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As a recently laid-off academic becomes more immersed in a sangha, he tries to reconcile his newfound zazen practice with his western background.

Your Job and Cancer Are Nothing: Part II

As a recently laid-off academic becomes more immersed in a sangha, he tries to reconcile his newfound zazen practice with his western background.

Advocates of community supported agriculture believe their radical model addresses many of the problems that plague large-scale farming today.

Advocates of community supported agriculture believe their radical model addresses many of the problems that plague large-scale farming today.

(The Danube River near Vukovar, Croatia.)

In the aftermath of the Yugoslavian Civil War, a local philosopher uses philosophical practice to inspire personal and communal action.

(Michal Pechardo)

We’re not only facing a crisis of loneliness but we’re atomized. Our systems seem designed to further undermine social fabric and place.

(Erik Mclean)

Eating crab is a fitting tradition for an Appalachian community dealing with the intergenerational trauma connected to the opioid crisis.

(Thought Catalog)

The key to fixing our cities, to creating Strong Towns, is to treat them like complex, emergent systems capable of iterative change.