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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

@revruss11 @zoeweil yes - I saw it and tweeted it, too 5 days ago

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

Must Our Vision of the World Be Based on Consumption?

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 [...]

Filed under: consumerism, economy, MOGO (Most Good), systemic change, third side thinking | Tagged: books, change the world, consumerism, consumption, economic policy, economy, MOGO principle, Most Good Least Harm, recession, systemic change, third side thinking | Leave a Comment »

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 [...]

Filed under: economy, education, systemic change, U.S. policy | Tagged: changemakers, columnists, economic policy, education, humane education, Nicholas Kristof, schools, stimulus plan, systemic change, teachers | Leave a Comment »

Improving the Economy Doesn’t Have to Equal Further Damaging the Environment

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 [...]

Filed under: consumerism, economy | Tagged: consumerism, critical thinking, economy, either/or, Environmental Preservation, humane education, Paul Krugman | 1 Comment »

Make Clean Energy Cheap

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 [...]

Filed under: economy, energy policy, positive choices | Tagged: energy policy, energy solutions, Environmental Preservation, positive choices, Sustainability, systemic change | Leave a Comment »

Instead of a Bailout, a New Deal for Education, Sustainability and the Economy

Posted on September 24, 2008 by zoeweil

I’m not an economist, but I, like many Americans, have been trying to understand and develop a cogent opinion about the economic crisis we are facing. A $700 billion dollar taxpayer bailout of Wall Street investment firms doesn’t sit well, although I’m convinced that speedy action is necessary to avert economic collapse. During the great [...]

Filed under: economy, education, humane education | Tagged: economy, education, Environmental Preservation, human rights, humane education, investments, renewable energy, social justice, Sustainability | 3 Comments »

Raid at Iowa Slaughterhouse Another Reason to Change U.S. Agricultural System

Posted on August 18, 2008 by zoeweil

The anti-immigration sentiment that’s growing in the U.S. is fomenting not only inhumane actions but also a shameful waste of taxpayer dollars. In an opinion piece in the Miami Herald, author Mary Sanchez describes a government raid on an Iowa meatpacking plant in which almost 400 Mayan Guatemalans “were scooped up and shuffled in shackles [...]

Filed under: economy, food and diet | Tagged: animal protection, Environmental Preservation, food and diet, human rights, immigrants, industrial agriculture, slaughterhouses | 1 Comment »

Economics AND the Environment: Beyond the Dead-End Either/Or Question

Posted on August 11, 2008 by zoeweil

In the August 4 Ethics Newsline , you’ll find the results of a research report that asked the question: Which is more important: Economic Growth or the Environment? The answer to this question, from a Harris poll, is: “As economic conditions worsen, people who are asked to make a decision between protecting the environment or [...]

Filed under: critical thinking, economy, Environmental Preservation, positive choices | Tagged: both/and, economic growth, either/or, Environmental Preservation, positive choices | 1 Comment »

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