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...summer, the Steelquists downsized to a single 1989 Chevy Geo. Joan uses Flexcars to get to her part-time teaching job once a week. And she can drive her son Reuben, 11, to Boy Scout meetings on Thursday nights--and grocery-shop while she's at it--while her husband is off somewhere else with the Geo. Moreover, she adds, "sharing cars with others gives me the good feeling of being part of a community...
Those hours weren't as lonely as they might have been for some. Dibner's husband Andrew also left a technology career (he founded Lifeline, the personal response service advertised with the unforgettable tag line "I've fallen and I can't get up") to work on his sculpture as well. Still, the change from having profit-and-loss responsibility for $300 million in revenue and 350 employees to waking up each morning and staring at clay in the basement took some getting used to. "You work so hard to get yourself where you are, and a part of your...
...starters, she booked a ticket to Bolivia with her husband Ken Barratt. Both of them are active Quakers and wanted to visit the relatively large population of practicing Quakers in Bolivia. "Well, when we got there, the poverty was overwhelming, and the people were marvelous, and so back home we raised a bit of money"--a couple of thousand dollars--"and sent it to them. And then we went back the next year unannounced." The small donation had paid off. The Bolivians had finished a four-room schoolhouse and improved their water supply. Barratt had also sent some old chemistry...
Even Better than the Real Bling Ali Hewson's motive was simple: "I would prefer to know that the clothes I buy for my children weren't made by someone else's children." Like her rock-star husband, Bono, Hewson is a doer, so she set up Edun, a clothing line manufactured with ethical production methods and meant to create sustainable employment in developing countries. "We wanted to show that you can make a for-profit business where everybody in the chain is treated well," she says. With factories set to roll in Peru and Tunisia, and a third planned...
...good thread that ran through everything,” said Patti Ghubril, who, with her husband Saleem, led a seminar entitled “How to be a Great Lover: Communication in Relationships...