An interesting essay by Philip Howard. Western governments, Havel said, are organized on a flawed premise not far removed from the Soviet system that had just collapsed. “The modern era has been dominated by the culminating belief,” he said, “that the world … is a wholly knowable system governed by finite number of universal laws [...]
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Vaclav Havel’s Critique of the West
Posted in Human Settlement, Social Missions, U.S. Economy on December 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Maryland Environmental Education
Posted in Politics, Social Missions on November 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Maryland has become the first state to pass mandatory environmental education legislation… The Article
Pay for Success
Posted in Finance, Social Missions on July 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Social Impact Bonds
A Worst Case of Cultural Deterioration
Posted in Social Missions on June 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The past few months I’ve made a decision to aid and collaborate with two organizations in South Providence, RI. One is the Southside Community Land Trust, a wonderful organization that owns and aids the development of urban gardens. The other is Amos House. Amos House has been around for 35 years, starting as a soup [...]
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