2010 May « Zoe Weil

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What is schooling for? Perhaps the most important question of our time. Worth pondering our answer to educate for the 21st century 2 days ago

@transarchitect @zoeweil Thanks! And will check out the zambia sustainability work! 5 days ago

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Star Trek: Engineer thinks we could build a real Starship Enterprise in 20 years - @io9 io9.com/5909774/engine… 5 days ago

MOGO Hero: Susan Sparrow

Posted on May 14, 2010 by zoeweil

Seventeen-year-old Susan Sparrow of Salt Lake City mobilized a group of 20 peers at her high school to lobby state legislators expressing outrage that women in Utah earn only 66 cents for every dollar a man makes. On one of many visits to the statehouse during their three-month campaign, they passed out cookies, some large [...]

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Why Do We Like to Gossip? How Can We Stop?

Posted on May 12, 2010 by zoeweil

gos·sip n 1. conversation about personal or intimate rumors or facts, especially when malicious 2. informal and chatty conversation or writing about recent and often personal events 3. somebody given to spreading personal or intimate information about other people Sometimes there are good and important reasons to gossip — that is, to share facts, and [...]

Filed under: accurate information, compassion, courage, Cultural Issues, habits, integrity, MOGO (Most Good) | Tagged: accurate information, compassion, courage, desires, goodness, gossip, integrity, MOGO choices, rumors, values | Leave a Comment »

Why Do We Shy Away From Issues That May Be Most Important to Our Children’s Future?

Posted on May 10, 2010 by zoeweil

A few weeks ago I had a busy day doing MOGO (most good) talks out of state. I was scheduled to give three talks – two 2-hour presentations for middle schoolers and a public talk in the evening. I have to admit I was a little worried about maintaining the interest of 150 6-8th graders [...]

Filed under: critical thinking, education, fear, humane education, MOGO (Most Good), politics | Tagged: changemakers, controversial issues, critical thinking, education, global issues, humane education, politics, schooling | Leave a Comment »

Minding the Gaps We Can & Cannot Change

Posted on May 7, 2010 by zoeweil

I read an excellent essay, titled “Mind the Gap,” in the spring issue of Thirty Thousand Days, a publication of the ToDo Institute. The gap to which Palmer refers is the one between reality and the ideal of what life should be like. She tells the following story: “I caught myself in the gap over [...]

Filed under: changemakers, mindfulness, MOGO (Most Good) | Tagged: both/and, changemakers, citizen activism, control, expectations, MOGO choices, perfection, perspective, positive change, reality | Leave a Comment »

I’ve Got Peace Like a River and Tears Like the Raindrops

Posted on May 5, 2010 by zoeweil

A couple of weeks ago I attended services at our local Unitarian Universalist Church. I was feeling down that day and hoped for some inspiration and solace. The first hymn we sang was “I’ve Got Peace Like a River.” These are the lyrics to the first verse: “I’ve got peace like a river, I’ve got [...]

Filed under: changemakers, citizen activism, Inner Peace, peace | Tagged: changemakers, citizen activism, despair, humane education, hymns, Inner Peace, inspiration, Joy, love, pain, songs | Leave a Comment »

Letting a Blind Man Fall: Thoughts on Responsibility

Posted on May 3, 2010 by zoeweil

I just finished Erik Reece’s essay, “In the Presence of Rock and Sky” in the April issue of The Sun magazine. Reece is a writer and environmental advocate who has written about strip mining in the Appalachians, and in this essay he shares his experience of climbing Mount Fanaraken in Norway, the country of his [...]

Filed under: compassion, Cultural Issues, goodness, responsibility, social psychology | Tagged: Americans, apathy, bystander effect, compassion, empathy, helping others, Norwegians, responsibility, shame, social psychology | 2 Comments »

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