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Crises

A Crisis of Meaning

Christine Eilvig | Posted 05.19.2013 | Healthy Living
Read More: Dreams, Wisdom, Personal Growth, Crisis, Happiness, Life Crises, Personal Development, Crises, Dream, GPS for the Soul, Life Crisis, Life Dreams, Happy, Healthy Living News
Christine Eilvig

A crisis of meaning can last a few minutes, and they can fill a whole lifetime. The length is based on our awareness and whether or not we have the right tools and the courage to go gently through our crises.

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Deadly Assumptions: When the World Is Shattered

Ian I. Mitroff | Posted 02.17.2013 | Politics
Read More: Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting, Crises, Newtown Shooting, Oklahoma City Bombing, Politics News
Ian I. Mitroff

The basic assumptions that all of us depend on and use daily to make sense of the world are in far too many cases completely shattered.

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The Age of Hyperbolic Leadership

Terry Newell | Posted 09.22.2012 | Politics
Read More: Social-Harmony, Reasoned Dialogue, Crises, Public Policy, Leadership, Hyperbolic Leadership, Politics News
Terry Newell

Even where hyperbolic leadership "works" in the short run, to produce a political decision ("victory"), the long run price is steep.

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Why Do Obvious Reforms Never Happen? The Political Economy of Things

Marcelo Giugale | Posted 04.26.2012 | World
Read More: Leadership, Europe, Poverty, Information, Africa, Economic Development, Oil, Crises, Reform, Latin-America, Asia, Subsidies, Technology, Unions, World News
Marcelo Giugale

Why is it that obvious reforms don't get done? Because behind every status-quo, there is a complex cobweb of vested interests of people, institutions, and corporations -- "actors" -- who would be hurt by change, so they stop it.

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Our Social Crises -- From Breakdown to Breakthrough

Kingsley Dennis, Ph.D. | Posted 10.11.2011 | World
Read More: Social Change, Consciousness, Tipping Point, Revolution, Crises, Future, Society, Civil Society, Civilization, World News
Kingsley Dennis, Ph.D.

Leading sociologists have shown that societies are far more likely to break down when they're overloaded by converging stresses; for example, rapid population growth, resources depletion, and economic decline.

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Addressing the Convergence of Crises

Tri Robinson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Child Soldiering, Crises, Pandemics, Human Trafficking, Spiritual Confusion, Illiteracy, Global Health Epidemics, Climate Change, Disease, RE:FORM, Environmental Decline, Crisis, Education Reform, World Crises, World Poverty, Aids, Global Warming, Green News
Tri Robinson

When you look at the scope of the world's problems today, the environmental crisis is not one that can be addressed singularly. It is the linchpin of so many different crises.

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The Four Not-Good-for-Anyone Effects of Worry

Margaret Ruth | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Worry, Caring, Family, Anxiety, Crises, Love, Stress, Concern, Supportive, Healthy Living News
Margaret Ruth

Worry is one of the worst possible energies with which to shower someone. If more of us understood what we were doing with our nervous apprehensions, we would cut back on this practice immediately

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The American Way of War

The Real News | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Military Industrial Complex, The-American-Way-of-War, Super-Power, Solutions, Afghanistan, 911, George W. Bush, President Obama, Crises, The Real News, Realism, Infrastructure, Education, Eugene Jarecki, Military, Dwight Eisenhower, Defense, Paul Jay, Over-Confidence, Iraq, Health Care, Police-Action, Politics News
The Real News

The American Way of War is Eugene Jarecki's latest book. Jarecki is an award-winning dramatic and documentary filmmaker whose previous film Why We Fig...

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