In my editorial notebook today, I feature Sherry Ackerman, a philosophy professor at the College of the Siskiyous. She lives in Siskiyou County, one of the hardest hit in the recession in California with its 18.1 percent unemployment rate. People are used to a different kind of good life there that involves community and a clean environment as sources of wealth. She talks about how the old economy is shifting toward something new.
Here she talks about "the middle way" in being a conscientious consumer and about how new systems are coming into existence in the economy:
Here's where she talks about Siskiyou County and an alternate view of the good life there:
