Co-produced and directed by Heather Courtney This low-key documentary begins with all the hallmarks of a working class drama but unfolds into the kind of slower-moving “hippie” film initially disdained by its unlikely heroes, a crew of buddies from Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. The combat footage is startling (director Courtney embedded with the platoon to capture […]
Bioneers co-founder Nina Simons cultivates the power of the feminine
Nonprofit Falling Whistles raises funds for the Congo
I personally love it when people disagree with me, as it makes for a more interesting dialectic.
The Unseen War on American Family Farms
Social networking gets a philanthropic groove
We can’t possibly review all the wonderful books we receive, so every issue features several that look particularly intriguing. Here we have divergent but deeply interrelated forces represented: spirituality, environment, health and activism.
“We have met the enemy and they are us”
Lucky is a subjective word. The central human character in this endearing film, David Balding, was certainly lucky to make a deep connection with his massive friend, Flora. But whether Flora was equally lucky is less certain. How lucky is any wild animal, really, when taken from its native habitat and made to perform in […]
Not just another sea of nondescript plants, flowers and shrubs, the public landscape he designed to surround the center is innovative, dramatic and well conceived.