Beyond Eco-Apartheid: Is the green movement too white? Van Jones proposes a solution
America’s poor people of color are the last to benefit from the bright green economy, but the first to suffer the fallout of environmental degradation. Why eco-chic, embraced by an eco-elite, won’t save the planet — and an alternate solution for what will. by VAN JONES
Conversations: Bill McKibben
The author of The End of Nature speculates on hope for the future. Interview by RITZY RYCIAK
Green Burial
Returning to the earth, with open arms. by JAYE CHRISTENSEN
The Home Funeral Revolution
Death midwifery cuts out the middle man and brings intimacy to the final passage. by BILL STRUBBE
Departments
On Our Radar
Mindful Living
What Counts?; Alt Medicine in the Mainstream: University of Pennsylvania determines transcendental meditation is good for heart patients; Soul Train: world peace leaders make San Jose whistle-stop; New Jersey’s TerraCycle is green business role model for the world.
SF’s Josh Wolf
Longest-jailed journalist in US history speaks with Common Ground from prison. by CAROLINE CASPER
Green Scene
Green Business Spotlight
PlanetTran offers hybrid-style car service; Soap Nuts: the natural, and odd, way to do laundry.
Healthy Living
Food, Not Bombs
How feeding the hungry got this grassroots activist network on the FBI’s domestic terrorist watch list. by JEFF CONANT
Body Talk
Cat naps for heart health; freeway living leads to lifelong lung trouble; Cancer-blocking UV rays? by ELIZABETH BARKER
Discover Jivamukti Yoga
New York City-bred style gets “real” in SF. by MAYA CHARLES
Tune In
Hello, Dalai
While Tibetans struggle for autonomy, their SF-bound spiritual leader and his ambassador continue to preach a message of universal oneness. by CHARLES SHAW
Prophet Motive
Mission Possible, by DANIEL PINCHBECK
Meditation: Live Well and Prosper
The harder we’ve pursued what we imagined was happiness, the more steadily and successfully it has fled our grasp. by BILL MCKIBBEN
Art & Soul
Excerpt from Beyond Knowing
Mysteries and Messages of Death and Life From a Forensic Pathologist. by JANIS AMATUZIO, MD
Book, Music, Film Reviews
Internal Combustion, Twinkie Deconstructed, The Duhks, Vieux Farka Toure, Shut Up And Sing.
Coleman Barks Brings Rumi to SF
American poet talks Sufi mysticism and modern Iran. Interview by TODD SPENCER