Sat 15 Sep 2007
International Development:
1) Stanford Social Innovation Review: Real social change happens when organizations go outside their own walls and find creative ways to enlist the help of others.
2) Science News: A country’s competitive edge can spread industry to industry, like a disease.
3) Grist: Voluntary actions didn’t get us civil rights, and they won’t fix the climate. Also: why, on your own, you’ll never do enough to save the planet.
4) Wired: Eco-capitalists save Mother Nature by charging for her services.
5) The Age: Call of the mild.
Politics & Economics:
6) The New Republic: What Dostoevsky can tell us about Iraq: Hubris vs. Humility.
7) The Economist: In search of the good company.
Progressive Christianity:
8) The Baylor Lariat: Calvinist view of bridge collapse distorts God’s character.
9) Christianity Today: An Older, Wiser Ex-Gay Movement. Also: The Best Research Yet.
Others:
10) News Weekly: Postmodern science - a contradiction in terms.