Happy Martin Luther King Day! Having heroes like this great civil rights leader add to our joy and purpose in life. Dr. King and his deeply moral, nonviolent methods of creating social change have made him a hero of mine since I was a child. When I was a graduate student of 26, though, I [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Mahatma Gandhi'
A Less-Discussed Aspect of Dr. Martin Luther King
January 17th, 2011 · No Comments · sustainability
Tags: Ayaan Hirsi Ali·Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.·heroes·Mahatma Gandhi·moral complexity
Clashes In Copenhagen Make Sense
December 16th, 2009 · 3 Comments · global warming and climate change
I’m penning just a short post today before I take the bus into downtown Portland for meetings on transportation options. (Happily, it appears that the statewide/interstate rideshare project we’ve been working on for a long time will officially be granted its funding today.) As the world’s climate talks in Copenhagen approach their conclusion on Friday, [...]
Tags: civil disobedience·Copenhagen·demonstrators·Dr. Martin Luther King·James Howard Kuntzler·long emergency·Mahatma Gandhi
