of books...
Funny, you know I think ol' Margaret Mead had it right: something about a
few passionate people being able to cause enormous change. Who knows,
maybe this virtual community is such an "island of consciousness"
aborning...
Winston
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Dear Winston,
fine that you brought this up. It must be brought up again and again
as long as it is not solved.
I had the association, what you mean is closely related to questions
which are and have been discussed under the slogan "The tragedy of
the commons". Sending out an internet crawler wit
Winston--
With the current pressure on the accounting profession, this might be an
excellent opportunity to press people in Congress on environmental and
humanitarian reporting.
JMTC
:-Doug. Germann
http://www.FootprintsintheWind.com
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In a message dated 6/28/02 2:00:27 PM, ki...@sympatico.ca writes:
<< Question is, should we try to find ways so that these rules become "the way
we do things around here" or, as I admit I have been doing, continue to
satisfy ourselves with pursuing the UL and leave the LR quadrant to other
fol
Elwin--
I agree. When we asked, in Siberia, about land ownership, people just rolled
their eyes--it just has not been worked out in any systematic way. People
were given the apartment where they lived and their dacha plot, but nobody
seems to be clear about how land can be bought/sold/transferre
Hi Joelle.
You wrote:
> I'm a big proponent of changing the game by changing the rules--and it is
> useful to change the incentives as well.
>
> Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream does something like this, considering
environmental
> effects and the need for jobs in a community when finding a site for a
new
In a message dated 6/28/02 6:09:08 AM, ki...@sympatico.ca writes:
<< It seems to me that a related possible winning strategy, which could be
positioned as not inimical to anyone's interest, is to change the way we keep
score: to work toward a situation where the environmental effects of our
action
Thanks for your response Meg. But I'm not so sure, having perused Amazon's
editorial on the book just now, that he is going in the same direction (at
least as I am) here. Rather it seems he is prescribing what "other folks"
should do like "us" so all would be well with "our" current system. I d
> It's become clear by now the fall of the Berlin
> Wall and the collapse of communism in most
> places around the globe hasn't ushered in an
> unequivocal flowering of capitalism in the
> developing and postcommunist world. Western
> thinkers have blamed this on everything from
> these countries'
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Sent: Friday, June 28, 2002 9:03 AM
Subject: Point of crisis... Changing the rules...
Hallo friends:
Whether we are at a "point" of crisis, or approaching one, or are already
sliding down the hill, is moot. But as some of you have pointed out, we do
have
Hallo friends:
Whether we are at a "point" of crisis, or approaching one, or are already
sliding down the hill, is moot. But as some of you have pointed out, we do
have the choice of how we respond.
Something that has been rambling around in my mind recently is the old saying
which goes somet
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