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Commencement 2013: Questions for Ben Bernanke
Tis the season of college Commencement ceremonies, where speakers are invited to address the graduates, giving them some advice and words of wisdom for this major transition time in their lives. Ben B… more →
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Commencement 2013: Questions for Ben Bernanke
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wrote 6 days ago: Tis the season of college Commencement ceremonies, where speakers are invited to address the graduat … more →
The jig is up for military sexual assault
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wrote 2 weeks ago: No fewer than 26,000 sexual assaults were reported by U.S. military service men and women in the yea … more →
Playing hardball with the fossil fuel industry: if not now, when? if not us, who?
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wrote 2 weeks ago: Bittersweet sadness fills me this morning as I read an excerpt at Women’s E-News from Eve Ensler’s n … more →
Is the time ever right for suicide?
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wrote 3 weeks ago: What does it say about American society that more middle-aged people now die of suicide than of car … more →
Two Futures Forum: Some Reflections
wrote 4 weeks ago: Hope, communities, language, technology, the family, authenticity, good governance and cultural iden … more →
Earth Day 2013: Looking Disaster in the Eye
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wrote 1 month ago: I was consumed with a great yearning when I heard last week, amidst all the sturm und drang of the B … more →
Learning from mass murder: we must pay attention to our young men
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wrote 1 month ago: If this past week had been written up as a movie script, I would have rejected it as totally over-th … more →
Intentional communities for the 21st century
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wrote 1 month ago: Most of us today are living in in houses, villages or cities built in and for an earlier time. Havi … more →
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
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wrote 1 month ago: So OK, having slept fitfully and woken up resigned to accepting the basic premise that it is unlikel … more →
Confronting taboos: death and the afterlife, American-style
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wrote 1 month ago: It is one of those unspoken social contracts that Americans won’t say anything to each other that mi … more →
The Alchemy of Privilege
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wrote 2 months ago: Nancy Slonim Aronie At the Berkshire Festival of Women Writers last night, Nancy Slonim Aronie, auth … more →
Becoming part of Gaia's cure, instead of what ails her
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wrote 2 months ago: I will never forget one hot summer day when I was about eight years old, and a Monarch butterfly too … more →
The Future of Ilocos Norte Agrarian Reform Communities (ARC)
wrote 2 months ago: Two months ago, the Center for Engaged Foresight facilitated a community-based foresight workshop fo … more →
Morning pages for humanity...and the Earth
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wrote 2 months ago: Julia Cameron This week, in preparation for Julia Cameron’s presentation at the Berkshire Festival o … more →
Scenario Planning: Planning is better than prediction
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wrote 2 months ago: Scenario planning is a big-picture method of thinking that allows people to see the future logically … more →
We need new stories to help us imagine a new, brighter future
wrote 2 months ago: Will someone please do the math on how adding thousands of Americans to the unemployment rolls, than … more →
Doreen Massey conference/anthology/podcast
wrote 3 months ago: Spatial Politics: A Conversation Friday, 8 March 2013, 11:00 – 17:00 Royal Geographical Societ … more →
Looking for Valentinaville....
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wrote 3 months ago: So far, my number one, all-time most popular blog post on Transition Times has been my 2012 Valentin … more →
MOOCs for the Masses
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wrote 3 months ago: The automation of education is one of the big issues of the early 21st century, and in the halls of … more →
