Dawn Allen is a freelance writer and editor who is passionate about sustainability, political economy, gardening, traditional craftwork, and simple living. She and her husband are currently renovating a rural homestead in southeastern Michigan.
Rebuilding after a wildfire can be a disaster itself, since insurance companies, stretched from more and bigger fires, may not pay the full cost of construction or living expenses. Maybe that will encourage us to change the way we think about doing the same thing over and over.
Chalk marks as parking enforcement, automobile passenger searches, and warrantless blood draws from unconscious people are among the Fourth Amendment issues in the news this week.
Unhealthy food aimed at children who then grow up to reject healthier options is a complex, systemic problem, and it’s both unfair to schools to expect them to fix it alone, and absolutely necessary that they try.
Hormel’s antibiotic- and hormone-filled Natural Choice products are considered natural meat, but truly ethical meat has higher costs – and greater rewards.
Do Republicans realize that when they call working class Americans stupid and insult veterans that need care, they are mocking their base?
How long can we rely on energy-intensive industries to transform fuel into plastic and plastic into fuel, or to perform services that nature would willingly undertake for free if we’d just get out of the way?
Champions of supply side economics claim that manipulating the money supply to increase the available supply of goods and services creates opportunity and prosperity, but does it really work that way?
In Ann Arbor, MI, a dioxane plume from industrial groundwater contamination is flowing relentlessly towards the source of the city’s municipal water supply.
Toledo voters recently passed the Lake Erie Bill of Rights, providing strong protection and personhood status for the world’s 11th largest lake. Will it stand against legal challenges from farmers resistant to change?
After nearly a century of industrial consumerist culture, we have too much stuff. As we start to unpack and purge, let’s find a different way to live.