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by Dr. Olga Bonfiglio
Assorted essays, reviews, and other articles from writer Olga Bonfiglio. Click on the title of an article to read the full version.
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Mon, 27-Apr-2009, 20:11
Thomas Friedman has done it again. The Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist has taken a global situation, this time climate change, and set out to educate the public about how we got there and what we can do about it. In his explanation, however, the self-described “somber optimist” inadvertently ends up salving the public with the expectation that technology will save us and we can go on with our lives as usual.
Reviews of books about society, culture, politics, and economics
This topic has 19 articles.
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| Peace
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Mon, 27-Apr-2009, 20:26
There's no doubt about it: Many of today's youths are highly motivated and very excited about engaging themselves in community-service projects.
What's different about PeaceJam youths, however, is that they are focused on projects that change the world to make it a more peaceful and nonviolent place.
Published articles on the peace movement
This topic has 8 articles.
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| Common Dreams
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Fri, 07-Aug-2009, 17:44
Oak Ridge, Tennessee, “the city that made the atom bomb,” clearly illustrates the difficult conundrum people must face when their government decides to build a stockpile of highly lethal nuclear weapons.
Dr. Bonfiglio's articles published on the Common Dreams website.
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| Urban Revitalization
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Fri, 07-Aug-2009, 18:09
Whenever most planners see an open field in a city, their first impulse is to regard it as vacant land with potential for economic development. But that reaction may need to change because many of today’s vacant lands are still part of the city. Detroit is plowing resources into its extensive stretches of vacant land.
Published articles on Urban Revitalization
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| Religion
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Wed, 03-Oct-2007, 19:50
The first thing a visitor notices about the woodsy lakefront property of Camp Beechpoint is the quiet. It is this same quiet that scares many of the inner-city children who come for a week in this natural setting in southwestern Michigan. Because they are so accustomed to traffic noise, gunshots, drugs, prostitution, and physical abuse, it takes the children two or three days to acclimate themselves.
Published articles on Religion
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| Education
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Wed, 03-Oct-2007, 17:45
The global society is a relatively new phenomenon in human history. It has been taking shape since Columbus first sailed to the New World, and now has evolved into a global society of five billion-plus people. Different cultures have been in contact with each other throughout history, but the past 500 years have intensified these encounters so that they have formed a political, economic, social, historical, cultural, and environmental web characterized by constant change, complexity, and connectedness, and much contradiction.
Published articles on Education
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| Travel
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Mon, 27-Apr-2009, 20:33
Nalini Quraeshi embodies what it means to be a global citizen. She has lived among numerous nationalities, cultures and religions all over the world and speaks six different languages. Now, she is doing something special for her native land.
Published articles about Travel
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| Food
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Mon, 27-Apr-2009, 20:18
Local sourcing and organic foods are among the top 20 hottest trends for 2009 for restaurants and it’s no wonder.
People want tasty, clean, farm-fresh fruit and vegetables from farmers they know and they want to support their local communities and businesses, according to the National Restaurant Association (NRA).
Accommodating these “philosophy-driven” desires would actually help establish a “community-based food system” where small, independent farmers grow and sell their produce at farmer’s markets, farm stands, supermarkets, specialty food shops and restaurants and work with a network of food processors and distributors.
Published articles about Food
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| Agriculture and Nature
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Fri, 07-Aug-2009, 17:48
Last summer Kalamazoo College senior Nick Leonard discovered gardening and eating fresh fruits and vegetables as a way to live a more sustainable lifestyle.
Articles related to the environment, farming, and agriculture
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