A Tourist at Home and Abroad: The House on an Irish Hillside

by Emily Herzlin -USA- A few years ago I became obsessed with the 19th century Irish playwright John Millington Synge. He was raised near Dublin, but was drawn to the wild Irish west where the people still spoke Irish. After...

Posted by Emily Rose Herzlin on June 25, 2012 12:01 AM

A Home Away From Home: Filipina Nannies Create Spaces of Belonging in Canada

by Katie Palmer -Canada- In 2009, the Toronto Star published a series of investigative reports on the widespread abuse and exploitation of Filipina live-in caregivers. The newspaper repeatedly pegged migrant women as victims: victims of ungodly employers; victims of provincial...

Posted by Katie Palmer on August 17, 2010 12:01 AM

Transforming ”Junk” into a Community Asset

by Nancy St. Clair - USA - “Going green is not going to transform our planet unless everyone can embrace the movement on their own terms and scale… If we don’t embrace reducing and reusing, the green movement cannot make...

Posted by Nancy St. Clair on June 3, 2009 12:00 AM

Creating Sustainable Cities: The Bay Area and New York City Lead the Way

by Michelle Chen - USA - Angela Greene has a tough job: she and her workcrew scale the rooftops of Richmond, California to run wires, lay racks, and bend metal piping. Yet in the end, when she unfurls a gleaming...

Posted by Michelle Chen on January 2, 2008 6:07 AM