Posted on September 6, 2010 by zoeweil
I was reading an article in the July/August issue of Ode Magazine titled, “If you’ve got it, spend it: How consumer spending can help create a fairer, richer, greener and more stable global economy.” The article is an edited excerpt from Philippe Legrain’s book Aftershock: Reshaping the World Economy After the Crisis. Unfortunately, it’s edited [...]
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Posted on April 26, 2010 by zoeweil
Among some environmentalists, there is a strong anti-civilization movement and the belief that the only hope for a sustainable world entails a return to a veritable Stone Age, a time when humans had neither the capacity, the desire, nor the wherewithal to create havoc within ecosystems, cause the extinction of myriad species, and utterly despoil [...]
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Posted on March 22, 2010 by zoeweil
This short interview with Sir Ken Robinson on why education is failing is quite thought-provoking and powerful. Meanwhile, the Obama administration has just issued its blueprint to reauthorize the No Child Left Behind Act. At the Institute for Humane Education, we believe that we need to reconsider the very purpose of schooling and educate a [...]
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Posted on September 23, 2009 by zoeweil
Just as John Mackey’s statements about health care reform in the Wall Street Journal caused a firestorm of criticism that sparked what I consider to be a misguided boycott of Whole Foods by many on the left (see my blog posts here and here), now the right has caused the resignation of Van Jones as [...]
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Posted on July 6, 2009 by zoeweil
In an interview in this month’s issue of Ode Magazine, Lester Brown, founder of the WorldWatch Institute refers to Oystein Dahle, a former vice-president of Exxon in Norway, to whom he attributes this quote: “Socialism collapsed because it did not allow the market to tell the economic truth and capitalism may collapse because it does [...]
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Posted on May 27, 2009 by zoeweil
The New York Times recently had an article about the growing use of the video The Story of Stuff in schools, and the controversy that sometimes surrounds it. The short, animated film provides an introduction to the impact of our stuff on the environment, and it’s a great way to introduce the effects of consumer [...]
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Posted on May 25, 2009 by zoeweil
I’ve been encountering a number of people who are ambivalent about this recession we’re in. On the one hand, they’re struggling personally because of economic hardship, but on the other hand they recognize that consumption needs to decline for the sake of biodiversity, climate stabilization, and restored ecosystems. I was listening to an economic historian [...]
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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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Posted on November 3, 2008 by zoeweil
This year’s Nobel laureate in economics, Paul Krugman, wrote an opinion piece called “When Consumers Capitulate” in the New York Times last week. In it, Krugman bemoans consumers tightening their belts and buying less. He points out that rarely do Americans reduce their shopping, even in hard times. Now, however, we are, and the confluence [...]
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Posted on October 1, 2008 by zoeweil
Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger, authors of Break Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility (required reading in our Master of Education program at the Institute for Humane Education) have an opinion piece in the Los Angeles Times today, which argues that, instead of focusing on making dirty energy more expensive [...]
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