vol. 10, num. 16 :: 2011.09.16 — 2011.09.29
If you think of all of the businesses, organizations and public spaces within a ten-minute walk of your house, what's there? What's missing? Could you survive on the resources within that radius? On local economies and all of the ways we do -- and don't -- support them.
Reimagining the good life in Chicago in light of Lazarus and Dante.
Loving marginalized places enough to unearth their gifts and share their burdens.
Remembering the small town grocery store and lamenting its loss.
Saving the local library from consolidation...and extinction.
Moving to a new neighborhood illuminates interconnectedness.
Reflecting on the relationships that make local shopping the best bargain.
A journey from bedside reading to the grocery store.
Raising critical questions about the goodness and integrity of a local focus.
The journey toward a local food diet.
A budding locavore discovers joy in limitations.
Subverting slavery, one harvest at a time.
On the benefits of setting limits on consumption.
A review of the album Desiderium from the folk trio Kindlewood.
The 24th Annual Organic Agriculture conference in Ontario addresses a range of food issues.
Nostalgia for the kind of community that used to be prompts questions about what we’ve really lost.
A short post from Stephanie Smith on sharing food.
A West Michigan-based organization offers ten concise reasons to support and grow local business.
Even in a country you know by heart
its hard to go the same way twice
the life of the going changes.
The chances change and make a new way.
Any tree or stone or bird
can be the bud of a new direction. The
natural correction is to make intent
of accident. To get back before dark
is the art of going.
Wendell Berry
“Traveling at Home” from Traveling at Home
Sign up on our free e-mail list to receive the daily asterisk by e-mail every weekday.
Find articles and issues by category: