Getting started

Welcome to our class blog.  Please us this first post to share questions, concerns and ideas about our class, including Marshal Ganz’s approach to public narrative.

2 thoughts on “Getting started

  1. Catherine Brown

    Here is the bucket list form Class:
    Feel Free to fill in as you can…
    In the meantime, I am going to try and figure out how to attach a word document to the blog…

    Old Stone Mill
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    MIDDStart
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    MIDDShift
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    350
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    Stonehenge
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    Middcore
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    Sustainable Study Abroad Grants
    Digital Bridges
    ACE
    Career Services
    Davis Peace Projects
    MALt
    Globemed
    Students for Responsible Investing (SRI)
    SNG
    Lacrosse the Nation
    Building Tomorrow
    Habitat for Humanity (Midd Chapter)
    Middlebury Green Engineers
    Voices of Indigenous People (VIP)

  2. Stuart Fram

    http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/03/a-planetary-simulator-that-averts-crises/?src=twt&twt=nytimesgreen

    Came across this article right before class. When Isham first mentioned the center for social entrepreneurship, I originally thought of it as a potential hub, or impetus, to consolidate the existing bodies on campus and propel them forward. The analogy to the particle accelerator is pretty cool, and germane, too.

    Seems very relevant to the class as well. This sentence really struck me: “Many problems we have today – including social and economic instabilities, wars, disease spreading – are related to human behavior, but there is apparently a serious lack of understanding regarding how society and the economy work.”

    Ties into the idea of agency and how something like this could be really beneficial to people looking to make a difference.

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