Compassion and Kleenex®: Marketing to Our Higher Selves

Posted on February 27, 2009 by zoeweil

Waiting for my plane to board a couple weeks ago, I was watching CNN at the gate and was amazed to see that advertisers are now linking compassion with products. As a humane educator, I’m used to analyzing ads with students, asking the question, “What deep need or desire is the ad trying to fulfill?” [...]

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Buy.ology: A Review

Posted on February 25, 2009 by zoeweil

I just finished reading Buy.ology: Truth and Lies about What we Buy by Martin Lindstrom. As a humane educator, one of the most important skills I hope to impart among my students is the ability to think critically and gain freedom from manipulation and brainwashing. Thus, books such as this are very useful to me [...]

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Changing Systems 4: Male/Female Ratios at Colleges a Call for Educational Quality and Respect for All

Posted on February 23, 2009 by zoeweil

On average, there are more women than men in college now. One statistic puts the ratio at 57/43 female to male with a trend that’s leading toward a 60/40 ratio. At my son’s high school, the highest grade point averages have belonged to girls for several years now. My son doesn’t find this surprising at [...]

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Changing Systems 3: Giving is Easy When…

Posted on February 20, 2009 by zoeweil

After speaking at Powell’s Books in Portland, Oregon, last week, I left with a few friends to head back to the co-housing community where I was staying. Moments after leaving the bookstore we passed a woman who was homeless and begging for change. I pulled out my wallet and gave her several dollars. My companions, [...]

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Changing Systems 2: Choosing My Father’s Ties

Posted on February 18, 2009 by zoeweil

When I was a child, my father would come into my room most mornings and ask me to choose which tie he should wear with the suit he had on that day. He usually brought two ties into my room from which I could choose. As I got older, sometimes I felt that neither choice [...]

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The Stimulus Plan and Education: The Root of Positive Change

Posted on February 16, 2009 by zoeweil

Nicholas Kristof had an opinion piece in The New York Times yesterday that will likely make educators breathe a sigh of relief. When a columnist recognizes that education is the most important step in rebuilding our economy and creating a better future, we know that things are shifting. Education has always been too low on [...]

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Changing Systems 1: Losing My Cool at the Airport

Posted on February 13, 2009 by zoeweil

I just returned from a 10-day book tour on the West Coast. The trip entailed 3 cities, 6 flights, one car rental, one train ride, and many speaking engagements in a variety of settings. I’m not the best traveler, easily stressing at flight delays and lost baggage, and because I need a bunch of props [...]

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Review of Most Good, Least Harm in Healthy Child Healthy World Blog

Posted on February 12, 2009 by zoeweil

Blogger Janelle S. of Healthy Child, Healthy World, a website devoted to helping create a healthy world for children, recently wrote a very positive review of IHE President Zoe Weil’s new book Most Good, Least Harm: A Simple Principle for a Better World and Meaningful Life. Here’s an excerpt from the review: “Weil is inspiring. [...]

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Zoe Weil Speaks About Humane Living at Powell’s in Portland, OR

Posted on February 11, 2009 by zoeweil

Last week IHE President Zoe Weil took a short tour of the West coast to give a couple of MOGO Workshops and to talk about her new book Most Good, Least Harm: A Simple Principle for a Better World and Meaningful Life. On February 4, Zoe talked to an enthusiastic, standing-room only crowd at Powell’s [...]

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“Let’s Visit a Research Lab” – Another Example of Propaganda from the U.S Dept. of Health & Human Services

Posted on February 9, 2009 by zoeweil

In my last post on The Lucky Puppy coloring workbook produced by a U.S. government affiliate to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), I described the recent propaganda piece promoting animal experimentation directed at young children. I’ve been thinking about this disturbing behavior in the scientific establishment all day, and felt compelled to share another [...]

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