I recently read an article in the San Francisco Chronicle regarding Adam Werbach’s controversial alliance with Wal-Mart, entitled, “Werbach at Wal-Mart“? Adam Werbach’s consulting firm, Act Now Productions, recently took Wal-Mart as a client although Werbach strongly criticized the retailer in his 1997 book, “Act Now, Apologize Later”.
The issue, in my opinion, is not […]

I’ve recently finished reading Daniel Kemmis’ Community and the Politics of Place.  He offers a very good discussion of civic virtue and how our society has wandered away from being an engaged public, promoting, defending and being stewards of the places in which we live.  (This whole issue of civic virtue seems to be conspicuously […]