Humane Education & Star Trek: Envisioning a Better World for All: My Interview on Conversations with Maine

Posted on April 15, 2011 by zoeweil

I’m delighted to share my interview with Frank Ferrel, host of Conversations With Maine, which recently aired on the Maine Public Broadcasting Network. We talked about humane education, the MOGO Principle, my family, Star Trek, the work that I do on behalf of the Institute for Humane Education, and the challenges and joys of making choices that do the most good and least harm for all:

If you enjoy this interview and think it’s valuable, please share it with others so that they can learn more about humane education and the power in the choices that we all have to create a better world. I welcome your comments, as well.

Zoe Weil, President, Institute for Humane Education
Author of Most Good, Least Harm and Above All, Be Kind: Raising a Humane Child in Challenging Times
My TEDx talk: “The World Becomes What You Teach“

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Zoe Weil Interview on Animal Voices Radio – Listen Live!

Posted on January 14, 2010 by zoeweil

Zoe Weil, president of the Institute for Humane Education and author, will be interviewed on Animal Voices Radio on CFRO 102.7 in Vancouver, British Columbia. The interview is Friday, January 15, at 12:30 PM (PST). Zoe will be talking about humane education andMOGO (Most Good) choices, and the power of both to create a compassionate, just world. You can listen live!

If you know someone else who might like to tune in, please let them know!

(Posted by IHE staff.)

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IHE President Zoe Weil on MOGO Workshop/Speaking Tour

Posted on January 7, 2010 by zoeweil

IHE President, Zoe Weil, has a few speaking engagements and workshops in the next few weeks, and we wanted to share her schedule with you.

Please spread the word to interested people who live around the various communities where Zoe will be presenting. We hope many of you will be able to attend an event!

1/20/10: Vancouver, B.C. – Zoe is speaking about the MOGO Principle at the Vancouver Public Library (350 W. Georgia Street, 7th floor), Vancouver, B.C., at 7:00 p.m.

1/21/10: Maple Ridge, B.C. – Zoe will be a keynote speaker and workshop presenter at “Thriving in Today’s Schools”, the 2010 Convention of the Maple Ridge Teachers Association, Maple Ridge, British Columbia. Keynote at 8:45 am. Workshop at 1:00 pm. (not open to the public)

1/23/10: Seattle, WA – Zoe is co-leading a workshop for teachers – “The World Becomes What You Teach” — with Heritage Institute executive director Mike Seymour. Teachers can get continuing education credits. Antioch University (2326 Sixth Avenue), Seattle, Washington, from 9:30 am – 4:30 pm.

2/6/10: New York, NY – Zoe is leading a mini-workshop and doing a book signing at The New York Open Center (22 East 30th Street), New York, New York, at 1:00 pm. Find out more.

Visit IHE’s Events page to see all our upcoming events, and visit Zoe’s Appearances page to see all her upcoming engagements.

(Posted by IHE staff.)

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IHE President Zoe Weil on MOGO Speaking Tour

Posted on September 22, 2009 by zoeweil

IHE President, Zoe Weil, has several speaking engagements in the next few weeks, and we wanted to share her schedule with you.

Please spread the word to interested people who live around the various communities where Zoe will be presenting. We hope many of you will be able to attend an event!

Visit IHE’s Events page to see all our upcoming events, and visit Zoe’s Appearances page to see all her upcoming engagements.

September 26: Maine - Common Ground Fair, Unity, Maine, Social and Political Action Tent, 9-10 a.m.
Zoe will give a talk, The World Becomes What You Teach, about the purpose of education.

September 29: Maine - Camden Library, Camden, Maine, 6:30 p.m.
MOGO talk and book signing.

October 6: Maine - Belfast Library, Belfast, Maine, 6:30 p.m.
MOGO talk and book signing.

October 9: Oregon - Two university talks on the MOGO (most good) principle:

October 10: Oregon – MOGO Workshop, Cascadia Cohousing Community Common House, Portland, Oregon, 1-5 p.m.
Zoe will offer a half day MOGO workshop for a donation of only $20 (which includes a copy of her book, Most Good, Least Harm). Please register for the MOGO Workshop here.

October 11: Oregon – Wordstock Festival, Portland, Oregon, 1 p.m.
Zoe will be offering a MOGO presentation at the Wordstock Literary Festival.
Day-long festival fee: $5.

October 16-17: Maine – Kindle Northern New England Bioneers, Portland, Maine.
IHE is partnering with Kindle to bring the Bioneers Conference to Portland, Maine for a 2-day, life-transforming event. Zoe will be a plenary speaker on October 16, and she and Khalif Williams, IHE’s executive director, will lead MOGO and Sowing Seeds workshops at the conference.
Conference sliding scale: $75-225.

October 31: Massachusetts – Boston Vegetarian Food Festival, Boston, Massachusetts.
Zoe will be speaking at the two-day festival on Saturday, October 31st in the afternoon. Exact time TBA.

(Posted by IHE staff.)


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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. Her book is never for a single second judgmental or demeaning. There were isolated moments of feeling overwhelmed, but Weil’s humane intuition clearly guided her as she wrote – the moment you find yourself overwhelmed, Weil’s words are there to calm you. Most Good, Least Harm is like sitting with a really wise, close friend. She’ll tell you her opinion. She’ll tell you what’s right. But, she’ll never make you feel bad for being you. She’ll bite her tongue just enough to let you find your own course. And then she’ll be right there to congratulate you in the end. It’s MOGO, through and through. And you can be MOGO, too.”

(Posted by Marsha Rakestraw, IHE’s Web Content/Community Manager)

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

Posted on February 11, 2009 by zoeweil
Zoe speaks to a standing-room only crowd at Powell's in Portland, OR

Zoe speaks to a standing-room only crowd at Powell's in Portland, OR

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 in Portland, Oregon about the MOGO principle.

Zoe gave an interactive presentation focused on the 7 keys to MOGO living, which are:

  1. Live Your Epitaph
  2. Pursue Joy Through Service
  3. Make Connections and Self-Reflect
  4. Model Your Message and Work for Change
  5. Find and Create Community
  6. Take Responsibility
  7. Strive for Balance
Zoe talks with audience members after her presentation.

Zoe talks with audience members after her presentation.

For the key of “Make Connections and Self-Reflect” Zoe engaged the audience in analyzing the impact of products (such as a t-shirt) on ourselves, other people, animals and the planet. And at the end, Zoe invited the audience to reflect upon the skills and passions they have to help create a just, compassionate, sustainable world.

(Posted by Marsha Rakestraw, IHE’s Web Content/Community Manager)

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Upcoming Book Tour and MOGO Workshops

Posted on January 28, 2009 by zoeweil

I will be traveling to the west coast for a book tour for Most Good, Least Harm and to lead two MOGO workshops, Feb. 1-10, and will try to publish a few posts while I’m gone. Here’s my schedule for those of you who might be in these regions:

Feb. 3 – MOGO workshop for Stanford Law School Public Interest Law Fellows (not open to the public)
Feb. 4 – Talk and book signing at Powell’s Books on Hawthorne, Portland, OR, 7:30 p.m.
Feb. 7 – MOGO Workshop, Portland, OR, 9-5.
Feb. 9 – Talk and book signing at University Bookstore in Seattle, WA, 7 p.m.

For more details visit my Appearances page, or my BookTour.com page.

~ Zoe

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Zoe Article in Earth Matters: Living Simply by Necessity and Choice

Posted on January 27, 2009 by zoeweil

Zoe has a new article in the Winter 2008/09 edition of Earth Matters, the newsletter of the Northwest Earth Institute. In “Living Simply By Necessity and Choice” (PDF) Zoe talks about how to reframe your life, embrace simplicity and community, and thrive with less.  Zoe uses the lifestyle of IHE Executive Director Khalif Williams — who has made his choices about home, food, transportation, energy, etc., based on necessity AND choice — as a springboard to show how everyone can live simply and joyfully. She says,

“There is great joy to be found in living simply, sustainably, and with awareness. As people find themselves forced to live with less, it’s understandable they will be afraid. We need clothes, food, and homes, and it is terrifying to be uncertain about these basics of life. But if we are relatively secure that we can meet these basics, then the task becomes embracing a simpler, more sustainable lifestyle rather than feeling deprived.”

You can read some of Zoe’s other articles here.

(posted by Marsha Rakestraw, IHE’s Web Content/Community Manager)

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