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The Flame and the Cypress: Models for the Green Revolution
Concluding this week's exploration of nature metaphors comes a poem from Israeli-Ukrainian poet Zelda. Revolutions have not always been easy on the planet. The industrial revolution sought to tame nature and exploit its resources more efficiently. The Cuban Revolution's insistence upon higher cro...
Tags: Change, Cuba, Industrial revolution, Patience, Revolution
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A Little Optimism May Help Us Go A Long Way
New Dream board member Liz Barratt-Brown had a great post in the NRDC Switchboard blog yesterday. In No Substitute for Optimism she takes us from the first Earth Days (and subsequent policy shifts) up through technological hubris and to the present day. Now, when we can--and should--know the diff...
Tags: Board, Change, Hubris, Liz, Optimism, Policy
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