Maria Grusauskas

Society

How Fruit Trees Are Growing Communities

A global grass roots movement has identified a very effective ingredient for building community: Fruit.

August 6, 2013

A life of abundance without money

Daniel Suelo, 51, has spent the morning gorging himself on young green shoots of tumbleweed and fixing a rack to the back of his new (gifted) bike with a spool of bailing wire. Suelo gets around on a bike or by the flick of his thumb, on discarded spools of bailing wire and other useful throwaways, and on the generosity of others. Money has been absent from his life ever since he gave away the last of his savings twelve years ago, a move he says brought an authenticity and richness to his life that wasn’t there before.

September 19, 2012

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