Earth’s Dignity: A Plea

By Vandana Shiva, PhD Today, there are one billion people who go hungry and half of them produce food. Something is going dreadfully wrong when even farmers and gardeners have to go hungry. This fact did not arise overnight, but happened in two steps. First came industrialization of agriculture, the “Green Revolution,” which is neither green nor revolutionary. Bill Gates and ... Read More ►

Redefining Progress – More Stuff Does Not Equal Happiness

David Kupfer Interviews Annie Leonard, Environmentalist, Activist, Author of The Story of Stuff book and mini movie DK: How is national happiness correlated to our material consumption? Does materialism actually make us unhappy? AL: There’s a complicated relationship between material consumption and happiness. Up to a point, there’s a direct connection. A roof over our head, enough food to eat, ... Read More ►

Why Occupy is Unstoppable

By Seth Jordan The following article, besides the Afterword, is excerpted from a speech entitled, “The Global Message of Occupy,” given at the Liwanag (Light ) World Festival in the Philippines, on January 3, 2013. I joined Occupy after seeing an interview with one of the protesters, Gerardo Renique, a professor of history at the City University of New York. ... Read More ►

Fall 2013, Issue #73: Editor’s Note

Dear readers, Welcome to our fall issue. After two years of LILIPOH’s being translated into Chinese, I received my first hard copy of the edition. It was so beautiful! I have never been to China, but I hope to go someday, and I look forward to a continued relationship with our team in Beijing. We share some snapshots of what ... Read More ►