(1924-2014) Sister Barbara Wheeler was a member of the Dominican Sisters of Hope, a Catholic order of nuns formerly known as the Dominican Sisters of the Sick Poor. Concerned about […]
Profiles
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(1918-2003) Bob Swann was a pacifist, house designer, and land reformer. Exposed to the writings of Ralph Borsodi and Arthur Morgan while in prison for resisting induction into the […]
(1878-1975) Arthur Ernest Morgan was a civil engineer, college educator, and social philosopher. After a successful career designing flood control dams in the Midwest, he served for 16 years as […]
(1948-2002) Chuck Matthei was executive director of the Institute for Community Economics (ICE) from 1980 to 1990. He had previously helped to staff the Clamshell Alliance and, as a life-long pacifist, […]
(1900-1986) Mildred Jensen Loomis was a writer, educator, and homesteader, sometimes called the “Grandmother of the Counter-Culture.” She settled at the School of Living soon after it was started by […]
(1926-1969) Clarence Jordan was a Baptist minister, New Testament scholar, and spiritual leader of Koinonia Farm, an inter-racial Christian community that he co-founded in southwest Georgia in 1942. Because of […]
(1850-1928) Ebenezer Howard was the father of England’s Garden Cities. In 1898, he published Tomorrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform, later reissued as Garden Cities of Tomorrow. This book became a seminal […]
(1839-1897) Henry George was an author, lecturer, politician, land reformer, and political economist. His most famous work was Progress and Poverty, published in 1879. Inspired by John Stuart Mills’ concept of […]
(1886-1977) Ralph Borsodi was a writer, homesteader, and social philosopher. One of the first of thirteen books that he wrote during a long lifetime was This Ugly Civilization, published in 1929. In […]
(1895-1982) Acharya Vinoba Bhave was a follower and colleague of Mohandas Gandhi in the nonviolent struggle to free India from British rule. After the Mahatma’s assassination in 1948, Bhave assumed […]