Posted on March 26, 2008 by zoeweil
I’ve written about Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus’ microcredit movement in previous posts; I’ve just finished his new book, Creating a World Without Poverty, and in this book Yunus offers us another visionary idea for ending poverty: social business. Critiquing the triple bottom line approach of social responsibility in business, Yunus reminds readers that for-profit corporations, [...]
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Posted on March 20, 2008 by zoeweil
We are a species that often gravitates toward poles, toward thinking in either/ors, toward duality. We talk more about night and day than that crepuscular time of in-between. We often castigate our political candidates for nuance and ambivalence, preferring strong rhetoric that comes with black and white thinking, rather than complex analysis that is often [...]
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Posted on March 9, 2008 by zoeweil
As a follow up on my blog post last week, I recommend visiting the website of The Breakthrough Institute. Of particular interest to visitors to this blog, note the following. The
Breakthrough Institute is looking for young revolutionaries:
“The new youth initiative of the Breakthrough Institute is now recruiting for a Fellowship Program that will [...]
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