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October 2015 Books

Change the Story, Change the Future: A Living Economy for a Living Earth

By David C. Korten. Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2015. 169 pages. $19.95/paperback; $9.99/eBook. Finally we have a book that brings together the…

Reviewed by Ruah Swennerfelt

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Sustainable Happiness: Live Simply, Live Well, Make a Difference

Edited by Sarah van Gelder. Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2014. 168 pages. $16.95/paperback; $9.99/eBook. It’s not often that I read a book…

Reviewed by Ruah Swennerfelt

An Eleventh Commandment?

At an interfaith conference on "Waters of Life, Sacred and Profaned" held in April 2007 at Saint Michael’s College in…

Ruah Swennerfelt and Louis Cox

Cultivating Right Relationship with Our Food

John Woolman urged Friends to consider whether their lifestyles might be nourishing the seeds of violence. Heeding this caution, we…

Ruah Swennerfelt

Friends and the Earth Charter

For me, September 9, 2001, was a day filled with hope and joy, in contrast to the tragic events that…

Ruah Swennerfelt

November 2016 Books

Rising to the Challenge: The Transition Movement and People of Faith

By Ruah Swennerfelt. Quaker Institute for the Future Focus Book 10, 2016. 111 pages. $15/paperback; free PDF available at quakerinstitute.org.…

Reviewed by Brian Drayton

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Focus on Our Future

If you’re like me, you’ve probably been thinking about environmental issues for a long time. Thirty years ago, I remember…

Susan Corson-Finnerty

Shalom: Much More than Just 'Peace'

I begin with two queries: To what extent might our opposition to war be diverting us from addressing the conditions…

Anthony Prete