Jul 5, 08

From The Book

Community: Introduction

Many communities these days find themselves under extraordinary stress. Even in affluent communities, taking care of one another - educating our kids, caring for the ill, helping people who need a hand - is proving difficult. In less-than-affluent communities, the stresses of extreme poverty, oppression, environmental injustice, failed educational systems, and diseases like HIV/AIDS are making life a daily challenge.

To solve problems like these takes more than individual action - it takes community action. Communities of all kinds need to work together, thinking about the problems they face in a holistic way, and working to strengthen the fabric that binds us together.

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Community

London Biotopes and Body Ecologies

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Community

Interview: Kavita Ramdas, Global Fund for Women

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Community

Life Support: Animals as Medical Companions/ Devices

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Letter from Tällberg: We Are Running Out of Time

(Worldchanging shares many connections with the Tällberg Forum, the annual meeting of minds by the shores of a Lake in Northern Sweden, with Alex, Alan and Nicole all having attended in past years. Alan reports on this year's conversation...

Community

Resource: ThetaNoon, the Solar Energy Calculator

Here in the Northern Hemisphere, the sun is now at its most northern point in the sky and it’s officially summer. As the rays beam down from our closest star, thousands of people are choosing to harness this free source...

Community

Committed Places

I found this edition of the PHotoEspaña festival amazingly good. One of the most thought-provoking shows, Committed Places, Topography and the Present, displays the work of ten photographers who use the genre of topography photography as a medium to go...


One Approach To Sustainability: Work Less

by John de Graaf About six years ago, I addressed the annual state conference of the Associated Recyclers of Wisconsin, an organization of private and public waste managers. The topic of my talk, “Haste Makes Waste,” was focused on overwork...

Business

PUSH Conference: Day Two

By Jessica Chapman This year's PUSH conference was titled "The Fertile Delta." The intended meaning of this enigmatic title was revealed in increasing depth as the conference progressed. The phrase encapsulates a belief in the opportunities available through the...


PUSH Conference: Day One

By Jessica Chapman 1 p.m. The PUSH conference kicked off this morning at the Walker Art Museum in downtown Minneapolis, with short presentations by Chandran Nair, founder of the Global Institute for Tomorrow (GIFT) and Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of...


PUSH Conference Kicks Off in Minneapolis

By Jessica Chapman This is the first entry of a series of daily blogs from Jessica Chapman, who is reporting live for Worldchanging from this year's PUSH conference. The PUSH conference taking place this week in Minneapolis bills itself...

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