I have written several times on this blog recently about Dancing Rabbit Eco-Village, an off-the-grid growing community in NE Missouri that is dedicated to sustainable, community-oriented living. Well, Billy and I are going to Dancing Rabbit next week, as part of their visitor program. We will be camping out, eating with a vegan [...]

Check out the moving stories in the comments in the nytimes article on the same-sex marriages taking place in California now and hopefully forever. Some couples are getting married for the second or third time to the same person because of our medieval national marriage laws. But ethical evolution continues to advance: [...]

Monday June 16 at 7pm, George Lakoff will be at the Central Library (Olive and 13th) to promote his new book, The Political Mind. I haven’t read it, but I have read his previous books Moral Politics and Don’t Think of an Elephant, and it sounds from interviews that this new book is more [...]

General Motors is phasing out SUVs and Hummers and will be selling the electric Volt in the next two years. Hell is slowly freezing over, which might mean the Arctic may not melt–or may at least re-freeze after melting, as turning around global warming is probably not going to happen fast enough. But [...]