Thinking Globally, Acting Locally. Read about my new class in Monterey, California: A Time for Healing. … This morning I feature a great essay reposted from Hope Magazine. Lane Fisher […]
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A Time for Healing
Beginning Thursday, January 06, 2005, I will begin teaching weekly classes lasting 90 minutes each. The classes are interactive and highly participatory. Activities will include: Brief lessons in Health & […]
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Reposted from The Scientific American. A book review by Nicholas D. Kristof Who knew that elephant trunk tastes like piglet? Or that more than a millennium ago, a writer declared […]
Continue readingVoluntary Simplicity & Soulful Living
Duane Elgin Writing in 1845, Henry Thoreau set the soulful tone for the simple life in Walden, in which he wrote these famous lines: I went to the woods because […]
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Reposted from the January 01, 2005 OP-ED page of The New York Times. Jared Diamond New Year’s weekend traditionally is a time for us to reflect, and to make resolutions based […]
Continue readingCollapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Richard Sears forwarded this review originally posted at The New Yorker. A Book Review by Malcom Gladwell A thousand years ago, a group of Vikings led by Erik the Red […]
Continue readingA Basic Income for All
Dexter Graphic forwarded today’s article first published in the Boston Review in 2000. Philippe Van Parijs If you really care about freedom, give people an unconditional income. Entering the new […]
Continue readingThinking About Ends and Means
Today’s article by Eldon New on The War on Torture starting me thinking about ends and means. Note: Part of this material is from an earlier post tilted Making Choices. […]
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This morning the Editor of Metaphysics Anonymous examines two tactics of adversity. Eldon New I have noticed a symmetry between terrorism and torture. They are both tactics to influence military […]
Continue readingDesigning the World’s Future
Can we design a better future for humanity? Jan Hearthstone Today, the future of most of the people, and indeed the future of the whole world, is decided by only […]
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