Articles

  1. Protest products. The duty of deciding what goes down in the kitchen is often times held by women in our families; therefore, women have the opportunity to choose (hopefully) healthy foods and make conscious dietary...

  by Judi Gerber   Each April, the National Gardening Association (NGA), sponsors National Garden Month to encourage individuals to garden. Gardening not only improves our health and nutrition, but it also...

Tis’ the season! Oh, it’s not that season yet. But for us knitters , it’s pre-season. The needles really start clicking when the air gets crisp. Thoughts shift to creating knitted holiday gifts for our loved ones....

Time magazine has a great special report on community service in 2009. Some notable information: "But I think people sometimes have to be reminded of that in times where they feel like, as the President said, things are tough at home. But...

When published our first call to “break up with your bank” earlier this year, the response from our members all over the country was amazing. We heard back from Green Americans everywhere who are pulling their checking, savings,...

by Fatima Sultan Syed   |  February 26, 2009 Fatima Sultan Syed pierces the shroud obscuring one of the world’s most enduring conflicts—a brutal 60-year dispute between India and Pakistan over her homeland of...

When it came time to plan a series of Wednesday evening Bible studies during Lent in February and March of 2008, Colleen Shannon knew what she wanted the topic to be.   As a board member at Partners for...

In the fall of 2005, Sharon Gerson, an English teacher at Cox-Athens High School in Coxsackie, New York, traveled to a social justice conference in nearby Troy. There, she heard a presentation by Dame Anita Roddick,...

A few years ago, in 2006, the city of Amherst, Massachusetts was facing some difficult fiscal struggles, and local businesses were feeling the effects of the economic downturn. Local organizer Yuri Friman...