Tag: Human

  • Nelson Madela R.I.P.

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    Nelson Mandela’s passing feels so profoundly personal.  President Obama stated it beautifully — “…we have lost one of the most influential, courageous, and profoundly good human beings that any of us will share time with on this Earth.  He no longer belongs to us — he belongs to the ages.” CNN: Nelson Mandela, the revered…

  • Organizing Principles

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    In his article “The Down to Earth Economy” in the Winter issue of yes! magazine, David Korten maintains that, “extreme individualism, greed and violence are pathological and a sign of physical, developmental, cultural and/or institutional system failure.”  He contrasts the organizing principles of Wall Street with those of nature and concludes that we must “restructure…