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Twin Oaks is an intentional community in rural central Virginia, made up of around 90 adult members and 15 children. Since the community's beginning in 1967, our way of life has reflected our values

On the slopes of Mount Telaithrion on the island of Evia, a group of young Greeks have left the busy city and created a self-reliant rural community. Their goal is to eat only the organic produce ...

Twenty-six members of Congress will live off of a food stamp budget this week to draw attention to House Republicans cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). The program's ...

Meanwhile in Brazil... http://boingboing.net/2013/06/13/brutal-police-crackdown-on-pro.html boingboing.net Diego sez, "Protestors - mainly students - are taking the streets of Sao Paulo. The problem: the government just raised the bus fare from R$3 to...

With most media outlets focusing on the conflict and clashes, this beautiful video shows the cooperation, solidarity and hope of those resisting corporate rule in Turkey. Shot in and around Gezi ...

Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo (6/11/13) wrote about Edward Snowden yesterday in a way that helped make it clear why so many in the press seem upset that the former NSA consultant revealed th...

The universal basic income A podcast by Steven Sumpter His blog post: http://tinyurl.com/ktt3wvg Source of audio: http://tinyurl.com/mp3yhl7

coolnumbr12 writes "In a recent New York Times article called 'No TV? No Subscription? No Problem?' Jenna Wortham noted how she used, 'the information of a guy in New Jersey that I had once met in a

Airbnb has launched a new disaster response tool in an effort to make things easier for willing hosts to offer free shelter to survivors of catastrophes.

The Guardian and The Washington Post recently published slides that indicate that the US government's National Security Agency (NSA) is engaged in mass surveillance of users around the world through