Global Leadership Boston Dr. Astier Almedon, a fellow at the Tufts Institute for Global Leadership from Eritrea who directed the International Resilience Program, was our gracious host and moderator for an afternoon at the college meeting first with faculty and later with an interesting group of students. It had been a commitment of the “in for …
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Resilience and Disaster Rebuilding
Resilience and Disaster Rebuilding Boston If life is about learning, I was doing a lot of it yesterday as part of a panel on community building and sustainability at the University of Massachusetts at Boston. It was a clear day and the view from the point where this commuter campus was constructed on out …
Sustainable Canada
Sustainable Canada November 15, 2008 Vancouver Judy Duncan, national head organizer for ACORN Canada, and I visited with two very different, but fascinating groups yesterday, that might be good partners in the future for our work in Canada. One was called Toxic Free Canada, formerly the Labour Environmental Alliance, whom I had met several …