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  • Bioneers 2015 Keynote

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    News reporting has become so unrelentingly negative and superficial that one has to look elsewhere to learn about the positive trends happening all around us. Kenny Ausubel’s 2015 Bioneers keynote speech is the perfect “State of the Union” address giving us hope for what lies ahead…

  • Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything

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    This speech was given at the 2014 Bioneers Annual Conference. Since 1990, Bioneers has acted as a fertile hub of social and scientific innovators with practical and visionary solutions for the world’s most pressing environmental and social challenges.  To experience talks like this, please join us at the Bioneers National Conference each October, and regional…

  • Photo of the Day

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  • Truth and Taxes

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    How often do we feel a certain way about an issue without knowing if it’s actually true? Wisconsinites elected a governor and state legislature, in part, on the pledge of “lowering taxes.” Yet it seemed to me Wisconsin taxes were unreasonably high.  Out of curiosity I did an internet search, which, if I’m reading these…

  • Sunday Prayer

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    In honor of the Standing Rock Sioux and all those standing in solidarity against the Dakota Access Pipeline. Spirit Prayer Oh, Great Spirit, whose voice I hear in the wind, whose breath gives life to all the world.  Hear me; I need your strength and wisdom.  Let me walk in beauty, and make my eyes…

  • What Is Community Wealth Building?

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    You can learn more about the steady growth of community wealth-building strategies across the United States here.

  • The Next System Project

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    The national launch of The Next System Project was streamed live on May 20, 2015.  I’m posting it here for those who are interested.

  • NY Times Top Comment

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    Joseph Dilenschneider Tokyo, Japan 2 hours ago As Dr. Henry Giroux explains, we have become 24/7 viewers of the very “disimagination machines” that produce the images we would normally imagine for ourselves. Swayed by Amazon.com and Google, where we outsource and surrender our imaginations (individually and collectively), neither the Oxford Junior Dictionary nor the masses…

  • Building the Pluralist Commonwealth

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    I received an email this morning from Gar Alperovitz a noted historian, political economist, activist, writer, and government official.  He is the president of the National Center for Economic and Security Alternatives and is a co-founder of the Democracy Collaborative, a research institution developing practical, policy-focused, and systematic paths towards ecologically sustainable, community-oriented change and the democratization of…

  • Food Labels Decoded

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    JR Thorp of BUSTLE breaks down what’s behind all those food labels.  Fair Trade Certified is of particular interest to me.  I knew generally what it meant, but didn’t realize it covered some very specific and legal things. Everything with the Fairtrade Certified label you recognize has gone through them — and the standards are…