Making MOGO (most good) Choices: The True Price of a Cheeseburger

Posted on August 29, 2011 by zoeweil

For my blog post today, I’m sharing a recent post I wrote for One Green Planet, a blog dedicated to ethical choices. Here’s an excerpt from “Making MOGO (most good) choices: The True Price of a Cheeseburger”: “We eat many times each day, and there is no other daily choice that has a bigger impact [...]

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Humane Educators’ Toolbox: 12 Angry Men

Posted on July 18, 2011 by zoeweil

I watched the classic film, 12 Angry Men, recently, and I was struck by the ways in which the film so accurately depicts what social psychology experiments reveal about people’s willingness to suspend their own thinking faculties to go along with the group [in particular, the Asch experiments, in which individuals deny their own senses [...]

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Sam Chaltain and the Freedom to Learn

Posted on July 4, 2011 by zoeweil

For my blog post today, I want to share an excellent, thought-provoking TEDx talk by educator, Sam Chaltain, “The Freedom to Learn.” Take a look and then ponder your own stories of learning: Sam has just joined our board of advisors at the Institute for Humane Education, and we’ll be working with him on an [...]

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John Hunter and the World Peace Game

Posted on July 1, 2011 by zoeweil

For my blog post today, I want to share an amazing TED talk by educator, John Hunter. Take a look and please share this: I am hoping to learn more from John and look forward to opportunities we may forge with him to incorporate this brilliant World Peace Game into the future work of humane [...]

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To Solve the Education Crisis We Must Refute Faulty Assumptions

Posted on June 20, 2011 by zoeweil

For my blog post today, I’m sharing a recent post I wrote for Common Dreams, a progressive news site. Here’s an excerpt from “To Solve Education Crisis We Must Refute Faulty Assumptions”: Among the biggest challenges we face in “educational reform” are the many faulty assumptions that underlie our efforts to fix the problems we [...]

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No Controversy Allowed! On Getting Kicked Out of a Middle School

Posted on June 6, 2011 by zoeweil

For my blog post today, I’m sharing a recent post I wrote for Common Dreams, a progressive news site. Here are a couple excerpts: Imagine our surprise when ten minutes after the presentation we found out that the second one was canceled. The principal – who’d come in a few times during my presentation but [...]

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Doing the Most Good and the Least Harm

Posted on June 3, 2011 by zoeweil

For my blog post today, I’m sharing a recent post I wrote for One Green Planet, a blog dedicated to ethical choices. Here’s an excerpt: One hundred years ago, where I live in rural Maine, it was fairly obvious how to make MOGO choices. Everyone knew where their food, clothing, energy, shelter and transportation came [...]

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What Can We Do About Psychopaths?

Posted on May 30, 2011 by zoeweil

On my long trip from Maine to Seattle for Green Fest, I read journalist Jon Ronson’s new book, The Psychopath Test, about psychopaths in our society. It was a fascinating, unsettling read by a exceptional writer. That Ronson can take a grisly subject like psychopathy and actually fill it with witty and pleasurable-to-read writing is [...]

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Why We Need Humane Education: May 21 and the Failed Rapture

Posted on May 25, 2011 by zoeweil

Six p.m. came and went and no rapture on May 21. It seemed that almost everyone I talked to that weekend knew about Reverend Camping’s prediction. And most of us laughed it off. After months of media attention, billboards, emails, tweets, discussions on Facebook, and more, we could be snarky about such a silly prediction. [...]

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The Story of Stuff: Toxic Cosmetics

Posted on April 29, 2011 by zoeweil

The Story of Stuff website continues to create short, animated films about the hidden effects of our everyday purchases. This one, on cosmetics, examines the toxic ingredients in our personal care products. Take a look, and then check out the other films at storyofstuff.org: Zoe Weil, President, Institute for Humane Education Author of Most Good, [...]

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