Last September we decided to move to the country. It was an idea-dream that we had been thinking about for quite some time. We dreamt of leaving city life to get closer to nature, living in a way that was consistent with our values and establishing new ways to relate to each other and our …
Last Saturday November 7th we received the news that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were elected president and vice-president of the United States in the 2020 presidential election. This was widely celebrated by many in the US and all over the world. I was walking in my Brooklyn neighborhood while on the phone with my …
It’s a strange and humbling feeling — to be able to hear but not see. This was the sensation I felt in lockdown while looking out the window of a 23rd-story apartment in Hong Kong. I could hear the haunting chants of pro-democracy protesters echo from the streets below, but their raised umbrellas and pain …
I am so very excited to share with you all a Facebook group, neighborhood community, circular economy initiative called The Buy Nothing Project. The Buy Nothing Project was created in 2013 by two friends, Rebecca Rockefeller and Liesl Clark, in the state of Washington, USA, as an experimental hyper-local gift economy. The project’s tagline says: …
