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What I Learned About Living Well In My Mother鈥檚 Puerto Rican Kitchen

When I was growing up, the conveniences of modern life took over my mother鈥檚 kitchen, and our health declined as a result. Here鈥檚 what happened when we went back to the way our ancestors dined.

Melinda Gonzalez | Dec 25, 2013

Mindfulness | Empathy

6 Habits of Highly Grateful People

Wearing yourself down with worry? It鈥檚 time to thank outside the box.

Jeremy Adam Smith | Dec 24, 2013

Health care

Italy鈥檚鈥淪low Food鈥� Pioneer: How My Love for Food Ripened into a Life’s Work

鈥淥ur philosophy is good, clean, and fair food: Good because it is healthy and tasty; clean because it is produced with low environmental impact and with animal welfare in mind; and fair because it respects the work of those who produce, process, and distribute it.鈥�

Sarah van Gelder | Dec 21, 2013

This Christmas, Try Compassion at the Dinner Table

In the spirit of the season, Reverend James Forbes shows us how compassion at the dinner table can bring people from all walks of life together鈥攁nd reminds us that our work isn't done until that happens.

| Dec 21, 2013

Health care

This Farmhouse Cookbook Will Show You How Gathering at the Table Can Revive Your Spirit

Visit the remote kitchen of a writers' refuge where Dorothy Allison, Ruth Ozeki, and other women discovered radical hospitality for the body and soul.

| Dec 13, 2013

Wild Eats, Resilient Farms, and Freedom From Money: 3 Holiday Reads for the Radical Homemaker

Books should light up our lives鈥攅specially during the dark days of winter. Here are a few to pass along.

Shannon Hayes | Dec 11, 2013

Sustainable food and farming | Health care

The Surprising Healing Qualities … of Dirt

A doctor discovers exposure to healthy farm soil holds keys to healthy bodies.

Daphne Miller | Dec 7, 2013

Health care

Can Football Teach Boys Compassion Instead of Aggression? Two Videos Show Us It Can.

Two videos making the rounds online show us what happens when boys embrace their vulnerability and support one another's emotional needs.

Ariel Chesler | Dec 7, 2013

Photo Essay: Bainbridge Island Museum of Art Joins the Green Museum Movement

LEED certification is tricky for museums, which must carefully regulate temperature and humidity. That makes this brand new building in small-town Washington all the more remarkable.

| Dec 6, 2013

Health care

Infographic: The Link Between Cooking at Home And Living Longer

We spend less time in the kitchen than ever. But here's why Michael Pollan says cooking could be an important solution to our public health crisis.

Doug Pibel | Dec 6, 2013

Diogenes. Image courtesy Wikimedia Commons.

The Movement to Live More Simply Is Older Than You Think

What might history teach us about living more simple, less consumerist lifestyles?

Roman Krznaric | Dec 6, 2013

Health care | Sustainable food and farming

The King of Portland鈥檚 Deli Scene Cured His Diabetes Through Diet

After I was diagnosed with type-2 diabetes, I figured out how to get healthy without giving up my favorite foods.

Ken Gordon | Dec 5, 2013

Health care

How I Got My Husband to Take Care of His Body (Even Though He Just Wants to Take Care of Me)

If it takes being a "controlling wife" to make my husband value his own health over his love for his family, I'm going to do it.

Shannon Hayes | Nov 28, 2013

Sustainable food and farming | Health care

Delicious Food Is Not an Indulgence鈥擨t鈥檚 a Way to Solve Our Ecological Crises

Food became my teacher, and I aligned my taste buds with what the people and planet need.

Frances Moore Lapp茅 | Nov 28, 2013

Sustainable food and farming

What Occupy Oakland Taught Me About Healthy Eating

We came to Occupy because of America鈥檚 dangerous gap between rich and poor. But equally distressing was how many of us suffered from diseases created by a food system that makes healthy food inaccessible to the poor.

AshEL Eldridge | Nov 27, 2013

Stand Up to the Food Industry: Rediscover the Pleasures of Cooking and Eating Real Food

Junk food may have captured the American palate, but a few simple ingredients and techniques can win it back.

Arun Gupta | Nov 23, 2013

Health care

“Escape Fire” Doc Explores the Fight to Rescue American Healthcare

Beyond the Affordable Care Act, the film explores how to make a healthier America.

Valerie Schloredt | Nov 20, 2013

Sustainable food and farming

How To Eat Like Our Lives Depend On It: Rediscovering the Many Joys of Food

It's time to reclaim the well-being and exuberance that is part of healthy food culture.

Sarah van Gelder | Nov 20, 2013

Being Kind

KarmaTube music video on kindness.

| Nov 19, 2013

Health care

These 5 NFL Players Are Changing What It Means to Be a Man in Football

Miami Dolphins lineman Jonathan Martin is not the only NFL player to challenge the league's bigotry and misogyny. These five men stand for a new kind of masculinity.

Leigh Finke | Nov 15, 2013

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