(Please forward as appropriate)
Exactly a year ago the Universal Access-Canada List was launched. So I
thought it a good time to send the invitation around again to see if
others might be interested in joining our conversation.
The list has been an active and interesting one and among the high
Greetings,
This isn't my view, but it contains elements that Jay(I think), Don
Chisholm, & I agree with. The recent posts about definitions of science
were still in my memory when this arrived. It had been fwd to Gaia
Preservation Coalition list.
Steve
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Though I approve the realisation that market economy means
chaos, I cannot see how a society trusted to self-chosen scientists
would work. Remember, scientists are also a social constructs, thus
also the directions science choses to explore. "Brave New World" and
"1984" are very apt arguments ag
The ultimate goal of a mind is to reproduce the genes that created it.
Among social primates, the ability to manipulate others is one of the most
important factors in getting one's genes into the next generation. The human
mind evolved primarily as a tool to manipulate others in complex social
hie
Mike,
Lovely! I'm doing the lump-of-labour history as a chapter for a book being
edited by an economist at Pennsylania State University. Routledge has shown
some interest in it and hopefully it will be published in the fall. What I'm
hoping to do is to line up a magazine expose of this "economic"
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From: Sid Shniad
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: A PRAYER TO THE CORPORATE GODS
Date: Friday, January 22, 1999 7:21PM
A PRAYER TO THE CORPORATE GODS
O mighty global corporations, we are helpless without you. Please bring
your menial jobs here to our nation and town. Though we have li
While I am quiet reader of this list, I wish to share a story.
I was in a local store and found the following story written on a wooden
block for decoration... It says:
THE BUMBLEBEE CANNOT FLY...
"According to recognized aerotechnical tests, the bumblebee cannot fly
because of the shape and
Deborah Middleton:
>My thoughts are that the concepts of sustainability may also be able to be
>applied to the individual in relation to the organization/social
>environment. Etc.
I believe I know what you are getting at, though I would echo Eva's request
that you put things in plain English or H
Durant wrote:
> The alternative is to give everyone a decent scientific education
> and critical thinking, so we may democratically decide what is the
> best scientific option to solve the problem of that economic
> foundation that is so erratically shaking under our feet.
>
> Eva
Eva,
I've enj
FYI. Sorry for dupes
NEW CENTURY TO BE MARKED BY GROWING
THREATS, OPPORTUNITIES
The bright promise of a new century is clouded by unprecedented threats to
the
stability of the natural world, according to a special millennial edition
of the
State of the World report, released by the Worldwat
Arthur,
Thank you so much for forwarding on that marvelously funny and sad
"Prayer to the Corporate Gods". It was one of the most brilliant
pieces of writing I've seen in these fora. If you have the time,
please send on to me the email address of Sid Shniad? I would like
to write him and th
First thanks to everyone for the comments that are worthy of more thought
and research.
___
An Introduction: My name is Deborah Middleton currently I am a graduate
sudent at York Univeristy in the Faculty of Environmental Studies
CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS. The 5th International Interdisciplinary Conference
on the Environment will be held in Baltimore, Maryland, June 23-26, 1999. You
may participate as session organizer, presenter of one or two papers,
chair, moderator, discussant, or observer. The early deadline for abstract
s
I guess I would like to add that sustainable work is that which is something
that the doer finds interesting and/or creative and/or a reflection of
him/her self. Something that seems to provide meaning for the doer.
Something that even in the absence of payment, the doer might continue to
have so
deborah middleton wrote,
>The demand for knowledge workers far out runs the supply, this I believe
>has resulted in a shift in business focus on recruitment and retention of
>employees.
Unless things have changed drastically since the last time I talked to the
front line people at HRDC or to my
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