Okay, so it’s been a pretty long time since I’ve sit down to write to this blog. Life keeps happening, and that’s a good thing, but sometimes it happens so quickly and with such intensity that it’s hard to find the time to pause for reflection–even though it is so very important. Historically, this time [...]
students acting out: re/approaching service-learning
April 23rd, 2012
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Tags: rationale · service-learning · social responsibility · teaching · volunteering
walmart: socially just or just plain evil?
February 10th, 2012
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Talking recently with my friend Michelle, the topic of corporate/consumer responsibility and social justice came up, and before long we turned to Walmart as a case in point. (I know, right?) Michelle’s question/statement to me went something like this: Many do not necessarily have a need to shop at a place with such low prices [...]
Tags: consumerism · social responsibility · social-justice · sustainability
chicagoland earth scouts go online
December 1st, 2011
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Recently I have taken on the new responsibility of assisting my beautiful wife with a project dear to her heart. She has been a facilitator for a youth group called Earth Scouts for the past four years now; recently her co-facilitator has stepped down, allowing me the opportunity to step up, and I am very [...]
Tags: earth scouts · service-learning · social responsibility
