Bean to Bar: The True Value of Chocolate Valerie Beck When I was four years old and wouldn’t drink milk, my mother wrote a note to my kindergarten teacher asking her to give me chocolate milk. Astounded that the chocolate I loved to eat could enhance milk, I wanted to know more: Where does chocolate come from, who makes ... Read More ►
Deepening Community: Preserving Farm Legacy through the Farmland Commons The Farmers Land Trust By Darby Weaver Another summer growing season has peaked and faded away, and, once again, small farms across North America worked tirelessly to tie their local communities to the wellness and spirit of the landscape. These dedicated stewards fed families, supported biodiversity, sequestered carbon, and maintained ... Read More ►
Cultural Appreciation in Schools: An Exploration of Power Cultural Appreciation Series #1 By Masumi Hayashi-Smith, Aiyana Masla, and Joaquin Muñoz We at Alma Partners have noted that many teachers are carrying similar questions and concerns about sharing elements of culture in their classrooms and schools. Some are holding themselves back from taking risks that could lead to ... Read More ►
Radical Imagination A New Chapter for LILIPOH Nico Haven I know stories change the world because they’ve changed mine. For twenty-five years, I performed as a cis, straight, neurotypical man—until 2020, when it all collapsed under the weight of inauthenticity. In that moment of freefall, so many things in my life to that point felt fake, foreign, incompatible with ... Read More ►
An Educational Model for the Future? Thoreau College and the Microcollege Movement Jacob Hundt When the history of American higher education in the twenty-first century comes to be written, 2024 will stand out as a watershed year when many dire predictions finally came true. Less than halfway through the year, at least a dozen colleges with long histories ... Read More ►
Together in Wellness: The Promise of Community Acupuncture Zachary Krebs The question “What is health, and how do we create and sustain it?” has interested me for over a decade. After graduating from a community health undergraduate program and later an acupuncture school, becoming a licensed acupuncturist, and speaking with numerous experts, I have settled on the idea that ... Read More ►
Rudolf Steiner on Building Healthy Organizations: Understanding the Fundamentals of Working Together—from the School to the Factory Seth Jordan It was once normal for people to work their whole lives at the same job. Today, that’s obviously not the case, and not just because technology transforms industries so quickly; our whole way of thinking about work has changed. If ... Read More ►
Imagine entering a pristine old-growth forest replete with the organic luster of life. Your senses jump at the aliveness of this new world around you. You close your eyes and feel it in you. You hear the breeze, the birds, and the insects. You smell the richness of the soil and feel the pureness, soaking in everything around you and ... Read More ►
One of the benefits of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy is its ease at unveiling hidden associations between current difficulties and life events from our past. Here, I want to share an inside glimpse of an EMDR session to elucidate how intertwined our day-to-day reactions are with past life events. The session occurred near the beginning of the ... Read More ►
Just in time for this year of focus on Rudolf Steiner’s Foundation Stone Meditation, Signe Eklund Schaefer has written a most unusual book with at least one unique contribution in regard to that enigmatic and comprehensive meditation. To foreground, or perhaps background, this contribution, Schaefer includes a full reprinting of the Foundation Stone as an appendix. But more on that ... Read More ►
