Now’s the Time to Go Screen-Free
Tired of Zoom calls and virtual meet-ups? Just turn everything off.
Category: Family
Podcast #32: Josh Golin on Marketing to Kids
Josh Golin, Executive Director of Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, fights a metastasizing marketing machine that has swept kids into its orbit of consumerism and surveillance.
Podcast #31: Roald Hazelhoff’s Environmental Citizenship
Southern Environmental Center founder Roald Hazelhoff gives us a tour of his unique educational and community-building work.
Podcast #29: Jim Keenan on Environmentalism, Justice, and Faith
Father Jim Keenan of Boston College discusses Pope Francis’s views on environmentalism and social justice, and how those resonate across belief systems.
Podcast #27: Robert Lustig on Biochemistry and Health
Author and endocrinologist Robert Lustig explains the neurochemical difference between happiness and pleasure and how it’s been exploited to make so many of us fat, addicted, and depressed. Then, he reminds us how to reclaim our health.
Podcast #25: Marcy Darnovsky Talks Genetic Engineering
Marcy Darnovsky, Executive Director of the Center for Genetics and Society, chats with us about the moral minefield of genetic engineering.
Natural Birth: The Long Struggle of Dr. Ágnes Geréb
In the final piece in a series on birth and technology, David Reynolds shares the history of Hungary’s tireless natural childbirth advocate.
The Apex of Technological Birth
In many places, birth by emergency surgery–the C-section–is increasingly the norm. Part three in a series on technological childbirth.
The Death of Natural Childbirth
The second part of a series on childbirth examines how natural birth has been systematically disabled, at the cost of bonding and health.
The Attack on Natural Childbirth
Over the past century or so, the most natural and integral part of the human life-cycle—birth—has been systematically medicalized and institutionalized, at the expense of the body’s own wisdom.