Articles on Community

Why I Love Facebook

Facebook takes a lot of flack, so I thought it was time to sing its praises. Here are 10 things I love about Facebook: 1. Humans do curious things. On Facebook I find out not just what...

A Moveable Feast

A friend and I drive down a Berkeley street well past dusk. The lights in most houses aren’t on just yet — except for the one whose windows glitter and beckon like Christmas....

Get Active!

Surfing the web for funny penguin pictures? Clicking through the first lady’s fabulous fashion slideshow? Googling yourself just to get an ego boost (or not)? Yeah, we caught...

A Buffalo Helps a Mom in Nepal Pay It Forward

Sabitra Guragain never thought she’d be giving a buffalo calf to her neighbor. In her small village in Nepal, many don’t have the income to support their own families, let...

Volunteer

Electrical engineer Brian Dempsey helps people in America turn sunlight into electricity every day. But he says his most brilliant work was turning sun power into power learning for...

Seva the Planet

It’s difficult to believe Seane Corn went through most of her teacher training terrified to lead her class, considering now, nearly two decades later, she’s one of the most...

The Company We Keep

Very few of us have a personal attachment to the company with which we bank. Maybe you signed up with U.S. Bank because it was giving out free t-shirts on your first day of college,...

Rock The Bike

Pop stars and big cars have long retained a powerful hold on the hearts of impressionable music fans. Each glitzy, each sexy, each high maintenance and each photogenic, they’ve...

Green For All

Since we reported on the idea in last year’s Earth Day issue, “green collar” jobs, have generated quite the buzz. After cycling through the mainstream media and the...