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le 19 janvier 2010 8h12 | par Joël Bomane
January 19, 2010 9:05 | by Jacques Attali
As often, a natural event can be used as a metaphor for a social phenomenon.
And, to describe and understand crises, nothing is [...]

Michael Sandel
“Justice is one of the most popular courses in Harvard’s history”
Copyrights: WGBH Boston and Harvard University

“Sandel has opened up an important area of debate at a time when some of the unquestioned assumptions underlying economic policy and praxis of the last few decades have been exposed as fraudulent and are being questioned. What happens [...]

09/10/2009
NEWS
The Nobel Peace Prize 2009
awarded to:
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA…

“for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples”

Photo: Pete Souza, Obama-Biden Transition Project, licensed by Attribution Share Alike 3.0

Barack Obama

USA

44th President of the United States of America

b. 1961

“His diplomacy is founded in the concept that [...]

Money, Power, Wisdom:
September 20, 2009

Before you read any further, let me warn you. This blog post is not typical of what I usually write – and is DEFINITELY NOT for everyone!
If the “existential dilemma” leaves you cold (you lucky dog, you!), or your “search for meaning” rarely surfaces, and (when it does) [...]

Olivier de Kersauson (b. 20 July 1944) is a French sailor and sailing champion.

Kersauson was the seventh child in a family of eight. While he was the only Kersauson not to have been born in Brittany, he was born on 20 July 1944 and brought up near Morlaix in a “provincial Catholic aristocracy with compulsory [...]

social enterpreneurs
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They put society above self. They use entrepreneurial means to drive social change. These 50 social entrepreneurs are enriching the nation.
Naren Karunakaran

IN THIS STORY:

Who Is A Social Entrepreneur?

What if a million issues found a million crusaders? What if each one of us transformed into a social entrepreneur? What if each one of us [...]

Jimmy Carter via last.fm

Discrimination and abuse wrongly backed by doctrine are damaging society, argues the former US president.
o Jimmy Carter
o CopyrightThe Observer, Sunday 12 July 2009
[...]

In the decade of Darfur and Iraq, and shortly after the century of Stalin, Hitler, and Mao, the claim that violence has been diminishing may seem somewhere between hallucinatory and obscene. Yet recent studies that seek to quantify the historical ebb and flow of violence point to exactly that conclusion.
A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE
by Steven Pinker
Introduction
Once [...]

His Royal Highness Prince Hassan Bin Talal about a new global Mega Project:

“More than 40 years ago the Apollo Space Program was launched to fulfill the
old dream of taking man into outer space. Today, we have a bigger dream, to
restore balance between man and his home planet, Earth. With the political
will, EUMENA countries could now [...]

Discours de Jacques Chirac
L’Eau pour la Paix –
la Paix pour l’Eau
Summary in French
By Joel Bomane’s
Earth Nest Group
http://www.fondationchirac.eu/eau-pour-paix-13-novembre/
L’eau pour la Paix – La Paix pour l’eau from Fondation Chirac on Vimeo
(Crédit : NEWSPRODMedia Manser)
DROIT UNIVERSEL A [...]