reason.com Reader Ryan McCormick sends this amazing story from ABC News. Robert Jordan wanted to be a cop and he applied for a job as such in New London, Connecticut.

www.resilientcommunities.com What's a resilient income look like? It's diverse. Here's an extreme example. Sepp Holzer, one of my favorite farmers, runs a financially successful farm (seen below). It's been successful for decades, even during tough...

urbandud.wordpress.com 1. Mamihlapinatapei (Yagan, an indigenous language of Tierra del Fuego): The wordless yet meaningful look shared by two people who desire to initiate something, but are both reluctant to start.

sustainablog.org Aquaponics is one of those concepts that I've known of peripherally for years, but didn't really give much thought to until I came across plans for The Plant in Chicago. Putting fish and plants together in a closed loop (that's organic...

www.bbc.co.uk Bolivian President Evo Morales says he is expelling the US Agency for International Development (USAid) for seeking to undermine his government.

www.theatlantic.com Market thinking so permeates our lives that we barely notice it anymore. A leading philosopher sums up the hidden costs of a price-tag society.

newswatch.nationalgeographic.com Can food be free, fresh and easily accessible? That's the bold question Seattle is hoping to answer.

www.guardian.co.uk Richard Seymour: Forget the Morris dancers, May Day's roots are in the fight for workers' rights and it has been a focus for protest ever since

"issuing power" http://blacktrianglecampaign.org/2012/08/15/new-imf-working-paper-advocates-revolutionary-new-debt-free-monetary-system-as-the-solution-to-the-global-financial-crisis-cuts-austerity/ blacktrianglecampaign.org The Black Triangle Campaign...