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TimeBank by Healthfirst Foundation is a free community program that connects and supports individuals in the community.

In the trenches of our community resource center, an odd truth has become glaringly evident: some people seem to operate as if life is a soap opera, and they are both the star and the scriptwriter. You know the type, the ones who can’t sit through a moment of calm without drumming up some catastrophe.

It is 10 a.m. on a Monday morning, and the warehouse at 970 Jefferson Street in Atlanta is humming with activity. A forklift loads a pallet of cereal

There comes a point when generosity begins to feel like self-harm. When the instinct to give, to lift, to offer, to patch the wounds of a society that never seems to heal, curdles into something bitter. Not because compassion is a mistake. Not because kindness is wrong. But because you finally see the truth about

Co-op Dayton incubates cooperative businesses to create and retain good jobs in our region, building a local economy that works for all.

Neon Future, the brainchild of entrepreneur and self-proclaimed futurist Tom Bilyeu, isn’t so much a graphic novel as it is a manifesto in comic-book form. A manifesto with lasers. And drones. And, perhaps more surprisingly, genuine heart. Set a few decades into our possible future, Neon Future introduces a world where technological enhancement is illegal,

In Debt: The First 5,000 Years, the late anthropologist David Graeber mounts an audacious and deeply researched challenge to one of the most fundamental assumptions of modern economics: that money arose as a necessary replacement for barter. With the analytical sharpness of a historian and the moral urgency of an activist, Graeber takes readers on

We live in a time of abundance, or so we’re told. Never in human history have so many goods been so widely available, so cheaply produced, and so quickly discarded. But buried underneath the glossy surface of this apparent prosperity is a quiet rot. Not just environmental degradation, though that alone should stop us cold,

There was a time when a man knew the name of the cow that gave him his milk. He knew the row where his tomatoes grew. He knew the creek where the trout darted under the rocks and he knew how to cut wood before the frost came down too hard. He knew these things

For the last hundred years, humanity has been caught in a slow-motion game of the prisoner’s dilemma; and the stakes have never been higher. First formalized in the mid-20th century by game theorists, the prisoner’s dilemma is deceptively simple: two people must choose independently whether to cooperate or betray. The best collective outcome comes through

In How Countries Go Broke, Ray Dalio does what he has always done best: distill the complexities of global finance into a coherent, almost narrative logic. Dalio, the billionaire investor and founder of Bridgewater Associates, has made a career out of identifying patterns where others see chaos. This book, part economic treatise, part cautionary tale,

The destruction of roots is the deepest affliction of the modern soul. The uprooted man is deprived not only of material sustenance but of the vital nourishment of meaning, of place, of obligation to others. He wanders through life as a ghost, unable to give or receive what is essential to human flourishing. This condition,

There is a moment, perhaps, that’s familiar to most of us now: you pick up your phone to check a message or glance at the weather, and thirty-seven minutes later, you’ve somehow watched a sea lion hug a fisherman, skimmed an argument about the pronunciation of "gyro," and read seven comments from strangers debating whether