Organically Inclined

When we first moved back to Vermont, I was terrified. Without a steady job, I didn’t know exactly from where our money would come. We were always on what I believed to be the edge of poverty. But then I started to think about it. Were we truly poor?
Everywhere I look – books, radio, television [...]

With gas prices rising, food prices rising…OK - the price of everything rising…I am often asked about how to get by on very little.
As you may already know, I spent the bulk of the summer of 1997 living in my car with my three small children. Before that, I lived in the cabin from hell [...]

I once wrote a piece for a newspaper about how to end poverty in this country by consuming less. The crux of my argument was that if people in America would recognize what true poverty is (think China right now - or Burma), then we could go a long way toward fixing our socio-economic issues.
I [...]

I just finished reading a story on CNN about a 67-year-old woman who is living in her car with her dogs. She had a good job in a nice area and after a recent layoff, can no longer afford to make ends meet. In fact, she is working and receiving some Social Security - and [...]

Appeared in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer – Sept. 2006

We can end poverty in America. And in no way do we need help from the government to do it.
Lately, everywhere I look – books, radio, television – there is someone telling me how to “eliminate debt” or “build wealth.” And the majority of these programs are [...]