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Jennet Conant’s Man of the Hour

2/13/2018

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Jennet Conant’s Man of the Hour: James B. Conant, Warrior Scientist,
2017, Simon and Schuster.

When we think about the unthinkable, nuclear war, and how we got into the fix we’re in, we often think of Albert Einstein unlocking the keys of the cosmos, Robert Oppenheimer leading the way to building the bomb, with General Groves above him, and Edward Teller the Super (the hydrogen bomb) after him.  But we should know the life and thinking of James B. Conant, who with Vannevar Bush was one of the chief science advisors to the President.  Conant, who led Harvard during the war as well, was also a prime mover in opening up higher education to the less-advantaged, an important force in helping America see and rise up to the threat of Nazi takeover, and an articulate defender of democratic principles.  Conant was not the cold-hearted war-monger we might assume, given the military horror that nuclear war is (he also developed chemical weapons).  He regarded these weapons as defensive, and resisted the temptation to use them in other ways, a temptation we see in our current President’s threats, and in those who make millions or gain political power from defense over-expenditure. 


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Louis S. Warren's God's Red Son

2/13/2018

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Louis S. Warren’s God’s Red Son: The Ghost Dance Religion and the Making of Modern America,
​2017, Basic Books.


The received idea of the Ghost Dance is that it marked the end of the Indian culture’s viability, in the massacre at Wounded Knee in 1890 in South Dakota.  While something was brutally crushed there, something else survived in many forms.   The Ghost Dance was misunderstood at the time as being a danger, when its prophet, Wovoka, told Native Americans they must accept the new world.  Yet he also told them to keep dancing.  The survival of the culture itself was perceived as a threat, and like Sitting Bull, had to be eliminated.  (Sitting Bull was killed by Indian Police, the new authorities following US agent orders, though he had turned in his rifle years before).


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    The Environmental Citizen​ is for people who want to help meet the challenge of how to live within the biosphere without harming it, and thus protect ourselves, other living things, future generations, and the source of all wealth and value that we hold dear.  It builds on topics in the text Developing Sustainable Environmental Responsibility but is addressed to anyone interested in what each individual can do on their own, as members of the societies in which they live, and as members of the universal group - the human race.

    Designed to easily be used as classroom resources or to offer people direction, many of the articles within The Environmental Citizen include activities, questions, and recommended readings.

    I welcome your input and ideas.

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    Rick Reibstein

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    Rick Reibstein teaches environmental law at Boston University and Harvard’s Summer School. He has helped develop toxics use reduction policy and assistance practices for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and has served as an attorney for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).  He has trained businesses and governments in developing programs for pollution prevention, compliance assistance and environmental performance improvement.  He initiated the Massachusetts Environmentally Preferable Purchasing program, founded two Business Environmental Networks and is an individual winner of the EPA’s Environmental Merit Award (2000). Reibstein has published in Pollution Prevention Review, the Environmental Law Reporter, the International Journal of Cleaner Production, the Journal of Industrial Ecology, and the Journal of Ecological Economics, as well as producing many reports, guidance and proposals as a state official.

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For classes, groups, or individuals seeking to manifest more responsibility for all
  1. Activities for the Environmental Citizen
Sustainability Policy & Events
Events relative to hopes for evolving more world-responsible societies.
  1. Losing the Forest for the Trees
  2. The Great Undoing​
  3. Request for Comment: Overwhelmingly Negative Response to Administration's Environmental Plans
  4. Connecting Distributed Leadership
  5. Reasonable Expectations of Government
Recommended Reading
Opening and Grounding Perspective  
  1. Jennet Conant's Man of the Hour
  2. Louis S. Warren's God's Red Son
Purpose and Contextual Management
What are the Transformations We Should Work to Achieve?  How do we transcend our differences to effect commonality?
  1. Where Loyalty Belongs
  2. The Best Bet
  3. Connecting Distributed Leadership
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