Love Bikes and Food? Then Check Out “The Culinary Cyclist!”
Love bicycles and eating well? Anna Brones has a cookbook for you. Classy meals to fuel your ride without breaking the bank. The rules for living well, if you can call them that, are simple and a...
View ArticleSummer Travel: Ethnotek Launches the Chiburi Wallet and the Cyclo Sling
Ethnotek is known for its wonderfully made traveling bags which come with interchangeable front panels that they call Threads. Threads gives you the option of restyling, and reusing, your bag as many...
View ArticleWhat Eve Ensler Taught Me About My Body’s Connection to the Planet
In 2008, I had a jarring encounter with Eve Ensler’s work most popular work—The Vagina Monologues. I was part of a group of women that ran the Florida State University Women’s Center, and we had...
View Article5 Fashion Brands Inspired by (and Supporting) African Women
Thanks to the hard work of activist entrepreneurs, and the vast receiving and connective nature of the internet, we fashion admirers can now use our consumer power to support communities globally. For...
View ArticleEating Healthy, Organic and Vegan Isn’t More Expensive: Here’s How
Guest Post by Suzanna McGee: Athlete, Trainer and Coach; author of the Athlete’s Simple Guide to a Plant-Based Lifestyle When people think of organic vegetables and fruits, they think, “It’s too...
View ArticleDresden Dolls’ Amanda Palmer on The Art of Asking
Before I start to talk about Amanda Palmer‘s triumphant book The Art of Asking, take a minute (and then take another 12 minutes) and watch her incredible TED Talk. I’ll be right here when you’re done....
View ArticleCelebrate the End of National Poetry Month with 5 Short, Gorgeous Poems
Flickr Creative Commons As National Poetry Month ends, one can’t help but reflect on the way that poets have always turned to the earth to figure out their internal world. Nature has always been there...
View ArticleDoes Your Haircolor REALLY Matter? Stacy Harshman’s Book Says: Definitely
I’ve always had a complicated relationship with my hair: I’m the sole curly in a household full of straight locks. Recently I’ve come to terms with the curls and learned how to maintain them, but for...
View ArticleSummer Reads: Fascinating “Beer Money” Memoir Details Stroh Beer Family’s Demise
The “rags to riches” story is a familiar narrative, and one that many an American hero has lived, from Oprah Winfrey to George Soros—but “riches to rags” is far more interesting. What happens when...
View ArticleSummer Reads: Back in Time to One 70s Counterculture Experiment in Vermont
The 1970s saw some remarkable, (and some ridiculous) experiments in how Americans wanted to live. There were cults and communes, thousands of new suburban tract homes and decaying urban neighborhoods...
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