On December 19, 2008, in Salt Lake City, Utah, Tim DeChristopher raised paddle #70 at a Bureau of Land Management auction, bidding against oil and gas companies in the leasing of Utah’s public lands—many of them situated adjacent to cherished Canyonlands National Park. Bidding started at $2 an acre and at first DeChristopher raised his paddle simply to keep the public’s heritage from going so cheaply. Then he started winning […]
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The right to food | An interview with Hilal Elver
Hilal Elver is the United Nations’ Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food. She grew up in Turkey, where she earned her Ph.D. from the University of Ankara Law School and began her teaching career. Her expertise was soon pressed into government service when the Turkish government appointed her as the founding legal advisor to the Ministry of the Environment. Later, they asked her to serve as the General Director […]
Collecting one’s food | An interview with Xavier de la Forêt
Xavier de la Forêt is the founder of the Sustainable Living Project and the Invisible School, both located in the Methow Valley, Okanogan County, Washington. His blog is filled with photos, videos, and instructions for activities like brain-tanning a beaver hide with the hair on; making a buckskin pullover; weaving a cattail mat; and gathering edible plants such as bearberries and chocolate lily bulbs. Xavier grew up in France, but […]
Connie Zweig | The shadow knows
Connie Zweig, Ph.D., is a Jungian-oriented therapist and the founder of the Center for Shadow-work and Spiritual Counseling. Known as “the shadow expert,” she has written three books on shadow-work, including Meeting the Shadow: The Hidden Power of the Dark Side of Human Nature (with Jeremiah Abrams), Romancing the Shadow: Illuminating the Dark Side of the Soul (with Dr. Steve Wolf), and The Holy Longing: Spiritual Yearning and Its Shadow […]
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