Dear EarthTalk: I work at a fast food place and I am appalled by the amount of unpurchased food we throw away...

Tom Shadyac is the award-winning writer/director of Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, The Nutty Professor, Bruce Almighty and many other blockbuster comedy films...

 Twenty-two forms. That’s the amount of paperwork a typical soldier must complete following an active-duty injury.

The return of our troops from Iraq heralds a new era of family bonding. Let the generation of family healing begin!

We are what we eat. In the past, food co-evolved with humans; food strengthened, nourished and empowered people.

Last year Spirit of Change’s 2009 Natural Living Expo donated $629 to Kiva, a non-profit lending organization...

Mair Honan, co-founder of Grace Street Ministries in Portland, ME, has received the 2010 Planetary Chaplain Award...

Too good to pass up without sharing, these late entries for the “Creating Community” fall issue of Spirit of Change were submitted by “Curriculum of Hope for a Peaceful World” newsletter.

On October 25, 2010, the American Massage Therapy Association honored John Vines, LMT, with their National Humanitarian of the Year award.

Despite the unsettling social and economic tumult of our time, we are living in an incredibly exciting and defining era of American history!

More Americans are bowling today than ever before, says Harvard University professor Robert D. Putnam.

Sangha. Congregation. Havurah. Tribe. It has been consistent throughout recorded history that a vital component...

"The people on the sidewalk outside this building have survived some of the toughest lives imaginable."

It's not too late to limit or reverse the impact of the Supreme Court's disastrous decision in Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission

My colleagues, fellow health advocates and I have been trying to meet with you for over a year now because we have an approach which will meet all of your goals and more.

Let’s create safer, saner ways of managing our money.

The corporate news media is not in the business of news.

Over its 24-year history, Spirit of Change has been both applauded and attacked for being too political.

The battle by mainstream medicine to shut out alternative medicine forms of therapy is long standing and alive and well in today’s Washington.

On January 21, 2010, in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the Supreme Court ruled that corporations are persons, entitled by the U.S. Constitution to buy elections and run our government.

Winter 2009 Spirit of Change included the article, “When Time is All You Have: Vipassana Behind Bars” by Gail Lord. As promised, here’s an update on how the Donaldson Correctional Facilities Vipassana program has evolved.

Are we so hypnotized by our steady diet of media-fed horrors that we’ve despaired of ever achieving the dream of a violence-free world?

This isn't a party shopping list, it's a mere fraction of the contents found in a village co-op store garbage bin.

Thanks to all who attended the 3rd annual Natural Living Expo in Sturbridge, MA, September 26-27, 2009.