If an article about a nearby municipality is any indication, we have a long ways to go in education about SOUND issues. Vancouver City Councillors were interviewed recently about what they do for environmental sustainability. While acknowledging that they live in houses larger than necessary or efficient, drive more than necessary, use airplanes, and consume a lot of luxuries, several still managed to grade themselves Read the rest of this entry »
Archive for the ‘Understanding’ Category
Understanding Violence to End It
In Understanding on March 26, 2007 at 11:58 amWhy do some activists opt for violence? Against whom is this violence committed? What is needed to resolve this violence? Read the rest of this entry »
Global Experiment & Consciousness
In Understanding on March 26, 2007 at 11:49 amThe following is an oft-repeated experiment in hypnosis. The subject is hypnotized and told that an ice-cold bucket of water is lukewarm. He is told to put his arm in the bucket. The hypnotist says, “How does it feel?” “Fine.” “Is it uncomfortable at all?” “No, it’s nice and warm.” Then the subject is given paper and a pen and told to let his free hand write without thinking about anything at all, just letting it move by itself.
The hand writes, “Stop the experiment! Read the rest of this entry »
Confessions of an (ex) Avon Lady : It’s (Un)Shopping Time!
In Consuming, Reviews : Movies, Books, Music, Understanding on March 3, 2007 at 5:41 pmOh, what a dangerous time of year it is for the likes of me! Every store is bursting at the seams with NEW, with all my favourite spring colours, new shapes and sizes of all the things I Read the rest of this entry »
Philosophers Cafe
In Understanding on February 7, 2007 at 7:31 pmJoin us once a month for lively, facilitated, audience-participatory debate on a variety of topics: farming, privitization, water, you name it! Read the rest of this entry »
What Support Is Not
In Understanding on February 7, 2007 at 7:16 pmEvery activist will, several times over the course of his unpaid career, hear the refrain: “I really support (or endorse, or appreciate) your work.” Although moral support is appropriate in some aspects of life, support in relation to activism requires a more specific approach. Read the rest of this entry »
Movies
In Recreation, Understanding on February 7, 2007 at 5:32 pmGo Further is Woody Harrelson’s bio-diesel bus trip promoting sustainable living.
Cho Revolution Read the rest of this entry »
Grassroots University
In Understanding on February 7, 2007 at 5:22 pmThere are two principal reasons for going to university which can best be considered separately: getting a degree and getting an education.
Having a university degree is, at least in theory, an entry ticket to a job both well paid and exciting, and as such might justify the considerable expense of an average of $5000 in tuition fees Read the rest of this entry »
How Did We Get Here? And What Do We Do Now?
In Understanding on February 7, 2007 at 1:31 amA Short History of Progress, by Ronald Wright, opens with three questions from
the French painter Gaugin: Where do we come from? Where are we? Where are we going? It is Wright’s premise that the answers to the first two make the third one answerable as well, if only in “broad strokes”. Read the rest of this entry »
