tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-218676052012-01-23T00:42:41.591-08:00Thoughts on social change, social capital, social enterprise, social marketing, social impact assessment, social software and other related topics.Pavlusha34http://www.blogger.com/profile/01464336743668727552noreply@blogger.comBlogger1351100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21867605.post-45737348570764523262012-01-23T00:26:00.000-08:002012-01-23T00:42:41.599-08:00

I learned about a new film via Help the Hospices. Check out the trailer of Life Before Death, which I hope to see in a few weeks in London.The bigger website seems a bit odd, but I support all efforts to talk more comfortably about the issues.

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This is a good article on the rise of Elizabeth Warren in politics and thinking about ideals in the Obama and post-Obama world: "Heaven Is a Place Called Elizabeth Warren".But many of the people looking to Warren, as they did to Obama before her, are expecting material things — like readable credit-card pitches or safe bridges or jobs or a vote on a bill to create jobs — that are, at the moment,

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Read this article on money flowing to people who voted for same sex marriage in New York.I am both elated by the vote, as it turned out, but highly suspicious of the "flow of money". How can anyone be for getting money out of politics, but also donate to causes or politicians who are making social change happen? Flip the issue to cash flowing to Democrats getting money for voting on limits to

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This is power (this is the link you click on when you see this on wikipedia today).Our purpose here isn't to make it completely impossible for people to read Wikipedia, and it's okay for you to circumvent the blackout. We just want to make sure you see our message. I saw it! Not only do I feel impelled to read more about this, my mind realizes the power of a site like wikipedia to funnel our

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Who named these things? And, more importantly, if you had to vote just based on the name, which one would get your money?Red, White and Blue Fund.Our Destiny.Make Us Great Again.Restore Our Future.Winning Our Future.I really like the Definitely Not Coordinated with Stephen Colbert Super PAC, now run by Jon Stewart."I am excited to take the reins of this completely independent organization, and

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Wow, five days into 2012 and I have almost surpassed my blog post total for 2011! With all the Santorum quotes giving you a very bad stomach ache, listen to the governor of Washington, Christine Gregoire, who has just disclosed her intention to marry the gays! She said it very, very well. I can't believe we are still having this debate, let alone voting for people who connect homosexuality with

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I am old, so if it takes me six or so years to recognize the importance of truthiness, I just put it down to being a slow reader.The NYT review of Stephen Colbert is further evidence to convince me that I have a new favorite person. He was also on NPR's Fresh Air doing broadway musical song and expanding on my favorite of his three personalities.How many times have I heard about Super PACs and

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It will be hard to call Warren Buffett a Socialist, but given what I've seen over the weekend, there is sure to be some who will figure out how to discredit a very interesting opinion among the polarized political climate in the US. Here's his OpEd from the NYT: Stop Coddling the Super-Rich.

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Via IIED I came across the Poor Economics website today. Poor Economics is a also a book, full title Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty. Shouldn't all thinking and learning be done this way?! The website is amazing -- overviews of each chapter in a slide-show format, information on the researchers that for the basis of each chapter, researchers' actual papers

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This column, Unfit for Democracy? by Mr. Kristof was open on my browser for several days. I have nothing to add, but just wanted to link it to my blog since I hear the claim that some countries are "not ready" for democracy all the time in places I work. Maybe people aren't used to participatory decision making, but I don't think you can go along and keep people from trying. Everyone is working

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Wow, I have not heard of her before, but this Molly Webb lady has got all the right ideas in why smart cities will help save the world. I did a quick image search on her there are a lot of pictures of her. Is that stalking?

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It is pretty sad how rarely I have put thoughts up here. Also pretty sad to see the aftermath of the US election. My despondency is not so much about the size of the swing to Republications, but the growth moronic truisms that pass as debate these days.Generally I love NPR, but they have been irritating me this week. This whole Tea Party thing is just plain anti-thinking and even NPR has been

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I have gasped at the quotes I have read over recent weeks from the opposition to the Islamic community center in New York. One thought such overt statements of bigotry were long gone, but sadly, that is not true.Thank Goodness, God and Allah (I am being secular here on purpose) for Jon Stewart. Part one.Part two.Part three.Certainly to be continued...What's the point of Fox News?

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Social change, for sure, but to what end? I just watched When China Met Africa, a short film with no commentary. Just images and exchanges. Very intense images. A historic gathering of over fifty African heads of state in Beijing reverberates in Zambia where the lives of three characters unfold.Mr Liu is one of thousands of Chinese entrepreneurs who have settled across the continent in search

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"The Poverty Lab" in the May 17 New Yorker brings aid effectiveness further to the public discussion. It is a profile of Ester Duflo, who is one of the co-founders of the Poverty Action Lab.TED presentation on social experiments too. Largely an intro into randomized trials.I don't think the article's selected metaphor from Angus Deaton is really substantial. It recalls his powerpoint presentation

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...from will.i.am.Hell, Yes we can!

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The New Yorker's photo essay, The Promise, is fantastic. "An interactive portfolio about the civil-rights era, with contemporary portraits by Platon, historical photographs, interviews, and audio commentary by David Remnick."The online version with interviews is a great way to spend a cold February hour and particularly helpful in gaining perspective after saturating your brain with Tea Party

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I enjoyed this review of Going Rogue: An American Life in The New York Review of Books.In our present neo-Keynesian moment, economics has never seemed more bewildering and arcane, or more the exclusive preserve of hated "experts" from the "East Coast elites." Most people I know, myself included, can't readily follow the algebraic equations that explain the "Keynesian multiplier," which, in its

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I gasp at Carly for California. Please, keep making shit like this so we can identify those who want to have an adult conversation and those who want to make a complete mockery of the challenges facing California and the world. Lions and tigers and bears and wolves increasing taxes! Oh, my!Wonkette (thanks Tom) had the appropriate response, but please...that's a Kiwi film, I believe. Get the

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This Tea Party thing is just moronic. I fear it has to be covered, sadly taking time from the pressing and complex issues of the world, and I certainly welcome any and all supporters to make their case, debate and put forward their "solutions". Good article on the New Yorker that helps explain it a bit - The Movement. The Ask the Author chat session is illuminating as well.Keli Carender, someone

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I like reading the NYT Year in Ideas, even if I am slow and only get to it in 2010. I've taken the liberty to copy all the topics in the annual review for my blog, which still needs a boost to get back in gear.There were some interesting ideas. Forensic Polling Analysis reminded me of the www.fivethirtyeight.com blog, whose missing is to "to accumulate and analyze polling and political data in

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Howard Zinn died yesterday. He was a man I had never heard of when I heard him speak at University of Oregon in 1994. His lecture that day was an eye-opener as much as A People's History of the United States was a page-turner for me. I have been flipping through my old copy tonight and recall that I had been pretty moved by this:Around 1776, certain important people in the English colonies made a

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Always nice to see Dr. West on the NYT homepage to re-activate the more radically democratic corners of the mind.Animated as always on the Today show...And in the New Yorker...And on new website, with new book to get...

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OK, so I suck at blogging, but what better way to start again than with something as important as this for my beloved state.Must request my absentee ballot immediately. What could be LESS about positive social change than this shit. Lies about what it means to have equal rights for all people! I don't know Bill Nemitz, but I will vote with him! To Maine for being so forward thinking and well done

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The year started so OK for blogging...alas, I need to re-group, start again and remind myself why I (try to) blog. I will still give it a go, if only for the effort to share topics and ideas that keep me thinking.I have reorganized the RSS feeds I follow. One of the better ones is the news feed on the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre (British spelling!) site. I don't usually think through

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Always with a soft spot for something that pokes the inspir(red) campaign, I was pleased to find a new blog (thanks Melindochka!) While there is no "about blog" link, it appears Mr. Easterly and others at NYU are now blogging about international aid on "Aid Watch". One for the blog roll.I didn't do my own search of Starbuck's web page for results of their (RED) efforts, but am pleased Easterly is

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Global X, blogging on Social Edge has some good videos. Whenever I am feeling like nothing really matters, this is a good place to go.I like that quote - the title of this post - from this inverview with Laila Iskandar, especially since she is running a "for-profit/non-profit hybrid organization".CID is a recognized pioneer in approaches which integrate private, public and civil society interests

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I knew there would be a gestures of good will. I didn't realize you would be able to stream Nowruz greetings with Persian subtitles from the www.whitehouse.gov site.While I get that words alone, don't matter, Mr. Javanfekr, at least we have a leader invoking and teaching us about Saadi Shirazi. Peace in the Middle East, it is not. But it is a step in the right direction.Happy Nowruz, everyone!

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I debated putting this on my less-serious blog, but think it belongs here as John Stewart has crossed over the line from comedian to more serious stuff, as evidenced by clips on PBSs Frontline (an old Frontline about Cramer 10 or so years ago) and NPR and here. Even the non-profit media is covering the story! The full March 12, 2009 interview is certainly worth seeing if you missed it.Even if the

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It is certainly not new (I learned that I should have been reading Nextbillion.net more carefully three years ago... their new look is great!), but diving into the topic of MicroFranchises today, I found some new ideas. First, the BYU Economic Self-Reliance Center "broadly define MicroFranchises as small businesses that can easily be replicated by following proven marketing and operational

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Continuing with a topic that interests me - all information, all the time - Brewster Kahle's efforts to take on Google in the area of making the online collection of human knowledge is a thought-provoking read. A lot of challenging ideas related to open source development, copyright and who should control that big internet library. I also found this video of Kahle on Nerd TV. My wife is bound to

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Via Global Development: Views from the Center blog, I learned of this project by David Roodman, who is writing his next book with an eye on getting feedback along the way through a blog, his Microfinance Open Book Blog. An experiment worth watching in all my "free" time.

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The good thing about delicious tags are that you have less of a chance of forgetting something you glanced at and closed before considering further......for example, "The Sin in Doing Good Deeds", and op-ed by Nicholas Kristof just before the New Year holidays, that wrestles with a recent book called Uncharitable: How Restraints on Nonprofits Undermine Their Potential.I like the feature on the

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"Fears of a Clown" was not to be missed. Tim Egan, NYT writer, highlights the wave that is Rush Limbaugh in the Republican party.Once upon a time, you could drive to the most remote reaches of the United States and escape Rush Limbaugh. But from the Mogollon Mountains of New Mexico to the Badlands of South Dakota, where only the delicious twang of a country tune or the high-pitched pleadings of a

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Back on March 06, 2006, when this blog started, I started with an idea of complexity. While researching Kashagan and other really, really ridiculously interesting off shore oil platforms with questioned performance on environmental and social responsibility, I came across an organization in London called Platform, "promoting creative processes of democratic engagement to advance social and

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Yes, not secret that I am not a fan of Bono (neither his music nor work on aid effectiveness). But I fear the arrival of "Dead Aid" isn't going to help stimulate the debate in a good way. The author, Dambisa Moyo, makes some good points in the interviews I have read and heard. And she's right to call on African countries to innovate during the financial crisis. But it isn't so black and white and

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The Economist has long fought with Russia and its politicians. But this Why did Anastasia Baburova die? caught my eye today. As one who adores Russia, this alarmed and chilled me. I have seen the fascism in Russia during my two years in Vladimir and Astrakhan. While young thugs are chilling in any country, the complicity of authorities is different in Russia's case.Russia's 'Open Season' of

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Via Zopa, where I think the old lady and I will invest, I realized I have a cognitive surplus.

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From Do We Need a New Internet? This sounds like a movie plot. Wake up Neo!Conficker remains a ticking time bomb. It now has the power to lash together those infected computers into a vast supercomputer called a botnet that can be controlled clandestinely by its creators. What comes next remains a puzzle. Conficker could be used as the world’s most powerful spam engine, perhaps to distribute

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I am not ashamed to say I got there via The Economist. Carrotmob is thought-inducing and entertaining, somewhat cheeky, which always helps when pondering new ideas. Not sure what will induce all the other liquor stores in the video to change their light bulbs now, but know that I am thinking of it in a slightly different way, even if I don't find this anything like being INSPIR(RED) by Bono.

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As if this story couldn't get any more horror movie-ish..."Pests that have ravaged crops in Liberia and sparked a national emergency, while threatening other countries in West Africa, are not army worms and remain unidentified, the ministry of agriculture said on Monday."

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God, blogging is hard. I could have added it in my new year's resolutions, but I am tired of always have the same new year's resolutions. "Blog more", one says on January 30. Anyway, have gotten in at least one January post. Have updated all my blog roll with things that I hope will inspire me at a time needy for inspiration! Nice to have a good blog from the White House!

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Kazakh former Prime Minister, Akezhan Kazhegeldin, writing in for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty explains why he is Welcoming America Back.Belonging to a clan makes being principled impossible as clans esteem loyalty more highly than convictions, sometimes even more than common sense. And what U.S. politics has lacked in recent years on the international arena is principles. The peoples of

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Yes, just cafe press being entrepreneurial, but this is rather unsportsmanlike, I have to say.

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This is what it means to me.It unleashes immeasurable amounts of creativity. Whether you liked will.i.am's Yes, we can! as a musical composition or not, that video (made in a few days) was an indication of creativity to come throughout the election. I don't think this will be limited to music. I think we are entering a period of people opening up their minds to possibility. No speech changes the

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Yes! It's Time. While not entirely unexpected, I had been waiting to read the rationale from The Economist, which again debunks this absurd soundbite about Obama being a "socialist" because some plumber in Ohio was concerned about his business when his profits might quadruple at some undisclosed future date.There is certainly praise for McCain's past leadership and early primary victory, but that

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Just had a conversation with my wife about the potential for connecting energy producers, so as I troll through my backlog of nextbillion.net, I was excited to see this post on the potential to have kinetic energy production in the less developed world. Maybe she'd already read this. Ah, the trials of keeping up with the blogoshpere...a topic for another post.

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Photograph by Platon from The New YorkerSince it was said, I only read or saw the Daily Show take this on, albeit in its own sarcastic way. But they took it on...until Colin Powell, who cut through this humiliating issue and spoke to the absurdity of it all. A column in the Times summed it up perfectly. "It was a tonic to hear someone push back so clearly on ugly innuendo."But it hasn't only been

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Barack Obama is not my ideal candidate for president. (In fact, I made the maximum donation to John McCain during the primaries, when there was still hope he might come to his senses.) But I now see that Obama is almost the ideal candidate for this moment in American history. I disagree with him on many issues. But those don’t matter as much as what Obama offers, which is a deeply conservative

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What times! SNL merges with CBS news and Jon Stewart's life has never been easier.When John McCain won the Republican primary, I was genuinely proud. His integrity showed that something can defeat cash in an election. But what a difference a few months can make. The bile coming out of the election, especially since the selection of Sarah Palin, has thrown us back into politics being no more than

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Always wise to flip back through recent shows on Fresh Air! I have been taken by the challenge the solving the HIV/AIDS epidemic and enjoyed the interview with the author of The Wisdom of Whores, Elizabeth Pisani. The book floats the idea that we might try "making fun things (sex, drugs) safe, instead of trying to make safe things (abstinence, monogamy) fun". The book Excerpt on the Fresh Air

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Yes, all of this Obama-mania is excessive and will inevitably be punctured should he win the presidency and start making tough calls or big mistakes. For now, though, what it reveals is how much many foreigners, after all the acrimony of the Bush years, still hunger for the "idea of America" — this open, optimistic, and, indeed, revolutionary, place so radically different from their own

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Does even matter if Bush et al were intentional or deliberate? Scott McClellan seems to be everywhere selling his book. I guess one should appreciate the courage of a whistle blower, even it he certainly has some financial incentives that must be driving him. And since he won't be working in republican politics anytime soon, he better do well with book sales. Jon Stewart, in my opinion, is doing

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Patagonia, in a what I think is a sign of things to come, now has something called The Footprint Chronicles, which allow you to see four indicators for a selection of products: distance traveled, CO2 emissions, waste generated and energy consumption.Obviously, there is no way to compare with similar products or really look behind the calculations, but it seems like it will only be a matter of

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Regardless of who we vote for or where we vote, this is an amazing NPR story about the waves the US election is making in Kenya. It reveals the hope and the scars of racism and sexism that extend far outside the US. On a joyous note, Coco Tea's song made me smile as much as the comment about a "woman's place" made me cringe. Women politicians being physically beaten in Kenya highlights how far

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It never gets old. Never.

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Interesting post via PSD blog about a publication by Keystone: Online philanthropy markets: From 'Feel-Good' giving to effective social investing?. The call for a reliable framework to guide social investment seems like a common challenge.Review to follow...

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OK, I will stop soon...but it will be hard for me. This image worries me. I trusted in something different. Now I see inspired people beginning to dislike each other over the democratic primaries. Meanwhile, Bush and McCain head into the white house.Two points today: Obama is still winning and seems to have won Texas. Is this reflected in the headlines? What's going on?Second, I don't like

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Why don't you re-read your column on February 11. You told us that you would like to see moments with more "strong assurances from both Democratic candidates that they respect their opponents and would support them in the general election." You implied the supporters of each should do the same. But today's column is all about scaring "progressive activists" with a handful of rhetorical questions

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I hate the politics of fear. Senator Obama responds: "I will never see the threat of terrorism as a way to scare up votes, because it's a threat that should rally this country around our common enemies. That is the judgment we need at 3 a.m."

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Building on that last post about Obama's positive message...check out this NPR story about a guy named Mark McKinnon, senior adviser to McCain and former adviser to W who helped defeat McCain in 2000. Listen to the end of the interview about how he'd be "uncomfortable" being McCain's adviser if its an Obama vs. McCain race. Not sure if it is praise for Obama, but points to what will likely be a

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I would like to remind anyone on the democratic side that Mr. Krugman is right about one thing - it is important that those supporting Clinton and Obama need to re-assure each other than they would support either candidate in the election.Senator Clinton, I will support you if you are the democratic nominee.But I really disagree with with Krugman's comment that "most of the venom" is coming from

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via Dowd column today..."I think we should never be derisive about somebody who has the ability to inspire," Senator [Claire] McCaskill told David Gregory on MSNBC on Tuesday. "You know, we've had some dark days in this democracy over the last seven years, and today the sun is out. It is shining brightly. I watch these kids, these old and young, these black and white, 20,000 of them, pour into

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The debate on giving away free malaria nets (and other health interventions) continues in The Economist. Now the WHO is backing the drive to kill the notion that paying a small amount makes a greater impact.I am a bit confused in my own logic on this one. The Economist saying give it away, while I am intuitively feeling like "free is more effective" still ignores a few key points. Maybe the

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Very well put, Mr. Kristof! Mrs. Clinton has proven herself an excellent senator, and presumably would make a superior president. Yet...28 years...two families! That needn’t be decisive, but it’s too important to be ignored.

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But I got to say, Bill Clinton is trying to make me really dislike him. Read: An Ex-President, a Mining Deal and a Big Donor. Is Clinton doing it for the good of his foundation? For the good of Kazakhstan? Sorry, this sounds very, very fishy.And what is with the timing of this story? I saw nothing related to current events and actually caught the story when it popped up on my Google mail news

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I can't recall being excited about a politician, until May. I was disappointed to read the NYT endorsement of Clinton, but was far from convinced.Mr. Obama and Mrs. Clinton would both help restore America's global image, to which President Bush has done so much grievous harm. They are committed to changing America's role in the world, not just its image....On the major issues, there is no real

Pavlusha34http://www.blogger.com/profile/01464336743668727552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21867605.post-14690145200770179772008-01-15T10:28:00.000-08:002008-01-15T10:48:35.431-08:00

Last week's opinion on Peace Corps, Too Many Innocents Abroad brings up some old questions about the value of the organization.I don't think that the article was as anti-Peace Corps as many responses I read seemed to imply. It was asking for some self-evaluation, which can't be bad.Peace Corps isn't a development organization (and shouldn't be compared to one). What kind of organization it is...

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A NYT story dear to my confused and complex heart - A World Consumed by Guilt - it's complicated this holiday season...So what can an unreformed consumer do in the face of green fashion that doesn’t always fit?“Perfect doesn’t exist and we’re probably never going to get there,” said Leslie Hoffman, the executive director of Earth Pledge, a nonprofit group that promotes sustainable development and

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My friend at Global Lab is always reminding me about neo-liberal economic principles and consumerism and he's not the only one! Today I learned (via Four Hour Work Week Blog) about some who are going the beyond the No-shopping-for-a-day! stuff, which always seems pointless to me. Some have tried no shopping for a year!I enjoyed this little exchange on broken head phones. I wonder how long I could

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The Bottom Billion is worth a read. In fairness, I should read the End of Poverty since I already read and have been positively provoked by The White Man's Burden (which I don't feel places me on the right, as Collier suggests, anymore than I would call Sachs a defender of the left, but that is another story for other posts).Summaries and reviews of Collier are plentiful, here and here and here

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Congrats to Kedibonye Elijah, winner of the HIV essay contest, and especially to the two creators of Nata Blog. What an amazing model for getting support and sharing your stories.

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This is leap-frogging at its best! Kudos to the Humanitarian and Development Partners - Central African Republic for a Web 2.0-charged blog and intranet for Humanitarian and Development agencies. I learned about it from friend and was gutted to have missed the presentation of Tony Lanzer at the LSE. You can still see the presentation online with power point. Everyone should learn a little bit

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To subsidize or not to subsidize, isn't that always the Economist's question? It was in Money v mosquito, asking whether the Gates Foundation and World Bank should subsidize a malaria remedy to keep the price down. (Has anyone else noticed that when you wish to blog about something, you end of finding five more things you should read?)

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I am a fan of the potential of randomized trials and was pleased to read an article in the 25 Oct 2007 issue of Nature called Field Trials Aim to Tackle Poverty. The Poverty Action Lab, featured in the article, is a good resource for me, but I thought the article was a bit unfair to the "debate" over handing out malaria bed nets for free or charging. (Here's the paper for those wishing to review

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It goes on... Ugandan journalist Andrew Mwenda didn't sound like he wouldn't sign up to (Red) any time soon. His talked seemed to make waves over the summer and is now online.And I have stumbled upon Arvind Subramanian through the PSD blog's diligent monitoring of the debate.

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I "heart" NPR. I love the way it just hits you with a voice... Here's the latest "frustrated" and "pained" voice who explains social change is going in the wrong way in Iraq. And the letters.

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Not commonly one to appreciate Mr. Friedman tone, I can't agree more with his Sunday column on 9/11 is Over.

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The BBC had a link that caught my eye - it has been 30 years since the death of Steve Biko, the South African leader of black consciousness. Seems a bit narrow as he helped me learn a lot about being conscious in general. I learned about Biko while reading My Traitor's Heart, one of my favorite books for too many reasons to name here. Highly recommended!

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(Via PSD Blog), a fantastic story and video in the NYT about the concept of design for development. I will see the exhibit at the Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum in New York, as the Design for the other 90% exhibit it is there until September 23.

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The Sachs versus Easterly debate expands! This is good as I was beginning to think it needed some fresh insight. Paul Collier's new book, The Bottom Billion, according to the Time's Sunday Book Review last week, is a must read and a better book than either of the recent efforts of Sachs or Easterly. The Financial Times summarizes: So what else is needed to help countries in the bottom billion?

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(Via Paul) I listened to an interesting interview with Tim Smit, the founder of the Eden Project, on BBC's In Business (May 31, 2007). I appreciated this part (about 16:50) of the interview:Peter Day: You think social entrepreneurs are thinking too small, don't you? This is a new or fairly new movement which has enormous possibilities.Tim Smit: I think it's a new movement, but I think it's also a

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Thanks to the Private Sector for Development blog, I read these four cases of "sustainability" about Coca Cola, McDonalds, Proctor & Gamble and General Electric. In case you hadn't noticed, they are Making Money, Making a Difference, according to the Motley Fool.OK, P&G and GE I can read without feeling like my feathers are too ruffled. But McDonalds and Coke? I just couldn't swallow this easily.

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I've done it. While this is not meant to be an overtly political blog, I find it worth sharing that I have given my first political contribution to Senator Barak Obama. I admit that I have not studied all issues to my heart's content, but I am excited by Obama's approach and maintain a slim hope that a US election with Obama on the ticket would move us a few steps away from poisonous politics and

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Peace Corps Blogs - and what seemed to be a lack of them - have been an interest of mine for some time. I think one of the coolest elements of Peace Corps is what it allows Americans to learn by deeply - sometimes too deeply - integrating into another culture. Often these are very less-traveled cultures so I was pleased to see some Returned Peace Corps Volunteers have set up a site with Peace

Pavlusha34http://www.blogger.com/profile/01464336743668727552noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21867605.post-16595872974423970652007-04-20T09:50:00.000-07:002007-04-20T09:58:46.499-07:00

Which is the greatest threat to globalisation: the protesters on the streets every time the International Monetary Fund or the World Trade Organisation meets, or globalisation's cheerleaders, who push for continued market opening while denying that the troubles surrounding globalisation are rooted in the policies they advocate?Dani Rodrik on globalization...Historians teach us that globalisation

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I am not opposed to the idea of donating part of the profits to help boost sales, but I haven't been a fan of (RED). There were some thoughtful comments recently on the Stanford Social Innovation Review blog. Don't miss the comments either...What’s wrong with all of this ostensible “corporate generosity”? First, it is self-serving, further diminishing true altruism in the corporate world. We

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I like the questions that the Cultural Literacy project at Demos is asking:What skills do we need to read a changing world?What are the key skills that we will need as cultures merge, meet and clash to a greater degree than ever before?What can we learn from other disciplines and domains, like anthropology in how to approach this new environment?I am very interested in interaction and the

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The value of a brand or a manufacturing license is now far more important than a product’s physical production. Also, income from creative products (such as designs, writings or inventions) is entirely due to intangible value.So reports the Light Years IP website, which today launched a blog on its project with Ethiopian Coffee growers. The blog will give "real-time coverage as they lead a

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This is a good article. I appreciate the balance and love the photos. (Disclaimer: Rena Effendi is a pal of mine. But she still takes really amazing photos. I learn a lot from her images.)

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The Intelligence Squared moronic debate held on Tuesday was the greatest display of arrogance I have seen in a long, long time. The motion, put forward: We'd be better off without religion.My favorite part was when Rabbi Julia Neuberger was making a point about how scornful the "For" side was when Christopher Hitchens heckled her from the other side of the stage. In reflecting after, I asked how

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The Nata Village blog remains one of my favorites. I like checking in from time to time...today I was inspired by the exchanges that are beginning with schools from North America that have picked up on this and are beginning to have their students read about Botswanna.Despite the hardships here, kids still figure out a way to have fun. The boys in the photo are big fans of the Zebras. The

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Today's slog through my bloglines was fruitful! The Global Development: Views from the Center blog is full of great stuff and I am still at work trying to make sense of it all.Interesting story about the effect of investments in companies that do bad things. The LA Times has been looking at the Gates Foundation investments. This kind of goes along with my last post on Philanthropy...how far does

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This Peter Singer article on giving has challenged me for years. Comments on it are very welcome!I have been meaning to post on this since I came across another thought-provoker by Singer in December - "What Should a Billionaire Give - And what should you?" He seems to have been sparked by the New Year giving season and the huge philanthropic gesture in 2006 by Warren Buffet, who added $31

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Hopefully, I keep believing that things like transparency and good practice matter, even in places where an average citizen does not have much purchasing power.The PSD Blog had a good post on the main reason why they felt corporate governance matters in the transitioning countries of Eastern Europe and beyond. I certainly agree, but there is a need for some sort of critical mass that allows

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Well, Dropping Knowledge seems to have something for just about everyone in its quest to further "the promotion of international understanding and the promotion of art and culture."Due to my long-time admiration of Cornel West, I was drawn to the Table of Free Voices.100 questions - Does our wealth depend on the third world being poor? What's after capitalism? Is corporate social responsibility

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So would you say you have contempt for a terrorist group like Hamas?I wouldn’t put those words in my mouth. I wouldn’t say anything on that issue. I’m here to talk about peace. I’m a man who does want peace for this world, and I don’t think you will achieve that by putting people into corners and asking them very, very difficult questions about very contentious issues. Yusuf Islam aka Cat

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Today, we get news of Turkmenistan, and bid Saparmurat Niyazov a final До свидания! What the future holds for Turkmenistan - and all it's natural resources - is surely likely to be a hot topic of conversation in all our holiday dinner conversations.

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