Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money presents the path for bringing money back down to earth- philosophically, strategically, and pragmatically- and with an entrepreneurial spirit that is informed by decades of work by the thousands of CEOs, investors, grantmakers, food producers, and consumers who are seeding the restorative economy.

Virgin Territory chronicles the unexpected journey author, Susan J. Cobb, takes into the ‘deep feminine’ where she discovers a larger sense of what she really is. …

I saw a documentary on PBS television a few years ago about Virginia Lee Burton. The spirit of the film has stayed with me ever since. First, I loved it because it reconnected me with my memories of some of my favorite books as a child – Mike Mulligan and Maybelle and The Little House. Then, I fell in love with the life she led and her pioneering spirit. And, then – I learned of her commitment to caring for the planet. …

Guardians of Being, by Eckhart Tolle and Patrick McDonnell, is an enlightening little book about the power and grace that companion animals can bring into our lives.  Tolle and McDonnell portray these companions as humanity’s link back to nature. Walking a dog, petting a cat or simply watching birds outside a [...]

Lester Brown is the dean of environmentalists, a dynamo of ideas and passion about preserving the planet. In the latest update to his Plan B blueprint, he sums up the problems succinctly and then moves into detailed solutions.

Anneke Campbell and Thomas Linzey of Democracy School bring you five true case studies of communities that beat the powers that be in Be the Change: How to Get What you Want in Your Community. They lay out a blueprint for how to be a positive disruptive force in your own hometown.