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Featured Voices speak to ideas that connect us. Each serves as the centerpiece for an issue of P&P.

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    Sustaining Our Commonwealth

    by Herman Daly

    Managing the commonwealth of nature and knowledge presents two rather opposite problems and solutions.

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    Oct 19, 2010
    Tags: economics, governance
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    “One Person, One Share” of the Atmosphere

    by Peter Singer

    For most of human existence, people living only short distances apart might as well have been living in separate worlds. As a result, our moral intuitions evolved to deal with problems within our community, rather than with the impact of our actions on those far away.

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    Mar 25, 2009
    Tags: ethics, climate
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    Resilience Thinking

    by Brian Walker

    Life is full of surprises. Sometimes we take them in stride; some times they trip us up. Resilience thinking offers a fresh way of understanding the world around us and of managing our natural resources.

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    Nov 24, 2008
    Tags: social-ecological
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    featured voices

    Sustaining Our Commonwealth

    by Herman Daly October 19, 2010

    Managing the commonwealth of nature and knowledge presents two rather opposite problems and solutions.

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    by Howard Silverman

    Summing up and moving on.

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    The Commons as an Engine for Innovation

    by David Bollier

    The most innovative thing we can do is to step out of the market paradigm and begin to develop different ways of relating to each other and to the Earth.

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    The Porter Hypothesis and Regional Innovation Clusters

    by Howard Silverman

    Competitiveness is enhanced by differentiation in social or ecological assets or circumstances.

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    media library

    Spencer Beebe: The Magic Canoe | TEDxPortland

    Ecotrust President Spencer Beebe wraps up the first TEDxPortland with the story of the magic canoe.

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    Boundary Objects and Communities

    Examining three projects through a Community of Practice framework.

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    our compass

    Encyclopedia of Earth

    The EoE examines the environment in history.

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    on the wire
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