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Charles Shaw is the Editor of the Dictionary of Ethical Politics. He is the former Editor-in-Chief of Conscious Choice magazine and Editorial Director of parent company Conscious Enlightenment Publishing (Conscious Choice, Common Ground, Whole Life Times, and Seattle's Conscious Choice magazines, and ConsciousChoice.com). Charles was the founder and publisher of Newtopia Magazine , former head writer for the nationally syndicated radio show "Reality Checks with Harrison," former Senior Staff Writer for The Next American City, as well as a Contributing Editor for Worldchanging .

His work has appeared in Alternet, Alternative Press Review, Conscious Choice, Common Ground, Grist, Guerrilla News Network, Huffington Post, In These Times, Newtopia, The New York Times, openDemocracy, Planetizen, Punk Planet, Reality Sandwich, Scoop, Shift, Truthout, The Witness, YES!, and Znet. He was a Contributing Author to the 2008 Shift Report from the Institute for Noetic Sciences , and in Planetizen's Contemporary Debates in Urban Planning (2007, Island Press). He is currently writing Exile Nation, a spiritual memoir, and planning the relaunch of Newtopia.

His activist work has been featured in Democracy NOW!, WLS-ABC 7 (Chicago), Associated Press, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, In These Times, Metroland NY, Knight Ridder, TimeOUT Chicago, and the Washington Post. He served as an official with the Green Party of the US and IDEAL Reform (Illinois Drug Education and Legislation), an organizer for the Chicago Social Forum and BioEthics 2006, served as a judge for "Drug Reporting" in the 2006 AltWeekly Awards, served on the Host Committee for the 2007 Chicago Green Festival, and on the Advisory Council for the Green Street Project , a capacity and community building initiative between the City of Chicago and the not-for-profit sector. He is the co-founder of the Alchemist's Anonymous salon in Chicago. He holds a BA in English and Creative Writing from Boston University.