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The Fall of JoePa and a Return to Common Sense

On November 9, Joe Paterno, legendary football coach of Penn State, got fired. His boss, the president of Penn State, also got fired. The reason they got fired was that eleven years ago, when they were told that their...

Comment: How Wall Street Occupied America by Bill Moyers

Bill Moyers is one of our strongest voices for democracy and a culture of care for the commons. Read this and weep:  How Wall Street Occupied America by Bill Moyers, The Nation, November 21, 2011. Excerpt posted November 2, 2011 at http://www.thenation.com/article/164349/how-wall-street-occupied-america?page=0,0

Actions Speak Louder…

Westwood Works is more of an evolving discussion rather than a movement.  Perhaps it is better understood as a way of looking at things as opposed to a “civic group.” It started as a gathering of citizens in the Westwood...

Capacity Building Beyond Community Services

In this segment of his video interview Capacity Building Beyond Community Services with The Minnesota Governor’s Council on Developmental Disabilities, John talks about some of the reasons why social services systems can only provide "service," not care. In other segments he goes into the meaning of...

How Do You Change the World?

The alumni of the Pepperdine University Master of Science in Organization Development wanted to have a conference where members of the alumni community could gather, learn and share, be real and be accepted. To help them stay focused on...

A Waiting Posture, or an Active Ownership Posture?

In a recent email to her South African colleagues, Louise van Rhyn shared a thought-provoking video of South African physician, anthropologist and activist Mamphela Ramphele. Louise asks, what are the parallels between Ramphele's thinking about the meaning of "citizen" and...

A Message from Occupy Wall Street

Even if the protesters were able to narrow their concerns to one, easily defined goal, some organizers say that would miss the point. David Graeber, one of the original organizers of the protests, told The Washington Post that making demands of institutions...

The San Diego Social Innovation Trust

One of the greatest hindrances to solving a community's social issues is a disconnect between its public, private and philanthropic sectors.  Last April, San Diego consulting firm Harder+Company Community Research and a small group of community leaders initiated a...

How to Reduce the National Debt by 30 Trillion Dollars

Anthropologists remind us that the manifestations of a community’s culture are its food, language, arts, and faith. These are the ways that have interwoven through time so that a community knows how to survive in its place. Because cultural ways...

Pie Day at the Hardware Store

Here’s something you don’t usually hear when entering a hardware store: “We’ve got some pie over there, help yourself.” That’s exacy what I heard when I stepped into the Waitsburg Hardware & Mercantile in Waitsburg, WA.  And there was pie...

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The Biggest Question You Can Ask in Life

A Buddhist teacher once nudged me along the path by rephrasing a question my mind kept posing to itself....