Cultivating Generative Communities
A generative community is a highly intentional community of practice with members that cultivate inspiring practices and aim for growth and change within their field.
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The high cost of speed
Marohn argues that the questions of whether traffic should move slow or fast, and whether all existing traffic should be accommodated or instead should be restricted, are not technical issues – they are questions of values, questions of public policy.
Work harder, not smarter: the struggle of young workers
When employees understand their rights, and know how to protect themselves, they are primed to battle decrepit employment conditions.
Can the Green Transition Solve Spain’s Educational Paradox?
Alongside a new vocational education law that consolidates dual training, the government’s new plan seeks to modernise the training offer and create 28 new degrees linked to emerging industries including green sectors…
Public Water Services in times of emergency: the case of the Covid19 outbreak
The book “Public Water and Covid-19: Dark Clouds and Silver Linings”, discusses how the Covid19 outbreak underlined once again the importance of water and other basic services for human life, and re-opened the debate on the role of the state in managing such services.
Close communities and traditional culture allowed Irish to survive crises
A chat about the Irish elders I’ve talked to, and how their close communities and traditional culture allowed them to survive crises like the bank strikes of the 1960s and 70s.
Building Radical Consensus
Great outcomes can come even when people have very different values and politics if they work together in a principled and collaborative way—not one side trying to educate or change the other but co-designing what change looks like and how they will each play their part to deliver it.
Wasted Lives
If we accepted this as our single, solitary chance to live, then we might do better at living. We might focus on life, on the here and now, on being.
Dangerous roads are no accident
If you watch network television you can see auto companies spending a lot of money making our roads more dangerous.
Hazel Henderson – rest in the Universe
Hazel Henderson, wonder woman of green, science-based investing, the love economy, and the golden rule society, went virtual (her term for died) on May 22, 2022, at home, and very much at peace.
The supply chain crisis: Transitory or systemic?
Five decades should have been enough for us to find the path to prosperity without growth. Apparently, we didn’t take the lesson to heart.
Democracy Rising 20: Deliberative Dialogue as Service Learning
Through deliberative pedagogy, students are prepared to participate in solving problems important to them and their communities.
