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Julia Scheeres

Julia Scheeres is the New York Times bestselling author of Jesus Land, a memoir; A Thousand Lives, a narrative history of the Jonestown tragedy; and Listen, World!, a biography of intrepid Hearst columnist Elsie Robinson.

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cheyla selena, left, and brenden tull, residents of the sunwise co op house, pull weeds in their yard at village homes in davis

Better Homes and Gardens

For 50 years, Village Homes in Davis has been a utopian model of sustainability and neighborliness. It could be an answer to housing shortages and the climate crisis. If only someone was willing to replicate it.

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Back to Nature

Jessica Carew Kraft’s Why We Need to Be Wild: One Woman’s Quest for Ancient Human Answers to 21st Century Problems is a spiritual field guide.