Happiness and wellbeing markers for the state of a national economy have little to do with how a given individual feels. They are part of a complex history of happiness. How to pursue, experience or eschew it should give us pause, for what happiness means is far from self-evident. ‘Be happy!’ Mary Wollstonecraft exhorted her […]
Critical Reasoning and Workshop on Mobilizing Values to Advance Flourishing Pathways
Speakers: John Verdon, Lalith Gunaratne, Paul Maillet, Gabriela Gref-Innes Title: Critical Reasoning and workshop on Mobilizing Values to Advance Flourishing Pathways About the event: John Verdon, Lalith Gunaratne, Gabriela Gref-Innes, and Paul Maillet will make a short presentation on Pathways to Critical Reasoning and conduct a participatory workshop/World Cafe on “Mobilizing Values to advance a […]
The Declaration of Our Interdependence For 2020 Vision
For two centuries, the American Declaration of Independence served as the model to grow democracy. Now our world has reached the limits of growth driven by the pursuit of individual rights at the expense of shared responsibilities. Faced with the threats of warming, weapons, waste, and the lopsided distribution of wealth, we must declare our interdependence. We […]
BILL C-69: Is the balance right?
Dr. John Hollins, past Chair CACOR, reviews Bill C-69. Some thoughts An Act to enact the Impact Assessment Act and the Canadian Energy Regulator Act, to amend the Navigation Protection Act and to make consequential amendments to other Acts. Fundamental issue Thoreau captured the essence of the matter in 15 words some 150 years ago: […]
NOT AS DIVERSE AS WE THOUGHT
Global levels of biodiversity could be lower than we think, new study warns Date: December 2, 2019 Source: University of Sussex Summary: Biodiversity across the globe could be in a worse state than previously thought, as assessments fail to account for long-lasting impact of land change, a new study has warned. Tropical forest (stock image). […]