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GREEN ROUNDUP - “The Future Lies Ahead”

Peter Corning

October 21, 2021

For a species that literally owes its remarkable evolutionary success over time to its social behavior and its many innovations (we have rightly been called “The Self-Made Man” by the anthropologist Jonathan Kingdon), we have been very slow to recognize, much less respond to what can fairly be called an existential survival crisis. Some 99 percent of all the species that have ever evolved are now extinct. We may soon join them. Unless…

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Green

PR for People® THE CONNECTOR – October 2021

Patricia Vaccarino

October 19, 2021

At PR for People The Connector, we encourage people to act as a stewards to protect this great gift of life that we have been given. And we also promise to make our voices heard whenever possible. In this month’s issue, we present the voices of people who are grappling with the reality of climate change.

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Books

BOOK REVIEW by Patricia Vaccarino: Student Power, Democracy and Revolution in the Sixties

Patricia Vaccarino

October 19, 2021

Nick Licata’s latest book is a timely, relevant, and compelling narrative that draws us into the glory days of student activism during the 1960s.These are the halcyon days of citizen empowerment when groups like the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) flourished, imbuing many thousands of young people with a collective conscience to make a better world. At the very least, their attempt to make a better world became a laudable, good faith effort.

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Education

Libraries We Love – Hindi’s Libraries—Books from Hindi’s heart

Patricia Vaccarino

October 17, 2021

Each month, we profile a library: Large, small, urban, rural, post-modern, quaint or neo-classic. This month Patricia Vaccarino writes about a small school project that quickly grew into a national literacy initiative.

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Media

Is Facebook Ready?

Annie Searle

October 11, 2021

To date, Congress has been unable to determine a legislative path for dealing with Facebook and similar companies.

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Green

Notes from the road: The Holocaust of Trees

Patricia Vaccarino

September 27, 2021

Patricia Vaccarino writes about the changing climate in the Pacific Northwest and its impact on the great trees that gave the Evergreen State its name and reputation.

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Tribal

Diné College Case Study: How federal funding increases equity, connectivity, opportunity

Barbara McMichael

September 23, 2021

Barbara Lloyd McMichael explores how federal funding can increase equity, connectivity and opportunity. Established by the Navajo Nation in 1968, Diné College is the first tribally controlled and accredited collegiate institution in the country.

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Education

Moving Words

PR for People Team

September 22, 2021

Moving Words is a 5-week course that brings together an intimate group of writers for guidance and support.

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Education

Building Back Better: the U.S. Department of Education

Barbara McMichael

September 21, 2021

Barbara Lloyd McMichael’s monthly column examines the impact of the Biden Administration’s Building Back Better initiative. This month she focuses on the U.S. Department of Education.

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Books

The “Bloody English” is a well-deserved moniker

Patricia Vaccarino

September 18, 2021

Mantel conjures the world under the reign of Henry VIII and delivers Thomas Cromwell, in all of his complexity, to us as a sort of gift that keeps giving. If we can understand Cromwell, then maybe we can learn to understand ourselves.