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Sojourners Magazine: May 2009

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How does your economy grow? That’s a question a lot of us are asking these days. For ideas and insights on how to build an economy that’s based on community, justice, and sustainability, read the articles to the left or watch and listen to these web extras!

Listen to Majora Carter as she shares her favorite story of how a community garden transformed the life of a formerly incarcerated green-collar worker.

Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org, talks about how buying local is the best way to combat the economic crisis in this video interview with Sojourners.

Listen to Charlotte Brody talk about why she joined Green for All and how spirituality influences the work they do.

Check out these stories from the global South about how global warming is already harming people in poor nations, and suggestions for how to respond.

Read an excerpt from Van Jones' book, The Green Collar Economy.

Ed Spivey Jr. talks about receiving an e-mail from President Obama in this month's H'rumphs video.

Cover Story

Making Places and People Bloom

Whether it's the South Bronx or rural North Carolina, visionary activist Majora Carter argues that cleaning up our act is good for us -- and the economy.
Jeannie Choi
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The Green Industrial Revolution

How Green For All is building a nationwide green-collar economy.
Jeannie Choi
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Feature

Resurrection City

Auto idolatry and casino economics have left Detroit tottering on the brink. What will it take for Motown to rise again?
Bill Wylie-Kellermann
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Sounding the Alarm Bell

The next step for the climate change movement.
Bill McKibben
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The New Environmental Advocates

Chicago's Wilbur Wright College helps workers turn blue collars to green.
Celeste Kennel-Shank
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Commentary

Why a Green Economy

Amid deepening poverty and a crashing ecosystem, we need a new way of doing business.
Julie Polter
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Columns

A Step Toward the Common Good

Several years ago, faced with a disastrous federal budget proposal, So­jou­rn­ers started using the phrase “budgets are moral documents.” That phrase has now entered the com
Jim Wallis
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A Memory of Paradise

What's the unique contribution of religion to the 'green economy'?
Rose Marie Berger
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On Obama's Short List

I hold in my hand a printout of the e-mail I just received from Barack Obama.
Ed Spivey Jr.
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Culture Watch

Confessions of a (Reforming) Bookaholic

Books get a second life in a global library.
Dale Hanson Bourke
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Green Reads

Books on the environment, the economy, and equity.
Molly Marsh
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Dying a Slow Death

The future of Appalachia -- and the planet -- depends on unseating King Coal.
Danny Duncan Collum
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Are Books Obsolete?

A rough economy, changing reading habits, and a planet in peril are forcing book publishers to retool the way they do business.
Molly Marsh
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Departments

The Limits of Military Power

I appreciated Rose Berger’s column (“Tackling the Unspeakable,” Feb­ruary 2009) and her interview with Jim Douglass about John F. Kennedy’s assassination.
Patrick Mulhaney
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Christian Community 101

Reflections on the Revised Common Lectionary for May.
Michaela Bruzzese
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Ungenerous Giving

“Stingy Givers” (a review by J.
Evan Cantiello
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Ancient Ways to Seek God

I thought Ruth Haley Barton’s article (“Make a Joyful Silence,” February 2009) was awesome.
Walter Poe
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IHOP vs. ISS

One of several tender nerves I have is when people expound the benefits of space exploration and study. And yet, as Ed Spivey Jr.
Craig Lawson
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Web Extra

Audio Interview with Charlotte Brody

Charlotte Brody, a former registered nurse, is a long-time activist who has spent much of her life fighting for reform in the health care industry.
Jeannie Choi
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Audio Interview with Majora Carter

Whether it's the South Bronx or rural North Carolina, visionary activist Majora Carter argues that cleaning up our act is good for us -- and the economy.
Jeannie Choi
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Climate Change Around the World: Audio Interviews

Stories from the global South about how global warming is already harming people in poor nations, and suggestions for how to respond.
Elizabeth Palmberg
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H'rumphs Video

I hold in my hand a printout of the e-mail I just received from Barack Obama.
Ed Spivey Jr., Matthew Hildreth
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Excerpt from Van Jones' book, The Green Collar Economy

In The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems, environmental activist and leader Van Jones tackles the challenges of oil dependence, a sagging economy, and
Van Jones
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Video Interview with Bill McKibben

Bill McKibben is an author and co-founder of 350.org.
Jeannie Choi
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