Posts with the tag "new_minds"

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Thoughts on global imperatives


It's not really useful to me when someone tells me that they know what will and won't work for my life, the people around me, my community, and so on.
That tends to scale up pretty far: it's not really useful to me when someone tells me what will and won't work for the [...]

The Indiana Energy Conference


Last weekend I had the opportunity to head to Crawfordsville for the first session of the Indiana Energy Conference, a series of film showings, discussions, and presentations designed to help us explore our culture's relationship with energy. The conference was organized by my friend Frank Cicela, who has been a long time participant in [...]

The quality of public dialogue in Richmond


I'm a strong advocate of the general concept that good dialogue can work wonders for resolving conflicts, building community, and improving the world we live in. (That's dialogue instead of, say, violence, explosive angry yelling, paternalism or monarchy, snap judgments, knee-jerk fear-mongering, heated debate, or silence and avoidance.) As a result, I am [...]

Oops, we ALL cut the trees down


I am hesitant to write more about the conversion of Hayes Arboretum land into commercial shopping space - so much has already been said. But I feel compelled to point out my sense that Richmond, as a community, is finding some good in a situation that, for a while, only seemed to have negative [...]

Search for more jobs requires driving vision


In an editorial today, the Palladium-Item called for Richmond and Wayne County to embrace job growth in the retail and service sectors, as opposed to the manufacturing sector. I generally support their call for an intentional focus on facilitating the kinds of economic growth that Richmond needs, and I was pleasantly surprised to find [...]

The levees are breaking


I was going to write something about the impact of hurricane Katrina - on our collective consciousness, the "energy crisis", politics, humanity's relationship to nature and the land, comparisons to 9/11, and so on. Then I read Dave Pollard's article, "Do Events Like Katrina and 9/11 Make Us Crazy?" and he got most of [...]

Happy News Dot Com


I was glad to find the site HappyNews.com, which publishes "up-to-the-minute news, geared to lift spirits and inspire lives." While I'm always a fan of balancing the good and the bad (or, in this case, the happy and the unhappy) and everything in between, there are plenty of sources out there for news stories [...]

Bringing the wackos to my own back yard


Sometimes I get uppity and decide that there's enough wrong with the world to merit doing something (more) about it. Sometimes I get frustrated and decide that there isn't enough going on in my area in that regard. Sometimes I get lazy and decide I just want all the answers to COME TO [...]

Community Supported Agriculture in USA Today


This is the second year I've taken advantage of another great thing about the area, our local CSA (community supported agriculture) program through Boulder Belt Organics in Preble County, Ohio. Since I'm doing my own garden I'll probably just use it for a few months, but it's so nice to have locally and organically [...]

Review: Daniel Quinn's After Dachau


This analysis necessarily discusses some plot and thematic details of the book After Dachau by Daniel Quinn. I have made every attempt to refrain from revealing too much or spoiling the experience of reading the book for the first time, but picky readers be warned.
After reading just the first sentence of After Dachau, I was [...]

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