There is a sustainable building sub-culture developing in our midst, just in time to answer the questions raised by a shrinking world resource base. There are certain events that immediately have the power to utterly change everything in one's life. Healthcare is a vast and complex issue, and industry, in our society. Colleen Watkins writes about her own experience of a health crisis which leads her to find a health care practitioner who is both an MD and a Naturopath. He used the primary healing tool of active listening, then evaluated the problem holistically and treated the cause of my symptoms.
Causes can be physical, emotional, or nutritional-or all three.
Once again, as we've seen in so many other sectors of human enterprise, corporations own the means to profit and we the people get what we can pay for, or worse. Alternatives welcomes John Borowski , a teacher and social thinker that we have long been fascinated with, to our pages. His eloquent essays have appeared in national magazines and newspapers. In this issue, John examines the corrupting influence of corporations in America's classrooms. We must expose these shills for the calculating opportunists they are.