Educate Girls and Change the World
There is no tool for development more effective than the education of girls. Kofi Annan, former UN Secretary…
Category: human advancement
The Tale of the Iron Fish
Anemia is a serious problem throughout the developing world and it has serious consequences for the health of…
Going Your Own Way
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction…
Making a New Reality
We sometimes mistake the way things are for the way they have to be. Even when our institutions…
A Challenge to Change
No one has the right to do wrong, not even if wrong has been done to them. (Viktor…
Work to Rules.
Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity; From discord find harmony; In the middle of difficulty…
If You Saw A Child About to Fall in a Well…
Mencius a fourth-century BCE Chinese thinker and disciple of Confucius, taught that human beings have within them everything…
Love is a Dynamo – Part I
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can…
In Consequence
It’s hard to see the big picture when your head is jammed with the problems of the moment.…
7 Billion Butterfly Effects for Change?
On October 31st the population of the world is set to reach 7 billion. Obviously this has implications…