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Generation Now
Meet the Millennials — young, wired and living life on the digital edge. by TOM TRESSER | photos by XIAO GUANG TSE
Bees in the City
Urban beekeepers battle a major Buzz Kill. by NIKI STOJNIC
Conversations: The Ditty Bops
America’s favorite two-wheelin’ vaudeville newgrass folk pop circus activist sweethearts bring their feel-good brand of honky-tonk to the heartland. interview by ELIZA THOMAS
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Have Cause, Will Travel: As if you needed a reason to get your summer tour season on, mission-based tours are parties with a purpose; If You’re Local and You Know It: Cooking up a storm with locavore delivery service, Three Stone Hearth; U.S. Military Spending, One Seriously Chunky Monkey: The Ben & Jerry’s upside down school bus — coming soon to a protest near you.
A Topsy-Turvy Interview with
Ben Cohen of Ben & Jerry’s
by CHARLES SHAW
Green Scene
The Winds of Change
Wind is the energy of the future. by PAUL CONSTANT
Healthy Living
My Diet, Myself
How green is your diet? Take our sustainable diet challenge and find out. by TYGHE TRIMBLE
Body Talk
Why your lunch is a heart attack waiting to happen; Blend up the antioxidants; Kids grow their own taste for greens. by LIZ BARKER
Tune In
Talkin’ ’Bout My Transpersonal Generation
Today’s spirit seekers find the ecstatic in the everyday. by JEFF DAVIS
When the Student is Ready
The fact is, we all have gurus — it’s just that most of them aren’t obvious. by JEAN-CLAUDE GERARD KOVEN
Art & Soul
Dr. Bronner’s Magic Media Soap Opera
by CHARLES SHAW
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