Most Good, Least Harm: A Simple Principle for a Better World and Meaningful Life.
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“With an amazingly useful way of thinking and acting, Most Good, Least Harm is multi-faceted in its utility….The innovation in this book is…spreading a message of being socially, politically, and environmentally conscious when making decisions.”
~ Jordan Dacayanan, Sacramento Book Review
In my last blog post, I wrote about how making MOGO (Most Good) choices not only makes a difference for the world, but also brings hope. Colin Beavan, author of the blog No Impact Man decided to do something in the face of escalating ecological degradation. Here’s how he describes it: “The way I see [...]
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I was very pleased to learn that Claude and Medea: The Hellburn Dogs has won the 2008 Moonbeam Children’s Book Award for juvenile fiction. The award is designed “to bring increased recognition to exemplary children’s books and their creators, and to support childhood literacy and life-long reading.” You can read a complete list of the [...]
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David Orr, professor of environmental studies at Oberlin College once wrote, “Hope is a verb with its sleeves rolled up.” I love this quote. It reminds me of Joan Baez’ famous comment, “Action is the antidote to despair.” We don’t have the luxury or the time for despair and hopelessness. Many will say that hope [...]
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For a long time I’ve had an ambivalent relationship with the concept that indigenous peoples and cultures are essentially better than others enmeshed in industrialized civilization; that indigeneity is essentially good while industrialized civilizations are essentially bad. While I’m deeply impressed by many indigenous cultures and their healthier, more sustainable manner of living, and think [...]
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Bill McKibben spoke at Bioneers this past weekend introducing the 13,000+ participants to 350.org, a viral effort to influence government leaders around the world to commit to reducing carbon in the atmosphere. As they describe it on their website: “350 is the red line for human beings, the most important number on the planet. The [...]
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I’m back from Bioneers full of new ideas and information, and in the coming days and weeks I’ll be sharing some of my thoughts from this amazing annual conference. Today’s post was inspired by a comment made by David Orr, environmental studies professor at Oberlin College and leader in environmental education, who spoke at the [...]
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Hello, Everyone, I’m off for the Bioneers conference this weekend in San Rafael, California. I’ll be really busy attending sessions, networking, and tabling for the Institute for Humane Education, so I won’t have a chance to do any blog posts until next week. In the meantime, in case you don’t already know about it, please [...]
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The cover story of Sunday’s New York Times Magazine, “Farm-in-Chief” by Michael Pollan, is a letter on food to whomever is our next president. What impresses me most about this nine-page “letter” is that Michael Pollan draws so many connections between food and other crucial issues of our time, such as health and healthcare, global [...]
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When we choose to learn about the effects of our choices (on ourselves, other people, animals, and the environment), and when, as a result of our commitment to learning, we adopt the MOGO principle to do the most good and the least harm in relation to everyone, we inevitably make changes in our lives. We [...]
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