When author Colin Beavan embarked on his plan for a new book, “No Impact Man: The Adventures of a Guilty Liberal Who Attempts to Save the Planet, and the Discoveries He Makes About Himself and Our Way of Life in the Process,” he was one of many take-out-food eating, light-leaving-on, TV-watching, plastic-bag-using New Yorkers. His wife, Michelle…

Our blog sister Diana Butler Bass on Progressive Revival had this to say about last night’s health care speech by President Obama: “Tonight was about the moral “we.”  President Obama delivered a hope-filled speech that called us to stop being part of a camp–and instead see our “camp” as the wider American family.  Those of…

On my vacation to Cape Cod last week, I happened to glance down off the porch and see an extraordinary sight: a bird’s nest carefully built into the vortex of a thorny, busy climbing rose.  I couldn’t stop staring, marveling at the bird’s genius.  She had built her nest in a place that was, on…

We’ve largely steered clear of the health care debate on Fresh Living (read why here), but I felt inspired to post this MoveOn.org video that’s making the blogosphere rounds.  Not because we endorse the public option, necessarily, but because it’s incredibly moving–and an important reminder as the focus of any debate–to see that health and…

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