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Working For Life - Spring issue 2001

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Articles: Why Work?: Work dumbs us down, wears us out, and uses us up. So why do it? Let's initiate a Golden Age of Play, by Bob Black

 

Real Vacations for All: Why do affluent, super-productive Americans get two weeks or less of vacation while Europeans get four to six weeks? by Juliet Schor

 

Now I Become Myself: A vocation does not come from "out there." It's what you find when you reclaim your original gifts, by Parker Palmer

 

Danny Glover: .He's famous for leading roles in the Lethal Weapon series, Beloved, The Color Purple, and others. But Danny Glover's real work goes well beyond the big screen. Helping to empower the most vulnerable people of the world - that's what gets him up

in the morning.

An Interview with Sarah Ruth van Gelder

 

The White Dog's Tale: Restaurateur Judy Wicks breaks all the rules. She pays a living wage. She uses expensive meat from humanely raised animals. She holds Table Talks on social and environmental issues. And she makes money, too, by Maryann Gorman

 

Communities Work: These innovators are creating both communities that work and good work for their communities through businesses that make clothes, bicycles, tools, and food.

 

Right Livelihood: Our work can benefit the planet and future generations, or it can damage both. What is it in our own psyche that makes the difference? by Matthew Fox

 

Reimagining your Life: An editor of a youth 'zine, a lawyer-turned-tutor, a chef, an activist, a performer. These people created lives for themselves that express their uniqueness, compiled by Elyse Fields

 

Right Livelihood Resources: Ready to take back your life? Some resources to help you take the plunge, by Rik Langendoen

 

Corporate Democracy, Civic Disrespect, by Jamie Galbraith; Building on MLK's Legacy by Grace Boggs; Corporate Cabinet by Russell Mokhiber; Politics and Consciousness by John Hagelin; and a Voters' Bill of Rights.

 

Global Shift - Doing Right by the Planet: When world leaders failed to agree on action to halt climate change, they punted the problem right back to citizens, by Bill McKibben

 

"We Withdraw Our Consent!" - The Year of Global Protest: Their legitimacy is seriously challenged in Thailand, Prague, Washington, Melbourne, and Seattle. How long can the institutions of globalization do business as usual? by Walden Bello

 

In Review: Cancer, Crimes & Compromises: a review of When Healing Becomes a Crime by Kenny Ausubel; alternative cancer treatments that are harrassed out of existence.

by Ellie Winninghoff

 

The Positive Futures Network brings together innovators and activists to build bridges among diverse groups, all working for nothing less than social transformation.

by Frances F. Korten

Thank you, thank you!: Hundreds of people make PFN and this magazine possible. We couldn't do it without you! by Frances F. Korten

 

Sustainable Living: YES! … But How? More on diesel vehicles (try biodiesel instead!); alternatives to chlorine bleach, moisturizing winter baths. by Annie Berthold-Bond & Doug Pibel

 

Departments:

Letter from the Editor

Readers' Forum

Indicators: The Next NAFTA?; drugs in the water; Maine's clean election; huge pension fund screens out sweatshops; Tonga's gene pool "purchased" by biotech company

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