Middle Class Lifeboat Blog

by Sarah Anne Edwards, PhD

Eureka Springs, AR, is actively taking on a number of simultaneous efforts to address today’s many environmental issues and their personal and community economic consequences. While many communities have yet to respond or have gotten bogged down, this community is moving ahead.

Planet Home, for example, is a volunteer group of concerned citizens who are calling attention to global warming and peak oil and busily enlisting folks to take action on many fronts. I recently had the pleasure of sitting in on one of their planning meetings where I was welcomed and inspired.

Over the past year since they came together, Planet Home has (more…)

by Paul Edwards, JD, and Sarah Anne Edwards, LCSW, PhD

Economists worry that Americans will use their tax rebates to pay down bills instead of buying more iPhones and plasma TV’s.  Certainly, decreasing personal debt is a pressing and important need for many Americans, but the best way to spend our rebates might be on neither consumer goods nor debt but on securing our economic futures in a perilous changing economy. 

While a “Recession” is an election year worry, with painful consequences for many people, something bigger is happening with implications for the standard of living and hopes of most Americans and their children’s future — changes that make the more important “R” words (more…)