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Gov 3.0 Fall 2013 Syllabus. Instructor: Professor Beth Simone Noveck, noveck@nyu.edu, @bethnoveck Sherpas: Mehan Jayasuriya, mehan@nyu.edu, @mehan_j Luis Daniel, luisdaniel@gmail.com, @luisdaniel12 Meeting Time: Wednesdays, 9:30am - 12pm First Class: September 4th Location: ITP 721 Broadway, Room 447/50 Class blog: Gov30.tumblr.com Short Description: A weekly seminar that helps you to develop the mindset and skillset for leveraging the power of institutions and networks to design and implement effective solutions to public interest challenges. Suggest corrections or changes to this syllabus: send a pull request to this GitHub repo or email Mehan.

The first years of the 21st century have been characterized by seemingly intractable global challenges. To solve today’s complex problems, from climate change to economic inequality, we will need innovation in the very design of our democratic institutions. Intellectual curiosity and a willingness to experiment are essential for this course.

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Welcome to Less Wrong. Birth of the Green Party's Ten Key Values. “[T]he Ten Key Values ... provided a semblance of unity [without which] the fledgling party may not have survived” – John Rensenbrink, in Green Parties: Reflections on the First Three Decades Miraculous Birth of the U.S. Green Party’s “Ten Key Values” Statement by Mark Satin This article is reprinted, with permission, from Green Horizon Magazine, volume 9, issue no. 26 (Fall / Winter 2012), pp. 19-22. Green Horizon is an international journal covering Green theory and practice. The journal’s title for this article was “Miraculous Birth of the 'Ten Key Values’ Statement.” On the weekend of August 10-12, 1984, at the apex of the Reagan Era, 62 thinkers and activists from across the U.S. came together on the leafy campus of Macalester College in St.

Politically, our founding meeting was diverse. The document conceived at St. The document was conceived spontaneously one night at a marathon plenary workshop led by activist Jeff Land. Many people visited me at that dimly lit table. Introduction. Sprawl Watch. Global Issues : social, political, economic and environmental issues that affect us all — Global Issues.