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Sustainable Democracy
http://www.sustainabledemocracy.org
Home of the American Sustainable Democracy movement. Spreading democracy requires that we make sure our own can be sustained for generations to come!
- Added on: Jan 4th, 2008
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Chris Schaffer
- Listed in: Political Activism Independent
- Tags: politics news america Liberal Government rights
Recent Posts
The Strangers Among Us
I recently read Stranger in a Strange Land. A stunning piece of literature, a book everyone should read, probably twice. More than anything else, what I take from this book is that we need change. Radical change. We have been compla...
A Predictable Paradox
My recent comments on Nudge are supplemented by two other books I have recently read. The Paradox of Choice by Barry Schwartz Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely Both of these bring up many of the points discussed in Nudge but do so from a much mo...
Reading – Nudge
Not a lot has happened here recently. Part of the reason is that the general state of politics, the economy, the world, and news of it was rather depressing. So, for the most part I simply withdrew from it. In that time I have done quite ...
The State of Sustainable Democracy
Obviously not a lot of content is making it to the site at the moment. Right now a number of new ideas are being hashed out and made ready for web consumption (as opposed to my personal enjoyment). As such, the project is far from dead, t...
Your Dollars at Work
Lost in the vociferous debate being waged between congressional democrats and the White House over proposed funding increases to the SCHIP program, a children’s health insurance initiative, was the near-unanimous passage of the Department of Defens...
Mental Health and Tragedies
When any tragedy occurs we wonder how it happened. This becomes an especially relevant question when considering mental health. I will use three cases to detail what role the mental health profession plays in these events and what keeps it from being...
