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Gone Tomorrow - Book Review |
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Written by Josh O'Conner
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Thursday, 22 July 2010 14:09 |
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Gone Tomorrow - The Hidden Life of Garbage
Heather Rogers
Garbage seems to experience a pretty dull and predictable life cycle. We might discard a fast food wrapper in our garbage can thinking nothing of its short trip to the local land fill, but the life of trash is writhe with complexities. As author Heather Rogers shows in Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage trash has historically been a focal point of social struggles and environmental disasters. Gone Tomorrow explains the origins of our current perceptions of garbage as well as the tumultuous series of events that formed our current attitudes. (Read more...)
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Last Updated on Thursday, 22 July 2010 14:23 |
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The Role of Citizens and Community Groups |
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Written by Josh O'Conner
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Thursday, 22 July 2010 09:05 |
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I’ve had a chance to read a lot lately about a variety of social issues that tie into urban planning (really what social issues don’t) and I’ve also had a chance to step back and look at some of the citizen-based efforts working to engage those problems from a more distant perspective (I’m currently in Iraq so I can only see such efforts through snippets on the internet and e-mails). The approach I see however is somewhat troublesome and problematic. There seems to be a recurring theme that as groups working to solve various issues (take for example neighborhood associations) become more complexly organized, they become less of an agent change and more of a middleman group used to make demands and coerce government agencies. (Read more...)
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Last Updated on Thursday, 22 July 2010 09:27 |
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Bully of Bentonville - Book Review |
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Written by Josh O'Conner
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Saturday, 08 May 2010 10:23 |
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Bully of Bentonville
Anthony Bianco
It’s easy to pick out Wal-Mart as the bad guy. As the top-positioned retailer in the U.S. their sins stand out easily within the public spotlight. Understanding the exact impact of Wal-Mart and separating savvy business decisions from irreprehensible ethical missteps remains a difficult process. Is Wal-Mart evil or does it simply appear to be evil by the nature of its position? (Read more after the jump)
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Last Updated on Saturday, 08 May 2010 11:06 |
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The Abundant Community - Book Review |
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Written by Josh O'Conner
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Wednesday, 30 June 2010 09:05 |
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The Abundant Community
John McKnight and Peter Block
When diving into the whole arena of civic/community engagement, most people are almost instantaneously bombarded with advice and information on how to link together organizations, where to get funding, and how to build the community with resources that come from outside. We are told that there are systems and processes that hold the key to a better life. John McKnight and Peter Block steer the reader in a different direction in The Abundant Community. Rather than looking externally McKnight and Block encourage the reader to look within the community to find an abundance of resources. (Click here to read more)
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 30 June 2010 09:59 |
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Slackonomics - Book Review |
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Written by Josh O'Conner
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Thursday, 18 March 2010 20:54 |
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Slackonomics: Generation X in the Age of Creative Destruction
Lisa Chamberlain
Author Lisa Chamberlain holds little back in pointing out how Generation X has deviated from the norms of previous generations. Rather than demonizing Gen X as a force of societal degradation, Chamberlain explains how Gen X has floundered to create a sense of stability in a time of transition. Slackonomics ventures through the formative decades of Gen X eventually arriving at the present where they must now assume leadership roles in a world that had previously written them off. (More after the jump)
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Last Updated on Thursday, 18 March 2010 21:58 |
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