Articles

Consciousness and Care

John R. Ehrenfeld — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:54:51 +0000

Consciousness is, in effect, the key to a life examined, for better or worse, our beginner’s permit into knowing about the hunger, the thirst, the sex, the tears, the laughter, the kicks, the punches, the flow of images we call thought, the feelings, the words, the stories, the beliefs, the music and the poetry, the happiness and the ecstasy.

Are Google and Facebook Natural Monopolies?

Molly Scott Cato — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 17:49:42 +0000

Since the furore over some of the biggest companies in the world not paying their taxes I can't be the only person who has made the logical move as an 'ethical capitalist' and looked to take my custom to a competitor.

Happiness Is Not Much Better than GDP

John R. Ehrenfeld — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 14:20:48 +0000

Since the beginning of my work with sustainability, several questions have been nagging at me and those who read my work. The trickiest is what do I mean by care. Since this is one of the two basic constitutive concepts of flourishing, it’s very important to get it both right and clear. The other is complexity as a description of the world.

How on Earth: Flourishing in a Not-For-Profit World by 2050

Donnie Maclurcan and Jen Hinton — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 13:01:53 +0000

Imagine waking up in a world where you feel good about going to work, no matter the nature of your job. You feel positive and motivated, knowing that your work provides you with a livelihood that also contributes to the wellbeing of others in a way that respects the ecological limits of the planet.

Making the Environment Everyone’s Concern

Richard Matthews — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 11:01:03 +0000

Everyone needs to get involved if we are to have a chance at altering our environmentally destructive trajectory. At present, environmentalism is largely the domain of a minority of elites.

Slumlord Nation

Eric Zencey — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 20:26:45 +0000

According to architectural critic Charles Jencks, modern architecture died forty one years ago, on March 16, 1972. That’s the day that dynamite charges brought down the first of the Pruitt-Igoe public housing towers in St. Louis, Missouri.

How Green Is Your Home?

John Carson — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 18:05:50 +0000

As concerns about climate change and the wider environment continue to become more pressing, the need to ensure your household is as green as possible has never been greater. Each of us has an impact on the environment, known as our carbon footprint.

Flourishing

John R. Ehrenfeld — Sun, 09 Jun 2013 12:33:06 +0000

Sustainability always carries a sense of continuing to create or maintain something. Without specifically naming the something as I do in calling out flourishing as the goal, the cry for sustainability is a cry for maintaining the status quo.

Canada’s Corruption Problem

Andrew Crane and Dirk Matten — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 17:29:50 +0000

Barely a day goes by at the moment here in Canada without a new twist or turn in a corruption story hitting the headlines. Last week we got news of SNC Lavalin offering an amnesty for any employees providing information about their huge ongoing bribery scandal.

Buying One’s Identity

John R. Ehrenfeld — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 16:53:54 +0000

One’s self or better one’s identity is created through the history of the actions taken over a long time. Identity is never monolithic or singular. One always has multiple identities, but not in the sense of schizophrenia.