Being Green

Continued news of the depressing state of the economy and the environment are impossible to ignore. The Green Collar Economy by Van Jones illustrates that the issues of our broken economy and ravaged environment are actually more closely linked than we thought. Instead of reading more doom-and-gloom books, Jones can enlighten us, and most importantly, [...]

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The Original Good Book

What better place to start talking about Good Books in Bad Times than with the Bible, the original “good book”? People have put their faith in this book throughout history, and it is no stranger to difficult times with thousands of verses inside that speak of hope and salvation such as MATTHEW 11:28, “Come to [...]

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