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June 23, 2011
In politics, celebrity, the greenwashing business and the beauty industry, there is a religion based on the notion that perception is reality – that if an individual or an organization appears as s
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May 10, 2011
I don’t mean what you think, and I’m sorry if that’s what you were hoping. But trust me, this is more important, and much better for you in the long run.All the problems we face as a species can be...
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April 4, 2011
Until you have sat in a darkened room for days on end, watching through a two-way mirror as groups of total strangers discuss their interpretations of messages you spent months crafting to make a...
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March 1, 2011
One common misconception for entrepreneurs is the belief (because they’re told repeatedly) that they need to capture their business idea – however radical – in the structured and declarative...
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February 7, 2011
“If you can’t explain what you’re doing in plain English, you’re probably doing something wrong.” These are the words of Alfred Edward Kahn, a beloved economics professor and the man known as “the...
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January 4, 2011
I would argue, and often have, that while money, technology and innovation (I’ll come back to this) are considered more glamorous and therefore more important, communication is the single most...
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August 24, 2010
Third and last, we need new mechanisms for channeling our investment capital in directions that nurture community and rebuild local economies.
The financial crisis has provided us all with a crash...
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August 11, 2010
My second proposal is that we need to adopt planning policies that support local economies.
I live in a 19th century neighborhood in a small New England city. My mother-in-law, who grew up in this...
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August 2, 2010
About ten years ago, the Institute for Local Self-Reliance launched the New Rules Project to develop and advocate for policies that would democratize ownership, refashion the economy for long-term...
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July 26, 2010
While signs abound that people are rediscovering the benefits of an economy rooted in community and small-scale enterprise, all of this activity, though widespread, is still quite modest. It exists...
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July 18, 2010
Let me begin by sharing some good news. Scattered here and there, in my country and in yours, the seeds of a new, more local and durable economy are taking root.
Locally grown food has soared in...
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February 12, 2010
It was quite remarkable to get a personal shout-out from the
President of the United States last week. Amidst the ovations--some
bi-partisan and some quite partisan--I heard a President say that it...
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November 17, 2009
My partner and I have an ongoing debate about identity, and the possibility of being aware enough of how we’ve constructed our own identity to be able to change it. This gets particularly messy when...
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September 20, 2009
“No matter what one’s class, race, gender, or social standing… without the capacity to think critically about ourselves and our lives, none of us would be able to move forward, to change, to grow.”-...
