Audiobook5 hours
The Revolution Where You Live: Stories from a 12,000-Mile Journey Through a New America
Written by Sarah van Gelder and Danny Glover
Narrated by Natalie Hoyt
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
()
About this audiobook
Discover the Real Revolution Unfolding across America
America faces huge challenges—climate change, social injustice, racist violence, economic insecurity. Journalist Sarah van Gelder suspected that there were solutions, and she went looking for them, not in the centers of power, where people are richly rewarded for their allegiance to the status quo, but off the beaten track, in rural communities, small towns, and neglected urban neighborhoods.
She bought a used pickup truck and camper and set off on a 12,000-mile journey through eighteen states, dozens of cities and towns, and five Indian reservations. From the ranches of Montana to the coalfields of Kentucky to the urban cores of Chicago and Detroit, van Gelder discovered people and communities who are remaking America from the ground up. Join her as she meets the quirky and the committed, the local heroes and the healers who, under the mass media's radar, are getting stuff done. The common thread running through their work was best summed up by a phrase she saw on a mural in Newark: “We the People LOVE This Place.” That connection we each have to our physical and ecological place, and to our human community, is where we find our power and our best hopes for a new America.
America faces huge challenges—climate change, social injustice, racist violence, economic insecurity. Journalist Sarah van Gelder suspected that there were solutions, and she went looking for them, not in the centers of power, where people are richly rewarded for their allegiance to the status quo, but off the beaten track, in rural communities, small towns, and neglected urban neighborhoods.
She bought a used pickup truck and camper and set off on a 12,000-mile journey through eighteen states, dozens of cities and towns, and five Indian reservations. From the ranches of Montana to the coalfields of Kentucky to the urban cores of Chicago and Detroit, van Gelder discovered people and communities who are remaking America from the ground up. Join her as she meets the quirky and the committed, the local heroes and the healers who, under the mass media's radar, are getting stuff done. The common thread running through their work was best summed up by a phrase she saw on a mural in Newark: “We the People LOVE This Place.” That connection we each have to our physical and ecological place, and to our human community, is where we find our power and our best hopes for a new America.
Author
Sarah van Gelder
Sarah van Gelder is cofounder and editor-at-large of the award-winning YES! Magazine. She explores the leading edge of change, writing and speaking internationally on a wide range of topics.
Related to The Revolution Where You Live
Related audiobooks
Engage, Connect, Protect: Empowering Diverse Youth as Environmental Leaders Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAnti-bias lessons help preschoolers hold up a mirror to diversity Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFood Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBuilding Community Food Webs Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFoodopoly: The Battle Over the Future of Food and Farming in America Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Fine Line: How Most American Kids Are Kept Out of the Best Public Schools Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Age of Sustainable Development Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Inexplicably Me: A Story of Labels, Worthiness, and Refusing to Be Boxed In Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Farm The City: A Toolkit for Setting Up a Successful Urban Farm Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Shoptimism: Why the American Consumer Will Keep on Buying No Matter What Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Bioneers Series 1-13: Overview: Bioneers-Creating New Solutions Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsToday's Authors Series: Ari Weinzweig, Founder of Zingerman's: Today's Authors Series Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Let's Move On: Beyond Fear & False Prophets Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Growing An Elder Community Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSafe Harbor for the Climate Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOur Patchwork Nation: The Surprising Truth about the "Real" America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Icon Black Lives Matter Series: Booker T. Washington, A Free Man Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThriving in the Fight: A Survival Manual for Latinas on the Front Lines of Change Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCreative Conflict-Cultural Transformation Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Seven Generations and The Seven Grandfather Teachings Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBioneers Series 1-12: Wisdom at the End of a Hoe: Farming as if Biology Mattered Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOur Fair Share: How One Small Change Can Create a More Equitable American Economy Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThere Are Realistic Alternatives Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSanctuary Cities, Communities, and Organizations: A Nation at a Crossroads Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings28 Days: Moments in Black History That Changed the World Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSustaining the Land Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Irrational Persistence: Seven Secrets That Turned a Bankrupt Startup Into a $231,000,000 Business Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMy Daddy, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Broken Contract: Making Our Democracies Accountable, Representative, and Less Wasteful Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Politics For You
Leave the World Behind: A Novel Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Overstory Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The 48 Laws of Power Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5All the Sinners Bleed: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of September 11, 2001 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Son of Hamas: A Gripping Account of Terror, Betrayal, Political Intrigue, and Unthinkable Choices Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Enough Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5While Time Remains: A North Korean Girl's Search for Freedom in America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Razorblade Tears: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Elon Musk Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5An American Marriage: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Nazi Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Behold a Pale Horse Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Dragonfire: Four Days That (Almost) Changed America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Small Mercies: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Out of the Wreckage Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5You Can't Joke About That: Why Everything Is Funny, Nothing Is Sacred, and We’re All in This Together Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for The Revolution Where You Live
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
0 ratings
0 ratings0 reviews