Healthy Cities and Governable Subjects

Ever wonder what it would be like to live in a city where everyone was healthy, wealthy and wise? A city where there were no Big Macs, where everyone rode their bicycles to work and people just seemed to be in better spirits? If you are looking for such a utopia, Manchester England may be [...]

Greening Corporate Reputation

Canada’s agenda-setting newspaper The Globe & Mail yesterday memorialized Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring (Houghton Mifflin, 1962) as one of the world’s 50 greatest reads, praising its role in stimulating greater public understanding about science and helping to shape the modern environmental movement. I’ve been thinking a lot about the book lately, with 2 graduate students working on issues [...]

Volunteering Gets Extreme Makeover

One of the biggest challenges facing voluntary organizations is the recruitment of young people, as either employees or volunteers. Youth are a curious and misunderstood demographic. While politicos lament their unwillingness to participate in the electoral process as evidence of political apathy, disengagement and intensified individualization, we would do well to remember that politics involves [...]